Color Mania
For Aldara ...
"Mere color, unspoiled by meaning,
and unallied with definite form,
can speak to the soul in a
thousand different ways."
Oscar Wilde
"The purest and most thoughtful minds
are those which love color the most."
John Ruskin
"Colors, like features,
follow the changes of the emotions."
Pablo Picasso
"Color possesses me.
I don't have to pursue it.
it will possess me always, I know it.
That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one.
I am a painter."
Paul Klee
Flowers by Sarah Rosenblatt
Joy!
To Be.
To Live.
To Come & Go.
To Feel.
To Hold.
To Mold.
To Love.
& Touch.
To Hum & Be Merry.
Joy!
To Me, To You, To Him & Her & Them & Those.
Joy To Us.
The Flowers, The Skies, The Seas & Rain Drops.
Baby Laughter, Butter Fly wings, Furry Pets & Love’s Caress.
Every day I’m filled with Joy.
Every Day I Bloom in Joy.
Heed This Joy.
Touch This Joy.
The Joy of This.
The Joy of That.
The Joy of All.
& It’s All,
About Joy.
May You Always Be Blessed.
With Joy.
Joy
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Quitting Smoking is Easy . . .
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than fighting cancer.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than breathing through tubes up your nose.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than having a Tracheostomy.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than losing your vision (AMD).
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than COPD.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than your child seeing you die from cancer.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than losing a friend . . . or a friend losing you.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than hearing your doctor say, "Im sorry . . ."
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than laying in the hospital having radiation treatment.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than laying in the hospital wishing you could feel the sun.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than listening to your loved ones crying outside your hospital room.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than preparing for your funeral because the cancer has gone so far.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than picking out your favorite songs for your funeral.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than trying to say the right words because they will be your last.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than not seeing your child's face because of blindness.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than looking out the window knowing you can't go there anymore.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than changing your retirement plans.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than imagining your spouse being alone.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than going through your photo album with tears.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than telling your child you are dying young because you smoked.
¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than realizing smoking was more important to you than your life.
¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Easier than dying ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤
Sound harsh? . . . good . . . because my words pale in comparison to the possible reality. Quit smoking . . . start living . . .
This post is courtacy of Peter (Peter_is_in), Quitnet member.www.petersdesk.com/Breakaway
100 THINGS
This post is an inspiration ripped off the back of The Don ;) who in turn had ripped it off the back of Another (^.^) and like The Don said: This must be the longest post I’ve ever written or ever will write ;) Enjoy.
1- I believe in god, but my Islamic religion is shaking in its boots!
2- My home is the sea I would love to be buried in it when I die. (half serious wishful thinking)
3- I fall in & out of love in the blink of an eye (not real love I know though sometimes it feels & looks real even to my partner), but after it’s over the affection always remains.
4- I never try to take revenge on people who hurt me, I believe if I just let it go & be passive god will do me fair. This has proven true to me many a time.
5- I’ve discovered recently that I can be a very selfish person. Now I’m working on being semi selfless to counter it.
6- Although he is a good man, my father disappoints me. And yet, I can’t help but love him to tears.
7- I love my mother (^.^) she inspires me!
8- I’ve always been obsessed with trying to be different from my mother & trying to prove to myself at least that I’m my own person & not like her. The irony lies in that the older I get the more I notice how similar we are & I don’t mind it at all!
9- I might unknowingly, never intentionally, hurt people & it always feels like it hurts me more than it hurts them.
10- I love to sway to music & dance like there is no tomorrow.
11- I can’t help my singing in the car habit ;p
12- I have two tattoo's & a belly button ring.
13- I’m too lean on the ones I love, no discipline. So, unless my future hubby is firm my children will turn out to be spoiled brats. Just like my cats ;D
14- I can stay up for a long time with no or little sleep but when I crash .. I could sleep for a whole day.
15- If at some point in the evening I get sleepy I must sleep immediately, otherwise the spell would break & I become hyper active & unable to sleep till the next morning when it’s time to get up .. then I crash! Probably the main reason why I just finished school. ;p
16- If a book grabs me I can literally spend the whole day in bed reading till I finish it.
17- My cats compensate for the lack of children in my life, mine or otherwise.
18- I can sometimes fool people into thinking that I am outgoing & seem to hit it off with different people immediately. But the truth is; I’m very reserved and hardly show half of my self to these people. And yet, I’ve been told that I’m an open book!
