Category: Hobbies

Use a bigger cup, Cassandra.

I love, love, love me some coffee!

Yummers!

*hugs self*

So much so, beloveds, I have been scarfing down an inordinate amount.

I have many, many, many oodles of cups and containers to contain such wonderfulment. Ah. Aha!

Here lately, for whatever what in the fresh hell reason(s), I have been CHOOSING to make said wonderfulment in a too small cup. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeez!

Don’t ask me why. Habit, I guess. One day, I wasn’t feeling my usual tall container and snatched up the smaller cup. That worked, then. It sho nuff ain’t working for me, now. Ack!

Ask me why I have not yet gone back to my larger container and I honestly could not tell you why.

This morning, God tapped me on the shoulder and handed me my larger container. He told me to enlarge my tent AND my container at the same time.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!

I guess the moral to the story, beloveds, is to keep growing. Don’t allow something needed, back then, to stop you from growing, in your now.

Ah. Am currently enjoying my larger cup. It suits me.

For now.

Who knows. I may need to go back to the smaller one. The point is to do what is needed, now. Don’t let fear or convenience keep you from moving up, moving forward, moving down, moving out and showing out!

Life is short, beloveds. We got thangs to do, ‘member? There is someone waiting for YOUR dream so they can fulfill theirs. Who knows? You may be what I have been waiting 30 plus years for! Let’s go!

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Okay, all that coffee talk has me thirsty. Who is bringing snacks? I think you know who needs to bring us some of her Texas BBQ! Take care all. You are much too priceless and precious to walk around discouraged and defeated. Let’s goooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Enlarge your tent, God said to me.

God: Enlarge your tent.

Me: But, I’m comfy here. I’m used to here.

God: It’s too small for you, now. It was fine, then. Enlarge your tent.

Me: But, I’m afraid. What if I can’t find another spot? What if the new spot isn’t a better spot for me.

God: Get your butt out of My Way, beloved!

Me: Geeeeeeez.

God: Enlarge your tent.

Me: What if I fail? What if I fall flat on my face. What if…

God: Tell if’s and buts to kick rocks and take two seats.

Me: Well, alrighty then. Here goes nuttin’…P.S. I’m blaming YOU if this doesn’t work out.

God: K.

enlarging my tent,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is short, beloveds. Get out of the comfy rut you have fearfully allowed yourself to remain in. Ruts are coffins. ALL of them. No matter that you have tastefully decorated your rut. A rut is STILL a rut. Move forward. Move onward. MOVE! You got thangs to do. As do I. Asking for Your Friend.

Yea, beloveds, I KNOW moving forward, rut free, can be terrifyingly frightful. It can also be wonderfully delightful. Get going now. In case no one has told you today: I love you. As does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Repeat after me.

Repeat after me:

I got this.

Now, go do this, beloveds!

You CAN.

You WILL!

doing it with you,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Let THIS be the day you choose action over fear. You got this. Go do it. Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God gave me a 🍋 lemon meringue pie. 🥧

I have been angry with God lately. I keep yelling, er, telling Him I need 💵 money, but He keeps giving me other things instead.

It turns out that EVERY time He has done this, it has been the very thing I have NEEDED but not what I have asked for.

Thank God.

Thanks, God.

Ah, God.❤️‍🩹❤️

The other week, when I had secretly given up, I told God I no longer believed in ‘friends’. Not for me, anyway. Turns out, you find out who your current crop of friends are NOT when tough times truly roll in.

After one more hurtache, er, heartache, I told God no!

I was done. I was no longer waiting foolishly, expectantly, hopefully for a friend to stop by and BE a friend.

That very day, someone I had not heard from I’m forever, reached out via email.

Ha, I told God. He can have His Cosmic Joke! I was NOT going to open my heart.

I opened my heart and let care in.

Beloveds, life is short. Don’t shortsight or shortside your life by closing yourself off when God does not come through HOW you think He should.

Do NOT turn away the care of a long lost friend or  loved one. Don’t make the returner jump through hoops to earn your attention. Let their return be enough.

I keep praying for funds so my needs can be met. God keeps meeting my needs by giving me everything but 💰 money.

Ah.

Aha!

I desire money, IN THE 🏦, in order for me to control my shelter, my safety, and my bearings. Money can never do that.

Ah, God. You are Wise. Help me to trust when the road is long, step and unknown.

Be encouraged, beloveds.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: 🥧 ❤️‍🩹❤️🙏🥰

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Real talk: Don’t lay down on your 😡 mad.

I am 😡 mad.

Livid.

Angry.

Life is being super mean and lifery and I can either complain about it and give up or understand life just is NOT fair and keep it moving.

Angry, I snorted, fussed, fumed and pouted myself out of bed.

I made a cup of ☕ coffee.

I’m drinking said coffee and telling anger it has ten more minutes and then it is going to get the hell outta here as I have thangs to do and plan on having a fantastic tomorrow.

Why?

Because life is just too blasted short to remain angry over things we can do absolutely nothing about.

It hurts when life is being hurtful and we are unable to move from the spot The Universe has cleverly boxed us into.

Remain where you are, beloveds. Be angry, if needed. But be encouraged, have a cup of coffee ☕ and keep it moving. You got thangs to do.

I promised myself a few years ago that I would be sure to encourage others when I am being fought the most.

Why?

Because I need encouragement the most at those times and know how much it hurts to be ghosted, seemingly, by The Universe when life is just NOT being fair.

Hang in there.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I have eight more minutes of mad time. Who wants to indulge with me and help me hurl more 🍋 at The Universe?😡❤️‍🩹❤️

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I am torn.

I am torn.

My heart wants to reach out and encourage folk to be encouraged.

