Just A Short Thursday Story!

 (Watercolor Peacock Illustration Print by BarbaraSzepesiSzucs) 

      Good Morning, Y'all!...Well, Good Morning to those of you who are having morning, I mean! ^_^ I know that some of you are getting ready to start your evening meal, while others are enjoying the afternoon sunshine! ^_^ So, no 'Good Morning' to you!! LOL Good Evening...or Good Day! :-))

      Maybe that's what my problem is this morning...I need some sunshine!...because I'm in a weird mood. O_O I had some funny conversations with the relatives yesterday. Not 'funny...Ha! Ha!'...but 'funny...hmmm?'

      Conversations where you walk away, or pull your ear away...from the phone ^_^...thinking: "What are they thinking?!!!!" O_O I wish I could talk to you about the details, but that would be too much information for a casual, run my mouth, kinda blog post! It would have been telling a story about things that just as well need to be locked in a book...with the key thrown away!! LOL...

 (Custom Hollow Book Jewelry Box, Secret Compartment Book, Made to Order by FiddleheadsForFiona)

(Custom Hollow Book Jewelry Box Made From Your Book by FiddleheadsForFiona)

      Of course, if you have things that you want hidden, but later wanna find, check out the hollow book jewelry boxes above!...They look so cool! :-)

      What I'm finding in conversations with people lately, is that I'm expecting too much out of them. And when they don't behave in the way I think they should...unselfishly, caring, empathetically...I get 'so' disappointed. I mean, I just want the people I love, to be loving! Is that such a bad thing?! O.O
      On a good note, maybe my congregation and my husband are doing so well at this that it's putting an expectation in my mind that not everyone can fulfill! :-] But, of course, they answer to a higher authority...who also requires a lot out of them in terms of unselfish love, integrity, and faith....Oh, if only everybody had the same standard!!
      Before I go on with this any further, I guess I should also mention that I'm aware that maybe my relatives have an expectation of what 'they' think 'I' should be doing too!...In my opinion it's not realistic! LOL But whatever!!! ^_^ I'll do me!....You do you!!...I happily have a higher authority to answer to! :-) He knows my WHOLE story! :-)
       Have a good day, everybody!...Don't worry, Be Happy!...The End! :-)


Head High, Little Girl

Keep head high, little girl.
And your heart as an open book.
Think good thoughts of who you are,
so other girls can take a look.

Your self esteem, little girl,
should be pumped up wherever you can.
But shouldn't depend on prettiness,
or the sugary words of a man.

Your self esteem needs to be balanced.
Not arrogant or smug at it's core.
For the sun does not rise and set on you,
but nor is garbage dumped at your door.

So keep head high, little girl.
And your heart as an open book.
Your self esteem will then be lifted,
and the whole world will take a look.

Reading Is Fun.....Or Mental!! :-)

        As you know if you've been following my blog, I'm reading the book To Kill A Mockingbird. 

 

          I spent most of yesterday morning reading. I'm getting really close to the end now!...I'm enjoying it, but I keep finding myself thinking that I wish I had read the book first, before watching the movie umpteen thousand times!! I'm having a hard time keeping myself enthused when I know what's coming next!..So, I've been doing stuff to keep my attention....like reading out loud, and pretending to be the characters I'm reading about. It's pretty funny to do sometimes. ^_^
      The southern accent parts are not that hard, being as I'm from the south myself. (Georgia) As a matter of fact I have to make myself NOT read it with as heavy of an accent as I'm familiar with from 'my parts'! ^_^ I recorded myself reading a little section of it. I tried for a long time this morning to upload it so you could hear it, but it wouldn't let me. There was a whole long list of stuff I had to read, and some stuff I apparently would have had to agree to. My thinking brain is not in good enough shape to be agreeing to anything that long and involved this morning, so....NEVER MIND!!!
     But I did want to show you what else is keeping my attention!

     It's the "O" magazine! Remember I won the Giveaway on SnowflakeDream1's blog?! Well, as kind of a substitiute for some of the other gifts, she gave me a year's subscription to Oprah's magazine instead. I got my first issue a few days ago!

       This is the thickest magazine I've ever gotten in the mail, I think. There's so much in it! The only thing that's disappointing so far is that my first issue wasn't the April issue! Apparently that issue had her first poetry entries, a new series she's suppose to be doing. I heard that there was going to be a lot of poems in it and an interview of Maya Angelou! :-( 
      Oh Well!....Maybe hubby will be able to find it somewhere for me. He's already been looking, but nobody seems to have any copies anywhere so far. The further we get away from April, the less likely I am to get it too! Guess I'll have to be happy with my own poetry! ^_^
     That's alright. The magazine has other things in there to keep my attention! :-) 

     Being a girl from the south who used to run around barefoot all the time, you'd think that shoes wouldn't get my attention so quick! Well...you'd be wrong!!! LOL Although, I do think I like looking at them more than wearing them these days! And with the weather around here, who NEEDS shoes?! Might as well have flippers on my feet, with all this rain! ^_^
      I'm just being my usual silly self!....Maybe I WILL get this print by candidate after all!! LOL

     It definitely fits me, don't you think?! ^_^ Have a good day Everybody!!


Read a Good Book?!

Have you read any good books lately?
Have you quietly sat all alone
and thumbed through the word-filled pages,
of a story your mind made it's own?

Have you drifted away to a place
where you almost could smell the sea?
Where you found yourself so out of sorts
that you didn't quite know who to be?

Has a character brought you to tears;
Made you think of a time long since gone?
Have you been so enthralled with a writer
that their every word formed a bond?

Have you learned new things for your future;
Remembered some things from your past;
because of great words put on paper
that made all the memories last?

Have you been so excited to finish
that you restrained the desire to look?
Have you told all your friends about it?
Well, it sounds like you've read a good book!