19- I am an open book!
20- I love exercise, but I am also a lazy bum, so I have to keep track of my exercise & make up little work tables to ensure that I keep at it.
21- I meditate. Sometimes this takes me places, but most of the time I just sit there & fight with my thoughts!
22- I’m a good secret keeper.
23- I’m a good friend, and yet I am friendless. Almost ;)
24- I am very forgetful. No matter how many times my mom tells me not to forget something & no matter how much I promise I won’t, I end up doing it anyway!
25- I love to learn things. Though most of the time I forget what I learned & only have a vague idea of the topic.
26- I’m terrible at lying. I always get the feeling that the person I’m lying to can read my mind & I become red in the face & my voice starts to shake.
27- When I want something, I want it NOW!
28- When I was a wee bit of a lass I used to envy boys their freedom & wished that I was a boy. Today I am more than grateful I was created Woman.
29- My favorite food is waraq 3inab bil zait, extra lemony ;)
30- My favorite vegetable is black olives, especially non salted ones. Yummy!
31- I can trance out while I listen to deep into music.
32- I’m a speed freak.
33- I love all animals. My favorites are cats, horses, toy dogs & cats ;D
34- My worst nightmare is cockroaches. Even dead ones!
35- I like to hang out with friends & have fun. But I always need lots of time alone to recharge after being around people.
36-I’m basically a very solitary person.
37- I love to take long drives along empty highways. My favorite driving road is shalehat road. Unfortunately, the last time I was there, I had driven all the way up to 290 & then got off road to a little sand formation that I call my mount solitude. I parked my car, climbed to the top & had a good time just sitting there and being. As soon as I got bk on the road however, I was followed from afar by a run down pick up truck that kept blinking it’s lights at me. I freaked out & still haven’t been able to go there alone again. And I think it’s wise that I don’t attempt to.
38- Mount solitude was my secret spot until that incident, I don’t think I’ll ever go there alone again. So maybe I’ll change the name to mount solitude-with-a-friend now ;)
39- I’m too kind, sometimes I think that when god was distributing hearts he ran out when my turn came & gave me a marshmallow instead!
40- I think I’m a bit sadistic.
41- I think I might be bisexual. Not that girls excite me or anything, I just don’t get grossed out about girls being together like I am about guys being together! Or maybe we’re all like that!
42- The yin yang of good & bad in people confuses me.
43- I can be very melancholic.
44- I refuse to believe in bad, I fight it off with good.
45- Simple gifts delights me, the more expensive they are the less I value them.
46- I never carry a purse unless I have to, I prefer back packs.
47- Sometimes I’m silly ;)
48- My mood picks up a positive or negative atmosphere rapidly & intensely. Because I am aware of it I try to consciously counter it. But it’s not always easy.
49- I’m used to depression. I feel safe in it. But I try not allow myself that luxury too much.
50- I don’t get angry often, but when I do .. I sound & look like Donald Duck & ppl have trouble understanding me.
51- I’m a true blue Pisces.
52- I can be cruel sometimes.
53- I still love to watch cartoons, even Tom & Jerry!
54- My room is messy & I hate to throw things away but I seldom loose anything. I know my mess by heart ;)
55- I’m fascinated with vampires & the darker side of the imagination.
56- Stephan King is my all time favorite writer.
57- I can’t draw a straight line.
58- Sometimes I use sleep as a means of escape.
59- Our maids are equals & I treat them like my sisters.
60- I get along much better with other Arabic nationalities than with Kuwaitis.
61- I get along better with guys than with girls. I usually only have one best female friend at a time.
62- If I’m nervous I can get tongue tied & not answer when I’m spoken to. & when I do answer what comes out is either un-audible or extremely embarrassing.
63- The only animal I’m allergic to is rabbit. This allergy I developed at a late age so thankfully I still had the pleasure of keeping little Babse Bunny when I was a kid ;)
64- I don’t give up on my dream’s, it just takes me longer to achieve them!
65- My favorite sitcom is 3rd Rock from the Sun and after that Will & Grace ;)
66- If I have a crush on someone & then find out that other girls have the same crush, I loose interest. Maybe that’s a bit vain but I refuse to be one of many.
67- I see life as one big adventure. Or at least I try to ;)
68- I never regret past actions or mistakes; I view them as experiences, cherish the good times & try to learn as much as I can.