Was handed a 🥣 of 🍋 this morning and am angry 😡 enough, STILL, to want to say “F- you!” to the damned Universe and I don’t like swearing.

😡😡😡😡!

Be encouraged, beloveds. Am just too angry/dismayed/disappointed to say more.

The Bible says be angry but sin not. So as NOT to sin, I am going to shut it and head to 🛏 early.

I am angry. I will have to rinse and repeat tomorrow the today I did NOT want to have to do.

🤬!

Keep going, beloveds. Even when you are angry enough to chew nails and pelt 🍋 at The Universe.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Someone enter some nice encouragement here for the rest of us. Asking for me.🤬😡😭😳🤯💔😥❤️‍🩹❤️

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Good habits got me out of bed.

Good habits got me out of bed super early this morning.

Fresh heckamiah!

I wanted to spend another day feeling sorry for myself.

Good habits smacked me upside the head and told me I had thangs to do.

I got to doing thangs.

I made coffee.

I turned on my laptop.

I got to studyin’.

I got to learnin’.

I got to being about being about it.

Good habits would not allow me to go back to bad habits. Nope. Nada. No way, good habits said to me.

I’m thankful.

Continue to do that which you know to do, beloveds. Sooner or later, your good habits will be so ingrained you won’t be able to hide from life anymore.

being about it,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Do something towards your dream(s) today. Doesn’t matter what you do. Doesn’t matter how long you do. Just DO. Then just be…YOU! Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Life, we are having a 🎂 cake-date!

Ha!

I am calling a moratorium on sucking it up.

I am calling a time out on pulling oneself up by the 👢 bootstraps.

I am calling a halt to being a out being about it no matter the hard.

Ha!

*Cassandra tosses overboard ALL the 🍋 lemons folk have been carrying*

Beloveds,  just for today we are NOT taking the high road.

Today, we are allowing ourselves to FEEL. Badly if needed. Sad as necessary.

Our losses hurt. We are TIRED of hurting dammit!

We are EXHAUSTED from losing, from preparing to lose.

Fresh hell.

Today, we are having 🎂. A cake-date.

Beloveds, put down the weight and allow yourself permission to be human. We will deal with hard, tomorrow.

Today, we having 🎂!

Be encouraged. We shall get through what we need to get through…TOMORROW!

telling hard to kick rocks today,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: It’s okay to be weary from having to forever have to suck it up. It is what it is is terribly discouraging, depressing AND distressing, at times. That’s okay. We SHALL be okay. Tomorrow.

Be encouraged. Who else have treats for our cake-date? Asking for A Friend…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God trolled me.

Me: That’s cold.

God: 🤣🤗

Me: That is super cold.

God: I TOLD you.

Me: Didn’t anybody ever tell You it’s NOT nice to say I told you so?

God: Well, did I or did I not tell you?🤣

Me: Well yea.

God: So? Get it?!🤣. I said ‘so’. Add an ‘I told you and what do you get, beloved?

Me: I told you so?

God: Yea. 🤗🤣🥰. You must admit, beloved. I WAS right, right? I WAS right there, WITH you, as you walked these tough miles you INSISTED you could not do. Nope, nary a step, I recall you saying to me. Amirite?

Me: (trying not to smile)…okay, you were right.

God: I told you so! 🤗😆🍋🥰

Me: 🍋🍋🍋😆🤗🤣🥰

God: Keep going, beloved. I AM with you. I promised. I promise still. Do me a solid and make us a nice glass of 🍋 lemonade. Asking for A Friend.

Me: Real funny, ABBA. One has jokes I see.

God: I SEE you. I SEE your tears. They are precious in My Sight. As are you. I only tease those I love.

Me: You sure must love me an awful lot then!…*stamps foot*. You make it awfully difficult staying mad.

*Cassandra gathered up the last of her tears. She decided to add them with the 🍋 and see what they would make*

making lemonade still,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: When life hands you 🍋 lemons, beloveds, start hurling some at fear and anxiety and stress and inflation and bills and all that is getting in your way and keep it moving.

The way is hard. So what? We got thangs to do. Get to doing those thangs. In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He. Asking for A Friend…

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

I told God I was NOT making any more lemonade.🤯

I have to laugh.

I had a mini mad with God.

AND The Universe.

AND Life.

Told Them I was NOT making any more 🍋 lemonade from these damned lemons They keep passing my way or allowing the damned fruit stand of life to send me!

Ack!

Drat it all!

*stomps foot*.

I called my twin.

Screamed and hollered.

Hollered and screamed.

Told sis I was only allotting myself two minutes of carrying on time. Life is too short to be wasting with anger that is not going to fix things or chang things.

*two minutes of hollering and screaming *

Please note, I kept the neighbors in mind so tastefully acted a fool in a quiet manner.

PSA: It’s incredibly difficult to carry on tastefully in a quiet manner when you are normally loud like me. Fresh hell.😆🥰

N-E-Waze, beloveds, I just stopped by to encourage anyone who is in the same enough already boat as me.

Be encouraged.

Be angry, if need be.

Be sad, if need be.

Be joyful, always.

Be hopeful, always.

Things are NOT as we feel. Feelings come and they go. Do NOT allow yourself to be steered to dark and non helpful places when your feels want to be extra feely.

Thing really WILL be okay. I promise.

In the meantime, I am:

Rooting for you.

Praying for you.

Hoping for you.

Loving you.

Keep going. You have so much ahead of you. Find something in your day to smile and laugh about.

asking for A Friend,

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: I think God is neat. I let Him have it. Told Him I was FINALLY letting myself be mad at Him. Only lasted for a few minutes. He understood. Kinda hard to stay mad at Someone who loves this dope so much.🤣🥰

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!