Inspiration for anyone fighting Cystic Fibrosis

This one goes out to one of my best girlfriends tonight.


Have you ever been around people that just complain about the dumbest things all the time and act as life is awful all the time when they really don't have it that bad than you are around someone else who really does have real life big problems but yet always try to find the positive in everything and have the best dispositions still? (even when they have legitimate stuff to complain about and be upset about, they don't) I don't get it!!. My heart goes out tonight to my girlfriend, her husband and their daughter. God has put alot on their plates in the last 20 years (two children with cystic fibrosis). They have overcome so much and surely have not had it easy in any way but have the best marital relationship I have ever seen and are the most loving and fun people to be around. I have no words to describe them, I just admire and love them so much! I have never in my life known people just as real, true and genuine as them. I am so glad that God blessed me in 2011 and brought them into my life. I have learned so much from them and I'm so proud to call them they my friends

My friend's daughter was admitted to the hospital yesterday with another bout of pneumonia. She fights Cystic Fibrosis everyday. This coming friday is her 14th birthday and we were supposed to have an awesome birthday bash for her at Lunar golf and a slumber party but have to postpone :-(

Just asking everyone to keep her in your prayers

Little Inspiration for the Day

Everyone who has read my blog knows that the light of my life and my main reason for a constant search for positive inspiration is my daughter :-) so here's one for her

Mean Girls!!! Do females outgrow that stage?

Hello- Hope everyone is having an awesome 2011 so far.
I am!! (well to a certain degree)
I watched mean girls 2 tonight with my 12 year old. The more I discover my true self- the more I realize females sometimes never outgrow this stage. The movie is based on teenage girls and how harsh they can be towards other females. I am at a certain stage in my life that in order to be happy, unfortunately, I need to cut negativity out of my life to a certain degree. I am 34 and I realize just how much some of my friends and family act just like these mean girls. The sad part is that in adults, it is a more sneaky type of attack in females.
Nice to your face, than you turn your back and the knife is stabbed in.

There is a saying that you go through your whole life and by the end of it, you will be able to count your true friends on one hand. The truth in that statement is scary.

I am so tired of phony, fake and downright ignorant females. The healthier I get mentally, the more I see just how evil some people can really be :-(

so it is time to take steps away from that negativity. Some females just never seem to grow up and by giving in to them for so many years, It emotionally drained me. I am happier when I avoid them. Although it does hurt when you feel like you give to people and search for that acceptance and than you come to realize that they just use you anyway.

On another note, my marriage is doing great :-) My daughter is doing wonderful. My mom is getting healthier and I am getting emotionally stronger with each passing day so life is good

I have been slacking a bit on my blog and I am sorry for that. Everyday is a new journey in life :-)

Talk to you soon

Inspiration Thoughts to Ponder for the Day

Inspirational thoughts to ponder for the day

O x y m o r  o n s

1.

 Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?  

2.   Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

3.  If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 

4.  If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?  

5.  Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? 

6.  Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? 

7.  Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?  

8.  Why do "tug" boats push their barges? 

9.  Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?

10.  Why are they called " stands" when they are made for sitting? 

11.  Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?

12.  Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?  

13.   Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" opposites? 

14.  Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean opposite things?

15.  Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds?  

16.  If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?  

17.  If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

18.  If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  

19.  If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?  

20.  Why is bra singular and panties plural?

21.  Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?  

22.  Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?  

23.  How come abbreviated is such a long word?  

24.  Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?  

25.  Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?  

26.  Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?  

27. Christmas - What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?  

God Saw you hungry & created  
McDonalds, Wendy's, and Dairy Queen.
He saw you thirsty & created
Pepsi,  Juice, Coffee and Water. 
GOD saw you  in the dark  & created Light.  
GOD saw you without a  Good looking ,  
adorable,  FRIEND.........
So He created  ME



Send  this on to your good friends who are so lucky to haveYOU for a friend also !!!!

Inspirational Thought for the Day

CALMNESS IN OUR LIVES






I am passing this on to you because it definitely works, and we could all use a little more calmness in our lives. By following simple advice heard on the Dr. Phil show, you too can find inner peace. Dr Phil proclaimed, "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished."




So, I looked around my house to see all the things I started and hadn't finished, and before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream, a package of Oreos, the remainder of my old Prozac prescription, the rest of the cheesecake, some Doritos, and a box of chocolates, and a half bottle of scotch.



You have no idea how freaking good I feel right now.

Pass this on to those whom you think might be in need of inner peace.

The quality of relationships and friendships

The quality of your relationships has alot to do with your own self-acceptance and self-esteem.  Raising them tends to automatically raise the quality of your relationships

Accepting yourself for who you are automatically improves your life to a certain degree

The above quotes are what I am studying now.  I have been feeling so good.  Life is going so right for me right now  (almost too good that it makes me nervous)   If you have followed this blog from the beginning, you know I have had some bad days since I started my journey to a happier, more fulfilling life.  LOL. 

