Ladybug, Ladybug

As I was driving to bible study this afternoon I noticed that there was a ladybug on my driver's side window. It got on at Hickory Ave. and flew off at Auburn Blvd. where I assume it went to join friends at the park for a picnic of aphids.

-Tink =)

Quotes from some of my favorite women:

"We all need a splash of bad taste...no taste is what I am against." -Diana Vreeland

"My secret is positive thinking and no drinking." -Mae West

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for." -Anonymous

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone." -Audrey Hepburn

"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly." -Julie Andrews (that one's for you Mark)

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." -Lucy Larcom

"In friendship we must love our friends for their sake, rather than our own." -Charlotte Bronte

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not naturally exist in nature." -Helen Keller

"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic." -Rosalind Russell

"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." -Charlotte Bronte

-TINK

I think this came from Nike and I like it

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing

-TINK

When I die I want a coloring book made about my life, please

It's amazing what you can find when you actually clean your room. I was moving books around in my bookshelf and discovered that I currently am the proud owner of two coloring books: "The Prince and Princess of Wales–A Royal Coloring Album" and "Diana-The People's Princess." I am not really sure how I aquired these, I think my Grandma gave them to me. On the inside they are complete with stories on the left some entitled "The Wedding," "The Honeymoon," etc. The other one talks about her life as a princess. I love how they cover the divorce between Princess Di and Prince Charles. They say "Sadly, their marriage could not survive the stresses of royal life." Even the coloring book is very diplomatically handled, with the next title being "A Princess On Her Own." Anyway each story is accompanied by a picture on the right for you to color in. All of the pics are not colored in, so apperantly I never got the urge to color in Princess Di's hair blue or Prince Charles giant ears purple. Too bad, really, I think I would have enjoyed that now. I guess I must have gotten them right after her death in 1997, in honor of her death. So I was 10, slightly passed coloring book age. However, if you know me at all you know that coloring was never cut off at any age for me. I still ask for a kids menu to color on to this day. Anyway, I just thought that it was an interesting thing to own and a interesting way to commemorate someone's life. When I die I want a coloring book made about my life! Remember that people.

-TINK

Apparently I have the gift.....

Of locating sprinklers that is. My mom apperantly "lost" six of her sprinklers in the grass in our yard so she thought I should go out and find them. I gave it a shot and found 5 of them!! (The 6th one still eludes me) So according to my mom I have "the gift," that only our gardner Jose and I possess. After that she decided that the whole family should clean out the garage, not only for organizational purposes, but also to provide space for the extra boxes I will be storing here while I am home for the summer. I love to organize and I didn't mind the cleaning part until my mom called me a baby for being freaked out by a spider. However, did I mention she was holding the spider and chasing me with it!!! Yeah, no, so not cool.

-TINK

One more reason to hate the laundry room......

Ok so I understand that cell phones are a distration. Therefore they should not be used while driving, operating heavy machinery, etc. But what I do not understand is how it can prevent you from doing landry?! Already I have to deal with the stupid people in the lauindry room who wash or dry their clothes and then just leave their stuff there. Sometimes for days!!! Come on people its laundry its not that hard. But today I have encountered a new level of stupidity in the laundry room.
So here is the scene: I go in there to do a wash, and there are no washers left. I see that there are a few washers that are done so logically people should be coming to pick up their stuff and move it to the dryers. So I wait two minutes and a girl comes in, playing with her cell phone. She walks ALL the way around the table (the slowest way to get to her dryer) then starts to put her stuff into the dryer. So I think "Yay a washer is open!" Um yeah, no. Mid-transit of clothing she gets distracted by her phone walks out of the laundry room and into the computer lab across the hall and proceeds to log onto the computer. So she has a washer and dryer open with half her stuff in each. What!?!? Who does that? Seriously how do you get that distracted? Anyway, the other girl in the laundry room and I give eachother a confused look and she goes into the comp lab and requests that the girl come back and give up her washer. So she moves her stuff while giving me a dirty look! Excuse me but I think you are the one that has the issue since you can't even do laundry without being distracted. By your cell phone! This is something I will definitly not miss by moving home for the summer. Ok rant over...

-Tink

Can we have it all?

While watching my daily dose of Sex and the City, the show made me think of a very interesting point. Since birth modern women are told we can be anything we want, and do anything we want. We can choose to be a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant, circus performer, what ever we want. We can get anything delivered to us at any time and we never have to leave the house. We have it pretty good. So my question is, have we been spoiled by choices? Since we have so many options in life I think we may have created a society for ourselves where women have too many choices, causing us to lose our ability to chose and therefore choosing the default of nothing.
After all, once we choose something that means that yet another option dissolves. I know for myself and I think most women that they have mastered the other parts of their lives such as their career, education, friendships, but not relationships. This can be related to almost anything, but in this case I am centering it on relationships. Personally, I have a really hard time settling down. I guess I am so used to being on my own and independent. I have had the opportunity to be with some great guys, but in every instance I chose to not be with them. Why do I do this? I could choose to be happy, but instead I choose to be alone. I think that there may be something wrong with me.

-Tink