* Sometimes all you have to do is forget what you feel, and remember what you deserve.
* Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat. -Mila Kunis
* If you're always racing to the next moment what happens to the one you're in? Enjoy the ride.
* Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
*I often wonder if more girls were willing to be ladies, more guys would feel challenged to be gentleman.
*Be strong when you are weak, brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.
*Dont let yesterday use up too much of today. -Will Rogers
*The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any jobs; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say "no"- they may not be smart enough to say "yes". -Keith Olbermann
*A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything. -Irish Proverb
*Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren't. Everybody has their own strengths and weaknesses, and it is only when you accept everything you are - and aren't - that you will truly succeed.
* If you are twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel- as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them- wherever you go. -Anthony Bourdain
*My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words, but I always remember the tune. -Graycie Harmon.
*Never take someone's feelings for granted because you never know how much courage that they took to show it to you.
* She's the girl that has a few best friends & doesn't need anyone, the girl that laughs hardest at her own jokes. The girl that expects way too much. Doesn't care what anyone thinks, and is nice to everyone. She's the girl that will hang up on you, then call you right back and say sorry. The kinda girl that will put all her trust in you until you give her a reason not to. She's the girl who will never leave your side when you need her, the girl who will go out of her way to cheer you up. She's the girl who never sleeps without her teddy bear by her side, she's the girl who says she isn't ticklish, but really is. She's the girl who will not give up on you if she really believes in you. She believes in loving somebody forever.
*Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Just wish them well and take care of yourself.
*Be gracious beyond the call of duty. Give back more than you get and more comes back to you. Walk in the shoes of love, be a mighty warrior for love. Protect and defend your right to love. Use your powers for good. In this increasingly cynical world, love is a surprising revolutionary act! -Nancy
*Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. -Paul Bryant
*If you allow people to make more withdrawls than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative! Know when to close the account. -Christie Williams
*A good deed brightens a dark world.
*More girls need to start searching for guys who have goals and ambitions & crave success, because 10 years from now "swag" isn't going to pay your bills.
*Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
*The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. -Audrey Hepburn
*God's plan for your life far exceeds the circumstances of your today. -Loui Giglio
*Be strong when you are weak, Brave when you are scared, and humble when you are victorious.
*I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future. -Tim Tebow.
*Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
January 13, 2012
Words of Advice
1. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the grocery store. If you keep them connected at the stem they ripen faster.
2. Store your open chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold.
3. Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
4. To really make scrambled eggs or omlets rich, add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream and then beat them up.
5. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic, at the end of the recipe if you want a stronger taste of garlic.
6. Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Serve alone or eat with vanilla ice cream.
7. Easy deviled eggs: put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Smash til they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up, mixing it thoroughly, cut the tip off the baggy, squeeze mitxture into egg.
8. Reheating refridgerated bread: To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refridgerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
9. Newspaper weeds away: Put your plants in the ground, work nutrients in your soil. Then wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go, cover with mulch, and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
10. Broken glass: use a wet cotton ball or q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
11. Flexible vacuum: To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
12. Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip to eliminate static cling. It works, you will not have a clingy dress or skirt. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
13. Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but do not dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
14. Re-opening envelopes: If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope inside the freezer for an hour or two.
15. Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs, its cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth.
16. Goodbye fruit flies: Take a small glass, fill it 1/2' with apple cider vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. The flies will be drawn to the cup, and gone forever.
17. Get rid of ants: Put small piles of cornmeals where you see ants. They eat it, take it home, and digest it so it kills them. May take a week or so but you dont have to worry about pets and small children being harmed.
1. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the grocery store. If you keep them connected at the stem they ripen faster.
2. Store your open chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold.
3. Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
4. To really make scrambled eggs or omlets rich, add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream and then beat them up.
5. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic, at the end of the recipe if you want a stronger taste of garlic.
6. Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Serve alone or eat with vanilla ice cream.
7. Easy deviled eggs: put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Smash til they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up, mixing it thoroughly, cut the tip off the baggy, squeeze mitxture into egg.
8. Reheating refridgerated bread: To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refridgerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
9. Newspaper weeds away: Put your plants in the ground, work nutrients in your soil. Then wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go, cover with mulch, and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
10. Broken glass: use a wet cotton ball or q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
11. Flexible vacuum: To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
12. Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip to eliminate static cling. It works, you will not have a clingy dress or skirt. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
13. Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but do not dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
14. Re-opening envelopes: If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope inside the freezer for an hour or two.
15. Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs, its cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth.
16. Goodbye fruit flies: Take a small glass, fill it 1/2' with apple cider vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. The flies will be drawn to the cup, and gone forever.
17. Get rid of ants: Put small piles of cornmeals where you see ants. They eat it, take it home, and digest it so it kills them. May take a week or so but you dont have to worry about pets and small children being harmed.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012
I found these little gift ideas!
Lip Balm Basic
Natural Needs: 2 teaspoons petroleum jelly, 1/8 teaspoon honey, 1/8 teaspoon vegetable shortening
Step 1: Measure out all ingredients into a microwaveable bowl. Mix them together.
2: Microwave at high power for 20 seconds. Stir, then repeat until fully melted.
3: Spoon mixture into your small lidded pot.
4: Freeze for 15 minutes, or until solid.
*In all the reciepes except the berry gloss, you add the extra ingredients BEFORE microwaving.
Berry: After step two, add 1/4 teaspoon berry-flavored drink crystals. Then, add 1-2 drops of water and mix. Keep stirring until the mixture thickens. Then, follow steps 3 and 4.
Lipstick recycles: After step one, mix in some shavings of old lipstick before you microwave the mixture.
Chocolate: Add 5 chocolate chips to the mixture before you put it in the microwave. Don't add more than 5, though, or you'll look like you just ate a melted chocolate bar.
Vanilla: Mix honey with 1/8 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Add, petroleum jelly and shortening. Follow steps two, three, and four.
Mask Parade:
Needs: 1/2 ripe avocado
Step one: With an adult's help, cute and open the avocado, remove the pit, and scoop out 1/2 if the meat. Mash until there are no clumps.
Step two: Massage mixture into your face and neck. Leave on for 15 minutes, then gently rinse off.
Egg & Lemon Face Mask:
Needs: 1 egg white, 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Step one: Use a fork to beat the egg white a until light and fluffy.
Step two: Gently stir and fold in the lemon juice.
Step three: Soak cotton ball in the mixture, and apply to you face. It may make you face feel weird and tight.
Step four: Leave mask on for ten minutes. Then splash warm water on your face to rinse.
Egg & Honey Face Mask:
Natural Needs: 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon plain yogurt, 1 egg yolk, 1/2 teaspoon almond oil
Step one: Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
Step two: Use your fingers to massage mixture into your face and neck.
Step three: Leave mask on for 15 minutes, then gently rinse off with water.
Oatmeal Facial Exfoliator:
Needs: 2 heaping teaspoons oat flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda/bicarbonate of soda, 1 teaspoon honey, 1/2 teaspoon water
Step one: Combine oat flour (or ground oatmeal), baking soda, and honey. Mix well.
Step two: Add water. Mix to make a paste. If you need to add little more water, that's okay! You want it to feel like mud.
Step three: Apply to your face with your fingers. Rub gently. Leave it on for 15 minutes, then rinse and gently pat dry.
Bath-Bomb Basic:
Natural Needs: 3 tablespoons baking soda/bicarbonate of soda, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 1 packet (10g) citric acid, Small bowl of water for sprinkling.
Step one: Measure baking soda, cornstarch, and citric acid into your bowl. Mix with stir spoon.
Step two: Flick water onto the mixture a few times.
Step three: Mix in the water with your hands. It should feel dry but still stick together. Take a handful of the mixture and squeeze your hand into a fist.
Step four: Fill a mold of overflowing. Then pack it down once.
Step five: Leave mixture in mold for 20 minutes. Carefully take out bath-bomb. Let it dry overnight.
Step six: Place bath-bomb into this kit's pillow box gift container so your guests have a take-home present.
Chocolate heaven: Add 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder.
Minty Me: Add 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract to make it smell fresh. Add 3 drops of green or red food coloring to make it look minty.
Kool-Aid Pool: Add 1/2 teaspoon Kool-Aid or other drink crystals
Nuts about Bath-Bombs: Add 1/8 teaspoon almond extract. Add 3 drops of brown or orange food coloring to go with the nutty almond smell. Or use blue, red, or green to throw people off the scent.
