Today’s Vox Hunt Challenge
Share one of your favorite quotes.
I love quotes. I have more quotes, poems and snippets of lyrics, than I can count, set aside and saved to do something with someday. My art is "word based". I love the concept of turning words into art. I love the idea of something being intellectually stimulating and visually beautiful.
It's hard to pick a favorite quote. Actually, I don't really have a favorite, but here's one I love….it's from the movie "Fallen".
There
are moments which mark your lifeMoments
when you realize nothingwill ever be the same.
And
time is divided into two parts
Before
Thisand
After This
Now
sometimesyou can feel such a moment coming.
That's
the test, or so I tell myself.I
tell myself that at times like that strong peoplekeep
moving forward anyway.No
matter what they are going to find.
~Fallen~
So love this…absolutely love the idea of pinpointing a major change in your life to a single instant.
And that's what our entire life is, an cumulation of a million "instants" and to be able to recognize the ones that changed you, I think there is a strength in that. In being so aware of what circumstances, choices and situations made you what you are. When you can recognize that, therein lies the power to change yourself, better yourself, fix yourself or leave yourself just the way you are.
about
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Kim got here yesterday and she spent the night, with Brandon and itty bitty.
It's so, so nice to have her here. Nice really doesn't sound like a good enough word to describe what having her here feels like. Awesome. Fantastic. Jump up and down happy.
Seriously.
She's out for the day visiting with family and having dinner with her father and his new wife, but her and the kids will be back later and she will spend the night again. Yay!Brandon has changed so much! He's such a boy now. His face has changed and lost all the toddler chubbiness. He just looks so….big….so grown up. When I saw him I just scooped him up in my arms and held on tight and I didn't want to freak him out by crying, but I couldn't help it! I managed to not turn it into a full on sob fest, but I couldn't stop the tears. I don't have favorites with the kids that I love, but Brandon means so much to me. Brandon is special to me…and very special to me and Kim's relationship. He's my real live walking, talking, breathing, tangible proof that everything happens for a reason.
Kim and Boyce had a difficult time getting pregnant and they went through so much trying. Finally it was determined that physically Kim would not be able to get pregnant, so they decided to try in vitro. Kim is Catholic and she struggled over this decision. This was not an easy decision for her, given her faith. So they try it and she loses all the babies. All of them. And for Kim, every fertilized embryo they placed inside her, was a baby….and the loss was excruciating for her. But she somehow managed to gather her strength and faith and decided to try again. During this time, Zak and I were also finally trying to get pregnant. We weren't really "trying" but more like not stopping it from happening anymore. I used to tell Kim, "Don't worry…you'll get pregnant. Maybe God just wants you to be pregnant with me. He wants us to go through having babies together." That was my reassurance on why things were happening the way they were, for her. So they try the in vitro again. And again, Kim loses all the babies. And this time was much harder for her to recover from. And right after she tried and lost the babies, Zak and I got pregnant. That was tough and her and I talked about it quite a bit. She was, of course, ecstatic for us, knowing how long we waited to have children, but there obviously was a part of her that was like…okay…what on earth is the reason for this?.…and I was too, for that matter. It broke my heart that I had gotten pregnant and she didn't. During my pregnancy she was happy for me and was supportive and wonderful to me. During my pregnancy she and Boyce had decided they would not do the in vitro again and they decided to become foster parents.
2 weeks before Jaime was born, Kim got a call from the hospital asking if she'd be willing to take an infant. A brand new just born that day, infant. Kim, of course, jumped at the chance. We wound up giving her a lot of stuff that we had 2 of because she just didn't have anything for a baby. And that's how she got Brandon.
2 weeks later Jaime was born and Kim and Brandon came over to see her, of course.
While we're holding our babies, I say to Kim…."See? I told you God wanted us to have babies together."I get goosebumps just thinking of the whole story.
So for me….Brandon just means so much…..just looking at him reminds me of how amazing life is and how quickly things can change. And that if you just have faith, no matter what your faith may be, but if you just keep on keepin' on….it'll all work out the way it's supposed to.
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This is great!Here's a little article about this.Take it like a man, southern boy!
I just love him….
Obviously, I've solved my coffee issue.
Oh and Kim is about to land!!! Well, Kim's PLANE, I should say…it's not like she's turned into wonder woman and flew herself across the country.
6 more minutes!!
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I am a coffee person.
I always have a cup of coffee with me, unless I'm drinking.
I can drink coffee right up until I go to bed and it doesn't keep me up.
Yet, I have to have that coffee in the morning to wake up.
Yeah, I know…it makes no rational sense. lolI am out of coffee.
That is insane.
I am drinking my last cup right now and there is going to be a HUGE problem when it's gone.
Huge.I have no idea how I could run out of coffee.
That's just insane.
I need coffee as much as I need air!
unbelievable.It's reminding me of a part of a poem that Ceci wrote…I forget which poem it is, but it goes something like….
But never do I ever
get to my last cigarette
of all that I am careless with
of all that I forget….something like that…
ANYWAY….
My Monday is off to just a fabulous start!
Luckily Kim will be here and that just makes everything better.
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Funny, huh?I love it!
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I love changing the look of my blog, frequently.
I hadn't had time to make a new banner since we got here and so I just opted to use a predesigned layout.
