13 Things I’ve Learned From Posting 1000 Posts!!!!!!!!!

I have reached a milestone!!! Today I’m posting my

1000th post!

Here are 13 things I’ve learned from posting 1000 posts!!!!!

1-It’s ok to be yourself. 

I have learned that even though I’m not perfect, I am lovable.

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2-It’s a great way to tell your story. 

I love to read over my stories and relive my experiences.

3-I love to talk about my family, and their history.

I have wonderful children! My grand baby is adorable! My ancestors are the bomb! We are all basically pretty great people!!!

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4-It’s actually very fun to have a blog.

It’s a happy, fun, exciting place to share my life!

5-I have lots of heroes, friends, and memories.

My heroes are the good examples in my life. I try to emulate their lives. My friends are golden and I wouldn’t trade them for anything. Well, my memory may go, but I’ll still have my blog.

6-Funny things happen in life.

Laughter really is the best medicine. I wrote a post once about laughing at inappropriate times, and yes I have been known to do that. I just innocently try to live my life and funny stuff just happens. I start to giggle and it’s all over. Next thing you know I have a stomach cramp, and tears are streaming down my face. I am thankful that I laugh easily. Life is too short to not laugh hysterically when the opportunity presents it’s self.

7-There are some wonderful movies and TV shows out there.

Dory: “Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming….what do we do we swim, swim!”

I need that reminder a lot.

8-Sometimes I don’t Have anything to say, believe it or not. And that’s ok.

I have been amazed at the lack of things to say, or when I can’t think of anything to post. I never thought I’d see the day. I am very social, I can talk to anyone, but I do like to be by myself and just sit still and read or relax sometimes.

9-Life is busy!

Life is busier than ever before. We’re all busy. It makes living adventurous! Sometimes finding time to do a blog post is very difficult, but I’m always glad when I do.

10-I really love Sunday’s the Best!

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Peaceful, inspirational, and spiritual! Spending the day thinking about God and His precious gifts, and looking for ways to bless others lives!

11-The world is full of Beautiful Places!

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Always focus on the beauty in this world. We are so blessed by Father above to live in such a beautiful place. Look for the beauty!

12-I have learned lot’s of lesson’s. 

I’m so glad I’ve written them down. I love to learn and I’m glad that challenges are not wasted by having to repeat difficult times. I so appreciate the lessons!

13-It takes a long time to write 1000 posts. 

Who knew it would take almost 5 years of blogging to reach 1000 posts, but I did it!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!

Favorite TV/Movie Quotes! Monters, Inc

Monsters Inc.

Mike: Can I borrow your odorant?

Sulley: Yeah, I got, uh, Smelly Garbage or Old Dumpster.

Mike: You got, uh, Low Tide?

Sulley: No.

Mike: How about Wet Dog?

Sulley: Yep. Stink it up.


12/26/2021-Update: Isn’t it super fun when the creative minds at Pixar make a movie?  I like this exchange because of the way things are opposite for the Monsters. Wanting odorant, and a scent that is disgusting. I love it. We got a disgusting game this Christmas. It’s call Bean Boozled. The description says: a fun game for adventurous candy eaters. The company that makes it is Jelly Belly, jelly beans. There are two jelly beans that look almost identical, but one is an icky flavor and the other is a good flavor like: Juicy Pear or Booger, Strawberry Banana Smoothy or Dead Fish, Birthday Cake or Dirty Dishwater, Pomegranate or Old Bandage, etc. You spin the spinner, and eat the jelly bean it landed on. The Grandkids were having so much fun with this! We took the game up to our oldest grandkids, on our visit to see what they got for Christmas, and to offer them the game to keep. Adrian looked at me, then the game and said, “No way, you keep it!” Hahaha. They ended up keeping the game, but it was because their dad, our grown son, wanted it! Now, that’s funny!

Favorite TV/Movie Quotes! Out of Africa

Out of Africa

Karen: “If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”

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What a beautiful movie. I admire Karen and her strength and determination.

She was a strong woman.

It is a different perspective to think about how the world sees you. How you have left a place. When I think of the lives of people I love who have left, I believe they have left a song. A song that helps us and gives us hope and reminds us of our relationship with that person and how our love for them and their love for us is forever. The memory of them. The experiences we shared or read or heard about.

I hope when I’m gone that I’m not forgotten. That my family remembers my best, most fun self. I know they might remember my sad times, or the times when life was overwhelming me, but if they do, I hope they also remember me trying my best to move on and forward. I hope they remember that I am joyful, silly, forgetful, not forgetful, and that I did my best, that I love them so much.

Out of Africa-It’s a ten tissue movie! But I love it!

Favorite TV/Movie Quotes! Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

Marilla: Have you said your prayers?

Anne: I never say prayers.

Marilla: Haven’t you been taught to say your prayers?

Anne: Mrs. Hammond told me God made my hair red on purpose, I’ve never cared for him since.

Marilla: Well, while you’re under my roof you will say your prayers.

What a cute story. I love Anne (with an “E”)!!

Favorite TV/Movie Quotes! Mr. Holland’s Opus

Mr Holland’s Opus
 
Gertrude Lang: Mr. Holland had a profound influence on my life and on a lot of lives I know. But I have a feeling that he considers a great part of his own life misspent. Rumor had it he was always working on this symphony of his. And this was going to make him famous, rich, probably both. But Mr. Holland isn’t rich and he isn’t famous, at least not outside of our little town. So it might be easy for him to think himself a failure. But he would be wrong, because I think that he’s achieved a success far beyond riches and fame. Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life.
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Favorite TV/Movie Quotes! My Dog Skip

My Dog Skip!

Narrator: I almost lost old Skip that day. Even as he was sleeping on the operating table, he was still teaching me. That day, I became a young man. Why, in childhood and youth, we wish time to pass so quickly. We want to grow up so fast. Yet, as adults, we wish just the opposite. 
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Narrator: Old Skip was 11, and feeble with arthritis, but he never lost that old devilish look in his eye. He made my room his own. Came across an old photo of him not long ago. His little face, with the long snout sniffing at something in the air. His tail was straight out and pointing. Eyes were flashing in some momentary excitement. He always loved to be rubbed on the back of his neck. And when I did it, he’d yawn, and he’d stretch, reach out to me with his paws as if he was trying to embrace me. I recieved a trans-atlantic call one day. “Skip died”, Daddy said. He and my mama wrapped him in my baseball jacket. They buried him out under the elm tree, they said. That wasn’t totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart. 

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What a sweet movie!

Favorite TV/Movie Quotes! Sleepless in Seattle

-Sleepless in Seattle-




Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: People who truly loved once are far more likely to love again. Sam, do you think there’s someone out there you could love as much as your wife? 

Sam Baldwin: Well, Dr. Marcia Fieldstone, that’s hard to imagine. 

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: What are you going to do? 

Sam Baldwin: Well, I’m gonna get out of bed every morning… breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won’t have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out… and, then after a while, I won’t have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. 

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife? 

Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together… and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home… only to no home I’d ever known… I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like… magic.