Monday, December 13, 2004

The following questions are from the great blog site of:
http://www.sundaybrunch.org/

I will answer these questions over the next few weeks, when I can. Right now, it's back to finals! Wish me luck.....

1) What is your favorite color?
2) What colors are your cars?
3) What color are your eyes?
4) What color do you like to wear most often?
5) Name your favorite possession of each color of the rainbow: (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, purple)

1) Which stone is your birthstone? Do you like it?
2) Do you prefer silver or gold?
3) Name the jewelry that you wear whenever you leave the house.
4) What is your most precious and valuable item of jewelry?
5) Do you carry insurance on any of your jewelry and if not, why not?

1) What is your favorite vegetable and your favorite fruit?
2) How many servings of fruits and vegetables do you eat a day?
3) Did your parents force you to eat vegetables when you were younger?
4) What vegetable can you absolutely just not get down, no matter what you are bribed with?
5) What is your favorite way to eat fruit?

1) Do you enjoy flying by air?
2) Do you typically check a bag when you fly or carry on?
3) Has an airline ever lost your bag? Describe what happened and if you were compensated by the airline.
4) Do you eat the airline food?
5) What do you do to pass the time when you fly?

Many Blessings,
SL

Things I Want To Write About:

All of the following questions are from the website: http://diarist.net/spark/
Thanks to David for lending me the site link!

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The most memorable birthday I had was...
—From Creative-Journal.Com, March 2001 Newsletter

If you found out for certain there is a Heaven and a Hell, how would you change your life?
—From "If: Questions for the Game of Life," by Evelyn McFarlane

What would your motto would be for the place you're at in your life right now? Is it different than it would have been five years ago? 10? 20?

What does 'spirituality' mean to you?
Does it mean belief in a specific religious dogma or other principle, or does it mean something that is more secular and cosmic rather than religious? What were your spiritual beliefs when you were younger? Have they evolved, and if so, how? Was there a specific event in which your beliefs were strongly tested, to the point of having to reconsider what you held to be true? If your beliefs are different than those your family and friends have, how accepting are they of you and your beliefs now? Does spirituality hold a high priority in your life?
—From Out There Collaborations – October 2000

What is your one greatest regret?

If you could arrange a concert with any three musicians or groups to play on the same bill, who would you invite? What songs would they play?

If you were a food, what would be the recipe? What ingredients, in what proportions, would go into whipping up the perfect "you surprise"?


What's the bravest thing you ever did?
—Contributed by Al Schroeder of 'Nova Notes'

Which among your traits or habits is a mixed blessing? Identify an element of your personality with which you have a love/hate relationship — one that can bring as much joy as grief.

If you had to remember the moment in your life when you felt the most alone, when would it be?
—From "If: Questions for the Game of Life," by Evelyn McFarlane


Who has been your most influential teacher? What did he, she, or even it, help you learn?

If you had to choose between the services of a cook, maid, chauffer, or masseuse — absolutely free, but only for a year — which one would it be? Why?

What are the 'Seven Wonders' of your world? What places, objects, people or accomplishments in your life would you herald as the most meaningful, life-affirming features of your existence?

Greatest Day — 15 October 2004
What, so far, has been the happiest day of your life?
Why was it special? Explore and enlist every one of your senses, and recall that day. How did it begin? Was there a scent in the air? A song on the radio? Who else, if anyone, was there? What other things today remind you of those 24 some odd hours? And how soon did you realize that it may very well have been the best day of your life? Could you, conceivably, experience an even greater day in the future? What would it take?

Friendships — 11 October 2004
Share some of your opinions on the concept of friendship.
What kind of people do you surround yourself with as your friends? Do you find yourself more comfortable with people your own age, or does that matter? Do you like to surround yourself with lots of people, or do you like to have a smaller, more tight-knit group around?
How easy or difficult is it for you to meet new people and make new friends? Is it easier or harder to make friends using the Internet, and what kind of positive effect has meeting friends online had on your life? What are the greatest kindnesses a friend has shown to you?
—From Out There! Collaborations, December 2000

If you were to dedicate your life to a single cause, what would it be? Which crusade could you feel passionate enough about to want your voice heard, your actions recognized?
—From The "If..." Project, January 2001

What is your favorite picture of yourself?

