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Just throw up your arms and scream!! My comment on another blog gave me an idea for this one.
Do you let life take you hither and dither? Or do you grab the "bull by the horns and decide your own destiny?
Tell us your success or failure stories.

I don't think I'm a workaholic, but it DOES help me to be busy and I love that.

One of my sister complained I work too much! She told me many times that I should work less and enjoy more but the problem is that I would rather spend time for work than spent time for things such as traveling alone unless it's for business trips.

What about you? Would you prefer working more or less?

3:10am in my city!
Goodnight!

Be the best that you can be unless your best at being an a**hole, in that case, be at your worst.

Be the best that you can be unless your best at being an a**hole, in that case, be at your worst.

Here's a question for the guys - Im new to this blogging malarkey but recently I was asked if I was big, I don't think I am, but, then, im not looking through a mans eyes.

I am generally a uk size 14 - its classed as medium, measurements being bust 36-38 waist 28-30 & hips 38-40, some of my clothes are a 12, and even some 10-12, so guys, would you consider me big ?

?? Look at these happy faces


And look at these sad faces


Did you notice that all happy faces have closed eyes !

And on the other hand , all sad or angry faces have open eyes !

This is life , close ur eyes & ignore all negative things to live happy ??

Yuo konw what is Real Relationship?
I m gving yuo an exmpl : Jsut c tihs msg. Evrey splleing of tihs msg is wrnog. Bt sitll yuo can raed it wihtuot ayn mistake.
if u wnat true Raleti0nship; jsut ignoer mistaeks of otheres.. and understand them.....!!??


Keep smiling??

Well I must say the first 7 days on this site have been interesting to say the least.

I have made it here which is further than I expected to last. Usually I will start something with good intentions and then when it doesn't seem to be helping or fill the void that I am desperately trying to, I just give up and think it was worth it anyway. So after 7 days of being on here and I'm still continuing to go ahead with why I signed up in the first place it must mean that I am getting something I need or am just more determined than other times in my past.

This is where the self-improvement comes in to play. I want to be the person that can be depended on but also the one that can depend on someone else. My kids are great but they also don't need to be the crutch I lean on either.

I have had a life filled with disappointments. Some obviously very good as I have 4 beautiful young adults, but I have never had that kind of connection that I see in all the happy couples and families that surround me. I am trying to change my way of thinking from detrimental and self destructive to positive and fulfilling. As one of my friends tells me all the time. When you get a complement accept it for what it is. Don't brush it off and say "ya ok" because it is meant to make you feel better and the truth. Compliments have always been hard for me to accept just because I have never felt worthy of them. When your daily life is built around being yelled at, put down and made to feel unimportant you tend to start believing it.

This is where I am at today trying to put together the pieces of my life that have been stomped on for many years and am unbelievably going to the vast unknown world of the internet to help me do that. It matters not if anyone wishes to comment or converse, (although it would be great) but the fact that I am putting myself out there to see if this will help. We all have to start somewhere and for me this is it.

Thanks for reading
Raye

I sit here this evening a happy and very lucky person.

I received news that the government has agreed with me in a dispute on my separation date and I am patiently waiting for a new friend to come home so we can chat.

Believe it or note this site has given me more confidence than I ever dreamed of, especially in such a short time. 13 days is not long at all but I feel welcomed and accepted and am extremely happy that I signed up and am continuing to move forward.....lol

Today was a long but very constructive day. We are getting the back half of our house ready to move into for the winter. As the house is completely gutted you can imagine the work we are having to put into it to make it happen. But the weather is getting so much colder up here remaining in a cottage with no heat means time is just about to run out. I think we should have it good to go by the weekend...thankfully...lol

Funny the first blog seemed so much easier to write than this one. Maybe I just need to be tired and up at 1:30am to get the inspiration required...lol

Anyway I will be back again as soon as I am able.

Enjoy blogging
Raye

Country life is cool.



She has been learning that. Her BF and I had her starting out with various types of .380s (Colts, PPKs etc), but I figured she was finally ready for the real thing today. So when she stopped by for our periodic coffee and chat I dragged her out back and after her warming up with my old Remington M51, I moved her up to a 1911 (a Colt commercial made in 1917).

Here she is getting ready to try it for the first time. 7 yard line.



Halfway through the magazine. She likes it.



Her first time with a .45. No bad habits exhibited.



She is becoming a bonafide country girl.