My Friday My Way!

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Randall Jarrell

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. - C. P. Snow

Remember,
UchooseU

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My Thursday My Way

I guess this will be the new thing. My "day of the week" My Way! Sounds good to me! My Thursday has pretty much started out like every other Thursday except for finding my stray dogs the home they ran away from. I had two dogs come up in my yard on Saturday, after checking with all of my immediate neighbors to no avail, I had pretty much excepted the fact that at least one of them had found a new home at my house. He was a good dog, very sweet, had been neutered, seemed well taken care of, housebroken, everything. So, why was he here? Where on earth did he come from? I couldn't imagine someone taking such good care of an animal & just dumping him out because he was such a well behaved pet. Then, my two year old I keep was sick & she was crying so I went to lay down with her, he jumps in the bed with us & lays his head on her stomach as if to console her. So, I had to do something. I just knew someone, somewhere was missing this sweet animal. I called my local vet & to my surprise, a person had been in that very morning saying he was missing two dogs that fit the description of these two runaways. So, she had the man call me.

He lived about 3 miles from me, & he had taken in the dogs from a friend of his that had just lost her home & could no longer care for them. After hearing the story, I was heartbroken. This lady apparently was having trouble with her husband & just had to like leave in the middle of the night. She loved the dogs dearly & didn't want anything to happen to them so she asked this man & his wife to take care of them for her. He said he kept the dogs up for 4 days & let them out, & they hit the road! I guess to find her maybe. But anyway, they ended up finding us. Now, I have no clue why this happened & what will come of it but I would just hope that if for some reason, my dogs ever got lost, someone would do the same for me. I'm not even sure what breed of dog they were, but they certainly brought us joy for a couple of days anyway & we hope we did them as well. Alls well that ends well!

Remember,
UchooseU

You determine the outcome of your day!

My Day, My Way

You know, you'd think I'd be pretty good at this since I've already got about 3 or 4 blogs floating around but every one of them is different and the content doesn't always come easy. So, for this blog, I was instructed to choose a "niche" that I am passionate about. I thought I'd get some other opinions on this so I asked family members and friends when they thought of me, what do they see me passionate about. The total census was "family" and I thought, well, everyone might get tired of hearing the crazy details of my family life, so we went with the next choice which was helping people. Now, that's pretty broad too, and I felt I better narrow that down a bit. Which lead me to My Day, My Way, u-choose-u.

Now, even this can go alot of different directions but I thought we'd more make it a motivational type blog where people could come to just get that little inspiration for the day. Whether it be quotes or a funny story that has happened to someone, or even a favorite bible verse for the day, just anything that will in essence help you choose what kind of day you're going to have. Because, let's face it. We are the ones who determine what kind of mood or reaction we have towards other people or circumstances. It's often our reactions that set the tone for the whole situation. We can either be rude and inconsiderate or we can treat people the way we'd like to be treated, regardless of the way they treat us.

So, I guess in a nutshell what I'm trying to say is if you can't say nothing nice, don't say nothing at all. AND, the next time you're thinking how a situation or person put you in a bad mood, stop and think. I'm the one who chooses me. I'm only in a bad mood because I'm allowing myself to be. I can change this at any time, and do it. Then look in the mirror and say, MY DAY, MY WAY. Don't ever let someone else dictate your feelings, don't give them that power over you. Only U CAN CHOOSE U!