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Fire fighters from Station 78 in Covington will be on-site at the Covington City Hall to perform healthy screenings for anyone.  The screenings include Blood Pressure Checks & Glucose (Sugar Level) Screenings and it is FREE!

The City is encouraging its residents, staff and employees in the surrounding area to utilize these free screenings.  And since February is heart health month - why not give your Valentine some piece of mind.

When:  Wednesday, February 10th

            Tuesday, February 16th

             Tuesday, February 23rd

Times:  9 - 11 AM on all dates

Location:  Community Room at the Covington City Hall    16720 271st Street

Participants may utilize all three weeks to see if any changes in blood pressure or glucose levels exist.  For more information contact the Covington City Hall at 253-638-1110 or Fire District 37 at 253-856-4300.

Happy Friday to all!

Woo Hoo, back on track this week.  Sorry about being a day late last week.  What a tough time, I am glad to be back home and getting back into routine. 

Thanks for the all the support and kind words, that meant a lot.

Here is this weeks selection of quotes.  Enjoy and I will see ya next Friday!

...geri

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I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.    -Martha Washington

Ability is what you're capable of doing.  Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it.  -Lou Holtz

The measure of life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.  -Corrie ten Boom

Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.  -Unknown

There is no point at which you can say, "Well I'm successful now.  I might as well take a nap."             -Carrie Fisher

 Happy Saturday to all!

For those who follow my Weekly Words of Wisdom every Friday, I am sorry that I am a day late this week.  My husband's father passed away a few days ago and we have had to make a trip back east.  Needless to say, things are a bit off kilter in my world.

I hope you enjoy the quotes, and I will see ya next Friday.

...geri

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There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.   -Anonymous    

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.  -Roger Babson    

Ideas are a dime a dozen.  People who implement them are priceless.  -Mary Kay Ash    

The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day.  The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.  -Woody Hayes

I just read this on a friend of mines blog...  Michelle's Mortgage Musings, and I wanted to share.

Who am I?

I am your constant companion.

I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

I am completely at your command.

Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me, and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.

Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.

 
I am the servant of all great men. And, alas, of all failures as well.

Those who are great, I have made great.

I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine. Plus, the intelligence of man.

You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin; it makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will put the world at your feet.
Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

Who am I?　

           I am HABIT

Happy Friday to all!

I hope your week is going well.  Things in my corner of the world are "wet".  And not the white wet kind (like my picture), just the rainy, standing water everywhere, gloomy kind.  We are very mild though, we might be getting lots of rain but we have been in the low 50's every day for quite some time. Very un-January like.

Have a great day, enjoy the quotes and I will see you next Friday!

...geri

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.  -F. Scott Fitzgerald    

I remind myself every morning:  Nothing I say this day will teach me anything.  So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.   -Larry King        

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?  -Robert Schuller      

 No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.  -Napoleon Hill               

Jim Rohn

For many of you who follow my blog, you know that I love quotes - I share them every Friday.  And one person who I share quite regularly is Jim Rohn. 

Jim spent over 40 years presenting seminars and sharing his motivational storires.  In 1985 he won the National Speakers Association CPAE Award.  He is the author of 17 different books, audio and video programs. 

I am a little late, but I am very saddened to have just read that Jim passed away on December 5, 2009 in West Hills California. 

Jim was considered a "Business Philosopher".  He taught fundamentals and I so loved reading his quotes. 

Here is a quick video that I found on YouTube - an excerpt from one of Jim's DVD's...

"I wish for you a life of health, wealth and happiness; a life in which you give yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards."   -Jim Rohn 

For more information or to purchase any of his books go to Jim Rohn's website.

              Happy Friday to all!

I hope this finds you having a nice Friday.  Things in my corner of the world are wonderful.

This picture was from last winter at my house.  So far this year we've only had rain, and rain and more rain.  No white stuff yet for us :(      Seems like the whole rest of the country is getting it all. 

Enjoy the quotes and I will see ya next Friday!

..geri

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.   -Vince Lombardi

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them them, they make them.   -George Bernard Shaw

Why can't life's problems hit us when we are seventeen and know everything?    -A.C. Jolly

If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.    -Robert Hillyer

Happy New Year!

Wow, can you believe it is 2010 already.  Doesn't it seem like just yesterday that we were all worried about Y2K????  Where did those years go?  OK - I am feeling old :) :) :)

I hope you have a wonderful New Year's Day and a fantastic 2010.  Enjoy this weeks selection of quotes and I will see y'all next Friday.

...geri

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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.    -Earl Wilson

Enthusiasm is everything.  It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.  -Pele  

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.  -Les Brown

Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression.  It  is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another leap forward.                               -Dorothy Corkville Brigs

Where is Santa

Oh, if that is not the million dollar question asked by kids of young and old on Christmas Eve.

Well if you are wondering where Santa is, and how close he might be to your home, you can find out at NoradSanta.org.

For years our family has been logging on to Norad Santa to follow the Jolly Old Man's flight on Christmas Eve. 

Sign on to Norad's website starting on Christmas eve and you too can track Santa as he travels all about the world and makes his way to the United States.  With their ultra-cool high speed digital cameras positioned at many locations around the world you will be able to keep track of Santa and his reindeer as they travel about the world.

It has been more than 50 years that NORAD and it's predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have been tracking Santa's flight on Christmas Eve.

The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the telephone number. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.

In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.

Since that time, NORAD men, women, family and friends have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to Christmas Eve phone calls and emails from children. In addition, we now track Santa using the internet. Last year, millions of people who wanted to know Santa's whereabouts visited the NORAD Tracks Santa website.

Finally, media from all over the world rely on NORAD as a trusted source to provide Christmas Eve updates on Santa's journey.

 I hope you have as much tracking Santa's where abouts on Christmas eve as my family does.

 Have a Very Merry Christmas!