69- I don’t believe in age & that it’s ever too late to start something new or follow a dream.
70- I hate politics & I hate newspapers.
71- I never talk about people behind their backs & I believe this has protected me in turn from people’s tongues.
72- I’d love to be able to dance like a true Indian; sensually with no music but the jingles of their ankle bracelets.
73- I can dance the Lambada & Merengue and currently working on Salsa.
74- I love museums, all kinds of ‘em.
75- I used to be people-phobic.
76- I’m not very intimate with my family. But I’m working on it and things are looking better ;)
77- It bothers me when I find things in common between me and my dad & most of the time its bad stuff, like my selfishness & my anti socialism.
78- I love to PaRteY, but most q8i parties suck so I stopped going.
79- I love motor bikes but most q8i guys suck, so I stopped riding. ( not all of u ;P)
80- I do most things on a spur of the moment idea.
81- My mood swings are utterly unpredictable, even to myself.
82- I’m a bundle of conflicting emotions.
83- I might dislike but I never hate.
84- I drink very occasionally.. well .. it’s not like u have a choice in this country ;)
85- I’m very smart but also a bit slow. Sometimes that makes me look like .. duh!
86- The first movie I ever cried over was Snow White & the Seven Dwarves ;)
87- I don’t fast Ramadan ;p My family doesn’t know but since my bro is a blogger .. now they might ;D lol sorry to disappoint u bro.
88- I’ve tried astral projection with no results, but one day I’ll make it. Be ware lest I appear to you out of no where someday ;p
89- I love swimming, taming wild jet skies & most water sports.
90- I love to sing & have a good voice. I would love to take vocal lessons but I don’t know where to look .. any ideas?
91- I’m obsessed with candles & perfume.
92- I breed cats in my own room behind my dad’s back hehehe
93- I love tanning.
94- I spent the first 5 yrs of my life in Tennessee, I think because of that I’m a red neck at heart.
95- I like to sit unobserved and watch people. I try to imagine what they could be thinking & how they feel & how their lives are, where they came from just then and where they’re going. Especially little boys playing football, it seems like their whole little existences in that moment revolve around that ball.
96- I speak a little Spanish and understand a little Persian.
97- I’m extremely indecisive & have no idea what I’m going to do with myself now that I’ve finally graduated. Being caged & saddled down is mostly why I can’t seem to make up my mind. My freedom is too valuable to me. Alas, this is not logical thinking and I will have to give it up soon ;)
98- I was told that I was a brutal war lord in a past life, who did terrible terrible things. And so in this life I am almost too kind in order to compensate for my past self’s evil actions. What a load of bull huh! lol
99- I like being single. Sometimes I am plagued by thoughts of family and so on and so forth .. but all is good in it’s own time. And being single still rules ;D
100- I HATE SUSHI!!!!!!
Msg to Kuwaiti Chopper Dude
You were absolutely right about feeling things lift off your shoulder ;) phew!
Beautiful Life
7ayah 7ilwa
One of the few street posters I ever did agree with. So much that it is now off the super market wall and on my own in my room (^.^) Yup, I ripped it off that wall under the cover of night ;p Plz don't tell! Translation: without it, life is beautiful.
Freya the Unfriendly Cat
With my Anubis growing into the beautiful lad (cat) he is & since I have to fix him sooner or later, I wanted breed him first and get to see his babies. So a friend of mine told me about this gorgeous white & gray female. On description I was smitten with here & had to have her. Hence Freya .. Walked into Anubis’s life & mine. But to our dismay Freya turned out to be bigger than Nubie and I had anticipated and she looked to be already pregnant! Some bride I got my boy lol. But being the gorgeous gentle creature she is; although not very friendly, I fell even more in love with her. And she has eyes like you won’t believe! They are not gray, not green, not yellow & not blue .. rather .. all the above at different points and under different lights, beautifully amazing! So we decided to keep Freya anyway, Nubie & I.
A month later Freya gave me the creeps. The cat starts miawing and acting strange and for a whole day I thought this cat was giving birth and kept close watch on her, but I’d supervised 2 cats giving birth before. I had seen Anubis & his mother born, this kind of birth was alien to me & just strange! I didn’t know what was wrong with her & was just about ready to give up and head to the vet when in comes my sister’s Casper, and just like that … the two cats start bumping ugly's!!! I mean whattha.. she was in heat!! And there I was fussing about a box and pillows and towels and whatnots, and she was only in heat! Go figure!
