Sunday & the Weekends Basically Over...

It feels great outside but I myself find it too early to really enjoy the weather. We'll be heading out to church in about ten minutes. Afterwards we'll all be coming back home and celebrating the Grandpa's 69'th birthday...he's pretty old isnt he =P. I havent checked back up on my plants since about noon yesterday but I did notice that my cactus was out of its pot and I'm considering shooting the cat, just for a heads up. I dont know what it is with her...its a CACTUS which means it has SPIKES on it and yet I still find the poor rootless cactus out of its pot and on the floor. I dont know if it will ever start rooting if the spawn doesnt leave it alone...hmf. It's very upsetting, as I'm sure you can understand. Quotes? OKAY!!

• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
  Benjamin Disraeli


• One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
  Kurt Vonnegut


• Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
  John Wayne


• Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
  Oliver Goldsmith


• The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
  Tryon Edwards


• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
  Oscar Wilde

A picture I took of a butterfly at the Zoo

The Art of the Succulent & The Roots of My Aggrivation

I asked and was granted the opportunity to take a few of my art teachers succulents home to grow them myself, and I was hoping for an easy ticket to fast, lush, and moderately unattended plants. To my severe disappointment, after four days I have seen no progress but I have witnessed my cat devouring them. Just because they're a cousin of the aloe plant, does not give her the right to eat them!

I'm fairly sure that one of the stems I have is unable to be brought back to life considering it has at least five puncture wounds and a brown, shriveling leaf. I'm trying hard not to over-water the plants and maintain my sanity, but if I can't even grow succulents—which are the basics of easy plant growing—I don’t know if I could ever manage any other.

The best luck I've had was with my air plants that require nothing but...well...air. It's beyond depressing and I'm verging on hysterics. Maybe I'm just being to anxious, or the soil isn’t deep enough, or I'm giving them too much light in the bay window, or I'm watering too much...either way I could REALLY use some suggestions on how to help these pretty little plants stay alive!! Comment and let me know?


The cat and her mischief:
My good plant that I'm hoping will continue growing:
My Cactus...I'm not sure about this little guy:

The three that are getting on my nerves:

Icy Weather & a Rant Or Two...

I enjoyed going to the youth rally in Paragould Arkansas February 19-21 but I'd have to say, it's good to be home and resting up. I'm happy to see that Amanda's baby is doing well and that everyone else that blogs is doing better than me at keeping up with this =P. Sad to be back at school again, but life must go on and on a sadder note; I have to continue in its path. Can't wait to see the baby cousin in March/April. There's a little update on my life, not seen much here but bad and cold weather. When we were in Arkansas the weather was phenomenal and I wish it had stayed that way, but here we are back down in the 30's. Guess i should pull out the ol' coat again...

I'm finding that my seeming obsession with oranges and orange juice in the past few months has not waned a bit, but--perhaps--worsened and increased so that I can’t think of anything but to drink orange juice and join an orange with my meals. But hey! Who doesn’t need iron, right? I am a woman and, when you lose as much iron as we do month by month, I might as well get it all in =D.

Happy to see that pretty much everyone is getting over the flu and cold just to have it again with this wickedly indecisive weather, but I'm glad people have stop obsessing over a flu that was around in the 70's but was blown out of proportion. For my own curiosities sake, does it bug anyone else when people say “no comment” about something, but by saying that they are indeed making a comment and have contradicted themselves? Well I do. I’m not real sure what got me to thinking about it, but it really bugs me. I guess you could call it a pet-peeve, but then again, one of mine is the phrase “pet-peeve” itself because it doesn’t make sense to me =). Well, I should probably end my ranting and sign off for the evening; I have things to do early tomorrow and can’t hinder my own sleep time ;). G’night all, sleep and dream well.

Eh...

Well it's Friday =D. And who doesnt love Friday's?! Going to a play tonight with some friends, hopefully I'll get some pizza.

Here's a few short quotes, hope all of you have an amazing weekend!

• Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

-Cullen Hightower

• Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.

-Paulette Bates Alden

Book Quotes:

In Fact, sometimes I was sure that the reason people stared at you with your crutches and wheelchair had nothing to do with your disabilities, and everything to do with the fact that you had abilities they only dreamed of...
-(Picoult 40)~Handle with Care

I think he built a dam around his heart, with a reservoir of guilt backed up out of sight behind it, so his eyes seem to shine with innocence.
-(Adlington 444)~Cherry Heaven or The Diary of Pelly D

Vanity and Pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
-(Austen 42)~Pride and Prejudice

It's so hard to describe. It's not like love at first sight, really. It's more lik...gravity moves. When you see her, suddenly it's not the earth holding you here anymore. She does. And nothing matters more than her
-(Meyer 176)~Eclipse

Maybe if I push my face hard enough into my pillow, I'll sink into it and disappear forever.
-(Krovatin 63)~Venemous

Children see racial differences as much as they see the difference between pink and blue--but we tell them that "pink" is for girls and "blue" is for boys. "White" and "Black" are mysteries we leave them to figure out on their own.
-(Bronson 56)~Newsweek Magazine

Afraid? Of what? To feel the spirits glad release? To pass from pain to perfect peace, The strife and strain of life to cease? Afraid--of THAT? Afraid? Of what?

-(Hamilton 74)~Afraid?

Happy Turkey Day!

Hope yours was as great as mine!

Gotta love that Sparkling Cider!

• Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

-Jane Howard

• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

-Ogden Nash

• No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.

-Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Happy Thanksgiving!

What a wonderful week to share in all the things that I'm thankful for! Happy to be surrounded by those that love me and I hope you all feel the same!

Here are some quotes for all:

• I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.

-Jim Carrey

• The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

-Anita Roddick

• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

• You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

- Ayn Rand

• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

- Albert Einstein

• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

- Sir Winston Churchill

• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

- Emile Zola

• I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

-Walt Whitman

• Heaven will be inherited by every manwho has heaven in his soul.

-Henry Ward Beecher

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

-Albert Einstein

• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourselfand know that everything in life has a purpose.

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

• The whole of life, from the moment you are bornto the moment you die, is a process of learning.

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

• What else is nature but God?

-Seneca

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

-Saint Augustine

• Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

-Abraham Lincoln

• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the wavesthat break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

-Grandma Moses

• The best and most beautiful things in the worldcannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.

-Helen Keller

• Because man and woman are the complement of one another,we need woman's thought in national affairs to makea safe and stable government.

-Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• You are the people who are shaping a better world.One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.

-Dalai Lama

• Those things that nature denied to human sight,she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

-Ovid

I'm an Official Slacker

I've been gone for what seems like forever, i dont have long of course, so heres some quotes and from now on my goal is to try to atleast get on once a week =D

• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
  -Pearl Buck
• In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
  -Sir George Savile
• People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
  -Brendan Francis
• Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
  -Johann K. Lavater
• No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
  -Sir Philip Sidney
  

And in Honor of Bill Cosby <3>

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Love you Bill Cosby--Congratulations on your award!

I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice

The three ingredients of a successful union between two . . . humor, commitment & undying love

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment, I don't want my wife up there ahead of me to tell them things