Fortune Cookie Friday

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.  The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.  Ray Bradbury

This may not be a fortune cookie saying, but I like it and Choose to use it because I like it.  How beautiful is this saying.  Have a great weekend to one and all and let some beautiful stuff out!

Fortune Cookie Friday :(

Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis.

How true is this, especially at the news I have been listening to today on the television.  My heart is just broken for the families and the people that have been anywhere involved with the shooting in Colorado.  What in heavens name is wrong with people.  

P.S.  On a good note, they have captured the ones responsible for the shooting of B's friends step dad on Saturday.  

Fortune Cookie Friday

Life is a series of choices.  Today yours are good ones.

Today's Fortune Cookie fortune is my mantra.  I truly believe that life is a series of choices.  I believe that there are paths, roads, doors, whatever you want to call it that you are faced with everyday of your life.  How you approach those choices or opportunities is how you make your life flow.  They could be as simple as choosing a greasy cheeseburger for lunch versus a low calorie chicken raspberry salad with low fat dressing, to changes in career paths.  You are faced everyday with choices good and bad, how you use those choices is what makes your life.

p.s.  went to doc, my doc on wednesday and I have a sinus infection   
after nearly three weeks of a sore throat, finally, feeling better today
thank goodness for antibiotics

Day 3 - (Fortune Cookie Friday)

I have finished the 3rd day of the colon cleanse and truthfully it has been a breeze.  I've already lost 4 pounds, probably water.  I have not had a piece of meat, chicken or fish in three days.  I do miss it and will be back on it on Tuesday.  This is definitely not like a colonoscopy, thank goodness.  I have purposefully NOT got to the grocery store but will be faced with going there tomorrow for something to cook for The Hubby and a ton of veggies for Sunday's family bash.  Wednesday morning I woke up with a dry/sore kind of thing going on in the left side of my back throat.  I think it might be allergies but last night it got a lot more tender, sore to swallow.  I'm thinking it might be a side thing from the cleanse.  It's funny that I have not been sick in a year and I start this dang cleanse and get sick.

Yesterday I planned on a bit of painting but the throat thing made not feel like it at all.  I have got to get busy and finish, well, start the commission that is due August 16.  That reminds me I have got to email the guy and tell him what I plan on doing.  Lots of loose ends.

I've also been toying with the idea of starting a book club and so far I've got some good responses from friends.  A date for the first one needs to be picked and then we'll be off.  Lots of fun to spend with a few friends.  

I guess I should do the Fortune Cookie Friday thing too today:

A fun party is soon to be in your future.

Fortune Cookie Friday

"You will soon be reunited with an old friend."

Well, well, well, this sweet fortune I had forgotten about in my pile of fortunes.  It came true last year when my best friend from high school came back into my life.  It has been such a wonderful thing to have her back in my life again, she enriches my life.  

Fortune Cookie Friday

"The smart thing is to prepare for the unexpected."

This has always been my motto but I say it "Always expect the unexpected."

It's like preparing for a storm, or the pop quiz the next day.  You just never know so be ready and don't be surprised, if that is possible!

Fortune Cookie Friday

Today at lunch The Hubby and I had lunch at the usual hangout, Bangkok, finished off the meal with our standard fortune cookies.

My fortune:  A new pair of shoes will do you a world of good!

The Hubby:  An unexpected payment is coming your way!

Well, most ladies would identify with my fortune but I hate shoes and hate it worse if I have to shop for them.

The Hubby's is wonderful and we would love that unexpected payment!

Fortune Cookie Friday

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

I love this fortune, don't you.  It is something I truly believe in.  You may not be able to forget but you can always forgive and that in turn will change your future forever!

Fortune Cookie Friday

"Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. "

I truly believe this, even though I wrote about being an artist yesterday.  I believe that good character takes you a long way in life and is essential for living your life as a good and kind person.

Fortune Cookie Friday

This is something new I'm going to try.  For at least the past 10 years The Hubby and I have eaten at this wonderful Thai buffet called Bangkok every single Friday.  It is delicious, which is why we continue.  When our ticket is laid on the table it is accompanied with two fortune cookies and even if the wait staff misses The Hubby goes over to get us our fortunes.  It has become a tradition for us.  I keep those fortunes and give them to B for a project she plans on doing sometime so we've amassed many fortunes.  I decided that I should have Fortune Cookie Friday because there are some really interesting questions or statements that could be used for discussion.  So here we have the first of Fortune Cookie Friday!

Do what is right, not what you should.

I think this is a statement that many a parent has told their child, I know mine did.  It is my mantra, or least I try to do it.  I am probably not very successful but I like to think that I live by this, doing right.  It's not an easy road.  You have to be able to step out of your comfort zone and most people can't.  What about you?