I took her to the vet later on and he’s not really sure what’s going on and tells me to wait on her some more (and you call yourself a vet!). So I go home and start looking the issue up on the net. And it turns out, cats can & do mate while pregnant and can actually get pregnant by more than one male! Sub7an allah! For more information on this go to:
http://www.sniksnak.com/cathealth/whydo2.htmlUnder: Why do kittens born in the same litter look so different?
So anyway, I do what the “vet” says and wait till the next month and kaboom.. Freya is in heat again ..this time she takes Nubies virginity lol. But she’s also shedding hair all over like crazy & I’m too scared to do anything about it, can't even give her a shower, cuz she is “pregnant” right? Wrong. I took her to the vet again and surprise surprise, Freya is not even pregnant. The damn feline turned out to be just FAT! It’s just amazing how stupid a cat can make u feel!
Well, now that I found out she is not pregnant I started being firmer with her & trying to tame her really not so friendly manner, I gave her a shower & treated her for the hair loss. I was too attached to her by now to let her go. But alas, the hair loss continues; my blue rug is now white! And even after all this time, all this feeding, all this grooming, cooing & coaxing the cat is still unfriendly. So I finally decided it’s time to say goodbye. Sorry Freya, I tried, but your gonna have to go back.
Freya
In Norse mythology, Freya is a goddess of love and fertility, and the most beautiful and propitious of the goddesses. She is the patron goddess of crops and birth, the symbol of sensuality and was called upon in matters of love. She loves music, spring and flowers, and is particularly fond of the elves (fairies).
Too bad my girl wasn't more like that ;Well goodbye Freya.
Anubis, Casper & I will miss you terribly. But good riddance anyway ;)
Come one, come all .. a MUST SEE.
Please watch all of them. Every single one. ALL. And if you have a smoking friend. Make them watch. Even if you have to force them. You have to see it.
http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/video1
The Nicotine Addiction Story
Nicotine is probably the most addictive of all drugs we know of. The addiction process is very complicated, with dopamine receptors, neurotransmitters, etc. This illustration is an oversimplification of the process, but helps smokers to understand the reason for the difficulty in quitting.
Imagine that you have a factory in your brain which makes acetyl choline (you really do, but it doesn't quite work this way.) The acetyl choline workers work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no breaks, no vacations, no union representation. Acetyl choline is an essential part of our nervous system and without it we could no function very well (ask a smoker who is trying to quit how they feel and you will know how acetyl choline works.)
These factory workers work day and night and produce as much acetyl choline as the body needs. That amount is determined by the foreman who does continual blood testing to make sure there is an adequate amount available. After about 10 or 12 years you decided to try a little tobacco (either smokeless or smoking.) In 7 seconds th nicotine is in the brain and the foreman cannot tell the difference between acetyl choline and nicotine. He announces to everyone, "I don't know what is going on, but there is plenty of acetyl choline available. It looks like you can take a break."
The factory workers go out on the lawn, in the sunshine and have a glorious time. They are only out there about 30 minutes and the foreman calls them back in. He tells them that the acetyl choline levels have dropped and they will have to resume production.
The factory workers continue to work 24 hours a day, but they also remember how nice it was out on the lawn. You decided to have another cigarette. The foreman hardly gets the words out of his mouth and the factory workers are all out on the lawn. Again because the half-life of nicotine is just one half hour, they are soon called back in. You try tobacco again, with their encouragement — and again — and again.
Pretty soon you are smoking quite regularly and the factory workers are on the lawn most of the time, having a wonderful time. So you become fully hooked and smoke on a regular basis. The factory foreman tells the workers, "You haven't been needed for quite some time. Why don't you go on vacation. I'll call you if you are needed."
So they take off to the Caribbean. They are there for many years.
Finally you decide you've got to quit smoking. You stop.
The foreman checks the blood levels and panics. He starts trying to round everybody up, by sending letters and telegrams and making phone calls. The factory workers have to say goodbye to all their friends, find their cool-weather clothes, make airline reservations and prepare to leave. They are not happy and they let the foreman know that. He passes that information on to you and you give in and start smoking again.
One day you finally make it. You quit.
It takes one month for the factory workers to get home and start working again — but they never forget the Caribbean.
Thanks to Mike & Flynn from the Qmunity at
www.quitnet.com for this very insightful and interesting story.
