Memorygirls - The Matrix Reloaded

Buffythedebtslayer

That is brilliant Fantasia, really love to be so wanted and to get things the way you need them. excellent xxxx

fantasia322

"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." -Albert Schweitzer

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus

"Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road." -John Henry Jowett

“For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.” -G.B. Stern

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" -William A. Ward

"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night." -Elie Wiesel

"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic"
- John Henry Jowett

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life." -Christiane Northrup

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” -Margaret Cousins

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
-Brian Tracy

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”-Eric Hoffer

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” -William Arthur Ward

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.” -Buddha

“To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” -Albert Schweitzer

“Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.” - Marcel Proust


“Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.” - Alfred Painter

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God."
-The Bible Phil 4:6 NKJV

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart

"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors." - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton

"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." - Frank A. Clark

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry Ward Beecher
Not sure about the religious ones but I am absolutely filled witih gratitude at the moment for everything x

vandanfc

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I've got one too. Not crazy about typing on it, but love the fact that it is instantly on. I left it behind when I was travelling over the last couple of weeks and regretted it. On short flights, by the time my laptop has booted up it's time to shut it down. If I'd taken the iPad, despite the annoying keyboard, I'd have got work done on the plane.

My OH bought one of these for us all to share:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002TUSWU4/ref=asc_df_B002TUSWU42461402?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&!!!!!googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22206&creativeASIN=B002TUSWU4

ClootiesMum

Good afternoon Matrixites

Pottery day today for me. Have been to shops & have bought stuff & do not intend to have to go to shops again for 2 weeks - this will be a challenge......
Anyway - got some lovely 10p bashed tin bargains & in Mr A they are selling Kleenex Velvet tissues for £1 per pack - but when you take off the top bit there's a 50p off voucher for another one. So everytime I'm in I get another 2 boxes of tissues for £1. Well - they don't go out of date, do they?????
So off just now to have a wee macaroni pie that was reduced, then will start to clean house, cut up wood for fire tonight & make a mushroom risotto for tomorrow's lunch (again, reduced). And I bought potted herbs for 50p each so will plant them up.
All in all - spent a bit more that I intended but it will pay off....

Anyhow - just heard the ting of the halogen oven (free from someone in work) so food calls....

Catch y'all later

ClootiesMum

My OH bought one of these for us all to share:

Can I share too????:o

OliveOyl_2

Wow Fantasia, what a lovely piece of news :j:j:j:j

Love the idea of letter writing - I write to my Mum every so often, as she has Altzheimers phone calls are distressing for both of us and she can't cope with e-mail like my Dad does. She squirrels the letters away and every time she reads one (it may be one from last November ) it's new for her and she re-enjoys it. Though she won't let Dad read them :rotfl:
But I can't join in, it takes about 2 weeks for a letter from here to arrive in the UK

Here is the non-news for Kits for Kids. After about 100+ e-mails the stuff is still held in customs :eek: My last 2 e-mails said that I hope that they now have EVERYTHING they need to release them, but no reply for the last 8 days.....ho hum, I'm really learning patience here :cool:

Buffythedebtslayer

I would love to write letters too, but am not organised enough to even send Birthday cards!

xx

ClootiesMum

Just a passing thought OliveOyl - how many kids are in the day centre & then how many Matrix peeps are interested in writing letters? Would the kids be interested in hearing from old fuddy duddies like us (except me of course, I'm hip & groovy man & stuck somewhere in the past :cool:) or their kids/friends kids?

Just wondered 'cos letters to kids don't have to be a chore - I have the attention span of a child & a page or so is the maximum...:p

Now off to FB my SA friend to se if she or any of her friends have any customs contacts -

OliveOyl_2

I wonder if they'd be interested .............hmmmmm. I'll ask them on Monday thanks

The day care centre have been told that they MUST find ways of self funding. So we brainstormed, and we visited a market full of tourists to look at the hand crafted items that sell. (We stuck out like sore thumbs, so obviously researching, not buying, but the stall holders were mostly nice) and DD and I are looking at importing what they make to the UK.

Funny how things go, if we hadn't started K4K we'd have assumed that it would be easy, now we know that we know very little about the procedures and we'll be better prepared.......:p
(better post this sort of stuff elsewhere I suppose......)

MatyMoo

Great news Fantasia Looks like you are going to get what you want and all you had to do was ask :T

Shame asking isn't having the same effect for OO :mad:

Love the soup recipe MG. I will be trying it very soon