I wasn't liking it, at all.And then once J commented that she liked the ones I make, better, that just sealed the deal.
So yesterday I made a new one.
I like it!
🙂It's been a nice weekend….I can't get really into preseason football. I watch for a little bit and then get bored. lol.
We're wanting to watch the Olympics, so we'll probably spend some of the day doing that. I love the Olympics, especially the women's gymnastics. Zak has an open house this afternoon and I think he wants to take care of the yard, but we'll manage to fit some Olympic stuff in. Yay!Shelly and Steve came up to visit last night and we all sat outside and had a few drinks and talked. It was me, Zak, Niki, Rick, Shelly and Steve. It was cool. I never, ever thought, in a million years, that my sister would hang out with me and my friends and that I would like it. LOL It's pretty freakin' cool, if I do say so myself. One of Niki's friends wound up stopping by too and staying for a little bit. It's so nice to be able to sit outside on a warm summer night! I love it!!
Later today I'm going to head up to Shelly's and hang out up at her house for a bit, that'll be cool.
And then tomorrow…KIM ARRIVES!!!!! She's bringing Brandon and itty bitty. (That's what they call her baby foster child….).
I am so excited! She is going to spend the night here Monday and Tuesday and then they are going camping with her family for the rest of her visit. We're going to meet up with her at Cogshall Park on Thursday and then on Saturday me and the kids (with Gabby) and maybe Zak are going to go up to her campground and spend the afternoon and then they have this huge fireworks show up in Jaffrey NH and so we'll go drive up to that. I'm excited! It's going to be a fun week and I cannot wait to see Kim, it's been so long!!! 🙂I'm off to get my stuff done, so I can have the rest of the day without stressing out about what I need to do.
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This is not a real smile from Brett Favre.
There's a hint of sad in his eyes…..you can see it.i watched some of the press conference and I was excited that he's playing again. But I felt bad about the whole Packers thing….( I really cannot BELIEVE Brett will not be a Packer….)
And then I saw this pic today and it made me sad for him and his wife.
They were a big, big part of the Green Bay community and they must be so sad at the way things went down in Green Bay.Byt hopefully he'll have such a good season that it makes all this drama worth it!
Not SO good that the Jets beat the Patriots, but good.
ha!Welcome back, Brett!!!!
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Zachary had two big boxes sitting around the house, still packed, that came from his office.
HIS side of the office, I might add.
So yesterday I am finally sick of looking at these boxes and I am going to go through them, as best as I can and reorganize and maybe get it down to ONE box and then maybe he'll go through it.I'm going through the boxes, cursing Zak (lovingly, of course!), and I come across a lotus disk! I hold it up in the air, in triumph and yell, "SUH-WEET!"
Totally makes the two stupid hours I spent going through the boxes worth it.
(they honestly were REALLY big boxes.)so I sit down at my computer, with the disk and I install the program.
I try to open one of the files. I type in the password and it opens right up.
AWESOME.
I go to the second, more important file and type in the password.
Nothing.
I take a guess and type in a second password.
Nothing, again.fuck.
I have forgotten the password.
<sigh>Figures.
victory was fleeting and I'm back to the war again. -
Some people in the world, hate being predictable, hate being "known" and hate having routines.
I am not one of those people.
This morning, four people got a hold of me to tell me about or talk about the Brett Favre trade.
When I turned my phone on this am, Kirk had texted me…"your boy is a jet"
Then my sister called me, then Tina called me….and so on….(and I'm still waiting on a couple of people that I just know are going to call me as soon as they can….JR, for one! lol.)I love that if you know me, you know I love Brett Favre.
And the same thing happens with Bon Jovi. If anything related to him happens, my phone usually rings like crazy.
And I love that about me. I love that I'm so passionate about the things I love, that I talk about them constantly and very enthusiastically. There's not much I can say that I truly love about myself….there are so many things I would change about me….but being passionate is not one of them.It's probably the part of me I like the best….if I'm happy, I'm REALLY happy. if I'm sad, I'm REALLY sad….I just feel everything to the fullest. I'm the kind of person that when I say I am jumping up and down happy, I really am jumping up and down. No joke.
I can't contain my emotions. When Zak and I argue…I get the gansta chick head roll going on until he swears my head is gonna come right off my neck. (he hates when I do that…lol.) When I laugh, I throw my head back then double over…..I could go on and on.Ceci once wrote this to me….
"You are the violins in my music. You make me turn my head and feel the moment."
That is one of the biggest compliments I have ever received and it made me realize….how me being so passionate makes the people that love me or the people that hang out with me, experience things in a whole different way….and I like that. It makes me feel good.
When things like this morning happen, I realize how much people "know" me and it reminds me of this part of my personality…..and I dig it!
🙂
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I can't believe this…I have been watching this drama unfold for awhile and you'll be happy to know I didn't post the majority of it because I didn't want to bore everyone to death. LOL
It is going to be SO FRIGGIN' WEIRD to see him in another jersey. Just weird.
I am PSYCHED he is coming back.
Now, with Brett back, I only need if every team in the entire NFL kicks the ever livin ' daylights out of the Giants and I'll be happy girl. 🙂
ha!
I wonder if he'll get #4??
hmmm…..
Anything But Gray 