What's It All About?


"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates

While you’re here, in this time and in this space, you are beautiful and you are perfect.

You are right where you need to be to get to where you want to go, so start asking yourself where you want to go.

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase." MLK

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Don't Should All Over Yourself

It's after midnight and I'm finally home after a looooooooooooong day. A good day, but a long one that started at 6am.

Up early for Dr. appt. and then for great breakfast & coffee meet-up with D and her sis L (who I haven't seen in years ...since she was a kid! Now a grown-up w/a kid. I feel old.)

Anyhoo, then onto work and another 8 hr day of the joy that is NWA/Delta. Then after to drop off old & new prescriptions at Walgreens.

Traffic home a bitch 'cause the Lowry tunnel closed (I knew I should have taken Lake St. over to Lyndale and then over to N. Mpls) ...will know better for tomorrow night.

Should now throw a load of laundry in, make the chicken salad I said I'd bring in for tomorrow and do dishes, but fuck it. I'm tired.

Will just goof around on internet for a bit and crash. I'll just have to get up a bit earlier tomorrow to make the chicken salad and I do still have some clean clothes to wear so laundry can wait another day. Dishes will just have to wait until I get home tomorrow night. It's finally "Friday". Thank god. No big plans for the weekend...so far...but who knows what it'll bring. I'm still hanging on to a bit of $$ from paycheck so maybe I'll go have some fun or something.

ttfn.

Noire

Noire
She'll be 2 years in 2 months! Time flies!

Things I'm grateful for everyday....

- My family
- My friends, old and new.
- A roof over my head.
- My computer & internet access
- Being employed (even if I don't always like things about my job)
- The public library and the joy of borrowing books with/on/for my Kindle
- That I can walk on two legs, use 2 arms/hands, have ten fingers/toes, can see and hear, etc. (uh, no offense to anyone who is physically challenged)
- Other people's creativity and efforts
- The love of a good man (he IS good)

Current Favorite Quotes

“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lao Tzu
"The privilege of a lifetime is to be who you are." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." ~ Charles Dickens
"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos CastaƱeda
"..there’s something lovely about knowing that when it’s right, you really know it’s right because you’ve already been through all the wrong." ~ Sade
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
"
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." —Mark Twain

(This bit not so much as a quote but somethings I wrote down that I want to keep and this looks like a good place to do it)

7-25-07

1. Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
2. The best way to predict your future is to create it.
3. Leap and the net will appear.

Facts of Life (per Sonya Friedman)

  • 1. No one can bring your life to you
  • 2. No matter what you do, someone important isn't going to like it
  • 3. Though painful, rejection won't kill you - it may even lead to growth
  • 4. Every choice means giving up something different
  • 5. Some people aren't capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them
  • 6. The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others
  • 7. There are no quick fixes that can permanently change your life
  • 8. Life is on a rheostat, not an on/off switch
  • 9. Some problems cannot be solved - but you can make peace with them