tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96895722024-02-20T23:38:37.660-05:00The Half Full GlassThere is room in everyone's life for positive thoughts. Life goes on more smoothly, efficiently and with greater zest when you think of the "half full glass".
I hope to keep a record of my world as I see it. As I feel it. As I hear it. As I live it...
Carpe Diem!Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-80440257151242955892011-07-14T12:05:00.005-04:002011-07-14T12:10:06.581-04:00New Craft Show!!!http://www.mycraftchannelblog.com/Go there and enter for your chance to win a Cricut! New show, new Cricut...what more could a girl ask for?!!!Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-31307622782191159812011-04-20T01:21:00.002-04:002011-04-20T01:35:19.625-04:00Leap of faith! No regrets...I finally did my 50th birthday present to myself...it was AMAZING!!!Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-63799957329121004492009-03-03T23:45:00.003-05:002009-03-03T23:45:47.933-05:00Que?.What happened?.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-80672515324557354942009-02-20T06:35:00.003-05:002009-02-20T06:42:09.952-05:00I am culpable....Who the hell is Mea Culpa and why is she always apologizing for everything?.-Karen.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-33281377284004744992009-02-15T23:37:00.004-05:002009-02-15T23:46:30.663-05:00Chapters in your life....How do you define your days? Do you measure them sometimes? A good day? A bad day? Or just another day? I always think about each day. I give it a rating. Some days are dreadful. I wouldn't want them back. But, then there are days like today when everything goes so smoothly...like crystal clear water in a lake that is smooth and without ripples. Rare, I know, but I have seen one of those days onKaren in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-66526374488335550532009-01-10T12:47:00.004-05:002009-01-10T12:54:42.471-05:00Don't Look Back...- Boston (click here) .Don't look back, the morning's breakingIt's been too long since I felt this wayI don't mind when I'm not takingThe morning's comingToday is the day.I can't see why it took so longJust to realizeI'm much too strong nowTo close my eyes.It's holding me down, I'll turn it around.[Chorus]Hey, don't you see the time is runningHey, see me on the road and running..From the way I'veKaren in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-89458922217390021672009-01-05T16:41:00.006-05:002009-01-05T21:13:07.398-05:00Back in the swing of things....School was back in session. That is easy to tell for me because I hear car doors slamming out front between 6:30 and 7:15 am because many kids get dropped of in front of our house instead of at the school. Annoying for sleeping purposes. I get up for a short time to make sure KJ is up then return to bed for an hour or two.. I am reading a good book now. Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert writes Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-20089870038566578672009-01-04T18:15:00.004-05:002009-01-04T18:24:01.384-05:00Humility, gratitude, unconditional love.These are three things I felt today as I spent time with a dear friend. In life, you learn lessons almost daily. Some are the smaller kind that may mean something but not really life changing. The bigger lessons will redirect you onto a different path because they mean that much to you.The biggest lessons can change your life in the most meaningful ways to make you a better human being. I know IKaren in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-75335187384136797952009-01-03T01:03:00.005-05:002009-01-03T01:12:10.136-05:00Ring in the new year...move on to being better....Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be... Lyrics here.Tell the truth, to everyone about everything, then live your truth, in every moment and in every way, and you will be happy forever in your heart, for truth makes the spirit soar, truth sets the mind free, truth opens the heart, and truth ignites the passion and Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-37030778348759201702009-01-01T11:55:00.002-05:002009-01-01T11:57:53.848-05:00Here's to a great start in 2009....Happy New Year!!! .May this year bring you all that you are working towards. Be good to yourself and learn from mistakes made. You can only take care of your end. Others have to deal with theirs. You can't control what others think, only yourself. Be content with your decisions..Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-26155137818373130092008-11-12T13:30:00.003-05:002008-11-12T13:33:13.377-05:00Quote of the day...."I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.".- Agatha Christie.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-9129811456738512152008-11-11T11:44:00.001-05:002008-11-11T11:45:51.630-05:00Dang....Well said... click here.How happy are you?.