Happy New Year!!
May 2010 be a year of love, joy, laughter and prosperity!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Rockin around the christmas tree in my fabulous new boots!
Christmas was great I got many things I love dearly and few things I'm no truly in love with (see pic below).
Knowing me very well Jeff got me a case of steaks which now has started our very own family tradition of steak and eggs xmas morning and combined with my old tradition of champagne toast xmas morning...I can't wait til christmas morning next year! LOL!
He also got me my very own pass to Six Flags Magic Mountain which is all of 3 exits up the highway from ours...YAY ROLLER COASTERS!! He also planned us a date night for me to cash in on when I please! I got lots of other very cool things from family and some other things I am very much in need of.
But one item in particular I did not expect to get and can not wait to share with the world. (See I showed Jeff them a month or so ago and he sent the email to mom that inturn ordered them and tada!)
ADDED TO MY FAB SHOE SECTION OF THE CLOSET ARE THESE AMAZING BOOTS.....TAKE A LOOK!!!
Knowing me very well Jeff got me a case of steaks which now has started our very own family tradition of steak and eggs xmas morning and combined with my old tradition of champagne toast xmas morning...I can't wait til christmas morning next year! LOL!
He also got me my very own pass to Six Flags Magic Mountain which is all of 3 exits up the highway from ours...YAY ROLLER COASTERS!! He also planned us a date night for me to cash in on when I please! I got lots of other very cool things from family and some other things I am very much in need of.
But one item in particular I did not expect to get and can not wait to share with the world. (See I showed Jeff them a month or so ago and he sent the email to mom that inturn ordered them and tada!)
ADDED TO MY FAB SHOE SECTION OF THE CLOSET ARE THESE AMAZING BOOTS.....TAKE A LOOK!!!
Sweet Dreams
Dear Mr. Sleep:
I'm sending this letter in hopes to end our lifelong war as friends. I think we started off on the wrong foot by my rude action of not paying you any attention. Therefore requiring you to retaliate and not visit me when I most need your attention.
As a truce I promise to commit more time to you if you will do the same to me. 2010 is going to be a great year for us to renew our friendship.
Please read this letter.."sleep on it"....and get back to me by the first of the year. I miss you and need you back.
Sweet Dreams,
Jamie
I'm sending this letter in hopes to end our lifelong war as friends. I think we started off on the wrong foot by my rude action of not paying you any attention. Therefore requiring you to retaliate and not visit me when I most need your attention.
As a truce I promise to commit more time to you if you will do the same to me. 2010 is going to be a great year for us to renew our friendship.
Please read this letter.."sleep on it"....and get back to me by the first of the year. I miss you and need you back.
Sweet Dreams,
Jamie
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Unconditional Love
Unconditional love is a term that means to love someone regardless of one's actions or beliefs. It is a concept comparable to true love.
Owners of pets have unconditional love for their little ones. No matter the mix, the behavior or the crooked teeth...we just love our little babies unconditionally.
Just thought I'd post some pics of some loveable friends.
And my favorite:
Owners of pets have unconditional love for their little ones. No matter the mix, the behavior or the crooked teeth...we just love our little babies unconditionally.
Just thought I'd post some pics of some loveable friends.
And my favorite:
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Def has a good point this little statement here.
Def has a good point this little statement here.
Key Lime Cupcake Dreamland
For about a week now I've been randomly craving a key lime cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Today I decide to give in and hunt one down....I can not locate one anywhere, not even all the way down in L.A.
Is this sooooo weird that even custom cupcake companies don't carry them...WHAT IS A GIRL TO DO???
This girl is gonna make her own....maybe just maybe it will catapult a nationwide craving for these wonderful little gems and I'll make it rich on key lime cupcakes.
Oh what a dreamy world it would be if filled with key lime cupcakes....big ones, little ones, minis...maybe Santa Clarita, CA will become home to the WORLD'S LARGEST KEY LIME CUPCAKE and I will forever be remember by the key lime cupcake pageant and festival that will continue on til eternity.
I gotta get going on designing my very first key lime cupcake shop....stay tuned for one opening in your area. :)
Is this sooooo weird that even custom cupcake companies don't carry them...WHAT IS A GIRL TO DO???
This girl is gonna make her own....maybe just maybe it will catapult a nationwide craving for these wonderful little gems and I'll make it rich on key lime cupcakes.
Oh what a dreamy world it would be if filled with key lime cupcakes....big ones, little ones, minis...maybe Santa Clarita, CA will become home to the WORLD'S LARGEST KEY LIME CUPCAKE and I will forever be remember by the key lime cupcake pageant and festival that will continue on til eternity.
I gotta get going on designing my very first key lime cupcake shop....stay tuned for one opening in your area. :)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Thanks Carter!
My previous trainer and current life motivator Mr. Carter Hays posted something today that I want to share and pass on...
Billboard for 2010....
If you were a walking billboard for yourself, what would you be promoting and striving to succeed in 2010.
I strive to be more fully and truly committed to getting into figure competitions or atleast close enough, improving my faith, and being a model of motivation for others in all aspects of life. I want to live and breath my motivation and improve life for others, my family and myself. Volunteer more, give more, and share more.
Your turn!
Billboard for 2010....
If you were a walking billboard for yourself, what would you be promoting and striving to succeed in 2010.
I strive to be more fully and truly committed to getting into figure competitions or atleast close enough, improving my faith, and being a model of motivation for others in all aspects of life. I want to live and breath my motivation and improve life for others, my family and myself. Volunteer more, give more, and share more.
Your turn!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Shattered Glass
Even though sometimes we may feel like shattered glass...Just remember; like glass, we too can be recycled into something stronger.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Hair of the DOG
I knew the meaning, knew the reasoning, never knew the origination of that saying...my friends say it all the time so I looked it up....
