Lord Help Us ALL!!!

Sorry I am ranting this Sunday Morning.

I am so sick and tired of see how we treat each other in this world today.  You pick up a newspaper, magazine, watch the nightly news and all you see are reports of foolish, asinine, egotistical, greedy, murdering, thieving, back-stabbing, slandering, maniacal, self-centered, deceitful people there are in this world.  My God, why can't we all just get along.

I think about all the possibilities and opportunities we all have each and everyday to do something good for someone else other than ourselves that would actually make us feel good.  But instead we take the easy way out and short change ourselves from a lot of pure joy and pleasure.  Why do we do this?  That is the million dollar question!

Do you ever ask yourself why did I say that?  Why did I do that?  No, we just think whatever, and move on. I for one am going to make a concerted effort to pay attention to the people I come in contact with and try to do something or say something that will leave that person I just came in contact with better off than they were before I crossed their path.

How hard is it to say Good Morning to some one?  Hi, how ya doing?  Make eye contact and give some one a smile.

You see someone at work your approaching and they look a bit down.  So smile at them and ask them how their day is going and tell them it's good to seem.  Oh by the way, have you ever been to Youtube.com and seen the video Free Hugs....just search that for a title and it watch a few videos they always warm my heart.

People need to learn to be pleasant, be nice, be helpful, be a friend, just go the extra steps and be a real honest to God human being.  How freaking hard can that be?  Really!  Stop all this madness in the world.  We can all make this a better place to live, work and play.  One single action on your part can cause a change reaction across the world if we only try.  Do your best at being you!

Aren't you tired of hating, fighting, losing your mind in all the insanity that goes on in our everyday lives?  And for what?  A cheap, short lived rush with a let down that blows your whole day I am guessing.  Who needs that?  I want a feel good all day rush with many blessing because I chose to go the extra few steps in making someones day!  Yep I love to feel good ....heck we all do.  Don't you?  Don't you enjoy that feeling of inner peace and tranquility?  I know that things happen that upset us in our daily lives and with that comes those feeling of anger sometime, but if we can just stop for a moment before we do something we will regret and see how we can work through that problem it can turn out to be a win, win for all.  Didn't your Momma ever tell you, "When life hands you lemons make lemonade!"

Think about it.  You call some one Stupid!  You just gave them a scar....did you know that?  Words can some time cut deeper than a knife.  Think about it this way.  If you stabbed someone with a knife and pulled the knife out and said "oh I'm sorry"... did it fix the hole you just left in them ....Hell no it didn't.  Same with words if you say horrible things to people, call them nasty names only to say ....Oh I'm sorry, would that make you feel better....Hell no it doesn't!  Oh they may say your forgiven but it's still with them that scar you inflected on them.  It never goes away, it's in embedded in their mind forever.   Stop the madness stop it now!

Life is to short to be a mean, nasty, lying, angry, greedy, thieving, back-stabbing, self-centered, uncaring human being!  So live life as a happy, helpful, sharing, trusting, honest, caring person that gives love not scars! 

You are special in your own unique way and there is a purpose for you being here so as you explore the world and share your love with those you meet on this journey called LIFE that is how one can truly PROSPER!

Have a blessed day!

Dianne

Beauty Products Can Be Costly

Here is a great tip for you ladies who are big fans of pore strips.  You know those strips you place across your nose to get all the dirt and grim out of your pores.  These strips are very costly and they can be a bit of a pain to use but I have found an awesome way to save a bit of money and do a great job of really get all that stuff out of your pores.

So what you will need is:
A clean face
A small microwave cup or container
A small brush for applying the mixture to your nose  (cheap clean brush)
1 tablespoon of milk from your frig.
1 tablespoon of unflavored gelatin like Knox brand but you can use any brand

Mix the milk and gelatin in the microwave safe cup or container.  It should look kind of chunky.
Then place in your microwave for only 10 seconds only and that's it.

Make sure you just test it on the back of your hand so you don't burn yourself and then apply all over the nose area and let it dry for about 10 minutes.  Then slowly peel it off and just look at all that gunk that comes off.  Risen any residue off.  Now is a good time to apply any facial products since the pores are clean and will absorb better.

Hope this helps save your a bit on money and helps you have a more healthy looking skin.

Happy Independence Day!!!

 "Happy Independence Day"

Let us celebrate on July 4th " Independence Day ", because that is the day when the Continental Congress adopted the final draft of the Declaration of Independence. 