Lip Balm Basic
Natural Needs: 2 teaspoons petroleum jelly, 1/8 teaspoon honey, 1/8 teaspoon vegetable shortening
Step 1: Measure out all ingredients into a microwaveable bowl. Mix them together.
2: Microwave at high power for 20 seconds. Stir, then repeat until fully melted.
3: Spoon mixture into your small lidded pot.
4: Freeze for 15 minutes, or until solid.
*In all the reciepes except the berry gloss, you add the extra ingredients BEFORE microwaving.
Berry: After step two, add 1/4 teaspoon berry-flavored drink crystals. Then, add 1-2 drops of water and mix. Keep stirring until the mixture thickens. Then, follow steps 3 and 4.
Lipstick recycles: After step one, mix in some shavings of old lipstick before you microwave the mixture.
Chocolate: Add 5 chocolate chips to the mixture before you put it in the microwave. Don't add more than 5, though, or you'll look like you just ate a melted chocolate bar.
Vanilla: Mix honey with 1/8 teaspoon of vanilla extract. Add, petroleum jelly and shortening. Follow steps two, three, and four.
Mask Parade:
Needs: 1/2 ripe avocado
Step one: With an adult's help, cute and open the avocado, remove the pit, and scoop out 1/2 if the meat. Mash until there are no clumps.
Step two: Massage mixture into your face and neck. Leave on for 15 minutes, then gently rinse off.
Egg & Lemon Face Mask:
Needs: 1 egg white, 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Step one: Use a fork to beat the egg white a until light and fluffy.
Step two: Gently stir and fold in the lemon juice.
Step three: Soak cotton ball in the mixture, and apply to you face. It may make you face feel weird and tight.
Step four: Leave mask on for ten minutes. Then splash warm water on your face to rinse.
Egg & Honey Face Mask:
Natural Needs: 1 tablespoon of honey, 1 tablespoon plain yogurt, 1 egg yolk, 1/2 teaspoon almond oil
Step one: Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.
Step two: Use your fingers to massage mixture into your face and neck.
Step three: Leave mask on for 15 minutes, then gently rinse off with water.
Oatmeal Facial Exfoliator:
Needs: 2 heaping teaspoons oat flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda/bicarbonate of soda, 1 teaspoon honey, 1/2 teaspoon water
Step one: Combine oat flour (or ground oatmeal), baking soda, and honey. Mix well.
Step two: Add water. Mix to make a paste. If you need to add little more water, that's okay! You want it to feel like mud.
Step three: Apply to your face with your fingers. Rub gently. Leave it on for 15 minutes, then rinse and gently pat dry.
Bath-Bomb Basic:
Natural Needs: 3 tablespoons baking soda/bicarbonate of soda, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 1 packet (10g) citric acid, Small bowl of water for sprinkling.
Step one: Measure baking soda, cornstarch, and citric acid into your bowl. Mix with stir spoon.
Step two: Flick water onto the mixture a few times.
Step three: Mix in the water with your hands. It should feel dry but still stick together. Take a handful of the mixture and squeeze your hand into a fist.
Step four: Fill a mold of overflowing. Then pack it down once.
Step five: Leave mixture in mold for 20 minutes. Carefully take out bath-bomb. Let it dry overnight.
Step six: Place bath-bomb into this kit's pillow box gift container so your guests have a take-home present.
Chocolate heaven: Add 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder.
Minty Me: Add 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract to make it smell fresh. Add 3 drops of green or red food coloring to make it look minty.
Kool-Aid Pool: Add 1/2 teaspoon Kool-Aid or other drink crystals
Nuts about Bath-Bombs: Add 1/8 teaspoon almond extract. Add 3 drops of brown or orange food coloring to go with the nutty almond smell. Or use blue, red, or green to throw people off the scent.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
January 10, 2012
21 Suggestions for Success
1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistance, persistance, persistance.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your mom proud.
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.
6. Be generous.
7. Have a grateful heart.
8. Persistance, persistance, persistance.
9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary.
10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.
12. Commit yourself to quality.
13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
14. Be loyal.
15. Be honest.
16. Be a self-starter.
17. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.
18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.
19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
20. Take good care of those you love.
21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your mom proud.
-H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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