because i'm worth it!! (aren't we all??!)

yesterday i was trying to find a post i'd made on my diary on here as i wanted a quote i'd put in it (too lazy to re-type it...) so i keyed in baglady2713 & one or two words...& it came up on google...but i was very surprised to read right next to baglady the words 'has a reputation beyond repute'??? oooooh i don't know about that!! hahaha...but how did that get there & does it happen if anyone else puts their WLF name in google??? let me know!!
 
found a site today with some lovely dalai lama quotes...i'll try to post only a few of them...& not 20!! but i don't really do subtle (hence the pink :D)


Dalai Lama Quotes On Kindness

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama Quotes On Happiness

I think that every human being has an innate sense of "I". We cannot explain why that feeling is there, but it is. Along with it comes a desire for happiness and a wish to overcome suffering. This is quite justified: we have a natural right to achieve as much happiness as possible, and we also have the right to overcome suffering.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama Quotes On Rebirth

We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one time or another. Therefore, it is likely that all beings in this universe have familial connections.

Dalai Lama Quotation On Love

If there is love, there is hope to have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost, if you continue to see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education you have, no matter how much material progress is made, only suffering and confusion will ensue.

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counterforces,like love and compassion.

Dalai Lama Quotes on Compassion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed.Deep down there is no difference.

Dalai Lama Quotes on Purpose

Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, color, social status, or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama Quotes on Peace

Just as we should cultivate more gentle and peaceful relations with our fellow human beings, we should also extend that same kind of attitude towards the natural environment. Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment.

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.

Dalai Lama Quotes On Suffering

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then also there is no need to worry.

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

Dalai Lama Quotes On Friendship

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.
 
oh no!!

just realised that the book my sister bought me was THAT book from a couple of yrs ago that purported to be 'the' secret to the meaning of life...when the real secret was that nothing in it was really secret nor had it been hidden away or 'discovered' by its author. it basically took theories/teachings/philosophies/quotes from various sources including the worlds of religion/philosophy/metaphysics/motivational speaking & the wisdom of great thinkers of both recent times & from ancient history & mixed it up with new agey thought...faux seals & parchment covers...not to mention great marketing!! even oprah fell for it & larry king did a couple of shows about it too.

theres a definite touch of the da vinci code about it...whereas dan brown read books published 30 yrs or so ago...then laced their findings with a good sprinkling of fiction & sensationalism...the author of the secret was 'inspired' by books published 100 yrs ago...The New Thought book The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles 1910 & 1906 book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World by William Walker Atkinson...maybe out of print but certainly NOT hidden!!

as with most things not all bad...some good in it...power of positive thought etc but the flip side of that is that it can (& does in the book) go too far...into blaming the victim territory...for their illness/lack of wealth etc...

as a parent of a child with autism i'm always very wary of such thinking...you can cure yourself etc...reminds me of the curebie movement in the autism world...for one autism is a neurological condition NOT a disease...& second acceptance and treatment with any condition/illness will get you a lot further than finger pointing and denial. i do not believe there is a cure for autism itself though we can strive to lessen the difficulties ppl/children with autism experience with communication/interaction & making sense of the world around them etc. but instead of wasting time/effort on 'cures' parents should fully accept their children as they are/meant to be...my sons brain has developed differently in some places compared to mine or my other sons...he is not brain damaged...he is just different...sorry huge digression again (LOL) but watched a clip of jenny mccarthy on larry king today spouting all her nonsense re curing autism...i shouldn't post late i ramble more than usual...

anyhoo...
getting back to 'the secret' my sister seems to have got really into it along with some friends of hers...so what do i tell her when she asks me what i think of the book?? that i agree with a newsweek article that described it as 'pseudoscientific, psychospiritual babble' (damn schwa for being MIA...he would have been proud to see i do have a little bit of 'prickles' in me after all...so not all goo!! hahaha) & a piece in the guardian too that describes adherence to The Secret's 'law of attraction' (for wealth enhancement...which goes against the more spiritual orientation of the New Thought Movement) as...'creed so transparently ugly and stupid that it seems impossible that anyone could take it seriously'...hmmmmm...not sure either will go down very well!! but don't want her buying me the dvd too!! the book was £13!!

a quote (NOT used in the book/film) by one of the 'past secret teachers'...

