Cute.

cute |kyoōt| adjective 1 attractive in a pretty or endearing way : a cute kitten. • informal sexually attractive. 2 informal affectedly or superficially clever : I don't want to be cute with you.

Literacy Diet.

A wonderfully constructed story that it forces you to become attached to the strange habits and foibles of the lead character, Christopher, who is autistic. Without being pedantic or obtuse, the narrator’s voice is exacting and transparent, bringing you into a world where the color of cars passing on the street decide the mood for the day: red cars, good mood. Black cars = bad mood; and where the mysterious death of a dog leads to an unraveling of family complexities. It is a book about love and loss, and it made me contemplate again how people make sacrifices for the ones they love, and how misunderstandings almost invariably arise when words are not enough. Hadden’s experience working with autistic youths gives his character’s voice validation, and he writes with a lithe humor and sensitivity, even when exploring issues of depression, anger and self doubt. A quick, easy read, try THE CURIOUS INCIDENT pulls you from one chapter to the next with wry observations about human nature, wit, and well constructed sentences.

I {Heart} Moments.

You know when a relationship ends kind of suddenly, and maybe it's good that it's over — it's even high time, actually — but still you remember the last night you were together and think, "I wish I'd known that was the last time," so you could at least have spent the early morning hours awake, burning the memory of your lover's face into your own ambivalence?

I'm learning by the seat of my pants here. But I am learning; I can tell.

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n.*Sunshine:

1. The light or the direct rays from the sun.
2. The warmth given by the sun's rays.
3. A location or surface on which the sun's rays fall.
4. Radiant cheerfulness; geniality.
5. A source of cheerfulness.

We Can't All Be Stars But We Can All Shine.

(n.)*Sparkle:
The quality of glittering or sparkling brightly.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we`are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves:"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. We are all meant to shine as children do. We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically releases others.

Penny For Your Thoughts or a Bang For The Buck?

I ask what are you thinking
A penny for your thoughts
You gently smile and shake your head
And say you hadn't ought

As for what I am thinking
I don't dare tell you mine
There's so much that I cannot say
Perhaps I may, in time

Some thoughts are better hidden
It's best they're not expressed
Far better to remain discreet
Than friendship's bounds to test

And so it's just a catchphrase
This penny for your thoughts
That makes us smile at those times when
For words we're at a loss

I say I smell wood burning
Somehow it clears the air
We change the subject, share a laugh
And then go on from there

But if one day it happens
(Restraints are known to burst)
I have no doubts that both of us
Will get our money's worth

{journey}

journey (jûr´nê) noun
1. a. The act of traveling from one place to another; a trip. b. A distance to be traveled or the time required for a trip. 2. A process or course likened to traveling; a passage: the journey of life

ABCs of Friends.

Accepts you as you are.
Believes in you.
Calls you just to say, Hi!
Doesn't give up on you.
Envisions the whole of you, even the unfinished parts.
Forgives your mistakes.
Gives unconditionally.
Helps you.
Invites you over
Just to be with you.
Keeps you close at heart.
Loves you for who you are.
Makes a difference in your life.
Never judges.
Offers support.
Picks you up.
Quiets your fears.
Raises your spirits.
Says nice things about you.
Tells you the truth when you need to hear it.
Understands you.
Values you.
Walks beside you.
X-plains things you don't understand.
Yells when you don't listen.
Zaps you back to reality.

A Place for Everything & Everything in its Place.

Dreams Do Come True.

A dream is a wish your heart makes
It's when you're fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep

Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru

No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
the dream that you wish will come true

Celebrate. It's in your nature.

OK so my girls totally have this thing for me on Saturday. It's an early birthday party....Come one, come all. We'll be the divas at Ole Tapas on Mass Street at 7......

Fickle Friend.

Break fucking break!
I'll give you take...
leave me behind...
my hate you'll find..
bite off and swallow!
Bitter taste of sarrow...
drowning in agony...
you have no sympathy!
Selfish pathetic friend!
All the lies you send...
manipulating web of ignorance...
your a freak of self indulgance!
My respect and selflessness...
you've ravaged into nothingness!
All I would of gave up for...
how could you want more?
Why am I not good enough?
Compassion for you is too much!
You've created this rage...
trapped me inside of a cage!
Locked in this grudge...
all that you gave up...
crawling to gain what is mine...
I am not blind!
Screaming out "revenge!"
Try and find a friend...
"saviour please protect!"
Soon you will feel regret...
fuck you and your feelings...
start your greeving!
I've found peace in my epiphany...
go beg someone else for sympathy...
goodbye to your judgement!
Tonight I sleep content.

Perfectly...Perfect.

A Dance of Passion.

