***Happy New Year 2011!!!!

So this is my very last entry for the last day of this year...I think that I've done pretty well on keeping this up for 2010... I'd like to see how many more I could outdo myself with in 2011...It's been a quite interesting year, I hated most of it except my part to Australia of course, and coming back home to America most definately...I still can hardly believe it that I"m completely outta of Japan...I somehow feel that I"m just here visiting and going back to Japan later on, but we're done there for good....I should find out perhaps this spring where we're going next after my husband gets done in Korea for all of next year....I"m soooo excited and can hardly sleep some nights....Tonight is our "Opening Night" New Year's Celebration in our Amazing Downtown area...The ball they created raises instead of drops...opposite of the one in New York that drops....They estimate there will be around 60 thousand people there in our Downtown area since it's completely different looking now with ice skating rink outdoors and other parts of it that resemble Venice, Italy.....I saw the 24 screen theatre that we have there as well...Ohhhh how I Have missed that!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to go perhaps this next week....I'm so excted since everything will be televised tonight and I"ll be one of the ones right in the center of everything like I LOVEEEEEE when it comes to New Year's Eve celebrations....Happy New Year Everyone I"m sooo happy we are friends and even happier that we met on here to begin with....Here's to another year for all of us....xxxx ***CHECK OUT YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR 2011!!!!!!!*** ♥☺
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Sooo Happy To Be Back In United States...♥♥♥♥♥

"On His Plan For Your Life" "Everyone longs to give themselves to someone, to have a deep soul relationship with another, to be loved throughly by another. But God, to the Christian says "no, "not until you are satisfied and fulfilled and content with being loved by me alone....with giving yourself totally and unreservedy to Me alone. I LOVE you, my child, And until you discover that only in me is your satisfaction to be found, you will not be able or capable of the perfect human relationship that I have planned for you. You will never be united with another until you are united with Me...exclusive of any other desires or longings. I want... you to stop planning, stop wishing, and allow me to give you the most thrilling plan-existing...one that you cannot even imagine. I want you to do this and just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things...keep experiencing the satisfaction that I AM. Keep listening and learning the things that I tell you. You just wait...That is all...

Let Freedom Ring!!! Sooo Happy To Be Home!!! ♥♥♥♥

"Now & Forever Fly Freely When You Wave...In The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave..."

Celebrating 2 Holidays Is Better than Celebrating Just One!!!

I made it through Hanukkah back in rotten Okinawa and made it through the nausiating flight coming back here to the United States, and now I've made it through Christmas...which I absolutely LOVED of course!!!! I got to meet my neice after 7 whole entire years of nothing whenever it came to holidays, and I didn't even want to face the holidays they were so miserable...It was wonderful being surrounded by family and my friends, and talking to my brothers and sisters in law the whole entire day about everything and laughing up a storm over every little thing...something that I haven't had for the past 7 years even when I was in Italy and in Okinawa I NEVER EVER EVER stopped frowning....I finally got my life and my personality back now that I'm off the prison grounds of what they seem to call a military base and back around normal people in a normal society where they speak NORMAL UNDERSTANDABLE ENGLISH...Yessss as you can tell, I still have some (okay A LOT) of hostility in me, but really I am working on that!!!! It will take me a while to get over that, but right now even the mention of that place and I practically blow up and demand the subject be changed right away...I don't want to hear anything about it or talk about it or anything....It's hard to explain... I have no idea how to begin to explain that to someone without them turning it back around on me saying I should be appreciative and all this nonsense and whatever..... Now that I"m back in normal society in a normal neighbourhood, I honestly can't even see myself going back to that disgusting lifestyle with such rotten people...It really messes up your head...Again, something I Have no idea how to explain...I'm just glad that I have my friends to talk with and others to go to and don't depend solely on military to support my emotional well being....I got wonderful gifts, but that didn't even matter to me, I was just happy to be around everyone again, and see everyone face to face and talk on the phone to others in ENGLISH, and spend the whole entire day with everyone doing nothing really of any importance...I got a huge huge huge gift basket f rom Bath & Body works, one of my main stores here I go to at the mall, I practically live at like every other week, entire stacks of Glee everything, movies, movies, and more movies, Twilight anything you can think of, gift cards galore, all kinds of Art things I can't even do them all, and 2 tickets to Boston, Massachusetts and Athens, Greece...LOVE IT.... Just as long as it wasn't ANYWHERE NEAR THE WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES I AM FINE WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had serious problems with people from the West Coast of the United States back in Okinawa, and I never want to come in contact with them again ever...it's nice being able to oil paint again now that I'm back where I finally feel comfortable doing something like that without being harrassed like crazy about it how "boring" it is or anything else like that....I'm very slowlyyyyy getting used to the time schedule over here, but still there are some days where I sleep the entire day and I"m up the entire night getting things done of course...I can't waittt to go back to work and start my college classes again here at OSU Tech..I will finally be around nice normal people again who have things to talk about and carry on a conversation with and not just all military jargon...That's fine for them, but hey, I've got a life and a mind too and love to say things whenever I can....It's turned so much colder here, and I love it...I've been going around in short sleeves and flip flops like I did back in Okinawa, cause I"m so used to it, and it was 86 degrees there when I left finally....Here it's all winter boots and heavy coats and hats...I will get there eventually, but right now, I'm just not ready for it...The cold air feels oh sooo good to me...I'm excited about New Year's sooo much...Our downtown now is completely AMAZING!!! We have "Downtown In December" here now, and they added an outdoor ice-skating rink and horse-drawn carriage sleigh rides...I saw it on the front page of our newspaper and could hardly believe it...I really can't wait to try it out...They put in snow around there and everything, and it's sooo amazing and beautiful....I could hardly believe that was my downtown and the Memorial from the Bombing is just a few blocks away from all that...I can't wait to finally get to see it all...I've been trying to go and do so much, and time has been going along so fast, it's hard to believe this is the last week of this year....I'm glad to be getting it over with, and I won't be sorry to see it end....New Year's Resolutions...hmmm I really can't think of any but to stay outta places like crappy Okinawa for good...wow am I glad to be outta there..I'm just too spoiled beyond recognition for my own good but I like it that way....talk with you all soon I hope the time change is even crazier here since I"m in the states now....take care everyone and Happy Holidays....xxx

Merry Christmas 2010!!!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!! LoL this is the BESt Christmas song EVERRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!IT'S SOOOO FUNNY!!!!! I heard it online while I was still living over in rotten Okinawa, and managed to log on to my radio station all the way over here in Oklahoma, and just couldn't stop laughing..I actually heard this again tonight on the way home after spending the entire day with family, and it had the exact same effect on me..still LOVE IT just like I did the first time that I heard it....hope everyone else out there gets a huge laugh like I always do...enjoy hope everyone is having wonderful holidays....xxxx

I opened up my 2011 calendar yesterday and what wonderful messages it had on the cardboard separator in the middle...Merry Christmas Everyone...Happy Holidays..so glad we met online....