It is a time to remember that independence is the spirit and the soul of this great nation. May the fireworks fly with the rockets red glare in celebration of Our Day of Deliverance and that liberation from captivity is what we honor and so often forget. 

And forever independent we will remain. If we continue to fight back.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Independence Day!

Savings Account at Emigrant Direct.Com

I love this site for stashing away some extra cash for that rainy day and so should you!   You can have money transferred directly from your own checking account which is very easy to do online.  So go ahead and check it out.

Start out small then set up an automatic draft for say 25.00 month or more and just watch it add up.  But remember this is your rainy day fund or perhaps you Christmas fund ...who knows.  I like knowing I have a little cash tucked away for those hiccups that come along once in awhile that can really throw you for a loop.  You will have to wait about 3 business days to get the money transferred back into your checking account but to me that is not a problem and again you never know you might just decided you really didn't need it after all.

Go ahead see what your current bank is offering in the way of interest and I bet it won't be as high as Emigrant Direct is offering.  Right now it is at  0.80%  APY and that's better than my bank Chase I am sure.
  
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 In fact I couldn't even get Chase to tell me what the APY is ...oh wait I called back and they wanted my name full name...grrrr I didn't give it only my first name...what state I was in and if I had a checking account they wanted that too, I did not get them my checking account info I did give the State then she asked was it North Texas I said yes finally got an 0.50% APY .  That was like pulling teeth just to get that information and me trying to explode on this lady, in fact the second person I had to talk to just to get the freaking APY.  Can we say O.M.G.!!!

It almost makes me want to change banks because every time I call just to get a bit of information they give me the 3rd degree.  What happened to customer service and just answering a customers questions.  And if your going to ask me a bunch of what I think is unrelated questions then tell me why you need that information.  How will that benefit me in the long run.  It makes me think that if you see I have a small checking account you will give me a smaller APY?  What the heck.  Who knows why all the questions because know one told me how it would benefit me and that might have helped me be not so aggravated with the 3rd degree.

Anywho....just check Emigrant Direct out see if it's a good match for you.  Happy Savings to all.

Chocolate Chip Cookies.....yummmm

Well I had my grand kids at my house today and so we made Chocolate Chip Cookies.  Oh my goodness I had bought sometime late in December some Tom Thumb chocolate chips they are the Safeway brand because they were on sale for like 0.88 cents a bag and bought 4 of them thinking I would use them for Christmas and I didn't.

However I dragged those puppies out and decided to make a double batch.  That makes 10 dozen cookies.  I have some in my big cookie jar, some in the freezer and the last batch is cooling off now....opps I put a dozen in a tupperware container to take to work on Monday.  I have cookies coming out my ears.  This recipe is really quite good.  I am one of those people to doesn't really like hard or really soft cookies but these are just right.

Here is the recipe from the back on the package:

1/2 lb Butter  (2 sticks)  softened
1  cup Packed Brown sugar
1/2 cup Granulated sugar (white)
1 tsp salt
2 tsp Vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 tsp baking soda
2 1/4 cups All-Purpose Flour
12 oz bag Safeway Chocolate chips from Tom Thumb
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

In a large mixing bowl with electric mixer, mix butter until creamy.  Mix in brown and white sugars, salt and vanilla until fluffy.  Mix in eggs and baking soda.  Add flour.  Mix on low until incorporated.  Mix in chocolate chips and nuts (optional).   Drop onto greased or sprayed baking sheets by rounded tablespoon about 1 1/2 inches apart.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes until tops are set when lightly pressed with fingertips and color is golden.  Let stand 2 minutes and remove to racks.  You can store air tight for several days or freeze them. Makes 5 dozen cookies depending on how much dough you drop for each cookie.

I estimated the cost of making a double batch of these to be about 0.06 cents a cookie. Try comparing that to store bought cookies and I think you will agree that making homemade cookies is cheaper.
And if you look at it this way I would call them free....lol since I already had the ingredients on hand!  I did not try to figure the cost of the electric stove use but I still feel homemade is better simply because I know what went into the cookies.  No additives except for what was in the Chocolate chips themselves and fresh ingredients!  Simply yummy.

Hope you try these out sometime this is now my favorite Chocolate Chip cookie recipe!

If your a Nestles Toll House cookie fan then go here for a .50 cent off coupon for their Chocolate chips and if your store doubles then that's even better. 
Here is the Nestles Toll House Chocolate Chip link for coupon.