IT MATTERS 'WHO' SAYS SOMETHING!!!!!

I have been thinking about 'this one' for over a month or more & it's kinda short, but STILL VERY IMPORTANT, I think:

"IT MATTERS WHO SAYS SOMETHING"--I re-discovered this at Tony Gonzalez's Charity Dinner & Auction about 6 weeks ago. He & ALL the other CHIEFS players who were there were VERY NICE to all of us 'fans' & were making PICTURES with ALL OF US with NO FUSS!!!!!!!!

They just weren't giving out ANY autographs, which is no big deal to me--I'd MUCH RATHER have a PICTURE made WITH THEM!!!!!!!!! In fact, Donnie Edwards--MY FAVORITE PLAYER--made OUR picture HIMSELF--because his arms are PLENTY long enough!!!!!!!!! And, I got to VISIT with him for over 10 minutes TWO different times that night!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think he MIGHT even REMEMBER me, now!!!!!!!!! MEETING HIM MADE MY NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LJ--Larry Johnson, our GREAT Running Back, was also there & I got a picture with him--I had met him before, but not had a picture made with him--he even had on a colorful tie & I told him his Mother WOULD BE PROUD of how he looked/was dressed!!!!! He's EXTRA SHY!!!!!!!!--I think, now, THAT'S WHY he doesn't talk with reporters most of the time!!!!!!!!!

Of course, I also had my picture made with Tony G & Wanda, from Larry's work--Tony is HER favorite player!!!!!!!!! Will Shields came in later, but wasn't quite as friendly that night--our Team was 0 - 2 at that time. THEN, as we were eating in the BIG Ball room, JARED ALLEN came in & I went back & had my picture made with him, ALSO--he's a GIANT & SO NICE!!!!!!!!!--AND SOBER, which is GREAT for him!!!!!!!!!--should HELP keep him OUT of 'trouble'!!!!!

Anyway, when we were all still standing out in the hallway & about halfway through ALL the picture taking, a smallish man came up to me & said: "They've asked that YOU don't make ANY MORE pictures"--well, since folks were STILL making pictures, I didn't pay ANY attention to him & made some more, just of Tony STANDING THERE, by himself--AND, the man CAME UP TO ME--no one else that I ever saw--and SAID THE SAME THING, AGAIN--THAT TIME I asked him: "JUST WHO ARE YOU?" And, he said he was WITH the Charity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, obviously, my POINT IS THIS: IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT HE WAS SAYING, BECAUSE HE HAD NO AUTHORITY OVER ANYONE/ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, I was not getting in ANYONE'S WAY--I never did figure out WHY he ONLY approached me with that statement!!!!!

BUT, AS WE ALSO ALL KNOW--IT TOTALLY MATTERS WHAT GOD SAID/SAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALWAYS HAS, ALWAYS WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO, as I learned, AGAIN, that night--IT MATTER "WHO" is SAYING "WHAT"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That small man was TRYING to assert his authority over me, but ONLY GOD HAS AUTHORITY OVER ME--AND ALL OF US, FOR SURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a VERY GOOD 'thing' to be REMINDED OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't been able to get this night/happening out of my mine, so I just HAD to pass it on!!!!
MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL, MamaRose

DEBORAH NORVILLE BEAT ME 'TO IT'!!!!!!!!!!

She's got a NEW BOOK just 'out' entitled 'THANK YOU POWER' that talks about HOW MUCH HAPPIER you will/can be WHEN you are MORE grateful/THANKFUL!!!!!!!!!

She did/does have a lot of 'Scientific' stuff/FACTS in there--that I didn't/wouldn't have access to, yet, but THE IDEA was the SAME as my LAST BLOG--we are/will be HAPPIER the more THANKFUL/GRATEFUL TO GOD we are for ALL OUR BLESSINGS!!!!!!!!!

How about that????!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was just on "Hannity & Colmes" (sp?)--Alan, anyway, saying that we ALL need to be MORE Thankful/Grateful for the 'LITTLE things' in our lives & I TOTALLY AGREE with her!!!!!!!!!!! In fact, if we're not TRYING to be AWARE of them, they'll just PASS US BY & we won't even RECOGNIZE/ACKNOWLEDGE them that they are/WERE EVEN IN OUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I'm looking forward to buying & reading her book & gaining even MORE knowledge about it all!!!!!!!!! And, you just might WANT TO, TOO--that's WHY I wrote THIS blog!!!!!!!!