"When the time was right, the Sea parted, the Walls fell down, the Lions went hungry, the Sun stood still, the Waves were calm, the Stone was rolled away, the Clouds were parted, the Lord ascended...And when the Time is Right, The King of Kings Will Return."

"God is never early and He's never late-He's always right on time and His plan for you is good."

"For I know the plans that I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you Hope and a Future." Jeremiah 29.11 NIV

I know I haven't been on forever...I've been enjoying myself far too much in my wonderful home state of Oklahoma...I absolutely love it here, and don't miss rotten Okinawa Japan AT ALL......I've almost got my sleeping pattern here down-pat, inotherwords, I've been making it the last few nights being able to sleep the whole night through instead of being up the whole night long and finally going to bed at 6am or something inbetween there....It's hard to believe that Christmas Eve is tomorrow...They have been predicting snow ever since I got off the plane here, and people were right on with me talking all over again...Very different attitude than what I got from stupid Okinawa...Everyone was always flaming mad, and frowning, and NEVER said anything to you, unless it was to run you down, or make some other snide remark...I am still saying over and over to myself and anyone else who ends up in front of me "how glad I am to finally be out of Okinawa..." I really don't miss it at all....HONESTLY I DON'T....It's turned freezing cold here all of a sudden overnight, and today I got up to find the sky a medium gray, like when it is about to dump snow down...These days are pretty slow now, since I just moved back, and Christmas is just 2 days away...not much to be done, or that can be done....So everyday right now is pretty much the same until the holidays are over with....It started lightly raining with bits of snow mixed in it tonight....I was soooo excitedddddddd I haven't felt that for I don't know how long....I braved it out there in just flip flops cause I have been around such sticky hot weather for so long, I don't even want to see pictures of it now....I hope that when I wake up tomorrow there will be snow covering everythingggggggggg....Instead of everything now being in English and Japanese, it's back to living in a world where everything is in English and Spanish..that doesn't bother me near as bad as Japanese so it's kind of a relief to see it again...Tonight I was waiting on dinner, and picked up one of the newspapers at the Greek restaurant that I was at all in Spanish of course, then I noticed a small section that was in English in a block and it caught my attention... "In a boxing ring, when a fighter is too battered and weak to go on, his trainer throws a white towel on the mat to show that he concedes. That's where the term "throw in the towel" comes from. We also use it to talk about a frustrating situation we don't want to battle anymore. It might be a relationship that's going nowhere, a dead-end job or a foreign language you're studying but just can't seem to master. Then you say, "I'm about to throw in the towel!" But sometimes years and even decades go by, and you're still clutching that same old towel.

Most of the time the boxers don't want to stop the fight, but the trainer knows letting it go on would be too dangerous, and could hurt the boxer for the rest of his life. In the same way, you should get out of the ring, in time to avoid serious emotional, mental and physical wounds that could do permanent damage.

Just like a boxer, it's really hard for us to give up. We think quitting something means we failed, we're weak. For example, if you "throw in the towel" after years of marriage, you feel like a failure, of if you're forced to close a business you started, you feel like a loser.

As a motivational speaker, I'm always encouraging everyone to never give up, since perseverance is one of the keys to success. But we still have to be able to recognize those situations when we really ought to say, "It is time to quit!" The question is: how do you really know it's time to give up: There are three reasons to "throw in the towel"; because you know in your heart something just isn't right for you, because you've lost interest, or simply because you've had it up to here!!

Stop wasting your time energy or money on something that's never going to get any better. If you gave it your best and did everything you possibly could to change things and still nothing improved, it's time to get out before it's too late.

Quitting doesn't mean losing, it's more like an act of courage when you admit that a certain relationship, dram or desire isn't working out and you should just let it go. Accept there are some things in life that are not going to work out no matter how much you beg and plead and struggle, but something better will come along.

Let go of what's not good for you so you can make room in your life for the things that really are meant to be. Only surround yourself with what brings you PEACE AND HARMONY."

I Didn't Write This But Couldn't Believe How Beautiful It Was... :) ♥

Here I love you.
In the dark pines the wind disentangles itself.
The moon glows like phosphorous on the vagrant waters.
Days, all one kind, go chasing each other.

The snow unfurls in dancing figures.
A silver gull slips down from the west.
Sometimes a sail. High, high stars.

Oh the black cross of a ship.
Alone.
Sometimes I get up early and even my soul is wet.
Far away the sea sounds and resounds.
This is a port.
Here I love you.
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.

I love you still among these cold things.
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels
that cross the sea towards no arrival.
I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.
The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there.
My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have

I Finally Made It Back To Where People Are NORMAL, and I'm Not Caged In Everywhere I Go....

