Entertaining

Something I've always wanted to do was entertain friends in my home. I find dinner parties to be so fun & intimate. Here's the challenge I don't cook very often. I will say I am slowly working to correct said challenge. I've been going through my binders of table settings...hoping to speed up my cooking skills. Tomorrow I'll be trying out a new turkey chili recipe. Who am I kidding, all recipes for me are a new, try-out kinda thing. Wish me luck! Here are some of the table settings I enjoy.

This is one of my favorite table settings.
I think the flowers make it.

A more simple setting that feels like you'd be
enjoying some robust red wine.

I love these green chairs with a touch
of blue on the table.

Quote

As we express gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Monday Quote

‎"As we become internally directed and stop obsessing with what other people think we should do, what other people think we should say, we learn to let ourselves be and we stop being so focused on ourselves." ~ Alicia Marie Fruin, Coach -

October

"If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
~Henry David Thoreau

True

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." ~Benjamin Disraeli

Good Article

Life’s most simple lessons are often the best

BUSINESS COURIER OF CINCINNATI - BY Harvey Mackay COURIER CONTRIBUTOR

Gordon Dean was an American lawyer and prosecutor whose distinguished career was fairly typical for Washington types. He went to work for the Justice Department under President Franklin Roosevelt, taught in the law schools at Duke University and the University of Southern California. He was appointed as one of the original commissioners of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1949 by President Harry Truman, eventually becoming its chairman from 1950-53.

When Dean died in a plane crash in 1958, it’s said that among his personal effects was an envelope with nine life lessons scribbled on the back. These lessons aren’t about the law, or atomic energy, or foreign relations. Rather, they represent wisdom that should be shared and used by people everywhere.

These are his superb lessons:
1. Never lose your capacity for enthusiasm.
2. Never lose your capacity for indignation.
3. Never judge people – don’t type them too quickly. But in a pinch never first assume that a man is bad; first assume that he is good and that, at worst, he is in the gray area between bad and good.
4. Never be impressed by wealth alone or thrown by poverty.
5. If you can’t be generous when it’s hard to be, you won’t be when it’s easy.
6. The greatest builder of confidence is the ability to do something – almost anything – well.
7. When confidence comes, then strive for humility; you aren’t as good as all that.
8. The way to become truly useful is to seek the best that other brains have to offer. Use them to supplement your own, and be prepared to give credit to them when they have helped.
9. The greatest tragedies in the world and personal events stem from misunderstandings. So communicate!

Thanks, Tiny Buddha

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand–relax. If you relax it comes. If you relax it is there. ~Osho

Happy Hump Day!

"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen

No pun intended;-)

‎"Letting go of the past means that can you enjoy the dream that is happening right now." ~Don Miguel Ruiz

Monday Quote

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." ~ Thomas Jefferson

I Dig!

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose." - Chinese Proverb

On This Day...

I read this quote, which I've probably posted before, but today is the perfect day for it to be e-mailed to me.


"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" –Marianne Williamson

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
-Gore Vidal

Surprise...

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. -Bill Bradley

The Quote King had this on twitter...I'm now storing quotes on my blog;-)

Exactly

‎"Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted." ~John Lennon

Ahhh, quotes...

(Lyon Steps in San Francisco. One of my favorite views in the city.)


Though we travel the world over to find the
beautiful, we must carry it with us
or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

This quote was on a blog I love to read La Dolce Vita

Is it true?

I had a silly text exchange today with Julia that made me laugh and wonder if what I was asking for was too much.
Reason for the text exchange- I have been hired for an 8 week contract position with STG Design (very exciting!). Hopefully, at the end of 8 weeks there will be more projects and I'll get hired on as a full-time employee.
Julia heard about my exciting news and sends me the following text:
J- "I hear you are a hot item now. What happens now if I ever get a house? How will I afford you?
What will I do?"
Me- "Well, I'm not into the lesbo thing. Perhaps, you can find me a hot suitable, stable, wealthy,
driven, emotionally available man and we call it even.
J-"Uh, would you take something a little easier? A flying purple people eater or something?

I fell out laughing. Apparently, I am asking for too much. Oh, well!

Monday Quote

"Consider what you want people to remember of you and live accordingly." ~Barb Rogers

Agreed!

Life is too short to wake up with regrets! So, love the people who treat you right, forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it... Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." (unknown)

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
~Anonymous