Another year
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Life

As my birthday has arrived I am also reminded of another important date in November to me. On the 21st of this month it will have been 13 years since my brother Rob passed of AIDS. November means something else to me, besides turning another year older.

It reminds me that in the US alone an estimated 17,000 people die each year in the United States from complications of AIDS and that number is on the rise.

 22 million people have lost their life to the disease. Of that number 74% live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In the United States there are 40,000 new cases of HIV every year!

  And by the year 2010, five countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, China, India, and Russia) with 40 percent of the world's population will add 50 to 75 million infected people to the worldwide pool of HIV disease.

 It is not contained. It is not going away. It can happen to you. And "If you aren't part of the solution you are part of the problem"

 I got all my statistics from www.until.com Please check it out. You can also visit www.joinred.com  

 (RED) Until there's a cure.

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Moving on?
Category: Life

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Does anyone not have a past to be sad about? Has anyone not had things happen to them that seemed at the time unbearable?  Just a thought...my thought of the day... "Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed."

Author:

Eileen Caddy American Spiritual Writer

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Rest in Peace Survivor
Current mood: crushed
Category: Pets and Animals

Just a blog in remembrance to my beloved fish Survior. He died yesterday at the ripe old age of 4. He had been through a lot with me. He came home with me no bigger than my thumb nail. He survived a tank full of Chicalids.A fish disease that killed all his commarades and more recently the kids at the center took a tonka bus through his tank. I will miss you my little friend. What a treat you have been.

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Quotes to live by...Part2
Current mood: indescribable
Category: Life

"No snowflake in and avalanche ever feels responsible." -Voltaire

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional." -unknown

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Ghandi

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief." -Aeschylus

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves  himself."- Josh Billings (proof that men are not dogs)

"The things that one wants to do are the things that are probably worth doing.- Winifred Holtby

"The weak can never forgive, forgivness is an attribute of the strong." -Mahatma Ghandi

"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together."- Robert C. Doods

"It's not that some people have will power and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." -James Gordon

"Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open." - Elmer G. Letterman

"I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be KIND." -Richard Greenberg

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

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I'm Movin on
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Life

I'm Moving On Lyrics

I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness
For once I'm at peace with myself
I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long
I'm movin' on

I've lived in this place and I know all the faces
Each one is different but they're always the same
They mean me no harm but it's time that I face it
They'll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong
I'm movin' on

I'm movin' on
At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me
And I know there's no guarantees, but I'm not alone
There comes a time in everyone's life
When all you can see are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind that those days are gone

I sold what I could and packed what I couldn't
Stopped to fill up on my way out of town
I've loved like I should but lived like I shouldn't
I had to lose everything to find out
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road
I'm movin' on

I'm movin' on
I'm movin' on

Currently listening : Rascal Flatts By Rascal Flatts Release date: 06 June, 2000

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I found my new camera!
Current mood: accomplished

Hey everyone who has been interested with me in the past few days... I found my camera today! It is pretty and Pink! I only had to drive to BREMERTON to find it..

Currently listening : Rascal Flatts By Rascal Flatts Release date: 06 June, 2000

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Seahawks Victory!
Current mood: ecstatic
Category: Sports

Ahh...Another Victory for the Seahawks today....Arizona goes down 21-10! Yes I was there...It was fantastic. Next week we are taking on the Giants and we will see the debut of Dion Branch! Looking forward to it. 

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Pearl Jam
Current mood: thankful

To all my friends that have been asking The Pearl Jam concert was amazing. The band played for approximently 3 hours. I heard all my favorites with the exception of "Better Man" It was really hot...In the triple digits, however we got a cloud cover to help us out, so it wasn't blazing sun on us the whole time. My first trip to the gorge...that place is beautiful. The scenery almost looked fake. Not all aspects of the trip were successful. But the Concert itself was fantastic.

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Quotes to live by
Current mood: hopeful
Category: Life

Quotes to live by

"No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted..."-Aesop-

"A friend is someone who knows you and loves you just the same."            -Elbert Hubbard-

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"If  you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." -Herman Hesse-

"Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine."-Henry S. Haskins-

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."-Galatians vi. 7

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Franklin-

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Dozer is missing
Current mood: depressed

Dozer is missing! My youngest kitty has not been home in over a week! Hopefully he will be home soon.

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