I don't know what to say other than when you change people , places and things and your way of thinking (and believe me, that is the toughest part)  I still battle everyday with my inner self.  I feel like I have that little devil on one shoulder and the little angel on the other and my mind is right between them.  I feel the best that I have in years.  and I am being so honest with that.  (Now, don't get me wrong, I am consistently reading self help books)  I have read probably about 10 in the past couple months.

Oddly enough, the better I feel, the more people want to be around me.  I never realized how many people truly like me and love to be around me.  My goodness, My text messaging goes off all day long anymore.  I realize now that people do truly love to be around me. 

Of course, I have changed some of my own relationships.  There were a few people in my life that I feel brought me down and I have since distanced myself from those people and you know what I just feel better.  I can't describe.  The energy, the happier and the overall just improvement in the quality of my life.

Don't get me wrong, I still have bad days but I have good relationships and friendships in my life now and that is so important.

Since I can't ever change the past, have to just work on changing the future  :-)

Chicken Soup to Inspire

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood"

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"

"Aging forces us to decide what is important in life"  
(The truth in this statement is frightening  :-)

Awesome Rest and Recharge Day

I had a do nothing day today  :-)  I actually watched about 12 episodes of the show of Teen Mom on MTV.  That was an awesome show.  My daughter watched a few episodes with me.  She will be 12 in September and I think that is a great show for young girls to watch
There are too many babies having babies in the world and hopefully, the show helps younger girls realize that parenthood is hard and helps to promote abstinence and safe sex

Still working on getting the partylite business kicked off. 

"Life is not about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself"

Found this one today and it is very true

The song Freebird and the affect Freebird it has on me

Wow. Just got done writing my life story down as I am searching for self help. I do the exercises ( as I write on my blog) so I went outside the whole exercise and wrote my whole life story. I cried, I laughed, I did what I needed to do for myself to move on.
Of course, I didn't do this until my daughter went to bed at 9 30.than I hit on the stereo down low (that helps me in my writing)
Well wrote my story Cried and Laughed than was getting ready to log off and the song "freebird" came on by Lynard Skynnard. We played that song and "Never Say Goodbye" by Bonjovi at my brothers funeral in 1988. We let balloons go. Those 2 songs have always been extremely hard songs for me but tonight was weird, I haven't heard Freebird in a long time but right as I wrote my life story, cried and ready to move on to live my unlived life, I go to turn off the stereo and freebird comes on. Well of course, I can't turn it off and I just listen and cry again. He died in 1988 and I can never lose the sadness of his loss. Is it normal at this point 22 years later. It's not normal to still mourn as I do

Hard to find balance with an overwhelming smell of deviled eggs

Hard to find balance with an overwhelming smell of deviled eggs

Goofy post huh?? Wouldn't be if you were at my house right now. We are having an office party (customer appreciation) at work tomorrow and I just had to make 4 dozen of deviled eggs ARGHHH. If I smell another egg tonight, I am going to seriously puke LOL Don't get me wrong. I love deviled eggs but I wont be able to eat them for a while now

Hard to keep a level, balanced head when egg smell clogs you up but I am going to try tonight.

I am still on studying my unlived life so that is where tonights inspirational motivation hails from. From all the research I have been doing and just different motivational soul searching mental exercises, I have self diagnosed myself with a trust issue. I think I have had so much hurt and disappointment in younger years that I have a very hard time letting people get too close to me. I have lots of friends but I always have that barrier.
How do I get past that? How do I let go of those insecurities?

The following are my goals:
to surrender old limitations

Enhance friendships, family and career

Mastering the art of feeling truly alive in the present needs and respecting and caring for my own inner needs (back to healthy selfishness)

Everyday I work at the inner peace thing, I exercise more, I try to remove myself from stressful situations and not dwell but the more I work at this, the more it feels like a job.

How can it just flow naturally

Finding yourself in today's complicated world

Answer the following questions

What are your strengths?

What do you love about yourself?

What do you stand for?

What do you love most about your family and kids?

What do you love most about you?

Who is the best you?

Write a description of who you are. Write your own story.
When you read your own story, do you focus on the positive and negative? Do you dwell on your strengths or your weaknesses? What is your perspective?

Now go back and rewrite your story.

Happiness begins when you learn to accept the fact that you are loved and valued for who you are, not what you do

Coping with failure

In midlife, we come face to face with our failures and losses. As we age, we are confronted by limitations. We may remain on the sufrace of life or we many learn that existence is much deeper and less controllable.

Inspirational Words of Encouragement for Today

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.
Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were all meant to shine, as children do.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.


Good Morning all
Hope everyone is enjoying their saturday morning. Rainy day here today. I was so glad to see the rain this morning. It has been so hot and dry here. The grass was starting to turn brown (Yuck, a downer) plus, once in a while, I like to have a morning where I have an excuse to lay around and do nothing like watch TV in my PJ's AWESOME :-)

Awesome partylite starter show tonight

I have the most awesome friends, family and co-workers. As you may have read from my last post, I went back into the partylite business. I had my starter show tonight and I had the most amazing turnout. My friends, family and co-workers (who also fall into friends category) are just so supportive. It's awesome and we had a margarita party. Kids and husbands were in yard in pool. (and it was a hot one today) and me and the ladies sipped margaritas, saw an awesome partylite display, laughed and had an awesome time.
They are the best so today's quote is about friendship and family

"The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything!"

