Good News/Bad News

Bad news first...well, not awful:  This was me this morning.  I slept in and missed both of my busses for work. When I do this, it's a day off because I have a 50 mile commute and refuse to drive.  I work 4 10 hr days each week and usually take Wed. off so I'll just switch my day this week.

GOOD NEWS:  As you all can see, I've managed to figure out file managing..LOL...it took me long enough but I was determined.  So, guess what I'm doing today...yep...uploading everything I can grab.....

I'm still shooting blanks when I try to use my little camera to add pictures in the journal.  I know you have to remove the http thingy but that's ganna have to wait..

Now, I just have to download some clip art and off I go....LOL...I think today is going to be a "big" entry day for me...I'm like a kid with a new toy....

Thank you again, Missy....without your link, I would still be lost and confused...and thanks for your greeting...made my day.......

 

..New Beginning....LOL

Whooeee!!!!!!!  By cracky, I think I've got it....finally..

My first attempt at using the AOL file manager with instructions for the total computer "dummy" and it actually is working...animated even.

Senior Moments

Actually, I am not tecnically a senior citizen yet.....I will be 52 in November but my "friends" keep sending me these darned e-mails pertaining to seniors.  I thought it was sort of cute but don't necessarily agree with all of it, especially the first part which seems sort of hostile.  I give far more credit to the younger generation...must have been a cranky senior who wrote that....the second part in black....oh well...I am getting far closer to senior moments......

 

Senior citizens are constantly being criticized for every conceivable deficiency of the modern world, real or imaginary. We know we take responsibility for all we have done and do not blame others.

HOWEVER, upon reflection, we would like to point out that it was not the senior citizens who took:

The melody out of music,
The pride out of appearance,
The courtesy out of driving,
The romance out of love,
The commitment out of marriage,
The responsibility out of parenthood,
The togetherness out of the family,
The learning out of education,
The service out of patriotism,
The Golden Rule from rulers,
The nativity scene out of cities,
The civility out of behavior,
The refinement out of language,
The dedication out of employment,
The prudence out of spending,
The ambition out of achievement, or ,
God out of government and school.


YES, I'M A SENIOR CITIZEN!  (almost)

I'm the life of the party...... even if it lasts until 8 p.m.
I'm very good at opening childproof caps.... with a hammer.
I'm usually interested in going home before I get to where I am going.
I'm awake many hours before my body allows me to get up.
I'm smiling all the time because I can't hear a thing you're saying.
I'm very good at telling stories; over and over and over and over...
I'm aware that other people's grandchildren are not nearly as cute as mine.
I'm so cared for -- long term care, eye care, private care, dental care.
I'm not really grouchy,
I just don't like traffic, waiting, crowds, lawyers, loud music, unruly kids, Toyota commercials, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, barking dogs, politicians and a few other things I can't seem to remember right now.
I'm sure everything I can't find is in a safe secure place, somewhere.
I'm wrinkled, saggy, lumpy, and that's just my left leg.
I'm having trouble remembering simple words like.......
I'm beginning to realizing that aging is not for wimps.
I'm sure they are making adults much younger these days, and when did they let kids become policemen?
I'm wondering, if you're only as old as you feel, how could I be alive at 150?
And, how can my kids be older than I feel sometimes?
I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the storeroom door.

Yes, I'm (almost) a SENIOR CITIZEN and I think I am having the time of my life!

Journals, etc.

I wouldn't say I'm enormously frustrated....just mildly.  I've been journal hopping again.  My problem is I'm reading so many journals and not remembering where they are or where I found them from and some I would like to get back to and haven't been able to.

I read Sherilyn's entry the other day about journals and have wondered if there is a journal etiquette.   I'm not sure.  I usually look at the journals that others have listed.  Do you have to ask someone if you can add their journal to your favorites?

There are many that I read but hesitate to make any comments...don't know why...I just don't.  They are public but some I sense seem almost private.  I almost feel like an intruder.

I'm thanking Missy for the link to file managing.  Now maybe I'll be able to make my journal pretty and add pictures that fit and put them throughout my journal.  This is definitely something I want to do for my own personal satisfaction.  Lord, please don't get me started on scrapbooking just yet....LOL..I have all I can handle now.  Missy...you're pictures and animations are awesome..and your girls are the next generation of America's Top Models........

I'm still wondering how I got into this but am so glad I did.  I'm not even sure what I was expecting.  I certainly never thought my journal would be read...I wasn't too worried about that part of it.  It just seemed like a good way to unwind and express my feelings on any given day...plus the fact that I talk to myself anyway so why not do it in a more constructive way.  Speaking of constructive....I have some cleaning to do and I'm finding that this journaling is pretty much an avoidance tactic on my part. 