When was your childhood over? Do you agree with the concept of adolescence, or did you go from being a child to being an adult?
From About.Com Journals

Imagine that you had the power to imprint in the minds of every child born today one phrase, one piece of permanent wisdom. What would you tell them?
A personal motto? A snippet of philosophy? A message of hope? A lesson you had to learn the hard way? Would it be a rule or a suggestion? A statement or a question? If you could only have your words surface on each birthday, would they be different? What would you say?
Expand on your message. Where did it come from? Why is it so important that the next generation should hear it?
—Diarist.Net Spark

Your entire world can change in a minute. Your life can be transformed in an instant. Recall a pivotal moment in your past that played a vital part in making you who you are today. Was it an epiphany? Finding the answer to a tough question? A chance meeting? An accident? Write about your life in the minutes leading up to that instant, and how it was different afterward. Did you see it coming? Could you have known? How would things have turned out had it never happened?

If a terrible storm was rumbling toward your home, and you had five minutes to find and save a single object before being forced to evacuate, what would you take? Let's presume your family and pets will all escape safely, and that you won't lose all your money, or other basic items of financial worth. What object, one that you can hold in your hand, could you not bear to lose? What item in your posession is priceless? Describe the object, physically of course, but also its history. Its sentimental value? Where did it come from? Why did you save it? What would you tell someone who asked about it?
—Diarist.Net Spark

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If you could be guaranteed one thing in life besides money, what would you ask for and why? http://questionfortoday.blogspot.com/

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Questions For Dec. 7th
http://www.lindseyandray.com/ccquestions
Naughty Or Nice:
What Should Santa Bring You? (part 1)
1. Cotton Panties /or/ Lacy Thongs?
Cotton Panties, I hate thongs and don't like lace!
2. Hot Chocolate /or/ Chocolate Body Paint?
Chocolate Body Paint, is there anything better? I never cared for Hot Chocolate anyway.
3. Roses /or/ Pointsetta's?
Roses, they're my favorite flower aside from tulips and lilies! Roses are beautiful and very femine, sexy and classic!
4. Diamonds /or/ Pearls?
Diamonds of course, they're a girl's best friends, but I like pearls too, so either one!
5. A Gift Card To: Walmart /or/ Victoria's Secret?
Wal-Mart, in fact, that's what I told everyone to get me-that way I can get exactly what I want: CD's, clothes, nick-nacks, whatever. Not that I need anything, but the money goes further at WM anyway!!!

More to follow.....

Many Blessings,
SL

Great New Song by JDM

Hey, I was just sifting through my favorite artists' websites and found this:

Jo Dee Messina (country singer) has a new single:
"My Give A Damn's Busted"

Weird title right? Yes, but the song is so cool! We have all been able to relate to it at one point or another and it's just great! Anyhow, here's the words and the link! Enjoy!

"Well you filled up my head with so many lies, twisted my heart till somethin’ sanpped inside. I’d like to give it one more try but my give a damn’s busted. You can crawl back home, say you were wrong. Stand out in the yard and cry all night long, go ahead and water the lawn, my give a damn’s busted. I really wanna care, I wanna feel somethin’, let me dig a little deeper, no sorry, nothin’. You can say you got injured, you can say you’re a victim it’s all your parents fault, I mean, after all you didn’t pick ‘em. Maybe somebody else has got time to listen. My give a damn’s busted. Well, your therapist says it was all a mistake a product of the prozac, and your codependent ways, so who’s your enabler these days? My give a damn's busted. . I really wanna care, I wanna feel somethin’, let me dig a little deeper, no still nothin’"

http://www.jodeemessina.com/home/

Many Blessings,
SL


My Christmas Wish

Today's posts will be multiple, whenever I can find the time in between studying for my comprehensive finals tomorrow-two of them-yuck! Anyhow, along with them, there's much on my mind and I have a lot to say....so here's post #1 for tdoay, December 13th, 2004:
This is originally a post from the Trisha Yearwood Webboard, it's a great spot that I've been posting on and haning out at for almost two years now! I love that board, it's great fun and I've made many, many wonderful friends there! They're awesome people; Melanie S., Mealnie Jr., Debbie, Tammy, David, Kathy and all the rest of the gang ROCKS!!! They are great people, great friends and give me inspiration and support!

