Friday, December 14, 2007
It's begining to look a lot like Christmas!
I just received my third Christmas card in the mail today. The count down has officially begun for me. I have almost all my gifts either ready or pretty close to being mailed out. Not too shabby.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
A Lifetime of Failures (and Successes)
A Lifetime of Failures (and Successes)
Increase Your Abe-ility Timeline
This is just a short history of the disappointments and setbacks Abraham Lincoln was faced with in his life. It’s important to know he bounced back after each of these hurdles to learn something and grow from the experience. It’s equally important to remember there’s an impressive list of success that more than matches up with this one. Click here to read what you can learn from the failures Lincoln persevered through during his entire life.
Age (some are estimated)
7 Family is forced out their home and Abe has to go to work.
9 Mother dies.
20 Loses job as a store clerk when business fails.
23 Runs for State Legislature. Finishes 8th of 13 candidates.
24 Gets job as postmaster of his township. Has worst
efficiency record in the county.
26 Business partner dies, leaving him huge debt and
another failing business.
26 Sweetheart dies of malaria.
27 Suffers a nervous breakdown.
28 Turned down in his first marriage proposal.
29 Runs for Illinois Speaker of the House. Loses.
34 Runs for Congress. Loses.
37 Elected to Congress – on third try.
39 Is not re-elected.
45 Runs for Senate. Loses.
47 Runs for Vice President. Loses.
49 Runs for Senate again. Loses again.
51 Elected President. War starts one month later and ends
five days before his death.
54 Delivers Gettysburg Address. Not received well, audience and organizers deeming it a failure. Chicago Times calls it “silly, flat and dishwatery.”
Wow--I had no idea....
Increase Your Abe-ility Timeline
This is just a short history of the disappointments and setbacks Abraham Lincoln was faced with in his life. It’s important to know he bounced back after each of these hurdles to learn something and grow from the experience. It’s equally important to remember there’s an impressive list of success that more than matches up with this one. Click here to read what you can learn from the failures Lincoln persevered through during his entire life.
Age (some are estimated)
7 Family is forced out their home and Abe has to go to work.
9 Mother dies.
20 Loses job as a store clerk when business fails.
23 Runs for State Legislature. Finishes 8th of 13 candidates.
24 Gets job as postmaster of his township. Has worst
efficiency record in the county.
26 Business partner dies, leaving him huge debt and
another failing business.
26 Sweetheart dies of malaria.
27 Suffers a nervous breakdown.
28 Turned down in his first marriage proposal.
29 Runs for Illinois Speaker of the House. Loses.
34 Runs for Congress. Loses.
37 Elected to Congress – on third try.
39 Is not re-elected.
45 Runs for Senate. Loses.
47 Runs for Vice President. Loses.
49 Runs for Senate again. Loses again.
51 Elected President. War starts one month later and ends
five days before his death.
54 Delivers Gettysburg Address. Not received well, audience and organizers deeming it a failure. Chicago Times calls it “silly, flat and dishwatery.”
Wow--I had no idea....
Saturday, November 24, 2007
MY FAV GUILTY PLEASURE ON TV-
MY FAV GUILTY PLEASURE ON TV--2 of them actually
YAY--
Project Runway is BAAAACK!!
Love, love, love it. Pretty much my fav thing on the tv now AND SJP was on it tonight as a guest judge!! LOVE HER!!
So tonight's episode was especially awesome.
If you haven't watched this show you sooo should.
Three words--"Make it Work!!"
Love the Tim Gunn---
SJP's affordable super cute --very reasonably priced BITTEN line at Steve and Barrry's.........
ps---meow! SJP on L.A.M.B
Stefani's designs are "much more avant-garde, definitely high fashion," Parker opines. "I don't want to do that for women, because that's not their lives."
Parker says her line won't land you in the poorhouse. "You're going to be able to buy $200 worth of clothes, leave that store with six bags and be able to pay your utilities and take your kids someplace special for their birthday."
PLUS HER LINE GOES UP TO SIZE 22!
I wanted desperately a leopard jacket-(almost $500) from Gwenies line and, yeah....pretty much was never going to happen*sniff;)
Currently watching :
Project Runway - The Complete Second Season
Release date: By 27 June, 2006
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Don't buy stuff from China
Bindeez, the 2007 Australian Toy of Year, was pulled from shelves across Australia after it was discovered the toy's easily ingested beads contained a chemical that converts into gamma-hydroxy butyrate (GHB), also known as fantasy or Grievous Bodily Harm.
This is just the latest round of recalls of toxic children’s' products that American toy dealers, eager for more profits, have commissioned from China, a land where labor is cheap.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Evacuation order in Encinitas canceled!!!
Evacuation order in Encinitas canceled
Posted @ 6:07 PM
Encinitas canceled its mandatory evacuation order for Olivenhain east of Rancho Santa Fe Road and north of El Camino Del Norte at 5 p.m.
The temporary shelter at the Encinitas Senior and Community Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, will remain open until evacuees have left.
THIS SHOULD BE THE END OF US WORRYING ABOUT HAVING TO EVACUATE....!!!
We are safe and I feel that we will continue to be so--I'm so bored of just watching all this go on around me--I need to get out and help in some small way!
THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR THOUGHTS-PHONE CALLS-EMAILS-TEXTS-IM'S--EVERYTHING REALLY HELPED US GET THROUGH THIS EXTREMELY STRESSFUL TIME.
Posted @ 6:07 PM
Encinitas canceled its mandatory evacuation order for Olivenhain east of Rancho Santa Fe Road and north of El Camino Del Norte at 5 p.m.
The temporary shelter at the Encinitas Senior and Community Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, will remain open until evacuees have left.
THIS SHOULD BE THE END OF US WORRYING ABOUT HAVING TO EVACUATE....!!!
We are safe and I feel that we will continue to be so--I'm so bored of just watching all this go on around me--I need to get out and help in some small way!
THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR THOUGHTS-PHONE CALLS-EMAILS-TEXTS-IM'S--EVERYTHING REALLY HELPED US GET THROUGH THIS EXTREMELY STRESSFUL TIME.
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