Happy Thoughts

In light of what our economy is going through and many of us are affected by it. I decided that it would be encouraging to post happy thoughts. To think on good things. "...Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4:8 NLT Happy thoughts to think on are: *I'm alive *I have people that loves me *I'm blessed to be able to move and get around independently *I have my health *God's love is upon me There is so much more to be thankful for and to meditae upon. If I left anything out, please add on. What happy thoughts get you through difficult times or moments? Is it your spouse, children, pets or a memory of someone cheering you up or encouraging you? I leave you with this uplifting poem that I made up. Happy Thoughts Happy thoughts carries us through, It helps us to continue, That what is meant for us to do. It helps us live and go on and enjoy life, without worries and strife. Happy thoughts are a treasure, Let's partake of it and enjoy the sweet pleasures. Let us walk on the road it paves for us, Where there is love, peace and trust- carries us through the tough times, that we are so indulged in happy thoughts, We will not notice the noise of worries, and hard times, but we will only hear the bells of peaceful chimes. Don't worry, be happy. Take care everybody.

Pets Are A Remedy

When your feeling low at times, your pets tend to sense it or pick it up. My "Pooh Bear", that's his nickname. His real name is Static, is such a sweetheart. He's a big boy, but he helps you to feel better.

He seems to be my picker upper. I love it when he lays his big head on me and he's just waiting to be pat. It's like he's saying, I'm there for you.

My static, even though he belongs to my son, he's mine just as much is part of the family and he's a great addition. Shouts out to static!

What would we do without our loving pets? They are a remedy for feeling low.

How about you, do your pets tend to help you through low times in your life? Do you think or believe that they really sense what your going through, when your sad, happy or whatever emotional state your in at that time? How do you cope with being depressed or discouraged? These answers, in particular the last one will be beneficial to me and others. We have those days sometimes ya know. Somehow, thank God we don't stay in that state of mind.

Have a great day everybody and continue to enjoy every good thing about life.

Give Away

There is a fabulous give away going on at Monogrammed Teacher www.monogrammedteacher.blogspot.com, she is teaming up with Monogram Chick www.monogramchick.blogspot.com for this. So go enter and make sure you hook a girl up by telling her you heard it hear. Thanks ya'll. Appreciate that. Chat with you all later.

Basic Yellow Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

Since today was a historic and special day, I wanted to celebrate President Barack Obama's Inaugruation Ceremony. My menu was Lasagna, cooked broccoli and cauliflower. Of course for dessert, I baked a simple yellow cake by scratch-no box and lemon cream cheese frosting. Here's the finished product, which I think in my opinion tasted pretty good. My son loved it, and wanted to get a second helping.

Don't mind the squiqqly purple lines on the cake, I just wanted to try to decorate it and make it pretty so it won't look so plain. It didn't work out the way I thought it would. So I guess I'll cancell trying to be a cake decorator. Oh yeah, here's a picture of my business liscense, I was so excited to start my own business. I hope that it will be doing well in the months and years to come.

Here's the recipe for the Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting.

Ingredients:

*1 8-oz. package cream cheese

*1 stick margarine or butter

*1 box powdered sugar

*1 tsp of lemon extract (or if you fancy vanilla, that would be 1 tsp vanilla)

~Cream the magarine or butter and cream cheese in a bowl. Add the lemon extract (flavoring). Sift the powdered sugar and add to creamed mixture gradually. Spread on top of cake layers.

I hope everyone had a good day and let's not forget to pray for our new president. Hope you all try the cream frosting, it also goes well on cupcakes. What are your favorite desserts. You know, I heard that your favorite dessert says a lot about a person's personality. Hmm, is that really true? Until next time, peace everybody.

I've Been Tagged

I've been tagged by A Dozen Eggs www.adozeneggs.com/wordpress. Here are the Rules of Engagement:

~Grab the nearest book.
~Open the book to page 56
~Find the 5th sentence.
~Post the text of the next 2 to 5 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
~Don't did for your favorite book, the cool book or pick the intellectual one; pick the closest.

O.K. heres, the text of the nearest book I found next to me:

"Bupluerum has been an important herb in Chinese folk medicine for over 2000 years. It was first used to treat fevers including malaria and blackwater fever. In today's folk medicine it is used to treat stress conditions. These conditions are known in Chinese philosophy as excessive wood disorders. They often involve an overtaxed liver and gall bladder."

Well, that was the nearest book ya'll. It's actually one of my school books that I'm using to study for my Certification in being a Health Specialist.

I tag 5 wonderful people for this interesting assignment, and they are:

*Jill at http://www.peeptoepumpsandpearls.blogspot.com/
*Andi at http://www.andibeads.blogspot.com/
*Lulu & Charlie at http://www.nixonsleeves.blogspot.com/
* http://www.bakeat350.blogspot.com/
* www.stuffbytoni.com/wordpress

Have a great Inaguration Day everybody. I'm going to finish my simple from scratch yellow cake, and I'm going to make lemon cream cheese frosting to go with it. Again I like lemon, so whatever suits your fancy what flavor you put in your cookies or frosting. Have a good day. :)

History Being Made Countdown

January 20, 2009-history will be made in the United States of America. I just want to know does anyone have any plans for that day? Or, what plans do you have for Inagauration Night? Is anybody going to an Inaguaration party? Or, are you planning one yourself? Will you be going to a friends house to watch the Inaguaration Ceremony together? What's your plans for that day or night?

What will you be doing to mark this time in history on January 20, 2009. Me, I am planning an Inaguaration dinner for my family to celebrate such a historical event.

Oh by the way, how many of you are going to record the ceremony?

Don't forget to scroll down and view my art work. It's just the beginning of some of my pieces, that I will be showing in an art exhibition-that I will be doing myself in my home. No big stuff or art critic will be there, I'm just doing it for fun, and so my family can view my pieces and see what I've been working on. Some of them will be seeing my work for the first time. I'm excited about that.

Tudalu, until next time.

Peace out

I Have No Specific Title For This Post

I couldn't come up with a suitable title for this post, but I just wanted to share with my readers (friends) what I do in my past time. I took up painting about a year ago, and loved it ever since. When I get creative and working on a piece, I'm in my own little world. A Very peaceful world I might add, not a worry in sight or some concern lurking around the corner. I love this painting hobby I took up and I'm still learning about this new craft.

The name of this piece is called, Extended, which means, break out of the mold of things or shall I say the frame that society thinks we should be contained in. Denying ourselves of who we really are.

If you notice there is a small picture frame in the painting with a flower in it, and it looks like the flower extended out of the picture frame. The other impression I tried to give is that, there's a bottle in the picutre in which it suppose to look like the bottle is trying to capture the flower, but the flower is too big to be contained. It blossoms and grows from the different walks of life. That's where you see it looks like little stepping stones in the picture-that means we can only grow through being ourselves and through life's experiences. Tell me, what impression does this painting give you? I love to here some reviews, and critique, but please don't be too hard on me. ;)

Oh by the way, whats the deal with this DTV thing everyone's been talking about? Have a good one everybody.