It is said that our eyes are the windows to our soul, then our lips should be the servants of our consciousness. Our lips respond to many different things, but most of all from happy thoughts by smiling, they express our innermost emotions with words of love and hope, and they are able to convey what no words can, by kissing. Lovers often forget how fantastic it feels to kiss and be kissed. Lovers should not limit kissing merely to just a prelude to sex. Kissing your lover should be a frequent occurrence, and should be an expression of your intimacy and desire to connect. Show her that you care and desire her for everything else but sex and that should go hand in hand. Women love to be kissed with sweet passion and emotion and not just a peck on the cheek or lips with a "Hi how are you" welcome. Embrace her and make her yours through your kisses. Many men think to themselves, "let's hurry up so we can get down to the good stuff". As a result, they rush through the kissing and do not get to fully enjoy the delightfulness of a long, passionate, kiss. The secret to being a great kisser is to be intuitive, keep it simple, passionate and intimate. Forget about impressing her with that kiss. Feel her and respond. Rid your mind of any thoughts of competitiveness and instead, realize that she's opening the door to her soul and body. Enjoy the moment. It is a dance of passion.

Beautiful Just The Way You Are.

It's your reflection.
It's your image.
It's your shadow.
It's your best friend.
It's your angel.
Do you love this person?
Do you hate this person?
Do you need this person?
Do you trust this person?
Do you know this person?
Because it's you...

What do good reader do? Reread Ms. Trei.

I love to read.
Always have.
Everything I read becomes a part of me.
Love to be inspired. To learn new things. To have my point of view expanded and enlightened and challenged. I find that reading helps my mind make connections. Reminds me of certain things. Makes others more clear.
I try really hard to live my life with my eyes wide open. Always on the lookout for something with the power to touch me, to light my fire, to make me want to write, create, record, photograph, laugh, cry, tell a story, etc.I like reading books about creativity, about new ways to think about life and the world. They have the power to get me seriously fired up. So much so that sometimes I can't let myself read before bed. I am inspired by laughter. By giggles. By sunlight. By words. By the feeling of paint on my fingertips. By looking through the lens. As for holding on to inspiration once I find it, I try not to hold on too tight. I ride the wave. I take full advantage of the feeling, of the sensation; I revel in it. And when it is gone I don't hold my breath. I take a break. I breathe. I know it will come again. I am alive.

Lily Belle.

My baby is too cute.....the dog I mean!

A Picture is Worth 1000 words...

A picture, anyone can do, anyone can snap a camera, whether digital, film or disposable. Pictures seem to come off as quick, perhaps rushed and not thought through. A photograph, is carefully constructed in the mind of the photographer, the way they see it, they way they intend it. Photographs are appreciative, and artful, and inspiring. Of course there are those times when a ‘picture-taker’ such as myself get so lucky as to try and take a photograph, and actually halfway succeed.

The Notebook...Far Away.

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Happy Birthday Baby!

The Blog Fairy.

Did you know?
Have you heard?
It's a well-known secret fact.
The blog fairy very randomly visits blogs that have not been updated and she updates them if she has the password. Sometimes she has an agenda. Sometimes not. This time, well this time, she hasn't decided.
She's just so excited to be sneaking around in Mandy's special bloggy world. Behind the scenes there are signs on the walls. Not boring signs. Amazing signs. Beautiful signs. The signs have flowers and inked circles and random scraps of yummy paper and the signs say things like: "spelling is overrated" and "update your blog regularly" and "teachers rawk" and "mean people are mean" and "vote for {ME}"
So now you know. The blog fairy is real. She'll update your blog for you if you neglect it. And the halls of mandy'sblogland
are pretty and scrappy.

{Be careful not to neglect this matter. Why let this threat grow, to the detriment of the royal interests? Ezra 4:22}

Happy Friday.

the song blue skies
fall just before it gets really cold
the smell of damp basements
a fantastic meal i didn't prepare
my loves eyes when they start to smile as second before his mouth does
little kiddos giggling
little doggies
wrapping Christmas presents
jimmy stewart movies
taking pictures....sigh.....
reading jane austin novels
scrapbooking
reading the chronicles of narnia to Lily Belle
when the phone rings
my absentee ballot already turned in

did i memtion kisses?

what do you like today?
Happy Friday~

Stories of Life.

Gilda Radner: Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what is going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity...

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's. Enjoy the simple things. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, amd move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is. Tell people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life is Life. Your Life is Yours.

The hardest things I am learning:
It takes more than love to make a relationship work.
How to learn to trust someone again.
Everyone does not have to like you.
To walk away and be strong enough to start all over again.
Not opening my heart is actually more damaging than opening it.
Life is different. Different is good.
How to forgive and let go of anger...forget.
To forget about my doubts and learn how to make nice and back down.
Life is Life. Your life is yours.
How to say goodbye and realizing that the word good is in goodbye for a reason.
Things do not always come in MY time frame.
I have to embrace imperfection, life is a big mystery. I have to enjoy unlocking it's secrets.
Hard work does not always produce the results, it only increases the odds.
You can't change people to be what you want them to be, you have to accept that's who they are and move on.
Being the center of attention is not always all that it's cracked up to be!
You can't always see the changes that you are going through.
I am intelligent.
Appreciate the hard times, appreciate the good times and whatever you do don't pity yourself because there are people who have it so much harder.
The way I experience life depends upon ME, and no one else. Other people will go on doing what they're doing, and acting the way they're acting, whether I like it or not.

