New page

I finally took the time to add my Geocities Thoughts to Ponder page as a page to this blog. It was the main reason I started this blog in the first place. I loved my Thoughts to Ponder page on Yahoo! Geocities. I was disappointed when they closed Geocities. I did save my pages though & I thought I'd just start another personal web site somewhere else. But, nothing I found was close to Geocities. Then I decided I could do a page on a blog, but didn't ever take the time to add it, knowing I would fuss with it til I got it right. It's still not the way I want it, but I can't figure out what to do, so I'll give up for now.

Wisdom of the Soul

1. No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
   
2. Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be.
   
3. Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
   
4. Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
   
5. Success stops when you do.
   
6. When your ship comes in ... make sure you are willing to unload it.
   
7. You will never "have it all together."
   
8. Life is a journey ... not a destination. Enjoy the trip!
   
9. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get what I want I will be happy."
   
10. The best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
    
11. I've learned that ultimately 'takers' lose and 'givers' win.
    
12. Life's precious moments don't have value, unless they are shared.
    
13. If you don't start, it's certain you won't arrive.
    
14. We often fear the thing we want the most.
    
15. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you have to say. Best friends listen to what you don't say!
    
16. Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints.
    
17. Look for opportunities ... not guarantees.
    
18. Life is what's coming ... not what was.
    
19. Success is getting up one more time.
    
20. Now is the most interesting time of all.
    
21. When things go wrong don't go with them.
    
22. Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
    
23. God can mend all broken hearts. You just have to give Him all the pieces.
    
24. A best friend is like a four leaf clover ... hard to find, and lucky to have.
    
25. A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.
    
26. A coincidence is when God performs a miracle, and decides to remain anonymous.
    
27. I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
    
28. Our eyes are placed in front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.

I found this on a printed page in some decluttering I was doing several years after I received it. The date was Oct. 13, 2002. It had been sent from my best friend & adopted sister Janene. I had thrown the page away THREE times the week I posted it. It just kept resurfacing. I put it on my Yahoo! Geocities web site & only then did the page go to the landfill.

quoghts to ponder

I had a Yahoo! Geocities web site for years for my personal use. I named it RaDoMiNic. Ra for RaNae, Do for Don, Mi for Mike & Nic for Nick. Janene always thought of it as do re mi, LOL. The colors mean something too. My favorite color is red. Don's is blue, Don-Mike's is green & Nick likes orange, black & gray. 

I had several pages on the Geocities site. One of my favorite pages was Thoughts to Ponder. When Yahoo closed down Geocities, I saved all my web pages & went looking for some place to build a new site.


I found one at webs.com & used the same name. I have to use their pre-made pages. I couldn't build them from scratch like I did on Geocities. I couldn't figure out how to add my page of quotes & thoughts. So, as I find quotes & thoughts I like, I've added some to my other blogs, but mostly I've just saved them in separate Notepad files.

I had a scathingly brilliant idea today. I could have a blog just for thoughts & quotes!!!!!!!!!! Wow!! Why hadn't I thought of it earlier??? I spent almost half an hour today looking for the web pages. I found many, many thoughts & quote files all over the network!! It's like writing something on a scrap of paper & then losing them. It's about time I started picking up these scraps & put them in one central place. 

So, while my family is out enjoying a Sunday ride, I hope they are enjoying it & not broken down somewhere on the side of the road, I am nursing my headache & starting yet another blog. I thought I'd come up with some cute name, maybe an acronym like QUOT or something, then decided no, I'd just go with my original name, Thoughts to Ponder. When I tried to put thots2ponder, Blogger said it was already used, so I thought I'd try quoghts2pondr. It took it.