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Live And Let Die

LINDA & PAUL MC CARTNEY

When you were young and your heart was an open book
You used to say live and let live
(You know you did, you know you did you know you did)
But if this ever changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry
Say live and let die
(Live and let die)
Live and let die
(Live and let die)

What does it matter to ya
When you got a job to do
You gotta do it well
You gotta give the other fellow hell

You used to say live and let live
(You know you did, you know you did you know you did)
But if this ever changing world in which we live in
Makes you give in and cry.

Words of The Day

Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.


Synchronicity is an apparently meaningful coincidence in time of two or more similar or identical events that are causally unrelated.

Though of The Day

"LOYALTY IS BUILT ON TRUST"
Without Trust You Have Nothing

(You have my Trust & my Loyalty,
Thank you for trusting me with everything! Eek)

A Spiritual Moment of Sorts

I have a friend that likes to share all kinds of wisdom. Some of it will actually make you think and some is just so random you have to laugh. One day he was spouting wisdom so I gathered it as best I could. I thought he was sharing a spiritual moment when he said "Peter and Paul were the original Blues Brothers", he went on to say "the line 'We are on a mission from God' should have been in the bible."
Then he asked "Do you think Peter and Paul were musical?" "Well they used to be Peter, Paul and Mary."     Yep, there is a gem for you! No doubt, a Spiritual Wisdom Gem!!!

Much To Ponder

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The Best Parts ARE Meant To Be

Again I am reminded that I love my life! The changes and choices I have made for myself have proven to be perfect for me! The timing of events in my life don't usually make sense at the time, but I am always amazed that the big picture always started way before I was aware of it. 

So with a new fork in my proverbial road.........I will strive to be true to myself, be the best I can be, and happily go where my path takes me. 

I know that the best parts ARE meant to be, it's just a matter of timing!!! 

The Best Parts ARE Meant To BE

Carpe diem ~ 

with a huge slice of happy, sprinkled with magic! 

SISTERS

Jessette and Cookie 

Collaborating on a Passion!!!

I LOVE THESE LADIES

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Count Down....

There are 93 days until Christmas!
61 days until Thanksgiving!!
39 days till Halloween!!!

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Today is.....

TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF FALL!
My favorite time of year!!

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Respect

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing." 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought of The Day

Immature love says:

I love you because I need you.

Mature love says:

I need you because I love you. 

Quote of The Day

Love is the biggest eraser I know. 
Love erases even the deepest and most painful memories, because love goes deeper than anything else.    Louse L. Hay

GRaMMaR

Let's face it: English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
And while no one knows what is in a hotdog,
you can be pretty sure it isn't canine.

English muffins were not invented in England
nor French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads,
which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square,
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write,
but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce,
and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth,
why isn't the plural of booth, beeth?
One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese?
Is cheese the plural of choose?
One mouse, 2 mice.
One louse, 2 lice.
One house, 2 hice ?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
what does a humanitarian eat?

Why do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck or car and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,
while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
How can the weather be hot as Hell one day
and cold as Hell another?

When a house burns up, it burns down.
You fill in a form by filling it out
and an alarm clock goes off by going on.

You get in and out of a car,
yet you get on and off a bus.

When the stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it,
but when I wind up this essay, I end it?

English is a silly language ...
it doesn't know if it is coming or going !!

English is Tough Stuff (Chaos)
By Gerard Nolst Trenité 
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!

IS IT FALL YET?

OH I WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF THE YEAR HERE!

LOVE HER....

STARBUCKS

WITH MY FAVORITE  DATE!

Hope Springs

The Cold Light of Day

What A DRAG!

The lights of the tree, the smell of the tires, 

the roar of the engines, the thrill of the race.

BIG BOY TOYS! 

Cancer

I'm not a real fan of watching TV, there never seems to be anything on yet there is lots of garbage available. Yet, my cable provider did make me a stellar deal, and for at least the time being I took it!
Sunday my kids and I were watching the Cardinal's game. And somewhere between half time and the fourth quarter, Cole said "Angie, I am getting cancer." I would have been alarmed, but this coming from the young man who brought us 'Instiboil Water', I wasn't afraid. I ask him what was the cause. He informed me that it was the over load of commercials during decent programming. He assured me that it will kill not only him but all of us. And I am sure he is right!! Although I hope it really wont cause cancer. But again I am reminded......watching TV is not good for you!

The view to the north was wonderful! A thunderhead, menacing but not huge. I figured since it was shedding its cargo north of town, I should enjoy the beauty for my five minute drive home. As I arrived home and prepped dinner I could see the late afternoon sunlight changing. A wonderful pink tint was being cant on Miss Kay's house next door. I went outside to water my parched trees and enjoy the temperature in the 80's. Then the rain started. I asked Cookie if she wanted to come see the stormy sky with me. We stood in the middle of the yard as a rain started. As the wind picked up I closed my eyes, you could hear it whip through the aspen to the east, the pine to the south and the palm to the west. It sounded enchanting. My rain buddy went in out of the wet stuff. I pulled my folding chair out in the yard and enjoyed a few minutes in the rain, and got totally soaked! 
It only lasted a few minutes....But it was MAGIC!!

September 11th

As we take our moment of silence for those whom we have lost,  As we ponder the sacrifices and heros that will never be forgotten.

A friend of mine asked a retired airman the question "Will hijacking like that ever happen again?"(We have all been to the airport since that day, we have all seen the measures put in place, not always enough to reassure our hearts.) The airman said "It will never happen the same way again, because of the Bubba Factor." My friend asked, just what you or I would asked, "What is the Bubba Factor?"

The BUBBA FACTOR: Never again will a plane be compromised without one of the men on the flight taking a stand, and along with the other innocent patriots, do their best to put a stop to the terrorist acts and abominations being imposed by blood thirsty individuals.

My friend said, as did my son "I will be Bubba."

I am grateful for the heros that I hope will never have to take that stand.

Happy Birthday Baby Baby

My youngest daughter turned 13 this week! She is now officially a TEENAGER!!!!!

(Yes that means I am now officially the mother of uno teen and three adult children.)

I took her to see Alison the Glam Goddess on Saturday. Cookie has the most amazing hair! Alison gave her a cut, style and wax. Bringing out the sassy hot chicky! 

Then we had the family together for dinner on Sunday! 

Menu created by Cookie: Dinner.... Gooey Homemade Mac and Cheese, Chicken Nuggets and Deviled Eggs....for Birthday Dessert....Red Velvet Cake w/Cream Cheese Frosting, Pumpkin Pie and Angel Cake with Whipping Cream and Fresh Berries! 

 On Monday, her actual BIRTHDAY, her dad brought her a huge bouquets of balloons at school. 

We spent the afternoon at the mall and got Cookie's ears pierced for the second time. She wanted the second set up a bit high....I think her choice was perfect!  We spent a couple of hours walking the mall as she looked for just the right thing to spend her birthday cash on! 

In-N-Out Burger for dinner to round out the Birthday Celebration! 

Happy Birthday Baby Baby!