Let's see...Today is Tuesday here finally..wow time sure has flown the past 4-5 days...I remember leaving Okinawa and having a VERY MISERABLE FLIGHT and not getting to move around very much feeling sick of course with no one believing me again, and then finally reaching the United States...Two whole entire days of that mess...we left on Saturday morning in Okinawa and it took us until Saturday night here in the states cause we were back tracking to finally get here....I never want to go through something like that again...My first stop when I reached the place where I belong??? McDonalds...AN AMERICAN ONE...NOT A JAPANESE ONE FINALLY....Then Sonic 50's drive-in and the ever so famous joke-cracking Wal-Mart....I call it that cause there are so many jokes about it and everything else that I have to catch up on, but I still love it and I couldn't believe I was seeing everything again I was so familiar with and everything was in English and not some Japanese in bright yellow with a green background....I am still trying to get situated and trying to get used to this crazy twisted time change here...Since I am still on Japan time, I am up all night right now and I sleep the entire day or a very good part of it...I can't wait until that's over with and I get on a regular schedule again and used to the time here...It's freezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzinnnnngggg here and I absolutely LOVE IT...I can't get enough of it, and am up to the minute on watching and waiting and listening to when it's supposed to snow here since it did so much on the west coast... I know we won't get that much, but even some I would love to see and go out in and take pictures and get to feel snow again... I"m not missing Okinawa at allllllllllllllll...Infact, I'm trying desperately and my very hardest to forget that place as much as I couldn't stand it....Everything has changed so much here but in a good way...I still have to learn my way around again it's confusing and very different than being on one military base where everything is right together and I live in a whole entire city with the main part of downtown just 15 minutes from me at the most....I'm planning on going there for New Years like I did right before I left for Italy...I couldn't think of a better way to bring in 2011 than to spend it downtown at our Opening Night....I can't believe Christmas is next week...sooo excited and don't even care if I get anything or not...I'm just thrilled to be out of Okinawa I can't even express it enough...I never want to hear about that place again....

4 Whole Years In Okinawa Japan...I made it cause I LEAVE TOMORROW!!!!!!! BON VOYAGE TO MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Hello again everyone...Today was my very last full day here in Okinawa, Japan...How did I spend it??? hmmm sick in bed half the day from stomach flu... I have no idea where that came from out of the blue, but still can't figure out for the life of me why oh why people here want to go around and stand in a circle EXAMINING VOMIT in the parking lot....Glad that time is over with now, and that it only lasted for part of today, but I still lost part of my time left here on what I wanted to do before I had to leave..like go around saying my good-byes to everyone which didn't happen...glad there is always internet...but still not the same....Still it's hot here on and off I won't miss this at allll and can't wait to see snow and ice again once I get to Seattle, Washington.....Since my whole entire weekend is completely shot with flying..I definately hope next weekend will make up ten times over for this lousy one...can't waitttt to talk to everyone again once I get settled whenever that will be....hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season now...I've been too busy getting everything together and trying to move back to the United States for an entire year to really enjoy anything...hopefully soon though...take care miss everyoneeeee....xxxx

I just have tomorrow then I leave for good from Okinawa...I'm sooo excited...These last 3 weeks seemed to have dragged on at times having to just be living out of temporary lodging but I got through it...I watched documentaries on France and Turkey a few night back...Loved it...hope that I will be stepping foot again in those places really really soon since I made it through living on an island for the last 4 years.. People can't even seem to believe that when I tell it to them wondering how I've lasted this long...I can't seem to believe it either but I'm just glad that I got through it...My cats from Italy are once again coming with me...I"m so glad that nothing went wrong where they weren't able to..Not too much of anything that is really eventful or exciting is happening now...I've just been getting ready to fly out on the weekend and somewhat nervous and excited at the same time...I'm not exactly looking forward to spending 14 hours on some airplane without a shower for that long and having to put up with everyone else around me with their gross habits....I just can't wait until my everything comes finally to America off the boat so I can have my computer back up and running again...It will take about 2 months I'd say for me to get settled and get things back to normal...It's been quite interesting getting to experience "Island Life" but it is DEFINATALY NOT for me!!! I know now never to go whale watching again whenever I do get back to normality from here...nothing but rocking back and forth and seeing the backs of whales and then instant sea-sickness kicks in..esp. for me so never again....I'm still to happy to have met everyone on here though!!!! take care and I will chat soon...

Happy 8th Day Of Hanukkah!!!!!!!!

I've only 2 more full days left here in Okinawa....It still seems to be dragging even this close to leaving...One thing I will be glad to get away from are people bragging it up they have this and that decorated for Christmas when I don't have ANYTHING and have never even had a Christmas tree and have been living out of a cramped hotel room for the last 3 weeks.....It just seems completely unfair so I hope it passes soon...I'll be flying all weekend long, so this weekend is definately shottttt....I miss everything of mine that is somewhere on a boat in the middle of the ocean right now that I won't see until after the New Year...I'm not even sure when I'll see my comptuer again and my laptop won't connect of course in the room I'm in...I'm glad there is only 2 more days of this mess cause I'm pretty tired of knocking things over and not being able to turn around cause it's sooo cramped....but finally....NO ANTS.....NO BUGS....NO SPIDERS...NO LIZARDS...AND NOOOOO FROGSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stand any of those so I'm glad they haven't been around cause I surely haven't missed them!!!!!!!!!! It's turned colldddd here like cold for us in the 50's when it was just in the 80's the beginning of this week...Very strange weather they have here, and I never have gotten used to it...I've said it the whole entire time that "I'm not an Island person and never will be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I started looking at houses online UP ON THE EAST COASTTTTT SINCE THAT IS WHERE I BELONG ANYWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! just for a nice thought to have and an escape from what I have to put up with now and what I have to keep living in now moving around as much as I do....I honestly can't wait to have a permanent home one day after moving so much..I get everything set up and it's all jerked out again and messed up...I don't know where anything is now again and it's going to take me all year to find anything before they come and pack me up again to move where ever it is to next.....I found one in the shape of a castle with 3 different stair cases♥♥♥ I hope it will still be around when we're ready to finally stay put.... ☺

Happy 7th Day of Hanukkah!!!!!!!

Happy 6th Day of Hanukkah!!!!!!

Going around with a group of my friends the whole entire day is sooo exhausting...I had toooo much fun though and can't wait to do it about 2 or 3 more times before I leave here for good....I am down to 5 days here now....I can't believe I've lasted 4 entire years here on an island of all places....I'm just glad I had internet this time around and made a heap of new friends for others to talk with...I still haven't made it across this street in the last several days...Today was 77 degrees but might as well say 80 since it was just plain HOTTTTTTTTTT here....I couldn't believe that was December weather whenever everywhere else is having major snow storms and everything....I've forgotten what that is like and can't wait to be around it again..I will catch up on everything on here, posting my decorative pics etc once I get over there...hopefully sometime tomorrow....It was toooo hottt today and I was worn out through and through after escorting my friends around here who live off-base going around to every little thing I can think of to show what it's like for me being here....I enjoy doing that too much though since I know where everything is now and have no problem whatsoever.... So just a few more days of out-processing and we're doneee....I"m soooo excited I can hardly sleep some nights here and then am dead tired in the daytime....I imagine my sleep is going to be messed up royally for about 2-3 months whenever I get back to the states since they are a day behind there...Not sure how all that's going to come together but just sooo excited to move on....

