"Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be…
Be one." ~ Marcus Aurelius.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Ghandi.
"Courage makes it possible to do the right thing even when the right thing seems unpopular."
“True wealth is who you are, not what you have.”
Friday, July 27, 2007
Great Quotes
Ho Do You Become?
How do you become on of those people that smile all the time. And I'm not talking about beautiful women with perfect teeth and great clothes. I'm talking about the old ladies that can't see well, can't hear well and walk with a walker around the grocery store, yet they still smile everytime you say "excuse me" to walk past. It must take something directly from the good Lord, because I see plenty of young girls that scowl and complain and less of the old people that do.
How do you become on of those people that don't complain. I know my husband would like me to figure it out, but seriously. How do you just take the bad for years and years, and not say anything? How do you just swallow when you took a really big bite?
Legacy
We had to say good bye to a very special person on wednesday. She never forgot a birthday, or to say I love you. She never forgot to ask how "so and so" was doing. She was what one would call A Class Act. And in a world where people are commended for being rich and being powerful, and having beautiufl homes and lots of money, she had none of those, but what she had radiated far beyond her reach, and will last far beyond her 94 years.
When it all comes down, when the chips fall and when we sit alone in a dark room unable to see and nothing to hear, I will know that deep deep in my soul what really is important in life. She was an inspiration to us all. My dear dear Aunt May, you will be missed.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Quote of the Day
The Greatest Test Of Courage On Earth Is To Bear Defeat Without Losing Heart.
I saw this at a little eatery on ship. I wish I had stopped in sooner than the last day. I bet all week there were awesome quotes up!
Friday, July 20, 2007
A Rose By Any Other Name
Rose Josephine, is what my name should have been, if my mother had followed her family's sicilian nameing tradition as her mother before did, and her grandmother and great grandmother, and well, every woman as far back as the 1700's according to my mother's distant cousin and her family tree research. But, my mother says she didn't give a damn about tradition, but I really think she didn't want her first child, her little girl, to be named after my father's mother. It would just go to her head. So my name was debated and they decided to go with Genna with a G, and then becasue my dad said it wasn't a real name, they added an f-e-r to it and then added Marie because I think every dago girl's middle name is Marie or Ann. And there I was.
So now I have to change my name.
I went to the DMV {don't get me started} bound and determined not to loose my last name, my "maiden name" as they call it now. So sad really, that a name I feel so connected to is just a maiden name by society standards. Just a future password for my children's bank accounts and SAT tests. ~but I digress~ So marriage license in hand I walk in and explain to the 20 yr old girl behind the counter that my last name is my new middle name. She looked at me like I was speaking spanish to her and I had snot all over my face or something. She told me I can't change my middle name. Well, I don't know what f*cking articles she has been reading but YES U CAN! So after much explanation she saw the error of her ways and repaced my simple "M" to read my "maiden name" and then my new last name. So sad really, so sad.
Well, Now i'm having doubts about the whole damn thing. What the hell was wrong with the god-damn information in the first place? What the hell is wrong with taking a little time to be married with out changing anything. I'm having second thoughts about this change. It's just all happening so fast... from I do to this?!
Okay, so now I have to change it with social security. Oh God.
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
~Romeo and Juliet~
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
La La Land
My new word is la la land. Everyone is from la la land lately. I had a great honeymoon, I got away from everyone except my baby and was able to relax and see new things and meet new people. And when I got home I was still feeling good. Still am, but as soon as I talk to a certain someone I can feel my good mood slipping away. I can feel the happiness being sucked out of me, and I wonder how this happened to her. How did she become a person like that? And more interestingly, how did I not?
Hmmmm.
Ring Ring Ring. 
Instantly the conversation is about her, her likes, dislikes, interests, disinterests, problems etc. I am but an ear who answers the phone. I sometimes feel like I am only called because I will listen and not because she cares what I have to say back. She has a way of attempting to put me down, and I ignore it, because once you confirm it, she is instantly tickeled pink and then drowns on and on about how that is "your own insecurities and don't put them on me". When really she just wants to know that she got to you. Again, why do I answer the phone? So I brush off her jabs, her snotty responses and continue to listen to her blind search for compliments in every sentence. It gets tiring, it really does.
Most of the conversation is about herself. She mixes in a bit about pop culture like a teenager, and then it goes back to how she doesn't understand this or that about men. I offer my limited knowledge on the subject, which she immediatly rebuffs with "what do you know about dating, you've been with Steve for years". In an attempt to make me feel as though that "wasn't dating". Its obnicious, its rude, and its condesending. Again, why do I answer the phone?
So the conversation takes a quick turn to me, and how we should get together for my bithday, but she is soooo busy. She gives me dates that she "can't do it" saying "she'll be out of town". I, at this point, wonder if she just wants me to say "oh where are you going?" or feel bad that she can't squeeze me in, or flattered that she asks. But really, I just don't give a damn.
All of this is too much for me. I am still feeling the effects of a wonderful honeymoon and vacation. I don't need this excessive talking. It makes me think of this post where it explains about preserving your selfesteem.
A few points I found applicable:
#4. Don’t put up with crap.
There is no reason you should tolerate other people being mean to you. Even if they say they are doing it with love. Make sure people know they should be nice to you and if they refuse, walk away from them.
#5. Drop your negative friends.
Hang out with people who are positive and support you. It may be fun to bitch and moan but if you hang out with these types of people you will eventually become one of them. You may have noticed that people who bitch and moan are never happy.
Just thinking about all of this makes me tired.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
While I Was Honeymooning...
We went on our honeymoon last week. We had the most wonderful time in the world and met some really great people. While we were on our trip, I knew we were living one of those types of memories you always look back to and smile about. I may never see our new friends and all the wonderful people we met again, but I hope to.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Monday, July 2, 2007
Our Wedding Mass
Let me first start off by saying, my wedding day was the most wonderful day of my life. I wouldn't have it anyother way. I enjoyed EVERY second of it.
Those that are catholic {or that arent'} sometimes dread the Catholic Mass. Its long, you stand and sit, stand and sit. ect. But it is beautiful when done right. And ours was. The music was beautiful, the flowers were beautiful, our preist was amazing, the long aisle was goregous and my cathedral lenght veil was the icing on the cake.
If your gonna do it, do it big. And we did. Here are a few of our mass components.
http://gennaandstevedaherwedding.shutterfly.com/action/
Our First Reading:
Genesis 2:18-24
The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him."
So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name.
20
The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.
21
So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, the man said: "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; This one shall be called 'woman,' for out of 'her man' this one has been taken."
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.
Our Second Reading
1 Corinthians 12:31-13:8a
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails.
Our Gospel Reading
Matthew 7:21, 24-29
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, 10 but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined."
When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
Great Quote III
Read a great quote on a great blog.
Within you
lies a power
greater than what
lies before you.
~Rhonda Blake
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