Last weekend most of our family met in Branson, MO, for a 'BD BASH WEEKEND' for ME--I'll be '55' on the 9th, next Tuesday, and my parents 'hosted' us ALL--9 adults & 3 children--at their Time Share there. We had a WONDERFUL TIME visiting & catching up & now, THIS WEEKEND, our youngest son, Matt & his GREAT Wife, AJ, and their FANTASTIC son, Adam, are coming HERE to visit & go to the Chiefs/Jacksonville Game on Sunday with us--So, I've got ANOTHER SUPER WEEKEND ahead of me & am ALREADY VERY THANKFUL & GRATEFUL for it/them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU, GOD, for my GREAT LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And, for ALL OUR HEALTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MamaRose

"THANK YOU, GOD" FOR CABO!!!!!

Well, I'm BACK--sorry for not blogging for so long--but, part of my reason is that we've been "OUT OF THE COUNTRY"--we spent a week with our best friends in Cabo San Lucas, MEXICO!!!
This was the closest COLOR I could pick that matched the water/Ocean/SEA OF CORTEX, there.

And, it was WONDERFUL--so far, MY ALL-TIME BEST VACATION--so, I would definitely recommend it to ANYONE!!! Larry thought things/food were too expensive, but the most expensive things were at the CostCo Store, there--go figure??!!!!! A flat of water was like $33!!!!

Besides the GORGEOUS SCENERY--our Condo/balcony was RIGHT ACROSS from the rocks that form the 'El Arco' that's the FAMOUS ARCH at the VERY end of the pennisula, there, and you CAN'T drive to it--you can ONLY get to it by boat or jet ski!!!

So, we got our closest to it on a SUNSET Dinner Cruise that was just FANTASTIC--with great food & entertainment--singing & dancing--2 different Mexican couples who were GREAT!!!!!
And, then we got CLOSE-UPs of the ARCH!!!!! SO VERY NEAT!!!!

Every day & LOTS of times DURING every day we were there I THANKED GOD for letting me be able to visit such a WONDERFUL CREATION of HIS & then, as folks waited on us & we took taxis to & from our GREAT HOTEL--Villa Del Palmar--I always THANKED those guys, so I found myself THANKING someone LOTS of times EVERY DAY & now that I'm back home.......

I've been thinking about that & WONDERING if in DOING THAT is PART of what made that vacation SO SUPER!!!!!!!!! Have you read the article on 'BEING GRATEFUL' in the most recent 'Reader's Digest'? It's titled--"How the New Science of THANK YOU Can CHANGE YOUR LIFE"--and, then on the front it's 'under' "The MOST IMPORTANT WORDS YOU'LL SAY TODAY"!!!!!

The BEST part of the article, I thought, was where it listed ALL the THINGS being GRATEFUL will do FOR YOU--You'll FEEL BETTER, be MORE OPTIMISTIC, be MORE ENERGETIC, be MORE DETERMINED, be MORE INTERESTED, be MORE JOYFUL, will exercise MORE & have FEWER ILLNESSES!!!!!!!!!

So, besides sin & EVIL being in our world, maybe the ones of us who are TRYING to be 'GOOD' SHOULD ALSO REMEMBER TO BE MORE THANKFUL/GRATEFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything we have/will have/have had COMES FROM OUR GOD--even the air we breathe!!!!!!!!!

So, my challenge to you, TODAY, is to consciously REMEMBER to be MORE THANKFUL EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!! It will MAKE YOUR LIFE HAPPIER--whether you're in CABO or not!!!!!!!!!

And, I would LOVE to hear back from you, after you've done this, to see just HOW it CHANGES YOUR LIFE--for the BETTER!!!!! MUCH LOVE, MamaRose

HOMEMADE QUISEDILLAS--YUM!!!

My hubby & I were eating out the other night & had some 'Quisedillas' (sorry if that's spelled wrong) & he said--'WE COULD DO THESE'--AT HOME!!! So, we tried, for the first time, the other night & they were GREAT!!!

He found some 'HOMEMADE' Flour Tortillas at our Grocery Store (which were a BIT harder to separate, but tasted MUCH BETTER than the 'regular' kind). He then cooked up 3 Chicken Breasts & cut them up; and, then we had 3 different shredded cheeses, of course; but he also layered some 'Sun-Dried Tomato Spread' from California on them; and then he added jalapenos to his & I put green olives on mine & cooked them in the oven--YUM! YUM!!