Happy 5th Day of Hannukah!!!!!

So this was my very last full weekend here in Okinawa...I made it a good one, but everyday right now seems like the weekend until I get my life going again back in the states with work etc... and everything else set up like it was here....I only have a few days left here....five to be exact and we leave Saturday mid-morning sometime....I'm sooo excited but going to miss soo much here with what I've grown soo used to the past 4 years....I'm just grateful to finallyyyyyy be moving on from here...I've made sooooooooooooooooooo many new friends I can barely keep up with everyone..I don't have a problem getting along with people, so that's not an issue for me anywhere I go or being on here....and with me thinking just about everything is funny or disgusting or something or other and making wise-crack sarcastic jokes about whatever it is, then it's definately not a problem....No matter how much I like to be pampered and have everything done for me, I always can't go through with everything....I found out today that there is no way ever I can go through a massage ever ever ever.....I am soo far tooo way beyond ticklish I wouldn't stop squirming when they were just doing it halfway up my leg when I went for a pedicure before I go back home...There is nooo way I can go for a full body massage like I hear so many others talking about and how good they feel...I'm sure they do, but I would never last ever...I can hardly stand to get the very bottom of my foot touched without halfway loosing it and squinching away....not sure if that's even a word, but it can be one of mine.....I neverrrrrrrrrr want to go through that again....It was just an excuse to get out of the hotel room for a few hours and not have to wait on a computer when they are free in the middle of the night here and I have nooo problem then...;D hope everyone had a great weekend...I'm soo ready to get out of living out of a hotel room and back to my own of everything.....good night all...

Happy 4th Day of Hanukkah!!!

My messages got erased againnnn on here so I"m sooooo sorry everyone who is trying to talk with me!!!!!!!!!! I'm not ignoring anyone I promise...It's crazy logging onto a computer that isn't mine and it knocks me right off and I lose everything then...so I have no idea who has contacted me or who hasn't because of that... >:p I am getting last minute things ready for my longggg forever plane ride next weekend....This is our last full weekend here in Okinawa...Kind of bittersweet really, but I"m sooo ready to go I can't even stand it anymore....We had the Christmas tree lighting tonight and the Christmas village all day today...It was all mostly for kids..I had no idea what I would do at something like that....And it's the exact same thing every single year...I"ve seen them every year I have been here..There really isn't much of anything interesting happening now...We are just inbetween waiting periods now so everything seems even slower than it was before just trying to wait it out...I'm still not able to put pics on here until I manage to make it across the street, and I haven't been able to the last 2 days...It's always full or closed, or I"m just not around to go and kill time being online...I'm sooooo excited about going though...only this week and I am done here being on this island...I can hardly believe it when I hear myself saying it.....I can call anywhere in the world on a phone here so I'd love to call anyone who would wanna talk with me!!! happy holidays everyone!!!! talk with you all soon!!! xxxx

Happy 3rd Day of Hanukkah!!

I made it through my going away party today...I felt half-way sick through the whole thing but was sooo glad it was over..Just another excuse to give me a reason to keep wringing my hands out over and over and bite all my nails off...which I'm trying desperately NOT to do.....This is my first time online all day long....I can't believe I am down to a week now being here in Japan....I'm halfway excited, nervous, and completely beside myself....I can't waitt though to start over again...I've been here soo long that it's all old and boring now and just the same things year after year again and again....Things are winding down finally so there's not much left to do...I really can't wait to get my own computer back once it has done all that needs to be done to computers every year...Just wish it wasn't right in the time that we are in the middle of moving and I'm stuck using cyber cafes which completely bore me and block half the things I want to do on here....This one does at least...the other one across the street and down the sidewalk I can pretty much do everything I want to on it....It's turned sooo chilly here, and I don't have any winter clothes or anything...I mailed them all back home and I am freezzinnnnngggggg now.....I tried to go look for winter anything here, but nothing..it was all party clothes and things like that cause it's all Christmas parties this time of the year.....I think I will try a few more places until I completely give up, but I only have one sweatshirt that zips up the front...Not sure where this cold front is coming from since it's always so hot here and 80 degress in December. I will add pictures on here tomorrow...hope everyone has an incredible weekend..this is my last full one here in Okinawa...next weekend I'll be flying out...I never thought it would get here..I"m too happy to have met everyone while I was living here.....I've the greatest friends ever...good night all....xxxx

Happy 2nd Day of Hanukkah!!

Happy 2nd Day of Hanukkah!!! =)

Happy 1st Day of Hanukkah!

Happy First Day of Hannukah to everyone else out there that celebrates it!!! Love this holiday tooo much!!! who's ready for those 8 crazy nights???? :D :) xxxx

Today I watched a very interesting documentary on the Alamo....I hope to make it there this next year while I"m in the states...I would love to see it again since it's been forever since I have been there....We have hit rainy season now so all it is doing now is raining, since this is wintertime for us here now.........**********The Battle of the Alamo******** (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas). All but two of the Texian defenders were killed. Santa Anna's perceived cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.

Several months prior, Texians had driven all Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas. Approximately 100 Texians were then garrisoned at the Alamo. The Texian force grew slightly with the arrival of reinforcements led by eventual Alamo co-commanders James Bowie and William B. Travis. On February 23, approximately 1,500 Mexican troops marched into San Antonio de Béxar as the first step in a campaign to re-take Texas. For the next 12 days the two armies engaged in several skirmishes with minimal casualties. Aware that his garrison could not withstand an attack by such a large force, Travis wrote multiple letters pleading for more men and supplies, but fewer than 100 reinforcements arrived.