Of course, my son will be home soon and then there will be the struggle over computer time so that will solve my avoidance problem....

A.S.A.P.

Ever wonder about the abbreviation A.S.A.P.? Generally we think of it in terms of even more hurry and stress in our lives. Maybe if we think of this abbreviation in a different manner, we will begin to find a new way to deal with those rough days along the way.

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There's work to do, deadlines to meet;
You've got no time to spare,
But as you hurry and scurry-
ASAP - ALWAYS SAY A PRAYER

In the midst of family chaos,
"Quality time" is rare.
Do your best; let God do the rest-
ASAP - ALWAYS SAY A PRAYER.

It may seem like your worries
Are more than you can bear.
Slow down and take a breather-
ASAP - ALWAYS SAY A PRAYER

God knows how stressful life is;
He wants to ease our cares,
And He'll respond to all your needs
A.S.A.P. - ALWAYS SAY A PRAYER.

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God bless and have a nice day!


In the tiny petal of a tiny flower
that grew from a tiny pod,
Is the miracle and the mystery
Of all creation and God!

People remember you not for what you said or for what you did,
but how you made them feel.

Showing My Age

 I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a "double
 dog dare" to pass it on. If you remember what that means, you understand.   (Aw....the good old days...)
 
If you don't know what that means read on and see what you missed. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and young enough not to care. How many do you remember?

1. Candy cigarettes

2. Wax coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.  Both 1. and 2. bought at the corner store for a penny a piece....put in those little brown paper bags.  A quarter would last a week.
 
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. We would collect those bottles and return them for the deposit to buy even more penny candy.

4. Coffee shops with table side juke boxes
 
5. Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum ( I miss Teaberry gum!!)

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles, with cardboard stoppers. *and in the winter the milk froze, popped the cap, and made a "tower'.

7. Party lines.
 
8. Newsreels before the movie and cartoons.

9. P. F. Flyers
 
10. Butch wax (this I have no clue of...LOL...before my time, maybe)

11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix ...(our was BR-4)  Before, that we actually had an operator that connected us....yeah, I'm really showing my age.
 
12. Pea shooters.
 
13. Howdy Doody, Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy in black and white.

14. 45 RPM Records
 
15. Green Stamps
 
16. Hi-fi's
 
17. Metal ice cube trays-with levers
 
18. Mimeograph paper

19. Blue Flash Bulbs
 
20. Beanie and Cecil
 
21. Roller skate keys
 
22. Cork pop guns
 
23. Drive ins
 
24. Studebakers
 
25. Wash tub wringers
 
26. The Fuller Brush man
 
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders
 
28. Tinker toys
 
29. The Erector Set
 
30. The Fort Apache Play set
 
31. Lincoln Logs

32. 15 cent MacDonald hamburgers
 
33. 5 cent packs of baseball cards...with that awful pink slabof bubble gum

34. Penny candy

35. 25 cent-a-gallon gasoline

 A TIME WHEN ...
 
* Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
 
* Mistakes were corrected! by simply exclaiming "do over!"

* "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

* Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
 
* It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
 
* The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 
"cooties".

* Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.

* A foot of snow was a dream come true.
 
* Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute ads for action
 figures.

 * "Oly-oly-oxen-free" made perfect sense.

* Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for
giggles.

* The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
 
* War was a card game.
 
* Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
 
* Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a
 motorcycle.
 
* Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin.
 
* If you can remember most or all of these, then you have
 lived!!!!
 
My comments......I have lived through the good and the bad and treasure every moment....it's made me who I am today.......I used to fear aging but now that I'm mid-life, I'm finally getting a clue.  Aging brings a certain amount of freedom and definitely a huge amount of wisdom.  I'm starting to realize just how smart my mother always has been...LOL  Thank the good Lord for hair color and Loreal wrinkle reducing make-up....it helps a lot to age gracefully.......

To my young friends in J-Land....I love you all....and hope my journal lifts you up and inspires you to keep truding along as my motto still continues to be..

Whatever doesn't kill you will make you stronger....spoken by me...a survivor of many, many kicks in thebutt........and....love yourself; if you don't love yourself, no one else will...........God doesn't make mistakes; only humans do....

chris

Tidbits

Some more mail box cleaning.....I worked again today and can't quite come up with anything original......  

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced
enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you passed gas consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)
 

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to
the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
 (Must be the reason why I have high blood pressure?)

 A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour
(Don't try this at home,maybe at work; watch out Jenny Craig.)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is
attached to its body The female initiates sex by ripping the
male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human
 jumping the length of a football field.
 (30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm......)


Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer
than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
(What about that pig??)

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"Cherish the good,forgive the bad,and if at all possible,move on".