We forgot to put anything on the top of them & he says he would have liked some Olive Oil brushed on the tops of his & when I warmed my leftovers up, I put some butter & then more CHEESE on top of mine & they were EVEN BETTER than the ones you get in the Best Mexican Restaurants!!!!!!! And, they were BETTER the 2nd day, like Lasagne is.

Really EASY & pretty cheap & VERY nutritious & HOMEMADE--you can't get better than HOMEMADE, right??!!!!! I just HAD to pass this on--TRY THEM--THEY'RE REALLY GOOD!!!!! I would think even the YOUNGER kiddos would like them--put their favorite toppings in there.

A 'NEAT' NEW PRODUCT/PACKAGING!!!

I was looking for some more Dishwashing Detergent--for the sink/by hand--the other day & 'FOUND' some 'NEW' DAWN 'Siimple Pleasures' that has an BUILT-IN Air Freshener in the bottom of the bottle.

I bought the 'APPLE & PEAR' fragrance & I just LOVE IT!!!!! I didn't use to KEEP my dishwashing liquid UP/by my sink, BUT I DO NOW, because it makes OUR WHOLE KITCHEN SMELL SO FRESH, LIKE FRUIT!!! It's the GREEN one & STILL is 'hard' on GREASE!!!

I forget the other choices of fragrance, but I do remember there were choices, and I can tell you, the 'APPLE & PEAR' one is SUPER!!
Much Love!!!!!

ANOTHER 'GREAT' FIND...

I read recently about Eva Longoria (the 'Desperate Housewife' who is about to marry Tony Parker, from the SA Spurs, ON 7/7/07--neat, huh??!!!) that she never has ANY problem falling asleep because she cleans her face with a 'Facial Sauna' before going to bed.

So, I've been looking for ONE OF THOSE & finally FOUND ONE at 'Bed, Bath & Beyond' the other day--it's called: "Revlon's Ionic Hot and Cold FACIAL SAUNA/SPA" & IT WORKS--not only does it CLEAN YOUR FACE--all the dirt comes out & in a very SHORT amount of time, it makes your pores smaller, then; AND helps you fall asleep FASTER because you're MORE RELAXED!!!--VERY NEAT, huh???!!!!!

The cost is VERY reasonable--something like $30--I just HAD to pass this on, since I LOVE mine so much, ALREADY==ENJOY!

SOME THINGS I'VE SEEN RECENTLY.....

Just the other day at the Grocery Store, I was finished shopping & walking to my vehicle--a 1999 Isuzu RODEO--(that I've had for quite a few years, now)--and, it's RED--a 'dark' red--and, as I was trying to OPEN MY DOOR--to unload my groceries--I realized my/the door WASN'T opening & I looked inside & saw a DIFFERENT interior for the seats AND there were papers on the 'passenger' seat, which I did not leave in MY Rodeo, so I LOOKED UP & MY Rodeo was 2 MORE spaces down/over & in between them, on the opposite/facing side was ANOTHER, RED RODEO, JUST LIKE MINE--so, there were 3 of them IN A ROW--(and mine was the 3rd one!)!!!!!!!!! I had NEVER seen that before--3 RED RODEO'S IN A ROW & may never again, but it was QUITE NEAT!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I have noticed recently that there is the CUTEST, dark Gray, Carin Terrier that lives on the CORNER of 143rd & Mur-Len in our town & he's usually OUT in his BIG back yard RUNNING around & he is SO VERY CUTE running--I think his legs are shorter than both our Carin's--and, besides being SMALLER than our Opie--WHO'S BD IS TODAY, the 12th--HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OPIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!--he looks just like him. He is SO CUTE running around in his back yard that every time I pass that intersection, I 'look' for him & HE MAKES ME SMILE & LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!!!
He's just THAT CUTE!!!!!!!!!

And, on the way home, today, I saw another doggie being walked by his 'Mama' & I think he was a PUPPY--one of those 'Rat Terrier's' maybe--that are all white except for one brown spot around ONE EYE, you know???!!!!!!!!! I bet he didn't weigh 3 pounds!!!!!!!! He was SO CUTE!!!! Almost looked MORE like a 'RAT'--HA!!!!!

So, BE SURE to keep LOOKING AROUND you, as you're driving--and, still BE SAFE, of course--and SEE what's "OUT THERE" to amuse us & make us SMILE & BE HAPPY!!!!!!!! I've certainly gotten/SEEN 'my share' lately & wanted to pass it on to all of you. One place we normally DON'T LOOK UP AT much is OUR SKY, especially AT NIGHT--try that!!!!!!!!! MUCH LOVE!!!