Say what you mean

You know how sometimes you hear people or maybe yourself saying certain things and as soon as you hear it you think to yourself that's not what they really mean. You know it's true. We all say things we don't really mean. We do it to be socially appropriate or to display positive parenting. We do it so we don't get our butts kicked by people bigger than us or so we get that raise at work. We all do it. When you are trying to pee in a public bathroom and someone pushes the door open you say: "Oh it's okay."
What you mean is: "I'm in here trying to pee and the door just slammed me in the head. If I wanted you to sit in my lap I would have invited you."
So what is it that you really mean?

Sunday Sugar:

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me now?

Precious

Morgan Adele 7 months

Grown Woman or Girl?

Girls leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans.
Grown women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits in.

Girls want to control the man in their life.
Grown women know that if he's truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.

Girls check you for not calling them.
Grown women are too busy to realize you hadn't.

Girls try to put a man 'on lock' by using sex.
Grown women know that it's the sex of the mental kind that makes a man want to 'lock' you down.

Girls are afraid to be alone.
Grown women revel in it-- using it as a time for personal growth.

Girls ignore the good guys.
Grown women ignore the bad guys.

Girls worry about not being pretty and/or good enough for their man.
Grown women know that they are pretty and/or good enough for any man.

Girls try to monopolize all their man's time (i.e., don't want him hanging with his friends).
Grown women realize that a lil' bit of space makes the 'together time even more special -- and goes to kick it with her own friends!

Girls think a guy crying is weak.
Grown women offer their shoulder and a tissue.

Girls want to be spoiled and 'tell' their man so.
Grown women 'show' him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate w/o fear of losing his manhood.

Girls get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it.
Grown women know that that was just one man.

Girls fall in love, chase aimlessly after the object of their affection, ignoring all 'signs'.
Grown women know that sometimes the one you love, doesn't always love you back-- and move on, without bitterness.

Girls will read this and get an attitude.
Grown women will read this and pass it on to other grown women!

( from an email) This advice is good for both sexes.

Dear Winter:

We started off together a few months ago and things were going well. I was taken by your beauty. I had a hard time controlling my emotions. I accepted your many blankets of affection. Then you became cold and bitter. I started resenting you. You kept throwing yourself at me.

Now the newness has worn off. I am sorry, but you saw this coming, we talked and decided to try to remain friends and remember the good times. Now here you are trying to win me back by sending more snow and cold. I don’t think so scooter I have moved on. I am now with your friend Spring and we are going to be very happy together. Please grab your snow and go. I need you out of my life NOW!

Why do we love children?

1) NUDITY
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, 'Mom, that lady isn't wearing a seat belt!'
2) OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, 'The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents...'
3) KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. 'Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle.'
4) MORE NUDITY
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, 'What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?'
5) POLICE # 1
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, 'Are you a cop? Yes,' I answered and continued writing the report. My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?' 'Yes, that's right,' I told her. 'Well, then,' she said as she extended her foot toward me, 'would you please tie my shoe?'
6) POLICE # 2
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me. 'Is that a dog you got back there?' he asked...'It sure is,' I replied.
Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, 'What'd he do?'
7) ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, 'The tooth fairy will never believe this!'
8) DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, 'Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit.' 'And why not, darling?' 'You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning.'
9) DEATH
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: 'Glory be unto the Father, and unto the Son, and into the hole he goes.' (I want this line used at my funeral!)
10) SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. 'I'm just wasting my time,' she said to her mother. 'I can't read, I can't write, and they won't let me talk!'
11) BIBLE
A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible... He picked up the object and looked at it.. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. 'Mama, look what I found,' the boy called out. 'What have you got there, dear?'
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, 'I think it's Adam's underwear!'

(from an email)

Random crap about me:

1. I think Ron White is the funniest man in the world.
2. I am very shy but I compensate for it by acting like a fool.
3. I am not a fan of milk chocolate.
4. I don’t get long distance running, jazz and some poetry.
5. I have an irrational fear of heights. I would be screwed if my only escape route was up a fire escape.
6. One of my very favorite sounds is .
7. I am always puzzled when I don’t win the lottery. I am not sure why I am overly optimistic since I never buy a ticket.
8. I keep every one of my cards. I have birthday cards that go back years. Not sure why I do this.
9. I have an eclectic taste in music.
10. I used to be a swimsuit model. (I lie when I run out of things to tell you)

Hope

I trust everyone. I believe that you are a good person till you prove differently. Well a person who I thought was honest and honorable let me down.