In the early morning hours of March 6, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. After repulsing two attacks, Texians were unable to fend off a third attack. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most of the Texian soldiers withdrew into interior buildings. Defenders unable to reach these points were slain by the Mexican cavalry as they attempted to escape. Between five and seven Texians may have surrendered; if so, they were quickly executed. Most eyewitness accounts reported between 182 and 257 Texians dead, while most historians of the Alamo agree that 400–600 Mexicans were killed or wounded. Several noncombatants were sent to Gonzales to spread word of the Texian defeat. The news sparked a panic and the Texian army, most settlers, and the new Republic of Texas government fled from the advancing Mexican Army.

Within Mexico, the battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War of 1846–48. In 19th-century Texas, the Alamo complex gradually became known as a battle site rather than a former mission. The Texas Legislature purchased the land and buildings in the early part of the 20th century and designated the Alamo chapel as an official Texas State Shrine. The Alamo is now "the most popular tourist site in Texas".[1] The Alamo has been the subject of numerous non-fiction works beginning in 1843. Most Americans, however, are more familiar with the myths spread by many of the movie and television adaptations,[2] including the 1950s Disney miniseries Davy Crockett and John Wayne's 1960 film The Alamo.

So it was another sllloooowww day, but I get out and do things constantly so I can meet others for someone else to talk with....no one around me here says anything or talks...they stay hidden out or walk the other way frowning...not sure why, but I've been dying for others to talk with....it's not as easy as I thought it would be since everyone is at work in the day still and we're about to get ready to leave....I can't take much more of these "do-nothing" days cause I"m so used to being out and talking to people and meeting others...not being hidden away in a room the whole day and night....I found a phone here that is free for soldiers and anyone else that is here for free world-wide calls....I can never get ahold of anyone and they are closed in the middle of the night....My internet in my room still is not fixed...I have no idea if it ever will be before we leave from here...I'm making due between these 2 cyber cafes but it's not as convinient as using right from my room where I don't have to go out in the freezing cold night air...I have finished sooo

many art projects that I have to send them back home to myself cause I don't want to keep up with them....It's fine at first having so much free time, then it just gets blahhh......I"m looking forward to starting my life over and working all over again cause it's soo hard for me to stay at home doing nothing at all or not really being productive in the daytime....Not too much longer though and I"ll be begging to have a break with all the mess that comes all at once from the movers off the boat and the trucks.....Not really looking forward to that but nothing I can do to change it..My going away party is just a few days away now...I'm half-way excited and nervous as all get out cause I absolutely can't stand being the center of attention and everyone's vision is solely focused on "me". I didn't even ask for it but it's a good thing to know I'm liked and not hated beyond belief...I gets that's what I get for being able to get along with almost anyone....:) hope everyone is having a good week so far..It's only Monday everyone!!!!!!! take care and talk with you soon when I can make it across the streetttttttttt...xxxxoxoxo

I found a 24 hour cyber cafe here...it's after 3am here and I can't even get on yahoo and talk to anyone because they have it blocked would you believe it.....I guess they don't want people just sitting here and sitting here chatting non-stop like me....so there's not much that I can do here, not even save pics because everything is blocked...pretty boring...the internet switch thing in my room is messed up until they come and fix it whenever that is...so I'm stuck just doing what I"ve been doing for this whole week...it's been a complete headache and nuisanse....not much has changed at all here...it's still dragging for me and still a lot of waiting.....I heard music and saw a bit of dancing from the street festival they had here outside the gate where I live....Festivals like that go on for a whole weekend....Of course I don't know what they are saying since it's all in Japanese, but it's still fun to experience that since we never have things like that back home.....

this is a day behind....i'm posting this on SUNDAY NOVEMBER 28TH!!!!

We had the Japanese street festival yesterday and I believe it's also going on today as well...I saw some of it with the Japanese dancers in the street and the Japanese drummers performing...I heard it again while I was walking up here to come online for as long as I possibly can since I can't stand just sitting in a room or sleeping the whole day like everyone else seems to do there....It's nice to see festivals like that since we don't have them back home except in organized places like our Arts Festival or at the State Fair every year, but we never have things just going on in the streets....I want to go tonight to get pictures when everything is lit up and they have the Japanese lanterns out....I have only 2 weeks left here in Japan...It's so hot today somewhere over 73 degrees......I can't believe we are weeks away from Chrismas and New York is already getting snow and we are in shorts and t-shirts here....We have our Christmas tree lighting a week from now...We have a Christmas village then at dark this huge Christmas tree is lit up....I'm sooo excited to get to see that before we leave here...I have all my pictures from Tokyo and everything else from the Halloween costume party that I went to all on my other computer that was shipped with everything else....I should be seeing all that about March perhaps if not sooner, but it takes forever to go through... By the time it



gets there, it will be freezing cold, cause we get heavy snow sometimes and huge ice storms.....very different from the winters here.....It's just kind of chilly now, but nothing really major happens.....I'm still in the waiting period over here..it seems to be dragging sometimes and it gets to me just being in such a very small living area...It's only 2 rooms and it drives me crazy at times...I don't think twice about grabbing my drink and heading out the door to one the nearest places around me I can actually get to.....I miss being online sooo much and wouldn't you know it...the internet connection is completely worn out and not working now until they come to fix it....so more waiting on that.....hopefully sometime this week cause I miss being on late at night, but then everything is closed then.....hope everyone is enjoying their weekend...I'm pretty much free right now and don't know what to do with myself I'm so restless...just waiting to leave is all but its aggravating teasing me like this...being so close but taking sooo long to get here.....

