Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
~anonymous
I'm thankful for all my wonderful friends.
HAPPY THANXGIVING

Gratitude

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 

"thank you," that would suffice. 

~Meister Eckhart

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir

kimbalie's kwotes

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.  

~David Carradine

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  

~Mary Engelbreit

so...(apparently i only capitalize names) Rachel is a senior with raspberry sideways mowhawk hairdo, wants a lip ring, driving on 9/9/09, doesn't do drugs or drinking, has a laptop cause stupid smith paid back child support, calls my boyfriend first thing after she gets her license, then friend/uncle George, then friend/uncle Aaron, and Grandpa TO before calling stupid smith, has incredible senior pictures (round #1(my photographer is willing to take more as we go through the fall!!)), is going for holiday hair for the year, (first color the girl has dabbled in since she turned 12~note she still wears all black clothes), applying to colleges, mostly in Maine but a couple in MA and VT, polite, smart, creative-writing, award-winning language student, German hosting, Senior at LHS.

Kimbalie

For Kiki

i thank you God for most this amazing by E. E. Cummings i thank You God for most this amazingday: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birthday of life and love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any-lifted from the no of all nothing-human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

More tidbits against depression

I thought it's about time I shared a couple of strategies I've found lately that have really helped me stay out of the blues. It came to me through the back door this time or I may not have noticed it. I'm sure you've all heard about the attitude of gratitude. Well, when I get the blues and some one says gratitude, I wanna gag. How can you be grateful when you are deeply depressed?!?! Well, God is great because gratitude snuck up on me this time and ever since I've been writing 10 things I'm grateful for most every day. The story: I have a thing for quotes and I hang a Kimbalie's Kwotes poster with a few quotes on the front of my desk. My Commissioner is a fan so I strive to find interesting new quotes for him. I was feeling down for a few weeks and I found myself drawn to quotes about gratitude. I was on a roll looking for out of the ordinary gratitude quotes and in my search through the old and new, I found myself feeling better. I still refused to recognize what it was. I also receive How To of the day and Library Link of the day in my email. I got behind on reading them because the blues gets me way out of my routine. The search for gratitude quotes led me to my emails and as I started to catch up on them it happened; what I like to call God's little love pat upside the head. I had missed 2 How To emails on gratitude, a library link article on gratitude and 3 (YES 3!) coupons for gratitude journals, buttons, t-shirts and what not. God will not be denied!!! I grabbed the nearest of my many journals and made my list and have been ever since. Sometimes not happily but inspite of. God understands and is Great!!! Today I would be so grateful if this helped someone. Love, kimmi

ONE MORE THING

"God is great! Beer is good; and people are crazy!"

~ Billy Carrington

duh! here's the blog LOL

http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2009/07/6s-summer-reading-list.html AMAZING MUST HAVE!!

shyness

okok i've been shy. get used to it. i start on these adventures and then think 'OMG WHAT AM I DOING??!! WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY??!!' then i run away...but this time i didn't stay away. you must go to an incredible blog i found and check out the comprehensive reading list. it's brilliant!! thanx for your patience and bless you all!! Kimmi

Sunday

interesting sites

I've found a couple of very cool websites you should check out. I had a gift certificate to Mr. Paperback (thanx Uncle Ric and Aunt Deb) and I found a little yellow book called Dream It. List It. Do It. How to Live a Bigger & Bolder Life, from the Life List Experts at 43things.com so I joined the site and have been developing my list and exploring the site. It is an award-winning social network and so far is wicked interesting. From there today I went to postcrossing.com I haven't gone through it much yet but apparently you can send postcards, real paper postcards, to other members of the site. They in return send them to you. The girl on 43things.com that wrote about it said it gave her thoughts of all the places she'd like to go. I know it may be crazy to put my address out there like that but someday we gotta start believing in the human race again. Maybe this is the way to do it. We'll see. Have a great day Bless you, luv me

FOR Risa

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

~Lucille Ball

HOPE

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve

When the world says "Give up,"

Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."

~Author Unknown

Love floods us with hope.

~Jareb Teague

a name game

I got this idea from a young girl named Megan Meier. She was a wonderful girl that had to lose her life to cyberbullying in its worst form. Her website is beautiful, but grab a box of tissues http://www.meganmeierfoundation.org/ K - is for kewl I - is for intelligent M- is for mischievous B- is for a beautiful heart A- is for avoirdupois L- is for love I- is for ingenuous E- is for exponent

Courage, your journey and life

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose."

"Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that."

"Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems."

~all from Tom Krause

more....

The best time to laugh is any time you can.

~ T.O. Brown

It ain't easy being green.

~Kermit the Frog

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Day #1

This is only a test...if this was an actual blog you would be further instructed on what the heck I'm doing. As I have no idea what i'm doing this is only a test.