Hair of the dog is a colloquial English expression predominantly used to refer to ingestion of alcohol as treatment for a hangover. It is occasionally used with respect to dealing with the aftereffects of use of other recreational drugs. It is a shortened form of the expression “the hair of the dog that bit you.”
Instances of the phrase have appeared in English literature since the time of William Shakespeare. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences. Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have indulged too freely, take a glass of the same wine next morning to soothe the nerves. 'If this dog do you bite, soon as out of your bed, take a hair of the tail in the morning.'" He also cites two apocryphal poems containing the phrase, one of which is attributed to Aristophanes. It is not known whether the idea of like curing like with like, or the practice (which may have other psychological causes) came first. Certainly it is possible that the phrase was used to justify an existing practice. It is also possible that the modern use of the phrase arose as a metaphor for that idea and did not have a former basis in practice.
The phrase is also used in a more general context to mean "a little dose of something which caused your problems in the first place," can be used to cure the problem. The phrase may have some roots in the Latin phrase Similia similibus curantur ("like cures like").
The phrase also exists in Hungarian, where the literal translation to English is "(You may cure) the dog's bite with its fur", but has evolved to a short three word phrase ("Kutya harapást szőrével") that is used frequently in other contexts when one is trying to express that the solution to a problem is more of the problem. Among the Irish and Mexicans, the phrase 'The Cure' ("curarse la cruda", in Spanish) is often used instead of 'hair of the dog'.[1] It is used, often sarcastically, in the question "Going for a Cure?"
Hair of the dog is a colloquial English expression predominantly used to refer to ingestion of alcohol as treatment for a hangover. It is occasionally used with respect to dealing with the aftereffects of use of other recreational drugs. It is a shortened form of the expression “the hair of the dog that bit you.”
Instances of the phrase have appeared in English literature since the time of William Shakespeare. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences. Applied to drinks, it means, if overnight you have indulged too freely, take a glass of the same wine next morning to soothe the nerves. 'If this dog do you bite, soon as out of your bed, take a hair of the tail in the morning.'" He also cites two apocryphal poems containing the phrase, one of which is attributed to Aristophanes. It is not known whether the idea of like curing like with like, or the practice (which may have other psychological causes) came first. Certainly it is possible that the phrase was used to justify an existing practice. It is also possible that the modern use of the phrase arose as a metaphor for that idea and did not have a former basis in practice.
The phrase is also used in a more general context to mean "a little dose of something which caused your problems in the first place," can be used to cure the problem. The phrase may have some roots in the Latin phrase Similia similibus curantur ("like cures like").
The phrase also exists in Hungarian, where the literal translation to English is "(You may cure) the dog's bite with its fur", but has evolved to a short three word phrase ("Kutya harapást szőrével") that is used frequently in other contexts when one is trying to express that the solution to a problem is more of the problem. Among the Irish and Mexicans, the phrase 'The Cure' ("curarse la cruda", in Spanish) is often used instead of 'hair of the dog'.[1] It is used, often sarcastically, in the question "Going for a Cure?"
A Soldier's Christmas Poem
I'm such a patriot! This gripped my heart and soul! Please share....
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF
PLASTER AND STONE.
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY
WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO
IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.
I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,
A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,
NOT EVEN A TREE.
NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,
JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES
OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,
AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT
CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,
IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,
ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,
SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR
IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,
THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED
A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO
OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,
THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALIZED THE FAMILIES
THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS
WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD,
THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE
A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM
EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,
LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER
HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE
IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT
BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES
AND STARTED TO CRY.
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED
AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
'SANTA DON'T CRY,
THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,
MY! COUNTRY, MY CORPS.'
THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER
AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,
I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,
SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED
FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE
ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR
SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, 'CARRY ON SANTA,
IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE.'
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,
AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
'MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.'
This poem was written by a Marine.
The following is his request. I think it is reasonable.....
PLEASE. Would you do me the kind favor of sending
this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming
soon and some credit is due to our U.S. service men,
women, and Canadian Forces for our being able to celebrate these festivities.
Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we
owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and
dead, who sacrificed themselves for us. Please, do your
small part to plant this small seed.
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE MADE OF
PLASTER AND STONE.
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY
WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO
IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.
I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,
A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,
NOT EVEN A TREE.
NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,
JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES
OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,
AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT
CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,
IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,
ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,
SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR
IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,
THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED
A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO
OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,
THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALIZED THE FAMILIES
THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS
WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD,
THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE
A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM
EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,
LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER
HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE
IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT
BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES
AND STARTED TO CRY.
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED
AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
'SANTA DON'T CRY,
THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,
MY! COUNTRY, MY CORPS.'
THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER
AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,
I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,
SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED
FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE
ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR
SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, 'CARRY ON SANTA,
IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE.'
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,
AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
'MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.'
This poem was written by a Marine.
The following is his request. I think it is reasonable.....
PLEASE. Would you do me the kind favor of sending
this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming
soon and some credit is due to our U.S. service men,
women, and Canadian Forces for our being able to celebrate these festivities.
Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we
owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and
dead, who sacrificed themselves for us. Please, do your
small part to plant this small seed.
THANK YOU BOBBY!
2 National Championships
2 Heisman Trophies
51 All-Americans
12 Conference Titles
28 Straight Bowl Games
14 top 5 finishes
1 Undefeated Season
33 first round picks
315 GREAT FSU WINS!
Thanks Coach you will be missed!
2 Heisman Trophies
51 All-Americans
12 Conference Titles
28 Straight Bowl Games
14 top 5 finishes
1 Undefeated Season
33 first round picks
315 GREAT FSU WINS!
Thanks Coach you will be missed!
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