What is on your mind

[cara]

i'm thinking about how i spend nearly 4 hours commuting each work day and how i can 1) reduce my commute time, and/or 2) find more energy to wake up earlier so when i get home i have more time and energy to do things in the evenings.

[Miss Scarlett]

My Mom. I wish I could just hear her voice right now...

[pajama]

How empty the house seems knowing she's not in the bedroom sleeping. It just gets harder every time we are apart.

[justkim]

I woke up feeling like crud but I still have a smile on my face...

[shadows papa]

How the power of love, caring, and family can makes us stronger than we could ever be as a single entity moving through this world.

[asphaltcowboi]

ive been doing alot of thinking about being single. this is the longest time i have ever stayed single and it has made me realize how happy i am. it has given me time to work on issues like health and weight and a few personilaty flaws without input from anyone else. i used to run around thinking im nobody unless i had a g/f .. when in fact i have been able to say i am somebody on my own and a very important somebody.. im someone that deserves the best i can give not 100% but 110%. this single time has allowed me to structure my life exactly how i want it to be and not do the "ok this will do" thing. it has given me a better idea of who i would like to share my life with if she should ever come my way. it has also given me the strenght not to rush into something just to feel i belong. i know where i belong and what i need for me. i just wish i had learned this at a much younger age. it would have saved alot of heartach for myself and others. my younger years were spent impressing everyone else instead of myself that left a dissatisfied self being even when i thought i was happy. grrrr my thoughts are rambling this morning!

[RockOn]

cody, I love your rambles.

What a fantastic post! I totally agree on all points.

[DomnNC]

Originally Posted by apocalipstic

A few days in the water would heal my mind!

I wonder how soon I can make that happen.......and where.....

It would need to be pretty inexpensive....and I don't feel like flying for fun right now. Flying was so cool in the 60s and 70's, now it's a bus in the air.

It would need to be way south, or indoor, for the water not to be freezing....

I wonder how South..I know its too cool in Ft Walton..unless pool was heated?? Hmmmm or a cabin with an indoor pool in the Smokies.....pondering. Has to be short drivable, not over 8 hours and the less people around the better....

Hmmmmm, I wonder if we could go to Christmas????? Muahahahahaha. I wonder if I could talk Cynthia into it.

I sincerely doubt it since she would not let us skip Thanksgiving for Native American reasons....but it seems worth a try.

If this does not work, I am putting my foot down for Easter! Oh, but I was thinking water, not how to get out of family holidays...

Focus, focus.....

Expedia!

Go to a lil town called Townsend, TN and stay at the Valley View Lodge. They have an indoor pool and jacuzzi. They also have a room you can rent in the same building that has it's own jacuzzi and a fireplace. You can open the curtains on the picture window in front of the jacuzzi and have an awesome view of the mountains as well.

Townsend also borders the Smoky Mountain National Park.

[MsTinkerbelly]

On my mind....

I was reminded by someone today, that the only thing we are guaranteed in this lifetime, is that things will change.

[PinkieLee]

What's on my mind...

Rice Krispie treats ~ warm, right out of the pot.

[Soon]

a peaceful four hour train ride (with wireless) and comfy hotel room waiting for my arrival

[WolfyOne]

I woke up chilled and sick to my stomach
I hope it leaves me soon

[DomnNC]

Originally Posted by MsTinkerbelly

On my mind....

I was reminded by someone today, that the only thing we are guaranteed in this lifetime, is that things will change.

The only thing that stays the same is change.

[Soft*Silver]

making my special recipe of chex mix for my kiddo this holiday. I always make it and mail it to her but this time, I can give it to her in person! We might even make it.

I have my cookie books out and I am planning on what to make for the holidays. I put out a huge spread every year. I actually got a small freezer just to store holiday cookies in..lol.

Rose Cottage is homey...I finally switched curtains from those that were left here, to my own primitive/country curtains. The pictures are hung on the wall, the doilies are on the dressers, lights are in the windows, and the quilts are placed on the beds. Come the holidays, it will feel like Home. Its my first holiday season here. I am ever so grateful....

[miss entycing]

heavy on my mind is my employment situation, or lack thereof.
Been a year since I was laid off... and but for the graces of an angel watching over me, and unemployment- we've been ok,
I pound the pavement, I hit the internet, I hit Job Services through the unemployment office- and there's still nothing there...

on my mind is what the hell is gonna happen when I exhaust my benefits?

Why is it that an intelligent woman, who used to be a General Manager for a 200+ room hotel and been in that profession for 20+ years,
cannot even get a job offer from even a nationally known fast food chain, a 5star hotel in Paris, or anything in between???
heavy on my mind.... yeah.

[Jet]

Originally Posted by EntycingFemme

heavy on my mind is my employment situation, or lack thereof.
Been a year since I was laid off... and but for the graces of an angel watching over me, and unemployment- we've been ok,
I pound the pavement, I hit the internet, I hit Job Services through the unemployment office- and there's still nothing there...

on my mind is what the hell is gonna happen when I exhaust my benefits?

Why is it that an intelligent woman, who used to be a General Manager for a 200+ room hotel and been in that profession for 20+ years,
cannot even get a job offer from even a nationally known fast food chain, a 5star hotel in Paris, or anything in between???
heavy on my mind.... yeah.

You have to understand that it's not you. It's all over the country. I had a career, a life. I have 30 plus years in advertising, design and radio and television and I can't even get a full time job as designer with copywriting and media experience. I free-lance and it's not enough.
I lost my career and life from a trauma. I'm on disability and I'm lucky compared to the 14 million out of work. One of my best friends is also my representative payee..an astute businesswoman who tells me this all the time. All you can do is keep trying, or maybe be more inventive on how and what you present, or in what you're looking for. I don't have the answers. But it's not you, trust me.

My life faded from 18 years of keeping trauma supressed until it nearly killed me. I'm going through facing it all over and there's no guarantee that I will ever recoup my losses, and there are many. Good luck and don't be disheartened. You're among millions...even among many executives who've lost everything. Look up the story about the exec who made a couple of hundred-thou a year and now works behind the counter at Starbucks. The country is so fucked up and the plight is reality.

[Jet]

Prince Willie's engagement to Kate Middleton. They may call her a "commoner" but man is she gorgeous.

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Kate-M...0katemiddleton

[little_ms_sunshyne]

Thinking that I just baked the best cheesecake I ever have YUMMY!!!!

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Brock

(Edit: I tried to correct subject line to read response to theoddz but the software won't allow it. That is interesting.)

In the future, if you should need to edit the title to a post, go to edit, then go advanced, and then edit your title. You only get 30 minutes to edit posts.

[JakeTulane]

That My BFF was dead on right and I should listen to her more often. She is the bomb.

ps. you really are channeling NeNe. that is all.