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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
- Mary Lou Cook

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"She who dies with the most shoes wins."
- Author Unknown
Sad things is... this isn't even half of them!

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"What we see depends mainly on what we look for..."
- Author Unknown

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"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."
- Maori Proverb

July retrospective

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obsess
Pronunciation: \əb-ˈses, äb-\
Function: verb
1. to haunt or excessively preoccupy the mind of
2. to engage in obsessive thinking : become obsessed with an idea

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"Who do you love? Me or the thought of me?
Me or the thought of me?"
- lyrics to I Don't Trust Myself by John Mayer

"No I'm not the man I used to be lately
See you met me at an interesting time
If my past is any sign of your future
You should be warned before I let you inside"
- lyrics to I Don't Trust Myself by John Mayer

I could not choose which picture or which quote I liked the best. But since I had such and amazing time at the concert, I figured, why not 2 pictures today? They are both edited all up, because the quality of the pictures I was able to take was terrible.

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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end;
if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth
only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
- C.S. Lewis

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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
- Oscar Wilde

209/366

husband: "I got you something."
(he always says this & its usually nothing for me)

me: "I doubt that."

he drops this on the table...

me: "oooh! You did get me something!!"

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"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness."
- Author Unknown

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Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
My my, just how much Ive missed you
Yes, I've been broken hearted
Blue since the day we parted
Why, why did I ever let you go?
Mamma mia, now I really know,
My my, I could never let you go.
- lyrics to Mamma Mia by ABBA

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“Distant water won't quench your immediate thirst.”
- Chinese Proverbs

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty.
Believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott

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"Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain."
- lyrics to Two Step by Dave Matthews Band

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"The more you laugh, the longer you live."
- Author Unknown

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“Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
- Proverbs

201/366

“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way
that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
- Ludwig Erhard

200/366

“This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche

this was last night's moon... I didn't post it last night, because I had already taken another picture. Oh well. You get it today.

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“Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on."
- Budd Schulberg

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"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what
you like and let the food fight it out inside."
- Mark Twain
Husband made ciabatta bread pizzas!!

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"Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues."
- Hugh Prather
I have been obsessed lately with the fact that I have lots of arm hair. Do I have a lot more than normal? I think I do.

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"Love one another and you will be happy.
It's as simple and as difficult as that."
- Michael Tautz

195/366

"Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's
good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much
you can do about it but carry an umbrella."
- Pepper Giardino

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"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
- Kenji Miyazawa

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"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."
- Dr. Seuss

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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Author Unknown

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"In the end, it will all be ok.
If it's not ok, then it's not the end!"
- Jason Castro

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"Love is not something tied to good times in life.
Love is the string that keeps life tied together when the bad times come."
- Author Unknown

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"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you
just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will
come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
- Anne Lamott

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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
- Russel Baker

187/366

"Children think not of what is past, nor
what is to come, but enjoy the present time,
which few of us do."
- Jean DeLa Bruyere

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"Freedom consists not in doing what we like,
but in having the right to do what we ought."
- Pope John Paul II

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"Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams."
- Author Unknown

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"All dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Author Unknown
cheating today... I had too many pictures for the American Idol concert last night. This is me & Betsy Castro. This gorgeous lady gave birth to the beautiful man in the picture right below this, THE Jason Castro. Yes, I met his mom. I met his brother & sister too!!

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idol
Pronunciation: \ˈī-dəl\
Function: noun
1: a representation or symbol of an object of worship
2: an object of extreme devotion

June retrospective

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"I believe that it’s better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked."
- Mae West

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"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because
of the people who are evil, but because of the
people who don't do anything about it.”
- Albert Einstein

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"The only thing you take with you when you're
gone is what you leave behind."
- John Allston

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"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing, and
seeing great work at some moment every day."
- Thornton Wilder

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"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from
us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that
we see ourselves as we really are."
- Arthur Golden
the fire is still burning. it is about 11 miles from my house.

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"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes,
hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say,
'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"
- Ann Landers
a real fire

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"In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a
great deal more than we give, and that it is only with
gratitude that life becomes rich. It is very easy to overestimate
the importance of our own achievements in comparison
with what we owe others."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

175/366

"And what would you use beef feet for?"
- random grocery store employee

174/366

"Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear
from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one
and only thing you have to offer."
- Barbara Kingslover

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"We cannot all do great things but we can do small things with great love."
- Mother Teresa

172/366

"Be who you are and say what you think, because those
who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter."
- Dr. Seuss

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10 Ways to Know It Is "That Time of the Month"

1. Everyone around you has an attitude problem.
2. You're adding chocolate chips to your cheese omelet.
3. The dryer has shrunk every last pair of your jeans.
4. Your husband is suddenly agreeing to everything you say.
5. You're using your cellular phone to dial up every bumper
sticker that says: "How's my driving-call 1-800-"
6. Everyone's head looks like an invitation to batting practice.
7. Everyone seems to have just landed here from "outer space."
8. You can't believe they don't make a tampon bigger than Super Plus.
9. You're sure that everyone is scheming to drive you crazy.
10. The ibuprofen bottle is empty and you bought it yesterday.