The Chocolate Pudding Fiasco.

Okay.

Sooooooo…

There is a small possibility that I may have perchance kinda sorta may have committed a small food crime, once again.

I wanted to make some chocolate pudding.

I know. I know. I told myself I would follow directions this time. I maybe, perhaps, didn’t quite follow directions again.

The Box said to add three cups of cold water along with the package of chocolate pudding mix. I found a half cup. Guess how many of those I used?! You guessed it. I used three. which meant I only put in one and a half cups of milk.

Instead of making putting, I ended up making chocolate paste!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I have been enjoying my food experiments. I am wondering what other food catastrophe I can make this week…

I stopped by to check on you. Hopefully, I’ve given you a laugh today. Don’t let this day in without you getting in a few more laughs. Reach out to someone. Encourage someone today. I love someone today starting with you.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: This piece made me laugh. I hope it made you smile. Life is much too short to be spending all day fretting and worrying. We are heading into a new year. Be sure to take optimism with you into next year. Dream big. Remain joyful. Remain faithful to your dreams. Begin again as many times as you need to. Be good to you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

New Beginnings: TRUST yourself.

As we head into the new year, we must leave our worries behind. It’s time for us to trust ourselves. It’s time for us to trust the gift that lies within us. It’s time for us to begin again. We have things to do.

Let’s take this time to get ready and prepare for the greatest ahead. There is so much in store for us. We just have to be ready for it. This is our time. Let’s make the most of it, shall we?

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It’s high time you trusted yourself. He had been trusting everything and everyone but yourself. Cut yourself some slack. Believe in the gifts that are within you. You were put on this earth for a reason. Find out what that reason is. If you know, act on a reason. If you don’t continue to ask what that reason is. Then, be the reason!

The Universe is calling. How shall you answer?

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Your hard time is not meant just for you.

Your hard time is not meant just for you, beloveds.

Your hard time is here, in part, so you can leave a bit of a treat for someone else as you make your way through your hard or dark place.

I have learned so many things through this hard time. I’m trying my best to give away as many tools and lessons that I’ve learned along the way.

I have learned how important it is to reach out to others for support. I’ve learned that if you don’t have a support system to create one!

I have learned to ask for help. Loudly!

I have learned to love out loud. Lustily!

I have learned to laugh through my tears.

I have learned to be content with nothing..

I have learned how to lose friends with grace.

I have learned how to love me when I have been at my most unlovable.

I am still learning all these painful lessons every day. I am grateful for the hard. The hard is helping me keep on my toes.

Your hard time is not just for you. Your hard time helps you create your story. Share your hard. Let someone else know that they can make it. You might as well make your hard work something!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It helps to share hard with others. It helps them. It helps you. We all need each other. Be encouraged today. Be sure to get some joy out of your day. Do the best you can, not to focus on the hard. That can be hard..lol. I crack myself up.



One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

New Beginnings: FIGHT for your dreams.

It feels like all I have been doing is fighting lately. Trying to keep a positive attitude. Fighting with lazy. Duking it out with fear.

I have been fighting my way out of bed. I have been fighting through emotions. I have been fighting with everything and everyone to keep my dreams intact.

Fighting so hard is exhausting. I almost wanna say, forget about it and walk away. I can’t. My dreams mean too much to me. I want to see what they look like. Fulfilled!

I shall keep fighting. How about you? Keep giving it everything you have. We shall win in the end.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I wanted to quit many times. I refuse to quit. the battle is one or lost in the mind. I tell myself to keep going. I tell myself to be encouraged. I tell myself to keep standing on faith and not fear. I keep telling myself the truth. I can and I will. So will you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

Things may not work out.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

I may not make it there.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

The situation may turn out to be a disaster.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

The circumstances may have turned hopelessly wrong.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

Everyone may have given up on the project.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

The relationship may have not worked out.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

The friendship may have ended.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

I may have lost everything.

It won’t be because I didn’t try!

Life happens, beloveds. Good things. Bad things. Tough things. Unfortunate things. Fortunate things. Too many things to name here.

Whatever happens, beloveds, don’t allow yourself the victim role. WE determine how to respond with what happens.

WE determine what we shall DO with what happens. WE determine what our attitudes shall be with what happens.

Don’t allow yourself ONE excuse this coming year! Enough of that!

If you lose, so be it. Just be certain you haven’t lost because you never tried!

Get up! Get going! You’ve got thangs to do in 2025!

So what things didn’t work out as you thought this past year. So what! Get over it! Get over yourself!

I tell myself this EVERY day! Get over yourself, Cassandra! You’ve got thangs to do THIS year.