KUDOS TO YOU ALL at the TY BOARD!!!

Anyhow...the post was "IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE WISH FOR CHRISTMAS, What would it be?" and was originally posted by Kathy Breen...and here is my response:

"I want my mother to be happy and healthy and lower her stress. She's SO stressed lately with the bills and last night broke down crying because she said she can't afford to buy me or anyone else anything for my birthday or Christmas-we'll just be going to dinner for my birthday.....I felt so bad for her, I told her that Christmas, and my bday, are NOT about presents or gifts. It's about love ones, good times and counting your blessings. She said she was a bad mom because "I can't do anything for you for your 21st birthday and it should be special..." I said "mom, don't worry. It's really okay. I am so blessed, and so are you." I reminded her that we have a nice home, enough food to eat, clothes, a bed to get into at night, a running car (got it fixed last week) and most of all, we have eachother. I told her that putting up Christmas decorations (we did that week) was enough and that really, I don't need anything. I have SOOO much stuff as it is. It just broke my heart to see her like that, because she's such a wonderful, sweet and generous person. She's a great mom, and an awesome person, the hardest working person I've ever known-really. Now that I'm older, I truly appreacite how hard she does/did work to give me the best life possible, but also, I realize that Christmas and my birthday are so NOT about gifts and presents. For me, it's really about being near the ones I love, knowing them and myself are all healthy and alive and well. And, for me, being that I started out my life so ungodly sick and not expected to make it to five years old, the fact that I'm (and my mom) are both here, 21 years later, alive, sane and well.....that's gift enough in itself. It just really ticks me off that Christmas is so damn freakin' commercialized.....a good mother is not one who loads her kids up with xmas gifts and birthday presents and goes broke in the process of doing it; a good mother is someone who loves their kids, gives them attention, praise, hope, lessons, fun and health. A mother is somone who loves her kids no matter what and sets an example of what the child should be; teaches them right from wrong, encourages them when everyone else in the world has turned their back on them and provides the neccesities (food, clothes, shelter) for the child. And my mom has done ALL of that and more....so my Christmas wish this year is not for presents or material things, it's for my mother, my amazing, wonderful, hard-working, generous, caring, compassiontate, aweosme mother. My greatest wish is that she realizes what a great person and mom she is, lets go of senseless guilt and gets the new job she just applied for so she won't be dead ass broke all the time. I want her to be happy, healthy and content. That's my Christmas wish. Please pray for my mom. Thank you."


Here's Tammy's responses, she responded twice, to both of my posts! Thanks Tammy, you're so sweet and I really appreciate it!

Sarah, I responded to your other post, and want you to know that I'm praying for you and your mom! As a mom, I can understand her stress, as I'm sure so many here can. But I have to say, she should be Very Proud of YOU! Remind her that she isn't a bad mom, look how she's raised you, you seem to have a great head on your shoulders, with great, strong morals, and values that truly matter! To have done that, she must indeed be a remarkable woman! You are so right, the holiday season is not about money, or those kind of gifts, it truly is about Family, being together and sharing memories that last, traditions to carry over-such as decorating together, being Together... and encourage us in so many things/way...that those blessings are truly the best gift ever, and the one that will be remembered always...

Sarah, I'm sorry to hear that your mom is struggling so. Stress can definately be hard on us, and bad for our health...I'm sorry that she is so stressed and moving at what seems to be warp speed. I will definately keep you and her in my prayers! You are a great person, and I'm sure your mom knows you are there for her, and that is one of the best things you can give her. Good Luck on your finals! Take care of You!

Happy Holidays & Many Blessings to you all,
-SL

P.S. Here's what Kathy wrote in response to my post: "My greatest wish is that she realizes what a great person and mom she is" My wish Sarah, is that your mom realizes what a beautiful daughter she has. Your mom has given herself the greatest gift. You are the product of all her hard work. Her biggest job in life has been raising you. I applaud her for doing an awesome job. Love ya, Kathy