Going to take my daughter to see Eclipse tomorrow (the movie), very excited. I love those movies but didn't want to go last week because I knew movie theatres would be packed

Good Nite All

Little Breakdown

I had a little breakdown last night :-( so I need double inspiration today (as I am feeling blue)
Spent the day today stressed and anxious so I had to read double today on Healthy Selfishness
Healthy selfishness is a way of thinking and acting in which there is a deep appreciation, compassion, and concern for yourself- by yourself
** Respect your feelings, desires and needs
**trust in yourself, believe in your self. Trust in your own ability and experience
**accept your weaknesses and imperfections without guilt
**Always encourage yourself

Whenver I am down, I love reading about inspiration and just looking up joke. It makes me feel better

It hurts when someone you think is your friend, stabs you in the back

But as my 89 year old boss (who is a very wise woman) always tells me "You will go through your whole life and by the time you are done, you will be able to count your true friends on one hand"
The older I am getting, the more truth I see in that.

She told me this story one time about a woman she knew who died. The woman had pre bought her grave site and premade her funeral arrangements and she gave the funeral parlor a sealed envelope and they were instructed that whenever she died, they needed to open the envelope and put it with the guest book that people signed

The letter said "Where have you been for the past 20 years and if you didn't have time to see me before, don't waste your time now"

I don't really tell the story, the way she tells it because she tells it so well. You get the gist of the meaning though

Healthy selfishness is the key that opens the door to a life of freedom: freedom from being ruled by opinions and demands of others. Freedoms from the voices within your mind, leftovers from your childhook that in the past may have judged and blamed you.

Self Image and Self Esteem How do they fit together?

There is a time in our lives when both our self image and our self esteem are determined by other people. When we are little, our lives are dominated by adults and older kids. We see ourselves as they tell us we are. Good messages, good self-image and vice versa with Bad messages. We respond to what we hear the most. We form a picture of who we are and build our image around that. We tend to become that
As we get older, we need to realize that we have a choice who we become. We mold our ownselves.

Learning to Love your Life

As you have read from my previous posts, I didn't have the best of childhoods. I am really going through a self help stage in my life right now. (not that I ever hated life or lived life badly) but I have a daughter whom I love very much and I have worked so hard for so many years. I am tired right now and just want to relax more in my life and take the time to enjoy my only child and enjoy my life. I've noticed that over the past few years, I tend to use alchohol more to relax and have fun when I should be enjoying life in different ways. LOL- you know it is bad when you go to a 4th of July party and everyone around you is getting drunk (and you take a book with you and get more joy by just relaxing in the nice weather, reading, carrying on some conversation and just watching your child swim and play. (The only bad part was I realized just how annoying people are when they get drunk ) LOL Now, don't get me wrong, I am not anywhere near a saint but just realized that I don't need to drink at a party to enjoy myself. That was an awesome feeling (except for the fact that my fiance drank way too much beer and again, it is annoying being around someone drunk when you are not haha but not going to throw stones

Anyhow, as I enjoyed my reading today in the beautiful weather, I thought of some things that were just inspiring to me in my own journey to learning to love my life. My goal is going to be start keeping a journal. Writing down my dreams, reflections and things that I discover along the way. Set my goals.

Ask yourself, do you have a dream or something that you would like to accomplish for either yourself or your family? What steps can you take to make that happen?

You have to trust your inner knowing. If you have a clear mind, you wont have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

Surround yourself with people that inspire you. Cleanse your life (as you would cleanse your body) Get rid of the toxins. Change people, places and things. Avoid the negative.

As you go through life, you will navigate through the lost and found dreams. Never give up. Always pay attention to your surroundings.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and enjoying your time here. Enjoying your friends and family.

Don't take life for granted :-))

Happy 4th of July Everyone

Hope everyone has some fun, safe things planned for this weekend.

Inspirational Thought of the Day
Failure is one of life's greatest teachers if we choose to learn from it rather than be destroyed by it.

Failure teaches us humility. It shows us that we are not invincible

Failure teaches us that we can't always get what we want.

Failure teaches us to correct our course of action. It forces us to re-evaluate what we are doing.

Failure teaches us that we can indeed survive defeat.

Most of all, failure teaches us about the strength of our own character.

Why do we need encouragement and inspiration

Why do we need encouragement and inspiration in our lives?
Daily living just seems so stressful in today's society.
We work to live, we don't live to work.
Money isn't everything but without it, you couldn't survive.
We struggle to maintain a certain lifestyle and regardless of whether we choose to admit it or not, alot of lifestyles thrive on the side of materialistic.
We all have our own insecurities deep inside. We may not show them but we all have them.
People have a desparate need for encouragement, understanding and approval. Getting and Giving encouragements helps to create positive reinforcement.
Reading the inspirational thoughts of the day helps to make better choices in our lives.
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