No matter how hard I try I am incapable of changing my idealistic outlook in life. I just can’t seem to “get” that some people just will not live up to my expectations. I wish I was strong enough to confront someone about their very hurtful behavior and outright abuse of friendship. I am very non confrontational and so I will keep hurting and trying to figure out what “I'” did wrong. It is probably very naive of me but I expect the best out of people.

Hope is sometimes a very annoying thing. Sometimes when you want to give up on a friend an annoying little voice in my head whispers.. “maybe things will change and get better”.

More Idealistic BS on my part?

It is so cold:

1. we had to stop eating with metal cutlery. Some people walked around for days with spoons or forks stuck to their tongues!
2. hitchhikers are holding up pictures of thumbs!
3. roosters are rushing into Kentucky Fried Chicken and begging to use the pressure cooker!
4. I chipped a tooth on my soup!
5. words freeze in the air. If you want to hear what someone said, you have to grab a handful of sentences and take them in by the fire!
6. only guys with names like "Al" and "Ed" had time to write their names in the snow.
7. instead of the "finger" - people rudely give you the "mitt".
8. my porch thermometer reads "Ouch"!
9. I saw an Amish man buying an electric blanket.
10. Peecicles. Need I say more?

Sunday Sugar:

It’s winter

My Pitiful Winter Poem.

It’s winter in Indiana

And the gentle breezes blow

Seventy miles an hour

At twenty five below.

Oh, how I love Indiana

When the snow’s up to my butt

You take a breath of winter

And your nose is frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful

So I guess I’ll hand around

I could never leave Indiana

‘Cause I’m frozen to the ground.

Friday Pet Peeves:

1. People who think having money makes them better than anyone else.
2. People who say “no offense” then say something offensive.
3. Bad parents who don’t control or attempt to control their children in public while they scream and act like spoiled brats disturbing the other people around them. This includes airplanes, long lines, wal-mart, grocery stores, restaurants, malls, and the dmv.
4. People who say "to tell the truth" before their babble... I always feel like saying - no, don’t tell the truth this time - just lie like you always do.
5. Slow people in the fast lane on the highway who won't get out of the way.
6. So called "childproof" caps... half the time I have to get a kid to help me figure out how they work.
7. People who wear shorts in the winter. What the Hell sense does it make to wear a heavy coat, a wool cap, and shorts? Huh? Why? WHY????
8. People who are oblivious to others and believe that the world should revolve around them.
9. Customer Service Agents in an entirely different country that have no idea that your talking about, what their talking about, and yet their "manager" is always on break.
10. Women who shave their eyebrows off and DRAW them on with a pencil.

A blow up doll and a flood:

As you may already know, Australia has been suffering for major flooding and in the mist of it a 19 year old couple decided it would be great fun to float down the flood-swollen Yarra River, using blow up dolls as a flotation devices, it all blew up in a woman’s face yesterday when she lost her latex playmate in a rough patch.

They were floating down the river on two inflatable dolls and had just passed the Pound Bend Tunnel when the woman lost her toy in turbulent water.

She clung to a floating tree, calling for help while the man stayed with her. Fortunately for the pair, a passer-by called triple zero while while a kayaker took life jackets to the pair. Police and the SES crew hauled the water-logged thrill seekers to safety.

But, with Queensland in the grip of a deadly emergency and 50 rescues from flood waters around Victoria in the past week, police were not amused at the pair's "stupid" actions.

‘‘We’ve got people busy with rescues and to have to divert resources to that sort of thing is not ideal," said Senior Constable Wayne Wilson

‘‘Most rescue organizations would frown on people behaving in such a manner because there are people out there who are in genuine need of assistance,’’ he said.

The rescued pair were checked by ambulance officers but did not require medical attention.

‘‘The fate of the inflatable dolls is unknown,’’ said Senior Constable Wilson.

Morons are everywhere. I would think they should be at least fined for misusing resources during a national emergency. Agree?

Neologism Contest

Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulance (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men..

Have a Great Day!

Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening.

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

~Robert Frost

Sunday Sugar

Time

Do you ever have time?

I rarely do.

I make time.

I waste time.

I want time.

I use time.

I track time.

I spend time.

I kill time.

I find time.

But today, I had time.

Baby it’s cold outside

If you look really close you can see the goose tracks in the snow on the frozen Wabash.

Notice the geese in the background. If you click on the pictures they will open larger. Even though it is bitter cold it is a very beautiful view out my back door.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - According to national news sources, it is snowing in 49 states across the country including Hawaii where snow has fallen atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island.
Florida is the only state without fresh snow. And Global warming errrr climate change is kicking our butts.

