The BBQ pit at The Salt Lick, Driftwood, TX.
“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.” — Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist (via blogut)
(via quote-book)
I am almost done, but not quite. Tomorrow, I will finish my Christmas shopping tomorrow. And I will try not to buy (too much) for myself.
“Look, there is a lot about ourselves that we can’t control. We can’t make ourselves look like a Victoria’s Secret model, we can’t always have access to the most coveted fashion, we can’t make ourselves taller or maybe thinner or maybe put the curves we have in different places, we can’t make ourselves magically richer or cooler or smarter. The one thing we can control is how we present ourselves and as much as everything leads you to believe these things I just listed are what will make up your confidence, they actually are mutually exclusive. Confidence is literally a choice. That’s it. You fake it till you make it.” — Erin Foster (via ancientlove)
(via hellogiggles)
Gave in activated my Pinterest account.
Sparkly holiday nails, which I painted myself and I am pretty proud of. Too bad they are already chipping.
It would be so nice to go to a Cowboys game when they actually win. Last nights’ game was such a disappointment.
I feel like I have been unusually busy lately. There just seems to be a lot going on with work, with family, with friends and with social engagements. I am still feeling pretty happy though, so no complaints at all.
So what’s been keeping me busy?
More to come as the holidays quickly approach.
A few posts ago, I said I needed to stay positive. I don’t know that I have consciously tried to do that, but I have felt pretty happy lately.
“Give us thankful hearts…..
in this season of Thanksgiving.
May we be thankful for health and strength,
for sun and rain and peace.
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit
that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities, and let us ever remember that
true gratitude and appreciation
show itself neither in independence nor satisfaction but passes the gift joyfully on in larger and better form.”
— W.E.B. DuBois
(Source: myownmelt)