Not very much has changed in the last 24 hours....I'm still in the very very last stages of moving, and packing things up to mail and just getting used to stepping over things if not tripping over them first....Let's see, I stayed gone nearly the whole entire day today I was tooooo restless to just sit in a room, and I didn't care anything about Black Friday sale stuff...even if we do have the 2nd largest shopping center in the world apart from Germany being the first....hmm I went to the Japanese mall here out in town of course outside the fence I have to look at every single day here so I wouldn't feel so caged in and have a bit of freedom for at least a few hours....Then we found a movie to go to...something about a train which pretty much bored me to death cause I care nothing about trains...the only thing that I ever have to do with trains is getting on and off them...but I"m not obsessed with them, and I don't care a thing about sitting and watching some movie about them...total complete yawwnnnnnn...but it was either that or nothing at all since everything is so limited here, and I couldn't stand to just sit in a room...I hope the one tomorrow night will be much better....the computers here keep messing up so anyone who sent me offline messages i didn't get anything cause this wasn't responding and obviously knocked me off and took my messages with it, so I didn't get to see anything from anyone....I"m finallyyyyyyy moved out of that dump they put me in...I'm so glad that I don't have to go back there anymore...Still 2 more weeks living out of a freaking hotel room though....not sure how well that's gonna fly with me, but it seems to be going by fast.....We have to sell our car soon....I think about another week we still have it and then we have already found someone to buy it....it's Japanese style with the wheel on the right so everything inside looks reversed, or like someone went inside and switched everything around to play a trick on the person whose car it was...I'm soooo glad that things are finally winding down here...It's not so confusing now, so I will have more time now to be online and to finally figure out how to connect from my laptop in my room instead of always trekking up here to use these computers which I"m so limited on everything that I do....I will chat with you all soon, my schedule has been a nightmare for about the past 5 days and I still have a going-away party to show up to....I kept making excuses but I've pretty much run out now so I don't have any other choice but to show up and hold my breath nearly the whole time then make a mad dash for the door since I"ll already be completely embarrassed out of my mind anyways.....talk with you all soon...take care....

Happy Thanksgiving 2010!!!!

I am completely moved out of that moldy spider ridden worm crawling place the military forced me to move into....This is my first time back online in 3 days and it feels greatttt....I'm now living out of a scrunched up hotel room that I try and stay out of as much as possible except when I have GOT to get a shower and sleep...the rest of the times as soon as I wake up, I get dressed and I'm gone again from that place....I will be that way for the next 2 weeks here, but we finally got our plane tickets to go back home, the day after the movers came and I could hardly stand it I was sooo happy....Today was Thanksgiving.......glad it's over in a way, cause I don't like any of that stuff really...I get dragged to some Thanksgiving get-together the other day here, and there were tables and tables and more tables of just everything, and me not liking anything hardly only goes and gets 2 things...I think a couple of cookies and Dr. Pepper....I wouldn't touch any of that other mess...some kind of barfo casseroles and tomatoes on top with meat...I have better sense to injest something like that...(eyeroll) So I"m not too hot on Thanksgiving cause I'm such a picky eater and just can't stand anything hardly at all....Now that Thanksgiving is over, Christmas is going to be shoved at us full-force...not that it is already...they are having some Christmas parade here I think next weekend...not that I'm going to participate or anything living out of a hotel room of all places, but some already have lights up and Christmas trees showing out the windows...I've never had a Christmas tree ever, so I hope after next year I will finally get to experience having my own.....hope to chat with you all soon....as soon as I can figure out how to connect my laptop in my room (WHERE IT WILL ACTUALLY WORK AND NOT JUST COME ON) I will most likely be online non-stop until we have to move from here permanetely....I just didn't want to wait to get it hooked up and wait for it to connect, which never works for me the first time anyways... so now that most of the mess from moving in a hotel room is sorted out and I'm somewhat organized...the best way that I can be, until I get my own house again...one year and counting.... :p then it shouldn't be too much longer until I can start coming online again everyday.... and I simply can not waittttt....hope you all are doing great and gearing up for the holiday season....I'm excited about all of it.... :) xxxxx

Although I had a very hot shower, I still feel unbelievably disgusting....Today was the movers coming to get my husband's things to go to Korea...tomorrow is everything of ours then government borrowed things the next day...I had the grueling task of cleaning off the gross stuff from my yard ornaments I keep by the front....Some are porcelain others are like a hard plastic or whatever it is they make yard ornaments out of...I had to go and rinse them off in the dark with very little light and running so much water, it made the worms, lizards, bugs, ants and I'm not sure what else some of that was, come out....I can't stand any of that and I'm scared of everything over here....I'm not sure when it happened, or with which one, but my finger was aching, and I got in the light and looked at it, and I had sliced it all the way down and was bleeding all over the place...so that was the end of cleaning for me...good riddens I can't stand doing that stuff to begin with.....I'm soooo excited to FINALLY be moving and eventually leaving here.....I just don't like cutting myself over stuff like that, cause now it's aching to type anything....I am fine though, but it's been chaotic the whole day waiting and waiting then getting things ready or having to pack and not everything is cooperating....I will have everything jerked out from under me tomorrow..it takes a whole day to pack everything up and load it in the crates....then we move over to the hotel to temporary lodging for the next month...about 3 weeks time....I hope the weather doesn't act up by the time next month finally gets here and it's time to fly out...just sooo excited.....I will talk with you all soon...take care and so happy that we all met on here while I was living here on Okinawa....

Tomorrow the movers come finally...I thought the day would never ever come...it's only a start to get some things then the next 2 days they come and get everything else....I"m so excited, and it's already looking empty here, and all we've done is move stuff around or have it stacked....I have tonight and tomorrow night still here before I'm living out of a hotel having to move 3 or 4 times because of my cats...some rooms they are allowed in, others they're not...so I'll be moving around until after Christmas trying to get settled and visiting everyone back and forth back home....I won't be fully settled until about the springtime when the snow starts melting....can't waittt I will finallyyy get to see snow aftersooo longgg....Has everyone seen the latest video craze that has been on the internet since before the sun came up here this morning???? I don't know how many times I have watched this but it's sooo cute and soooooo funny, I just had to share it....I miss having cutie kittens like this...mine were smaller than this when I first saw them when we went over to sign our lease in Italy....mine fit in the palm of my hand then, so it's no time at all and they grow up to be this size and do the funniest things ever....love it though...wish they could just stay that way and that sweet size....

FINALLY GOT TO SEE "ECLISPE" AFTER 5 MONTHS SINCE IT'S BEEN OUT!!!!!!!!