Cool.

I am a storyteller. I am a collaborator. I am a crafter. I am a scrapbooker. I am a cut & paster. I am a computer geek. I am a photographer. I am a writer. I am a business woman. I am a life artist. I am a work in progress.

The Right Person

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile. There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real!

Embrace Imperfections

1. No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.
2. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
3. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
4. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.
5. Never frown, even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile.
6. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
7. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
8. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
9. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
10. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
11. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.

FOR REAL

REAL FRIENDS ARE THERE FOR U TO PICK U UP WHEN UR DOWN,LAUGH WITH U,CRY WITH U,PUT CLOTHES ON UR BACK,FOOD IN UR MOUTH,TO BE THERE TO TELL U WHEN U AINT LIVIN RIGHT OR WHEN UR ATTITUDE IS WRONG ,2 LIFT U UP AND RECOGNIZE ALL UR HARD WORK AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS...ATLEAST THATS WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME ABOUT REAL FRIENDS...THE BIBLE SAYS THAT AS IRON SHARPENS IRON SO DOES ONE MAN SHARPEN THE COUNTENANCE OF HIS FRIEND SO U GOTTA ASK URSELF WHEN U HANG AROUND CERTAIN PEOPLE IS UR COUNTENANCE GETTING SHARPENED?U ARE WHO HANG AROUND AND U WILL ADOPT THE BEHAVIORS AND ATTITUDES OF THE PEOPLE U LET INTO UR LIFE AND AS DEEP CALLS TO DEEP SO DOES STUPID CALLS TO STUPID,DRAMA CALLS TO DRAMA AND LIKE PRODUCES LIKE.....SOMETIMES U HAVE TO F-O-O-L PROOF YOUR LIFE...RELATIONSHIPS CAN MAKE OR BREAK U...THEY CAN KEEP U STANGNENT IN LIFE OR GIVE U THE CONFIDENCE TO WALK THAT EXTRA MILE...RELATIONSHIPS CAN COVER U LIKE A SHEILD IN BATTLE OR THEY CAN EXPOSE U AND LEAVE U HIGH AND DRY.....A REALTIONSHIP IS A RESPOSIBILITY,A REALTIONSHIP IS A GIFT,A REAL RELATIONSHIP IS BOTH TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUTABLE AND IF ITS NOT THEN ITS NOT REAL........

I'm Cinderella.

Love is neither a feeling nor an addiction. Love is a choice which is built or torn down by a series of related choices. Lust,however, is a feeling and as such can be addictive. Infatuation, is a more romanitised version of lust and can be a more socially acceptable form of the same addiction.I think it takes a strong connection and a lot of patience. A connection is just random and I believe you have to wait until you find it. But when you do find it, you have to pursue it and have the patience to deal with all the hardships in the relationship that'll come along.No matter who you are love is destined to appear; Introvert or extrovert, Cinderella or the ugly queen. Love knows no face expression, no past, and no hurt. You don’t have to fulfill some category to be loved. The question will be; will you ignore it and hope it goes away, because of uncertainty and your insecurities or you can take a chance and be surprised.

"Love is complex. Sometimes it doesn't need to be understood. It needs only to be accepted."

Good Golly Miss Molly

I believe in laughter, especially when you can laugh at yourself. And, I’m not talking about a little chuckle or giggle. I am talking about the laughter that makes tears stream down your face, makes your abs feel like you just did 1000 sit-ups, and makes your smiling cheeks burn.My uncanny ability to make a fool of myself happens at least three times a day. People pay money to have someone else make them laugh, while I get to entertain myself for free. In addition, I am pretty sure my close friends and family get quite the entertainment from me, especially because they “aren’t laughing at me, but with me.” To me, the ability to laugh at yourself is a great gift. And nothing is better than having a gift be contagious. So the next time you do something embarrassing…just laugh. Trust me, it will work.

Girly Girl

Reasons I LOVE being a Girly Girl
I can be both soft & strong and not be ridiculed for it
A bat of my pretty little eyes can get me out of a speeding ticket faster than 90mph
Sisterhood- a bond like no other
Motherhood- 9 months of shared life

Just a Bit of B....for Me.

The Perfect Day...through my eyes.

Give yourself a perfect day. Do what makes you happiest. Look upon what gives you joy. Speak to those who warm your heart. Listen to that which lifts your spirit. Surround yourself with sights and sounds and people who give you pleasure. For all the happiness you give to others all year long, give yourself a perfect day.