Abigail’s Blog

I started updating my MySpace account because, as I’ve mentioned before, someone requested me to add as a friend. Then, I didn’t even realize I had an account in MySpace. However, as I continued checking and updating my profile and synchronizing it to my Friendster profile - pictures and blogs (call it laziness), I found myself leaning more towards MySpace.

So yes, now, I’m officially hooked on MySpace. I find myself checking it A LOT more than Friendster. Actually, I think I may have gone days without checking my account/profile on Friendster and yet, I’m constantly sending and receiving comments, messages over MySpace. I check my account/profile on MySpace everyday. Yup, talk about hooked. LOL…

Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be good on terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and cleary; and listen to others; even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

—Max Ehrmann 1927—

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk their loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risk must be taken, as the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing, dies nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love and live.

Chained by the certitudes, he is a slave, he has forfeited freedom.

Only a person who risks is free.

This weekend felt like it could’ve went on forever, and it wasn’t even a long weekend - I just had a lot of things to do…

Friday - The usual Happy Hour with the guys/the Vampire Crew. I was also supposed to go meet up with some co-workers for a farewell Happy Hour. Didn’t quite make it to that one. The guys and I haven’t closed down the bar in awhile, but this time we did. Great music to dance to - can’t beat good reggae and soca music. Oh yea, good seeing you, Parry . I thought my night was over when I got home, but noooo…. I decided to answer phone calls. Let’s just say, between the hours of 3-ish to 7-ish, I probably only had 2  hours of sleep. By then, I was wide awake and could not get back to sleep.

Saturday - As much as I didn’t have much sleep and feeling sluggish (partly due to the alcohol intake the night before), I managed to do some housework before Eliza and Marc came by, and before I had to get ready to leave for Giants Stadium…. Morgan State University vs. Hampton University. How was the game? Who won? Who cares?!?! No one really goes to watch the game. Everyone goes for the tailgate party and for the half time show. Right before the half time show, you see hordes of people walking into the stadium and right after the show, you see the same hordes of people leaving to go back to the parking lot for the tailgate party. I decided to rest for a few hours, when I got home before I start getting ready for a party Kim invited me to…. Yea, didn’t quite make it to that one either….

Sunday - Woke up feeling numb from just being extremely tired and finished the rest of the stuff I needed to do at home, then got ready for Andres & Jen’s wedding shower. Speaking of which, Joey - VERY DISAPPOINTING!!! I’m not even going to speak on it right now as it’s already starting to irk me again. Came home to finally get to relax and watch my recorded season premiers of Law & Order (from Fri. night) and Desperate Housewives.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between thos who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

- William Jefferson Clinton

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quite understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn’t brood over the past. It’s the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward common goals.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.

"Love is not finding someone you can live with; it’s finding someone you can live without."

I’m back - back at home, back at work, back to reality. One of the hardest parts of coming back from a great vacation is getting back into the swing of things. I suppose that’s what I’m trying to do right now. It’s been 3 days since we came back from our vacation and all I could think of are the days the guys and I spent away from here. We all had a great time, I had a great time. Wish I was back there again…

It’s that time again - Vacation! Just @ home right now chillin’ with the guys, watching a movie and attempting to get some sleep at the same time. So far, no such luck with the sleep.  I guess we’re all just too anxious to catch our flight and get out of here already. Looking forward to a week’s worth of rest and relaxation (and a bit of partying doesn’t hurt either).

Understand that no one is more important than you are and that no one is less important…

Understand that you are unique, and that you have a unique contribution to make to this world…

Realize that there are no mistakes in life, only lessons…

Adapt to change quickly…

See problems as challenges and press on with a smile…

Pace yourself one moment at a time…

Laugh, nurture your sense of humor…

See finish lines, rather than deadlines…

Understand that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it… 

Use your imagination to come up with new possibilities…

And remember - yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future… But…

Today is the present, open it and live it!

After being "hit" several times to add people as friends on MySpace (an account I didn’t even realize I had), I have finally conceded and updated my MySpace profile.

So to all my friends here on Friendster - you can look me up under Abby Sanchez in MySpace. Hope to see some of you folks there.