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-67288644934001424402008-10-16T21:05:00.003-04:002008-10-16T21:13:33.269-04:00Hero. - by Nickelback (click here).I am so high. I can hear heaven.I am so high. I can hear heaven..Woah, wherever, No heavenDon't hear me..And they say that a hero could save us, I'm not gonna stand here and wait, I'll hold to the wings of the eagles, Watch as we all fly away..Someone told me love would all save us, But how can that be, Look what love gave us, World full of killing, And Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-81205341038382987522008-10-16T08:57:00.002-04:002008-10-16T08:59:51.266-04:00The benefits are there waiting for you....As always, my favorite web site has reinforced, once again, the need for physical activity in everyone's life..Click Here.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-82100530113973405052008-10-12T21:44:00.004-04:002008-10-12T21:55:26.599-04:00Nothing Else Matters. Done by Bif Naked (click here).So close, no matter how far Couldn't be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are and nothing else matters .Never opened myself this way Life is ours, we live it our way All these words I don't just say and nothing else matters .Trust I seek and I find in you Every day for us something new Open mind for a different view and nothing else matters .never Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-69001905316167659272008-09-21T21:56:00.004-04:002008-09-21T22:03:11.534-04:00Eye Candy....For someone like me, click here or here for eye candy!!!.I love the idea and how easy it would be to incorporate it into daily use. And the benifits are pretty cool, too. Imagine losing 30-50 lbs by just this one easy change. But, you have to want it...change, that is..Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-58767835849818295922008-08-17T00:03:00.006-04:002008-08-17T00:12:37.192-04:00OMG...Momma Phelps.As I watch the Olympics and Michael Phelps raise up to his mom and sisters, I can only feel the prida a mother feels when her child takes a moment to share "life" with family. How cool was that?!!! She raised him right!!! God Bless You, Mama Phelps!!!.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-83987257558600714222008-08-16T22:58:00.004-04:002008-08-16T23:02:40.447-04:00How much does your health matter to you?.You can do it. (click the previous statement).Just don't ever stop. Make time, make a commitment to yourself for the rest of your life..Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-47663972808092611582008-08-05T17:37:00.002-04:002008-08-05T17:40:30.755-04:00Music Videos.You tube is a source of inspiration for flashbacks..Click Edison Lighthouse.Where were you when this was popular? .Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-21913962253750174942008-08-03T21:05:00.005-04:002008-08-03T21:44:58.561-04:00The World as 100 people.If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this....57 Asians27 Europeans14 from the Western hemisphere (north & south)8 Africans52 would be female48 would be male (go figure!)70 would be non-white, 30 white70 would be non-Christain, 30 would be Christian89 would be heterosexual, 11 Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-15826368649084872802008-06-22T11:28:00.000-04:002008-06-22T11:28:30.731-04:00Altered Arts MagazineAltered Arts Magazine - ATC recycled tutorialKaren in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-1993533396941212692008-06-12T23:01:00.003-04:002008-06-12T23:08:52.579-04:00IncompleteOne day I'll find reliefI'll be arrivedAnd I'll be friend to my friends who know how to be friendsOne day I'll be at peace I'll be married with children and maybe adoptOne day I will be healedI will gather my wounds forge the end of tragic comedyI have been running so sweaty my whole lifeUrgent for a finish lineAnd I have been missing the rapture this whole time of being forever incompleteOne dayKaren in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-19775091362724728362008-06-09T19:24:00.004-04:002008-12-10T22:07:53.181-05:00Plants - Third one. .This is the third plant I own. It is called Orange Jessamine or Murraya Paniculata. It has a fragrant jasmine like scent when in bloom. I just had over 100 blooms in the last month. You can smell them as you walk by the plant without bending over! It is a favorite of mine for that reason..Site #1.Site #2.Site #3.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-83032355246426163192008-06-06T20:21:00.004-04:002008-12-10T22:07:54.419-05:00New Do's....I took before and after pictures of the boys with their new haircuts for summer. Karl just got his usual "trim" but KJ went all out and had his head shaved.... . .. .KJ couldn't be talked out of cutting it by the haristylist! She loved his hair before!!! She said she doesn't say that to other boys but his hair was so soft and thick and straight. I think it hurt her more than him to cut it! LOL.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9689572.post-85028655189267113182008-06-02T19:23:00.001-04:002008-06-02T19:28:32.208-04:00A Place To Bark has the best quotes...."How beautiful the day, when a kindness touches it".-George Elliston.Karen in FLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441915846262132188noreply@blogger.com0