♥♥ I FINALLY got to see my movie that follows my books....this is the 3rd one and I wasn't going to put up watching something this great at this base or any other...I took a chance today and went in town to the Japanese theatre to check and see what was playing in English....I couldn't believe "Eclispe" was staring me back in the face for one of the movies that were in English with Japanese sub-titles....I can't believe how pathetic it is over here to just try and see a movie when it's released for everyone else....I've got about 3 weeks left here now...I'm counting believe meeeeeeeeeeeee...I just hope the weather doesn't mess us up on leaving since it's fall time around here and if storms aren't here, then they are around these islands somewhere....I got fabulous things related to the "Eclispe" movie since I"m so obsessed with "stuff"...that's the only good thing about going to a Japanese theatre out in town...Japanese are just as obsessed with movie or music related items...I can't wait to take pictures to show on here I was really surprised I found things like that here with everything always being so crowded and sold out with everyone trying to shove themselves on this one island.....can't wait until things pick up finally..I'm too tired of waiting...hope to talk with you all soon when I'm staying in temporary lodging....I have about 2 more days left here in the place they moved us to back in the summer....I never really felt settled at all here honestly...I was constantly unpacking and going through things and now that I got them in some kind of an order...moving again.....story of my life....

Love Quotes!!!

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder. ~Charles Morgan You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum" Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. ~Ovid Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~Kahlil Gibran Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you'll take him anyway. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975 Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook, 1949 Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? ~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Sandra J. Dykes Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~Mark Overby Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. ~Author Unknown Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957 Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~Peter Ustinov Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595 The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. ~Albert Ellis Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524 Who, being loved, is poor? ~Oscar Wilde Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ~Henry David Thoreau To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with

reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark Shall we compare our hearts to a garden - with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds, swooping birds and sunshine, rain - and most importantly, seeds. ~Grey Livingston Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Moore We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld My debt to you, Belovèd, Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day. ~Jessie B. Rittenhouse We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. ~Bill Balance Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~Rose Franken Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. ~Ben Hecht A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn’t put there to stay - Love isn’t love 'Til you give it away. ~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)" (Thanks, Krystel) Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. ~Swedish Proverb Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. ~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975 Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. ~Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002 Love is no respecter of age or practicality Neither morality: unabashed She enters where she will Unheeding that her immortal fires Burn up human hearts... ~Phillip Pulfrey, from Beyond Me, www.originals.net Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. ~Lord Dewar When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ~Natalie Clifford Barney Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Friendship Quotes!!!!!

"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." ~Leo Buscaglia "A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be." ~Douglas Pagels "Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things." ~Author Unknown "Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty." ~Sicilian Proverb "The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend." ~Aristotle "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." ~Albert Schweitzer Come check out this awesome website that I found!!! www.quotegarden.com!!!!!! So..this time next week exactly...I will already be moved out of this place and in somewhere staying in temporary lodging....It went awfully fast staying at this place since the middle of summer...I finally got things organized and moving out is staring me right in the face again....So today I went and talked to the Chief over me and found out that I have a chance of swapping over to the other military base where I"ll be living at this next year for continuing work...too happy I was....I'm not sure what else to do but work or study besides having some free time to myself but 365 days of that is too much and I wouldn't know what to do with myself....I just wish it would hurry up I"m getting sick of it being dragged out me being here....It's pretty clear I don't get along with Japanese or the Americans living over here with them, and they clash with me...they can't keep up with me..they couldn't keep up with me even if they were running off batteries on a daily basis so I HAVE to find others who can keep up with me and where we actually can see things eye to eye...They are sending movers out tomorrow to determine how many crates and how many trucks they will need next week since most of the stuff in here is all mine....it's down to about 3 and a half weeks now out being here 4 ENTIRE YEARS....I am tooo excited...I should finally have my pics on here this weekend from my Tokyo trip...Let's just see how far I can get with those before they come and pack all this up and I'm stuck using a laptop for the next 3 months... that pink Hello Kitty phone not too far down I have a phone exactly like that one....ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! I have another one too a little different but still I couldn't take having just a boring plain do nothing phone...I love all these songs from my show "Glee" that I watch every single night now on dvd since I have no idea when it comes on over here...hmm I think I will go and do all the colours cause I got stuck on reading them and it's interesting just to know that..I never thought of a colour defining your personality.....good night all can't wait to talk with you all again soon....;)

GRACE...

"Grace it is not "if" we will lose the things we love, it is "when." with some, the loss comes in a major catastrophic event. For most, love is surrendered one piece at a time...first childhood, a promising romance, the passing of a loved one, and finally a child who leaves home.But as we Love, can we not gain a deep knowing that in the presence of grace, LOVE IS ETERNAL."

Color Purple- Purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a good color to use in meditation. Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists. Thursday's color is purple. Purple is the color of purpose. Purple is associated with the Crown chakra (This links individual and universal). Purple Energy-Purple is a combination of blue and red. Red is a focusing, dynamic and active energy while blue is cooling, calming and expansive. Violet brings a new dynamic to the expansion of blue and the activity of red. Red brings practicality to the undirected expansiveness of the blue, and allows more creative energy to emerge. For this reason, purple is associated with imagination and inspiration. Purple is an important energy for those who use blue and indigo skills in the psychic field. The red in violet offers a grounding effect. Put some purple in your life when you want: to use your imagination to its fullest to re-balance your life to remove obstacles to calm overactivity or to energize from depression Purple gem stone properties Purple gemstones are associated with mysticism and purification. They are used for meditation and to sharpen psychic awareness, connection with higher self, and to increase imagination and inspiration. Wearing Purple- Wear purple when you want to encourage fantasy, mystery and imagination. Chakra associated with Purple: Purple is the color associated with the Crown Chakra. This chakra is the main co-oridination center of the body and ensures you are connected to universal sources of energy. Color Pink- Pink is the color of universal love. Pink is a quiet color. Lovers of beauty favor https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl91EAJzC_dY-UgMu0A9CqnIf-8W6vMHMsrIvNb9MAUwFwmbQtNstR4xo4VP9fe9kn4ZfAbpu5iGk5yBh1PmOoLkFmwtEQIS85i1Q_DKGMi5-R87KZwnRmJmtx6QcI3tk7Y9HeVXCncUiF/s1600/Hello+Kitty+mermaid.gif"> pink. A pink carnation means "I will never forget you". Pink Energy Pink is a combination of red and white. The quality of energy in pink is determined by how much red is present. White is the potential for fullness, while red helps you to achieve that potential. Pink combines these energies. Shades of deep pink, such as magenta, are effective in neutralizing disorder and violence. Some prisons use limited deep pink tones to diffuse aggressive behaviour. Pink provides feelings of caring, tenderness, self-worth and love, acceptance. Put some pink in your life when you want: calm feelings to neutralize disorder relaxation acceptance, contentment Pink gem stone properties Pink gemstones can be used to promote love, self-worth, order and protection from violence or aggression. Carry or place pink gemstones around your home or office to stimulate love and beauty. Wearing Pink http://crystal-cure.com/pink.html Wear pink when you want to present yourself as a peaceful, calm person who is not threatening. The softer shades are very feminine and darker shades will alleviate feelings of friction.

