...and another

"Those around you have everything to do with your success and your belief of what’s possible. You’ll either rise up or sink down depending on who’s next to you."

found here

good quote

I am breaking my MIA status with a great quote:

"..embrace the constraints you've been given. Use them as assets, as an opportunity to be the one who solved the problem. Once you can thrive in a world filled with constraints, it's ever easier to do well when those constraints are loosened."

-seth godin

well said.  I have 1.5 weeks of ochem left, so I'm back to hibernation for a bit.  hope you are keeping cool wherever you are.

my camera is not cooperating

so I am sharing another great quote:

"Jump on top of things. Sprint when you feel like it. Skip and hop. Ignore the funny looks."

-Zen Habits, here

Love that!!

"we're

all too busy for power games."

-Seth Godin, here

best quote ever

"But, like every woman with a spastic relationship to her hips and, in turn their relationship the butter, sugar and 70 percent chocolate that makes our taste buds go round, I paused. And paused. How could I adjust my Very Strong Need for a bite of chewy, dense, bitter-laced homage to cocoa mass with my need for my favorite skirt to fit it my favorite way?"

Deb from Smitten Kitchen, on eating brownies

"If

you find yourself swimming along with all the other fishes, swim the other way. They don’t know where they’re going either."

-via Zen Habits

currently

I found this awesome site, Advice to Sink in Slowly; I love motivational quotes/advice and they have awesome ones paired with great images, some of my favorites:

image here by David Plant

image here by Ben Javens

image here by Mark Agnew

happy friday!

chem 2 test 2

done.

artichoke found here

I am loving the pretty fruit and vegetable shoots in the latest Anthropologie catalog. after reading No Impact Man, I was inspired to reduce my paper waste, so I tried this; so far I am still receiving Anthropologie (this one is pretty so I am glad to get it) and J.Crew catalogs, but it may take a while to go into effect (I did it in January).  however, L.L. bean responded within 24 hours and Vera Bradley was quick too.

from the fall issue...

of Edible Dallas and Fort Worth:

"sometimes it's good not to get exactly what you want whenever you want it; sometimes it's better to be open to what a season has to offer, to celebrate what's already there."

-from Twain's Feast by Andrew Beahrs, via Edible Dallas and Fort Worth