We CAN, beloveds! We WILL!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I am looking forward to 2025. 2025 has NO idea what I am fixing to do within it!

Keep moving FORWARD, beloveds. Use these last days to leave 2024 IN 2024. Don’t take the mistakes with you. Don’t take old fears with you. Don’t take old beliefs with you.

Deal with YOU in 2024 so you can enjoy a fantastic 2025. Be done with holding YOU back. Forgive yourself for all you have done or not done. Life is much too short for you to continue lambasting yourself for your current position.

Be encouraged. You ARE on the right path. Yes, it has taken much longer than you had hoped. Yea, you have gotten in your way more than was helpful.

Yet, you fight on. Celebrate your try. I admire you. You keep going no matter what. Know that you are seen. Your efforts SHALL amount to something. They already have.

I DARE you to pursue your dreams relentlessly. Come on. We have thangs to do.

In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

New Beginnings: Don’t allow the world to tell YOUR story.

Don’t allow the world to tell YOUR story.

Don’t allow your circumstances to tell YOUR story.

Don’t allow the enemy to tell YOUR story.

Don’t allow your family to tell YOUR story.

Don’t allow friends to tell YOUR story.

Don’t allow your job to tell YOUR story.

Beloveds, only YOU can tell YOUR story the way it was MEANT to be told. Only YOU have lived through your experiences. Only YOU have overcome the things in which you have overcome.

Don’t go the way of the world in being swayed by this, that and every other thing. Make up your own mind. Tell YOUR story. YOUR way. In YOUR words.

Beloveds, you do NOT need another’s permission to do and to be you. Enough of that!

You don’t need a significant other to be significant. You already are. You also do not need a significant other to tell you how to act, think or be. You are perfectly equipped to be about that life on your own.

I am currently listening to “Push It” by Salt-N-Pepa. This song ALWAYS makes me feel like the indefatigable, invincible, courageous and spectacular person I am!!! YYYAYYAAAAAASSSSSS!

We spend entirely much too much time worrying about what others think about what we think about what we think about. This sentence doesn’t make sense. It makes about as much sense as worrying about what others think about what we think about!

I’ll stop by long enough to encourage you to tell your own story. Your story is unique to you. You can also kick folk out of your stories if you want to!

Life is short. Tell your story. All of it. Don’t be ashamed of your story. The things that have happened in your life has helped to shape you. Don’t waste a moment worrying about who may or may not read your story. Your audience will find you. I can’t wait to hear what you have to say.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I have gathered so many stories living through this hard time. I am doing my best to share as many of them as I can to help as many people as I can. Life is short. Do you. Be you.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Heart β™₯ check Wednesday.

Good morning, beloveds. Just checking on your heart. How are YOU?

Today is Christmas. I’m doing my best not to be sad. I’m making chili and brownies for my Christmas supper…lol. Mom would think that funny.

How is your heart? Please be good to you. It’s too easy to treat ourselves poorly, thinking we don’t matter as much as we do.

Happy birthday, Jesus. I love You.😁πŸ₯°β™₯️

I have some chili to make. You are welcome to stop by for a bowl πŸ₯£.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Love Train.

πŸš‰ Help me start a love train, beloveds!

Mom LOVED this song. I love it. A shout out to the world to love one another.

Help me love the world today. Tomorrow is Christmas. Jesus birthday πŸŽ‚.πŸ₯°β™₯️

I just wanted to take a minute to gather some folk to help me spread some love around. There I’d enough hate to last ten lifetimes!

Life is short. Find someone to love. Starting with you.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Whatcha Doin?

Good morning, beloveds. Me and good habits wandered by just to check on you:

How are you?

Have you worked on your dream?

Are you cutting yourself more slack?

Are you resting?

Have you laughed today?

Here, let me give you a bit of  laugh from my trusty bag of laughs…

Okay, you good now?

Be encouraged. Life is goof. Even when it’s hard.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Have an amazing today!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

AFTER you finish.

AFTER you finish.

Ask yourself if you have given your all.

AFTER you finish.

Ask yourself if did your best.

AFTER you finish.

Ask yourself if you can live with the results.

If you have done these things, beloveds, keep it moving!

You gave your all.

You did your best.

You can live with the results.

Folk will either receive or reject your try. So be it, beloveds. Ours is just to try. We pass on the results of our try to God, Life and The Universe. Not our problem what happens next.

STOP paying rent to the universe! Meaning, you do NOT have to come bearing gifts to be loved! You ARE loved, beloveds. My heart aches for every soul who is secretly believing they are only enough if they DO enough. Lies!

You are a priceless soul, beloveds. You ARE!

Take care today. Give yourself space and room to grow.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!