What one’s favorite color signifies "Most of us have a favorite color. Maybe you’re drawn to sky blue because it makes your eyes stand out or you find forest green particularly comforting. Whatever the case, your preferred hue can reveal a lot about what makes you tick. And the same holds true for the people you date — you’d probably have a different impression of a date if he or she said, “My favorite color is yellow” versus “My favorite color is black.” That’s because color speaks a powerful, silent language. And I can help you understand it. I’m a success coach and best-selling author of Simple Spells for Love and other books, and I’ve studied color theory. So, look up your favorite color below — then, your date’s best-loved shade — and get some colorful insights that will benefit your romantic life. Red What it represents: Ah, the color of passion, anger and high blood pressure. Red is a primal color. It represents primal urges, like lust (“I must have you now!”) and fury (you know the phrase “seeing red,” right?). Yes, red is a commanding color: think of how stop signs get you to halt in your tracks and how you stand back when a red fire engine goes whizzing by. Understanding people who love it: They act — sometimes without thinking — on immediate desires. In fact, they’re usually the poster children for immediate gratification. It’s up to you if you go for it... or proceed with caution. Red What it represents: Ah, the color of passion, anger and high blood pressure. Red is a primal color. It represents primal urges, like lust (“I must have you now!”) and fury (you know the phrase “seeing red,” right?). Yes, red is a commanding color: think of how stop signs get you to halt in your tracks and how you stand back when a red fire engine goes whizzing by. Understanding people who love it: They act — sometimes without thinking — on immediate desires. In fact, they’re usually the poster children for immediate gratification. It’s up to you if you go for it... or proceed with caution. Orange What it represents: OK, orange is not exactly the easiest color to wear and it’s not the most common favorite color, but guess what? Orange is as sensual as it gets. Orange is a mellowed red — and it takes primal, lusty urges and mellows them with a softer vibe. Orange is the color of early attractions, emotional responses, and inner magnetism. Oh, and one other thing: orange is also close to gold, the color of success and wealth. Understanding people who love it: Someone who likes orange is alive with feelings, the ability to nurture, and can intuit a path to success. If your favorite color is orange, you don’t have an “off” switch when it comes to passion. This is all good stuff, but there’s nothing casual about the connections this kind of person usually forges. Yellow What it represents: Yellow is the color of the sun, vitality, power and ego... but it’s not a great indicator of romance. Watch out for self-centered, “me first” energy when someone prefers yellow to the rest of the rainbow. Understanding people who love it: If yellow is your favorite color, temper your use of the word “I” when you’re interested in someone else. You can come across as too ego-centric otherwise. Now, if you’re dating someone whose favorite hue is yellow, make sure to jump in and share stories about yourself, since this person may not give you much room. Green What it represents: Here is the heart of the matter: green is the color of love. (It’s no coincidence that we make our money in the same color...) Green is the color of life and abundance — leaves, grass, plants — it’s all about growing, expanding, and living. So why don’t we give ferns instead of roses on Valentine’s Day? Because green is about expansive, humanistic love and acceptance, not bodice-ripping romance. What’s more, green is a nice-person color, a “do-gooder, be-gooder” kind of color. This person has a warm heart. Passion is probably in there somewhere, buried under their integrity and honor. Understanding people who love it: If you love green, you put the greater good before your own good — but try a little selfish behavior once in a while. Blue What it represents: Blue is a color of clarity, communications and charm. And regardless of the shade, this hue says: “I like to be understood.” On the downside, under stress, a “blue” person can send mixed messages, have trouble making up their mind, or just space out during conversations. Understanding people who love it: If blue is your favorite color, you never run out of anything to say — expression is your strong suit. And if you’re dating a “blue” person? The same holds true; you should always know where you stand. Purple What it represents: Purple evokes the energy of illusion, imagination and fantasy. Or should we say purrrrple? Purple tends to inspire coyness, romance, flirtation and teasing — it builds anticipation with a dash of playfulness. The downside of purple is unrealistic expectations. Is it easier to live in your fantasy world than the real world? Some purple-lovers prefer it. Understanding people who love it: If you love purple, you can be an imaginative romantic or prefer imaginary romance, depending on how you feel. White What it represents: White is light — the combination of all colors. White symbolizes purity (the traditional bridal dress, the christening gown) and spirituality. There’s a simplicity to it, too. Understanding people who love it: People who love white are probably clean and orderly. While white isn’t the sexiest color, it is certainly healthy. Black What it represents: Like white, black is a combination of all colors, but instead of purity, it represents the unknown, the unseen — mystery. Black basically holds back information... but there’s no denying that it has strong associations in our culture with “the dark side” and evil. Understanding people who love it: If your favorite color is black, you are more hush-hush than high-strung in nature. The silence of this color lets others fill in the blanks. Black says, “I’m not telling you anything.” People who love black can be tough nuts to crack, but quite possibly worth the effort. " I just couldn't ignore something like this since my whole life is based around colors...mostly purple and turquiose..which I would guess would fall under the "Blue and Green" categories....This is my very last week in this apartment..the one I just moved into here in July this year...the movers come next week, then it's hotel living for me all over again....I'm too happy I met all of you while I was living over here in Okinawa...I just have to move on and see other places...I'm not one to just stay in one country my whole entire life....I still can't understand how some other people can do that...Just being here 4 years, I can't count how many times I just up and left on the spur of the moment...I never expected to go to Australia, but it happened and LOVED it....this time next month I will already be gone from this place and I'm sooooo excited.......I look forward to keeping in touch with all of you where ever I move next after my year in the United States!!!!!!!!!!! Let's keep our friendship going!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my colours on here are Purple and Turquoise...my LIFE SIGNATURE COLOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not sure where Pink is really since that my whole life revolves around anything with Pink and Purple in it...I will have to find it for myself and put it on here!!!!!!) which ones are yours?????????? *<|:D