Use a big blanket. Sand is not your friend.
The fresh air and soundscape is what makes it wonderful.
The walk together, the anticipation while finding the perfect secluded place, it’s oh so nice.
Next time I want to do it during a summer rainstorm.
Yesterday I finished off a nearly full bag of marshmallows.
Today I think I will just eat salad.
I am still eating emotionally.
My salad has bleu cheese dressing and shredded cheddar on it. I considered bacon bits as well, but choose to forego the bacon in favor of cheese.
Perhaps just getting into the habit of choosing salad will lead to healthier topping selection in the future.
I don’t have one yet, but it is on my wishlist. Right now I am working in my 5×5.
The plastic veneer was peeling from my stickers, so I bought some stickers off ebay. For just around $3 I had brand new stickers made of high-quality vinyl and the best part is there is no clear layer to peel off.
I took care not to ruin the center white sticker with the logo though. Solve the white face first and you can avoid a lot of wear on that one.
I just got my Rubik’s 5×5x5.
It is harder than I thought it would be. I figured it would be easier than the 4×4x4 because you can’t get the faces mixed up and you can’t have parity errors.
So far I can do the 2×2x2, 3×3x3 and 4×4x4 without directions.
I refuse to look up directions for the 5×5x5 until I absolutely must.
Hint: Learn how to do the 3×3 first. A lot of that knowledge can be applied to the 4×4 (until you run into parity errors XO ). You can actually get the revenge to a point where you can solve it just like a 3×3.
Stick with it, and good luck!
I used to cry every single day. The shower was my place to cry. I rarely knew why I was crying. I was just filled with sorrow/resentment/anxiety/hopelessness…
I recently started going to a church. I always had a hard time with faith. I always struggled with prayer. I asked our pastor to help me with prayer, and he answered some questions that I had.
I was crying in the shower later that day, and I prayed that God would heal my wounds. I told Him that I didn’t know what was wrong, but I knew He did. I asked him to dry my tears. I instantly stopped crying and I haven’t broken down since. That was 2 months ago. I can see more clearly now that my eyes aren’t filled with tears all the time.
I am 175.
I want to be 135.
I know that if I stop buying chocolate, cookies and soda, I will be doing better. If I go shopping when I am upset, I have less control over what I buy.
I need to start choosing water instead of sugary drinks.
I need to get my behind out of this computer chair.
I need to lift my mood and get out of this funk so I can motivate myself to do the right thing instead of comforting myself with fattening junk.
I came to the conclusion through many discussions on the internet that if I asked Jesus Christ to come into my life and be my Lord and Savior with as much sincerity (faith) as I had, then that was good enough for God.
Faith and the will are totally connected. When you choose to believe God’s word you are exercising faith. As you read the Bible and believe what is written, your faith is being built.
For me, the issue was whether life has a perfect truth underlying it or not. If you think a perfect truth can and does exist and that your free will exists to make choices of doing what is perfectly true (thus good) or to choose to submit to false and evil temptations, then you are halfway home to understanding that this world can become perfected by eradication of evil by your own choice to do God’s will.
Miracles happen all the time. Some only see coincidences. Only after I chose to force my own eyes open did I begin to see God’s fingerprints on everything.
We never see the miracles that are heading our way, but we do need to have our eyes open so they don’t pass us by.
Feel free to read my cry for help that I posted to alt.suicide.holiday – I wanted to believe but couldn’t figure out how to flip the switch, so to speak. I bet there are a lot of people who feel the way I felt.
In my new blog, Out of the Ground you can see that I began posting with some struggles with faith, prayer, etc and I did my best to post how those struggles were resolved for me. I am not a totally disciplined blogger, but hey, I am trying.
I finally got fed up with feeling hopeless. I decided that it is time to believe in something.
I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior, and things are beginning to make more sense to me.
I know, I know. I felt the same way. But believe me when I say that it is so much nicer giving up all my troubles, worries and fears to God. The feeling that I am loved and taken care of is just the thing I was searching for.
I was willing to give up my life for nothing, so giving up my life for Christ was not a difficult decision. And what a miracle it has been!
I couldn’t have come to this point if it weren’t for some loving, caring people though. I owe them so much.
I cannot even begin to describe how it feels to go from not believing in anything to giving it all up to God.
I try to blog about the changes I am noticing. I am not a very disciplined blogger, but you can read about some of the questions that have been answered for me at Out of the Ground
Neutering Theodore made a huge difference in behavior and litter habits. Do it as soon as they are old enough. Don’t put it off.
If you are considering buying a rabbit or taking a free one, but cannot afford to spay or neuter it yet, please wait until you can. You will be happier with your bun if you can get that done and over with before behavior problems arise.
Remember – there is no such thing as a free pet.
My netherland dwarf has been living in our living room for a long time, but is a constant source of disagreement between me and my husband. I just can’t keep him locked in his cage all the time after he has lived his whole life as a free-roaming house rabbit.
So we are going to build a bunny condo outside. I need some input or design ideas. I want it to be big enough that I can go in there to spend time with him. I want to have a good shelter system so he can keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer. I would love if it could have a grass bottom, but would like to talk to someone who has experience with this because I am concerned about not making enough ground area to keep it from getting saturated if he uses it for peeing instad of a box. I am also wondering about the marbles building up in the grass over time. How would I clean it up with a grass floor?
I also want to make it big enough that I can have several bunnies living there together. Does anybody have advice about square footage per pound of rabbit? Would different levels in a multi-level bunny cage count equally for square footage? What about advice on how long of a straight-away or loop to make so that there is ample space for running? (Bunny 500, anyone?) I know that Theodore will take off from one end of the living room, and go clear through and into the dining room, around the table and back under the fireplace in one burst. That is more than a 50 foot dash!
If I am going to build this, I am going to do it right.
My pastor suggested I pray to ask God to help open my eyes and see Him, and to come into my life.
How exactly do you pray?
Do you have to pray aloud? Can you pray silently in your head? To God? or to Jesus?
Does your prayer have to be worded clearly, or does God understand your emotion in the absence of words?
My thoughts are not always accompanied by an inner monologue. Sometimes my thoughts fade from words to abstract thoughtforms.
It is really hard to describe.
If I try to pray out loud, I stutter. Sometimes I just can’t articulate. If I pray silently, my inner monologue fails me. The words just turn to feelings.
“Dear God, please help me. I feel so… [emotion]... I just can’t… [crying]... Please… [sigh]... [heart implodes]...”
Does this prayer get through to Him?
I have been saving our destroyed jeans for years. I am going to cut them into squares and make a king size quilt with a flannel back. It will be so nice and warm.
I don’t have a sewing machine though, so I will be doing it by hand. I have already begun and it is pretty difficult to push the needle through that thick fabric.
Guess I had better get a thimble. :)
My sister brought me to a church that she just recently discovered.
All I can say is I love being there. Good people, Good music, Good messages.
This is the first church I have ever visited where I automatically felt at home.
So we decided to help a 10 year old girl by taking her in and getting her ready to enroll in school by next year.
The majority of people seem surprised and happy for us. But there are some people who responded differently. It’s not like they were saying ‘I personally wouldn’t do that…’
They responded by saying ‘WHY would you want to do that?’
They cannot even grasp the concept of the rewarding feeling you can get when you sacrifice a little in order to help someone else a lot.
All I can say to those people is this: Have you no SOUL?
It takes a lot of self-discipline to keep a relationship healthy. I think a lot of people get married and expect the marriage to just live on it’s own. But it requires much effort from both parties.
Learning to communicate is the best thing you can do for your relationship. After you [both] master communication, all other problems are so much easier to handle!
My best wishes to all!
