Zooooommmm...

Wow.
I haven't updated since June?
Life got busy.
Perhaps I'll rectify the situation soon.

As you were.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

~Unknown

* To those who have died in war and conflict - Blessed Be

* To those who strive for peace - Brightest Blessings


Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace... you whooo

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
-John Lennon

Hanging in...

I prayed for change, so I changed my mind.
I prayed for guidance and learned to trust myself.
I prayed for happiness and realized I am not my ego.
I prayed for peace and learned to accept others unconditionally.
I prayed for abundance and realized my doubt kept it out.
I prayed for wealth and realized it is my health.
I prayed for a miracle and realized I am the miracle.
I prayed for a soul mate and realized I am the One.
I prayed for love and realized it’s always knocking,
but I have to allow it in.
- Jackson Kiddard

To Do (with diabolical music playing as background)

Step 1: Go someplace public with your laptop.
Step 2: Click HERE
Step 3: Press f11
Step 4: Start typing frantically.
Step 5: Make sure other people see your screen.
Step 6: ???????
Step 7: Enjoy!

It pays to check your SPAM filter!

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

It pays to check your SPAM every now and then…

Got an email from the FBI!!!!  

Hello, I am *insert phony name* The THIRD and I am the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI. It is true I would not lie to you!

The email went on to name drop a half dozen official sounding USA organizations and Interpol and the bank of Nigeria.

It then told me only to respond to this email and everyone in all organizations will disavow all knowledge of this operation as it is secret – they are trying to trap a criminal and must secretly monitor and wiretap my accounts and phone so if wouldn’t mind to please confirm my name SS# bank account mother maiden name…. Yaddayaddayadda… failure to do so is punishable by LAW. THE ARMY will ARREST YOU!

 Ummm okay sport. BRING IT! LOL

I have a problem! Someone schedule an intervention – I compulsively collect recipes. I have a billion pdfs on my computer, and my allrecipes.com box is fast filling up, and on Pinterest… *sigh*

However, it did pay off…

Buy a box of sugar cones; fill them with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, caramels, mini-marshmallows, nuts, and anything else you want to fit in.

Then, either:

1) Heat the oven to 375 -400F and prop the filled cones up in something that props them somewhat vertical (I used a small loaf pan). Basically you don’t want the melting goo to spill out. Bake for 15-20 minutes.

2) Wrap in foil and stick in a camp fire. (Can’t vouch for this method as I didn’t have a campfire handy)

Eat and enjoy.

Truth may walk through the world unarmed.

Bedouin Proverb

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." 

~Happy Birthday, Susan B. Anthony!

Happy Heart Day!

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.  

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

I'm not a fan of this manipulative commercial guilt driven holiday.  If you love someone, tell them everyday.

Instead of romance how about we "love" everyone, or if "love" is too hard, lets just not hate.

Give a thought to your heart as well... February is Heart Health Month.  Get off the couch, get off the internet, go out and do something health for your heart! ... and while you're at it - Eat a vegetable or two.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

      ~Thomas Alva Edison

Happy 2012.

Gott Nytt År
Feliz Año Nuevo
Godt Nytår
Bonne Année
Glückliches Neues Jahr
Athbhliain Shona
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda


However you say it...


May the best you have ever seen be the worst you will ever see.
May the mouse never leave your grain store with a tear drop in its eye.
May you always stay hale and hearty until you are old enough to die.
May you still be as happy as I always wish you to be.

May the hill rise behind you,
And may the mountain be always over the crest;
And may the God that you believe in
Hold you in the palm of his hand.

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”

—	Eve Ensler

Got this from George Takei's FB... I love it!

Instead of watching TV...

You know what you should do? Take photos of friends with their face squished against glass. Then assign the pictures to your phone contacts; it'll look like they're trapped inside your phone... just a thought.

Lest you think I have original thoughts, I confess to having stolen this from someone on Twitter ... or Tumblr... or somewhere.

Magic

“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don’t want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.”

~ Charles de Lint

art credit: "Light Flurries", R. Gonsalves

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

~Madame Marie Curie

Drove to Bethesda, drove home.
Saw relatives. Ate too much.

Cold dreary single-digit weather.
I love it.

Today is October 1 - first day of my favourite month.
Two holidays - one month.

10 days until my accounting test.
14 days until I need to have completed an 1812-style ball gown.


photo credit: unknown
If it's yours let me know I'd love to give you credit and send readers to your gallery.

Food for Thought

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Sarah Williams
from "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil" in Best Loved Poems of the American People

I love this...
I put it here, there, and everywhere more for me than for you gentle readers.
Hopefully you enjoy it too.

If it was only this easy.

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music.

The i-Tit will cost from $499 to $699, depending on cup & speaker size. This is considered a major social breakthrough because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them....

QED
Problem solved.

Food for Thought

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities also has the power to make you commit atrocities.

~Voltaire

Something to think about as our politicians and religious leaders spout rhetoric and propaganda