Connecting

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Yesterday was spent running around and getting things done. I took Joelle to the uniform store and bought her new uniforms for middle school. We went to costco and picked up things for the classroom and then to kohls where we go Joelle a new swimsuit. Joelle went to her friend Hailey's birthday party and Mitch and I went to dinner- black angus. It was nice- just the two of us. Tonight we are going out again- to Jake's Famous Crayfish and then to see Phantom of the Opera. Tomorrow we are having a few friend over for an end of summer BBQ. It is supposed to be near 100 tomorrow.
Today I am going to try to get the walls cleaned in the bathroom and hallway- maybe the living room too, but that is doubtful. I did my bedroom the other day and it is nice and clean now. I am also going to make potato salad. :)

Sunday, August 10, 2008

It was another soccer weekend here. I am exhausted. It is like I played or something. Joelle's team had three games yesterday. they lost one and won two. Just so you know how close the games were her team scored two goals and gave up one. Today they had the championship game against the team they lost to yesterday. The cheetahs. It was a great game. 1-1 after regulation time and then two 7 1/2 overtimes. Still 1-1. It went into PKs. Hb made two of theirs and the cheetahs made 3. What a game though. It was the hardest game Joelle's team has played. The photo is of Joelle making one of the two Pks for her team.

Words of Wisdom

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans"

~John Lennon

"Accept the things which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings together, but do so with all your heart"

~ Marcus Aurelius

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give"

~Winston Churchill

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher"

~Victor Hugo Les Miserables

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved"

~Victor Hugo Les Miserables

"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible,complex, mysterious, infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea,and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."

~Victor Hugo Les Miserables

"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."

~Dostoevsky

"Wanting to be a person you are not is a waste of the person you are"

~Kurt Cobain

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

~John Milton

"A great flame follows a little spark."

~Dante Alighieri

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"

~Dr.Seuss

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

~Maslow

"Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside."

~Chris Messina

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."

~A.A. Milne (this one is for Mom)