Bridges

By a certain age you have probably decided how to live your life. I am not sure what age I was when I figure out my life plan. I didn’t set down one day and decide to live a certain way, I found that I had been living that way all along and was finally putting the pieces together. Life is more rewarding if you can touch peoples lives and leave them a tiny bit better off. It could be some advice, or just a laugh you share. Life has many twists and turns and you never want to burn a bridge as you may want to cross it in the future. It is impossible to have every relationship you leave have a happy exit. Some folks are just happier when they are miserable. Giving them a chance to bury the hatchet is more than likely just giving them another chance to bury it in your back. Still I think it is very important to make every effort to make peace. If I extend my hand in friendship and it is rejected there is not much I can do but move on with my life. At some point in all our lives we will look back and take stock of our mistakes some affect others and are forgotten, others fester and cause hard feelings. I am happy that there are only a couple people in my life whose relationship with me is in need of repair. The future is happening so fast that it is hard to spend time in the past. I think the older I get the better I am at not stepping on the toes of people around me.

Going going gone

1. Phone Booths.
2. Postage stamps you lick.
3. Hand written letters.
4. Returnable coke bottles.
5. Thank you notes.
6. Oldsmobiles. Studebakers. Plymouths. Nash.
7. Telephone operators.
8. Kodachrome slides.
9. Vinyl records.
10. Floppy disks.
11. Milkman.
12. Polaroid cameras.
13. Film.
14. Dimmer switch on the floor.
15. Dial phones.
16. Elevator operators.
17. Phone books
18. Actual paper maps.
19. Typewriters.
20. Encyclopedias.
21. Free TV.
22. Actual cash.
23. Sears catalog.
24. Common sense.
25. Imagination.
26. Fountain pens and ink bottles.
27. Cork guns
28. VCR’s
29. Roller skate keys.
30. Saturday Evening Post.

I love Puns!

1. A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.
2. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
3. A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.
4. When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.
5. Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?
6. Without geometry, life is pointless.
7. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
8. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
9. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
10. A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

Mind Games / Bullying

The term “mind games” refers to passive aggressive behavior used specifically to demoralize or empower the thinking subject, often making the aggressor look superior. Passive aggressive behavior happens when the person avoids responsibility and attempts to control others to keep them away through his passivity and withdrawal. It is a dynamic born of fear of being controlled, fear of confrontation, hidden anger and an inability to deal straight with people.

We all do this some of the time. That is normal. It is when it causes severe issues for others that it becomes an problem.

Why do people play mind games? I think it is the same reason a cat plays with a mouse before they go for the kill. To see them squirm. And squirm they do. People who are vulnerable are often the target of these sadistic game. These “mind gamers” have some demented sick streak inside them motivates them to be intentionally cruel. Perhaps they have had something similar done to them and are doing some payback. People who intentionally hurt you need to be eliminated from your life. Do not give them another chance thinking they will change. They do change, they get worse. This is extremely hard to deal with.

Sad Day for America

Today Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot in the head at close range. A total of 19 people were shot 6 people died including a 9 year old girl and a Federal Judge. The media is starting to point fingers and trying to blame the tea party. Please know EVERY group in the US, be they religious, atheist, Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal has their lunatic fringe. Extremist nut jobs are not exclusive to one group. To try blame an entire group for the disgusting actions of someone is irresponsible, ignorant, and misguided. This tragedy has only one person to blame- THE SHOOTER. No one made him pull the trigger. He did that all by HIMSELF. Anger should be solely reserved for the perpetrator of this heinous act. Instead of pointing fingers, we should be pulling together to support those killed and injured in this attack. I truly believe that the morals of some people in this country has been depleted. I feel that we live in a country that is in transition from peace and love to hate and aggression. It seems like there are so many more reports of violence and just pure tragedy anymore. It is indeed a sad day for America.

Does size really matter?

Has anyone noticed that the box of cereal you have been buying for years is shrinking? It costs the same but it is a tiny bit smaller. The shredded wheat used to fill the bowl and now it barely covers the bottom. Crackers are smaller too. They used to hold a nice wedge of cheese. The boxes appear the same but are slimmer and hold less. Nothing says anything about the size reduction. The cost remains the same or maybe it has increased a bit, yet we are buying less while we believe we are buying the same amount. Once you notice this you will see how cleverly done it is. Unless you are the type that pays attention you will never notice. Since I noticed this I find myself checking everything. And every thing is shrinking. Have you noticed? Does size really matter?

Thoughts?

This little girl is 2 years old. That's right 2 years old. What is wrong with her mother? Has she lost her mind? Is this disgusting or funny? Hair extensions, make up and suggestive moves on stage. Child abuse? Legal porn for pedophiles. Thoughts???