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former
Einstein
(i may have already put this quote on my diary b/c like the little bald man in the red robe einstein does give good quote :))
 
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hmmmmmmm.....

loving greek feta cheese at the moment.........(do other ppl make sex noises over food hahaha...)

its bloody delish & creamy...but don't eat the extra light no point like with most things that say EXTRA l/t or no fat = no bleedin taste...i'd rather eat full fat feta but a little less...anyway being a foodie if it says light...just makes me think fuck it i can eat more :doh: (like that episode of the simpsons LOL...oh god i have the same mentality as of homer simpson when it comes to food...that CAN'T be good!!) i do eat light in most things - butter (flora) /milk etc (semi skimmed milk NOT skimmed...ickickick may aswell drink water!!) but NOT extra l/t.

anyhoo...
just chop up lots of veggies...red onion/peppers/carrots/sweet potato/swede/parsnips/leeks/aubergine/courgette/tomatoes...whatever...

(or do it the lazy way like me today...use frozen veggies...well it has butterbut squash in which i love...& who wants to spend time cutting that up??)

drizzle some olive oil over & roast for a bit...then sprinkle over some feta & roast a bit longer...served with some warm wholemeal bread or oatmeal batch bread...its scrumptious!! or irish soda bread would be gorg with it too....

note to self...just food amanda...NOT love/sex....but god dammt it tastes sooooo goodddddddd!! :Angel_anim:
 
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watched ps i love you (again...) so to go with the irish soda bread i'd have either the gerard butler or jefferey dean morgan characters from the movie to go please..........seriously what girl wouldn't fall for a southern irish accent???????? so soft & lilting...in the movie they're both from the west of ireland...like two sets of my great great grandparents (one pair from galway i think & the other from county mayo for sure) ppl from the north of ireland (i tend to say south instead of republic as i like to think of ireland as a united whole IYKWIM) often have a bit of a harsher accent...reminds me of a strong scouse accent which is not surprising really as don't think there are many of us from liverpool who don't have relatives/ancestors that hailed from ireland...still...any irish accents sexy!!! ;)

then again so's scottish...och aye!!!
& gerard butler is really from scotland not ireland...so basically celts are sexy!!
 
just to prove...

that my heads not (only...) filled with food/sex/boysboysboys/bags & shoes....heres some lovely quotes :Angel_anim: :Angel_anim:

"Life is a gift you are only given once. Strive to make the best use of it." Anon

"Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon." Anon

"However true love is, true friendship is rarer." Unknown

"The one thing we can give and still keep is our word." Unknown

"Each and everyone of us are Angels with only one wing. We need to hold on to each other before we can fly." Leo F. Buscaglia (a little corny but still sweet)

No matter how hard the past,you can always begin again." Buddha

"This above all: to thine own self be true. It must follow that you cannot then be false to any man." Shakespeare

"It's not the message in your life that counts...it's the life in your message." Mae West

"Doing nothing in fear of making a mistake, is the greatest mistake you'll make." Anonymous

"If you think you are important - put your hand in some water, take it out, and see how much of a hole you've left." Bruce Davies

".....Don't try to keep up with the Joneses, bring them down to your level - it's much cheaper ..." Quentin Crisp

"We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time." T.S. Eliot

"Be kind to your friends, without them you'd be a stranger." Al Shock

"If you want to make God laugh tell him your plans." Folk Proverb

"Dreams do come true, as long as the wishing well is working." India Askem aged 6

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

"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them." Louis Armstrong

"We all may have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." Martin Luther King. Jr.

"'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind" Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is a path we choose to take. A path that is ever present." Adrian John (a good one to remember!!)

"Listen, for words can not describe the sound of silence." Unknown

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." Satchmo Paige

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." Closing Time by Semisonic (so true...like 'my' universe theory...)

"Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object." Herman Hesse (no not THAT hesse...but a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter)
 
re accents just like to say...as with most things...i'm open to all!! not one to discriminate :)

the one thing i can't abide is when someone affects an accent to try to lose their distinctive regional or national inflections (part of what makes us all so unique!!) usually done to try & sound posher (though we all have a 'posh' phone voice LOL) like my eldest sister did when she went to uni...& came back with a totally false southern accent...ANNOYING...

but still something about the irish.......so maybe instead of dirty talk the next man in my life could just whisper sweet anythings in my ear in an irish accent...oooooooooh yeah that'd hit the spot..............;)

plus it won't hurt..........if he looks like this.....OMMMMMMMMMG!!!!!



oh **** me he is one sexy bastard....ooooooh & very manly too....& my age :hurray::hurray: so its not pervy to perv at him hahaha....

unlike 'little' ryan...



who though very easy on the eye too...still has that boyish quality to him...while i could imagine giving him a big cuddle & maybe some homemade apple pie & cream...thats about it!!

now gerard on the other hand....ahhhhhhhhhh....i could imagine doing very incredibly naughty things to that man.......:newangel::newangel:

just remembered this post was meant to be boy/sex free....how did i go from accents back to BOYS????
 
LOL, nice journal, it had me laughing!

I totally agree about feta cheese and the irish accent. It would be nice to have a nice irish boy feeding me little chucks of feta cheese while whispering in my ear. LOL. Oh boy.

Anyway, have a great day! Congrats on all your weight loss so far. :D
 
yeah but can you imagine if there are any irish fellas on here??
they'll be like fuck that i'm keeping quiet...or else she'll have me tied to the bedpost!! :smilielol5:
 
beware..................

of cadburys choccie clusters!!! DEVILS FOOD!!!! so yummilicious you won't be able to resist having another...& another...oh ok so i admit it...i had 4 or 5ish...but they are only teeny tiny little bits of choc...so small they hardly even count!! :Angel_anim:

after my mini 'binge' took mutley out though...despite the fact it was 11pm & raining...b/c i'm a trouper...actually no b/c i started thinking about those damn scales!!!

taking the dog out or taking finn to the park/beach are really the only times i don't wear heels...i'm only quite diddy really only 5ft 3 & a bit....which is why i like to wear the big girl shoes....so no one can talk over me (literally LOL) actually who am i kidding?? its usually me doing the talking...but its probably why you only ever really see SJP in heels too...think we're about the same size...anyway.........as usual molly pulled me everywhere....the most untrained dog EVER!!! she also comes to you if you call her anything beginning with 'm'...milly/molly/milly vanilli/mutley...whatever.........not sure if that makes her really smart or really daft...hmmmmmm more likely the latter :D

when i got back...told my eldest to hide the clusters from me...like chocolates my crack??!! he said mum its just chocolate...how did i give birth to this person?? chocolate is 'just' chocolate...what planet is he off??? i mean seriously..........:rolleyes:
 
i put that pic of gerard (1st name terms...hahaha) as my background on my laptop...now everytime i notice it...i blush like its porn or something....its one of those pics too that look like they're following you with their eyes...oh gerard you big tease...god i really do have to have sex soon think i'm getting cabin fever but for lack of sex not going out so would that be horny fever??

its bad enough they say you're re-virginised after 12 mths...but what if its healed over??? thats it...this summer i am sooooo putting an end to my man drought...maybe i'll catch the ferry over to ireland.......oooooooh now thats a thought :drool5::drool5:


an old irish folk song about a liverpool lou/girl...john lennon used to sing it as a lullaby to his son sean when he was a baby ...
 
baglady2713 said:
yeah but can you imagine if there are any irish fellas on here??
they'll be like fuck that i'm keeping quiet...or else she'll have me tied to the bedpost!! :smilielol5:
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Hey I'm Irish. Just not from Ireland, so I don't have the accent.

But I have a fear of being tied up so I'm out!!!
 
how can you be irish...but NOT be FROM ireland??

anyway no i don't do tying up or handcuffs...i prefer hands free hahaha.............i said THEY would worry about that...well like you have :)
 
LMAO haha suckers....scared or not, we'll hog tie em'...just to watch em squirm...hahaha did I jus say that??

ahhh A lovely Irish boy....and uh hmm yea since I am younger, I can have...what age is legal there? It's 18 here. heeheehee I am too, in the need of some sweet somethings...

Cream Cheese Light, tastes like cardboard. Yuck. I can relate.

Well Hello Baglady, How are you?

FANT-A-BULOUS job on the weight loss. I'll be back cuz your post's make me laugh among other things..

Lata :seeya:
 
@ running girl...

oooooh nooooo love! we like the irish boys...we don't want to scare them off!!! :D

i was thinking before that going over to ireland (a boat ride away) with friends will be just like in that movie with gerard!!! oh it'd be great...or grand as they in ireland!! i've been supposed to go on a many a time but something always comes up...i'm definitely drawn towards county mayo & the west of ireland. i've always said if (when!!) i win the lotto i'll buy a lovely old cottage on a cliff in ireland overlooking a windswept pebbly beach (it has be an old one...not just b/c i like the charm & character of old houses...but b/c i'm planning to spend quite a chunk of my winnings on a brownstone overlooking central park too!! hahaha...keep dreaming missy!!!)

i love the way the irish use the english language & make it their own with their own unique phrases etc...like the following...

Grand - Good, of acceptable quality.

In a recent conversation with an Irishman who spent some time stateside he mentioned this word created some communication difficulties.

In the United States, “grand” is used quite literally to mean something impressive in scale, elaborate or significantly superior. Here in Ireland it’s bandied about carelessly the way “fine” would be used in the states. When my friend would say something was “grand” in response to a question like, “Is that all right for you?” his yankee hosts would take it to mean he really loved it or was impressed by it.

This became apparent fairly quick and he explained that “grand” in Ireland didn’t mean anything special, it just meant things were “okay.” Apparently this backfired and his hosts began overusing it in every conversation, “It’d be grand if you could please pass the salt.”

Your man - The person to which I’m referring.

This is a very Irish turn of phrase that can catch people who have never heard it before a bit off-guard. The first time I heard it, someone was talking to me about country music, something I’m not too keen on, and said, “Your man, Garth Brooks, for example . . . “

For a minute I was mildly offended that, just because I was from the states this Irish guy had lumped me in with Garth Brooks, saying that he was obviously “my man,” when I didn’t even like country music. Later that day I heard this phrase again when someone pointed out a total stranger to me and said, “Your man over there,” proceeding to tell me about him.

Obviously, this was a turn of phrase we heard SO often that we quickly understood it to mean “that guy” in the third person. An Irishman can be talking about your worst enemy to you and still refer to him as “your man.”

Gender-wise, it’s equally common to refer to a woman in the third person as “your woman.”

or as someone else describes it..

Yer Man or Woman

Denotes a person whose name is unknown (or cannot currently be recalled) but whose identity is assumed to be known to everyone. Could lead to such hilarious exchanges as
"Didn't I see yer man in town yesterday?"
"That wasn't him, that was the other one ..."

my collection of father-in-laws...included an irish one (who hailed from county mayo too as my grt grt grandparents did) anyway despite the fact that liverpool & ireland are close neighbours so a lot of sayings/vocab etc go back & forth...i could never understand a bleedin word he said!! well except 'to be sure' which he said a lot LOL & 'how are yeah'...

How are you?

Unless the person asking you is a doctor, nurse or paramedic this simply means "Hello!" Do not start any long sentences. Just reply with the same phrase or the common "And yourself?"

& how could i 'be forgetting' ' feck'!!??...oh yeah just like in 'father ted' (which used to make giggle so much!! still does...) he said it all the time!!!

Feck

This universal qualification of anything ("the fecking yoke yer man gave me") is neither positive nor negative, it simply is. This Zen-like quality can disappear quickly, in which case the "e" is usually replaced by a "u". Expect to hear the f-word more often in short, seemingly normal conversation than in a Tarantino movie.


ps changing the subject completely................
i smell sooooo bloody gorgeous today...i could just eat myself right up!!! palmers cocoa butter body lotion makes your skin smell (& taste!!) just like chocolate.........yumyum.......so i'm off out now a few appts today (i set up a little stylist business...makeovers & such...called fashion fairies...bit of a fib really...as theres actually only one fashion fairy in the 'busines'...ME!!! so despite my excess curves still have to look a little glam...so lipstick & heels...essential...as i wave my magic wand & find these girlies their perfect party/wedding outfits) so you never know...as i waft about in all my yummy chocolatieness...a chocoholic irishman might just pick up my scent!! :D
 
baglady2713 said:
how can you be irish...but NOT be FROM ireland??

anyway no i don't do tying up or handcuffs...i prefer hands free hahaha.............i said THEY would worry about that...well like you have :)
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I have a lot of Irish in the gene pool.
 
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