Annoying things:

1. Famous people name their kids strange names.
2. People who don't vote and then complain about the results.
3. Eating in bed and leaving crumbs.
4. People who can't seem to understand that " red eyes" are possible to remove in photos.
5. Dirty fingernails.
6. TV shows and commercials ads with ringing doorbells or phones, which make you into thinking the sound is coming from your house.
7. How commercialized the holidays are.
8. Wobbly tables.
9. Women who use PMS as an excuse to be bitchy.
10. People who always have to be right and have the last word.

Fun Suckers

I have negative people in my life. To be honest I mostly avoid them. But sometimes I can’t for one reason or another. They are like Black Holes that suck the life out of me. I try to stay positive and strong but they ooze negativity and it drains me and I feel exhausted and sometimes a bit depressed. Maybe you refer to them by the sob sister, the drama queen or king, the blamer. When I am exposed to one of them I become tense and on my guard. I can’t wait to get away from them and I can feel my energy drain from me. The worst offender to me is the person who complains and complains but never actually does anything to change things. The old “keep doing what your doing, keep getting what you get”.

Energy Vampires ( fun suckers) will appear in your life. I think the goal is to learn to deal with them before they appear. If you don’t they will suck the life right out of you with out even realizing it.

What is it about us Human beings that we can only see the negative in others? The negative in situations, the faults. We are all so ready to run people down, see the worst in each other. This causes us to become very negative people. We become bitter, angry and stressed.

There are a few things I try to do, and I stress TRY to be more positive in my outlook and conversations with others.

I am learning to think positive thoughts.

I know every one is fighting their own battle with life. I am. But I don’t think that gives any one the right to stomp on others dreams and happiness.

Schadenfreaude

Definition of SCHADENFREUDE

: enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others

We all know people who love it when something bad happens to someone. It could be laughing when some one falls or secretly enjoying hearing that someone got arrested for shoplifting. Admit it, you either are one or you know one who feels better about themselves when bad things happen to others. It may have been an ex boss who treated you badly, an ex husband who was abusive to you. I don’t walk around and wish for something horrible to happen, like my ex to be hit by a bus, but if it were to happen I would admit to feeling a little tiny bit of enjoyment. I don’t think it makes me a bad person I think it makes me human. After all, I did not make it happen I merely would be indulging in a bit of schadenfreude. I think it is hard to not have at least a smidgen of schadenfreude for someone who has been mean to you in the past. I think that this is why Talk Shows like Maury and Jerry Springer are so popular on TV. We get to look into others misfortunes and that in turn makes us feel better about our selves.

My question is .. is it a shameful joy or guilty pleasure when something bad happens to someone. Or is it the happiness you experience when justice is served? Is Schadenfreude the stuff of conversation with buddies and beers at the local bar? Or is it best saved for the confessional?

Invictus

From Wikipedia: "Invictus" is a short poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903).
It was written in 1875 and first published in 1888 in Henley's Book of Verses, where it was the fourth in a series of poems entitled Life and Death (Echoes).
It originally bore no title: early printings contained only the dedication To R. T. H. B.—a reference to Robert Thomas Hamilton Bruce (1846–1899), a successful Scottish flour merchant and baker who was also a literary patron.
The familiar title "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered") was added by Arthur Quiller-Couch when he included the poem in The Oxford Book Of English Verse (1900).

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Sunday Sugar

Playing xbox with my daddy.

Happy New Year and some Facts

Happy New Year! I hope you celebrate safely with a few cheers, a few beers, and maybe like me with a few tears.

And some interesting facts:

1. The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays we celebrate. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
2. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible crescent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).
3. The beginning of spring is a much more logical time to start a new year. It is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of blossoming. January 1, on the other hand, has no astronomical nor agricultural significance. It is purely arbitrary.
4. The Romans continued to observe the new year in late March, but their calendar was continually tampered with by various emperors so that the calendar soon became out of synchronization with the sun.
5. In order to set the calendar right, the Roman senate, in 153 BC, declared January 1 to be the beginning of the new year. But tampering continued until Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, established what has come to be known as the Julian Calendar. It again established January 1 as the new year. But in order to synchronize the calendar with the sun, Caesar had to let the previous year drag on for 445 days.
6. A traditions of the season is making a New Year's resolution. That tradition dates back to the early Babylonians. Babylonian's most popular resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment.
7. Although the Rose Bowl football game was first played as a part of the Tournament of Roses in 1902, it was replaced by Roman chariot races the following year. In 1916, the football game returned as the sports centerpiece of the festival.
8. Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year in the company of family and friends. Parties often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man.
9. Traditional New Year foods are also thought to bring luck. Many cultures believe that anything in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it symbolizes "coming full circle," completing a year's cycle. For that reason, the Dutch believe that eating donuts on New Year's Day will bring good fortune.
10. The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility.