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| ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** No one should Laugh at Life! That's Life's Job - Laughing at us. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** According to Chinese Horoscopes it is the YEAR OF THE TIGER! G-R-R-R Here's a writer that will make you laugh! I swear she is Erma Brombeck reincarnated! Take a look!
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| 14. NaNo is No More! | ID #678179 |
| Posted: 11-30-2009 @ 4:19 pm EST Edited: 11-30-2009 @ 9:04 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** So, it's over today all this NaNoWriMo hardship. Congratulations to each of you who entered and wrote even one sentence. This was a personal challenge and whatever you wrote was in answer to that. Now many of you are wondering "Now what?" and I have some advice for you. 1. Wax the ceiling 2. Knight yourself 3. Run around in squares 4. Mow your carpet 5. See how long you can sleep 6. Develop a complex 7. Outmaneuver your shadow 8. Get run over by a train of thought 9. Throw a tomato into a fan and most important of all 10. Do not look at, open or think about those words you wrote during November 2009!  |
| 13. Oh Eh Huh Wha | ID #677862 |
| Posted: 11-27-2009 @ 10:47 pm EST Edited: 11-27-2009 @ 10:52 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** So it is the Day after Gobble Day. It is Black Friday. I checked the news to be sure no one died during the mania of store's marked downs and so far so good. I hope it bolsters the American Economy, but I don't think one day can do that. I suppose ideas for gift giving are in order, however perhaps it should be a list of what NOT to get your relative, significant other, or friend. 1. A Santa Comode Set I know someone who actually bought this and I said, "This gives sitting on Santa's lap a whole new meaning huh?" 2. Jesus Band-Aids I swear they make these and I can foresee many problems faced if trying to apply to an 'owie' in strategic places. However who could get an 'owie' there? 3. Cat butt refrigerator magnets There may be a use there if you think about it. If one were on a diet, going to open that frig and having a cat's butt in your face may very well kill your appetite. 4. Greatest Hits of the Decade album. A decade equals ten years so one would think there could be excellant music, but we all know the sludge they put on these don't we? 5. A sweat shirt that reads: "Not fluent in Idiot. Speak slowly." I actually would love to hand this one out to some special people - HA! Now it's your turn to think up, find or even to buy those gifts that just keep on giving!  From me to you just in time for the holiday seasons! |
| 12. A Dragon's Dream | ID #677666 |
| Posted: 11-25-2009 @ 10:08 pm EST Edited: 11-25-2009 @ 10:16 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I know I'm on unemployment (however that may soon change due to a call I received today - YA!) but I had to get them. I did. It was a matter of OMG - seventy-seven BOOKS for less than one dollar each? ON CD? Yes, I got em. All written by an author who mesmerized me when I was little, Anne McCaffrey. ALL HER BOOKS. ALL HER SERIES. Now they were shipped from another country that is true. My USPS person screwed up the delivery - this is also true. But I have so many wonderful stories to listen to now. I started with the Pern series, as this was, in my opinion, the author's strongest writings. After getting calluses on my butt, my back sore and cramped from sitting at my computer (the better to hear them clearly of course) and my mind starting to wander into La-La Land, I put a halt to listening to them. I attempted to listen to The Crystal Singer, another series of books by her and no matter the different story line - sad to say - I got bored. I shall return to listening to them later. This all leads up to the untimely death of my new red enameled tea kettle. Yes. I had put the kettle on to boil water to make coffee (French Press style) and went, sat back down at the computer and hit >Play< on Media Player. Bad move. Bad, bad move. Three hours later I get up to fetch a glass of water and when I got into the kitchen I immediately saw disaster. My kettle had meanwhile gotten married to the burner she sat on. *sigh* I had to wait for the burner (which was on HIGH) to cool off before the enamel weld popped. The bottom of the kettle had such a wonderful imprint of the burner. Truly, you could identify the burner in any line-up! Now I just have to figure out how to remove the enamel stuck to the burner. I already tried filing, scrubbing and chipping. Nothing worked. You would think I had learned my lesson correct? Nahhhhh. Next morning, after walking the dogs, I put water in a saucepan to boil as I still had the waiting French Press duly loaded and waiting for something - anything - to happen with it. I again put the burner (another burner of course) on HIGH, and AGAIN went to sit at the computer. This time I was reading Blog entries and responding to e-mails, making comments and so on. TWO hours later I smelled it. I ran to the kitchen, knocking over the chair, scaring the puppies, and saw that what was once shiny silver stainless steel, now looked to be a poor imitation of copper. *sigh* I told my friend Christine who is now intent on getting me a Ms. or Mr. or Mrs. coffee maker. She gave me a huge scold. *sigh* I am currently not using the stove with it's last two burners left unmarked, unscorched and undamaged. Le' Microwave will have to do while I am Dragon Dreaming. Always remember Archimedes' principle. |
| 11. Thankfullerness | ID #677473 |
| Posted: 11-24-2009 @ 2:27 pm EST Edited: 11-24-2009 @ 2:29 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** So, last entry I covered the Urban Legands around the upcoming holiday. I never made it to the why we keep it around, aside from a day off work (*sigh*), a long weekend, many football games and too much food and drink. I think the Thankfullernesses should be gone over as well. What do you think people in today's modern society are thankfuller for? Let's go investigate shall we? Hm. Strange. 1) Zippers (foils pickpockets) 2) Contact lenses 3) Waxed dental floss 4) Girls' bikinis 5) Gravity 6) Pauly Shore has stopped making movies 7) The long distance between me and my closest relative 8) Anne Rice and her novels 9) Non-acid rain 10) The platypus As to number 4, well I have seen some females who should NOT have ever tried to go that route. We all know the horrors of Speedos don't we? Number eight - well personally I think Anne could be flipping burgers to contribute to society better. Number ten was contributed because it made that person laugh. I like laughter, laughing and all that surrounds it. Aside from breathing, I believe laughter would be high on my list of thankfullernesses. What's high on your list?  |
| 10. Why Thanksgiving Was Retained | ID #677231 |
| Posted: 11-22-2009 @ 6:26 pm EST Edited: 11-22-2009 @ 6:28 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I asked an eleven year old what caused us to celebrate Thanksgiving every year. She had no idea. I asked this of a twenty-two year old and then a seventy-five year old. The youngest gave a garbled story of pilgrims eating, the seventy-five year old told me it was to celebrate harvest and survival. So I searched for why this up-coming celebration is still revered after all these centuries. Myth: “The First Thanksgiving” occurred in 1621. Fact: No one knows when the “first” thanksgiving occurred.     Myth: The people who came across the ocean on the Mayflower were called Pilgrims. Fact: The Plymouth settlers did not refer to themselves as “Pilgrims.” Most of those who arrived here from England were religious dissidents who had broken away from the Church of England. Myth: The Pilgrims invited the Indians to celebrate the First Thanksgiving. Fact: According to oral accounts from the Wampanoag people, when the Native people nearby first heard the gunshots of the hunting colonists, they thought that the colonists were preparing for war and that Massasoit needed to be informed. When Massasoit showed up with 90 men and no women or children, it can be assumed that he was being cautious. When he saw there was a party going on, his men then went out and brought back five deer and lots of turkeys. Myth: The Pilgrims and Indians feasted on turkey, potatoes, berries, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and popcorn. Fact: Both written and oral evidence show that what was actually consumed at the harvest festival in 1621 included venison (since Massasoit and his people brought five deer), wild fowl, and quite possibly nasaump—dried corn pounded and boiled into a thick porridge, and pompion—cooked, mashed pumpkin. Among the other food that would have been available, fresh fruits such as plums, grapes, berries and melons would have been out of season. It would have been too cold to dig for clams or fish for eels or small fish. There were no boats to fish for lobsters in rough water that was about 60 fathoms deep. There was not enough of the barley crop to make a batch of beer, nor was there a wheat crop. Potatoes and sweet potatoes didn’t get from the south up to New England until the 18th century, nor did sweet corn. Cranberries would have been too tart to eat without sugar to sweeten them, and that’s probably why they wouldn’t have had pumpkin pie, either. Since the corn of the time could not be successfully popped, there was no popcorn. Myth: Black Friday was started after that first Thanksgiving with trading between the settlers and the Indians. Fact: Although there have been special sales the day after Thanksgiving for a long time, it's believe that using the term "Black Friday" started way back in the 1970's, but didn't become as big of a sensation until 2002. So you can now inform your guests, or if you are a guest yourself this Thanksgiving, you may provide lively discussion about the whys and wherefores of this celebation. That is if you can get their attention off the television viewing of those football games! Find something in your life for which you are truly grateful. |
| 9. Waldo What WERE You Thinking? | ID #676412 |
| Posted: 11-16-2009 @ 2:18 pm EST Edited: 11-16-2009 @ 2:21 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** I just finished reading Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance". I actually had to start a list of vocabulary to look up definitions and pronunciations. For instance: mendicant sycophantic parallax apologue antinomianism amelioration Nope not gonna fill you in on their meanings. You can go do it! HA!. While I get the major points of his essay, there were parts that left me wondering just what he was trying to say to his reading audience. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men, - that is genius." Now, while I do understand different people believe different things, have differing concepts of reality, does it necessarily mean genius? If someone has a mental disease, say schizophrenia, are their musings also genius? He doesn't qualify his remarks to any significant degree so it is difficult to know what he means. "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." Again, huh? Taken out of context it looks even more unfathomable. I had to read the section four times just to come to any sense of what he was talking about. He wants to warn against imitating anyone, anything, any idea - yet can we actually do that? Is originality that easy to maintain? Do all of us have original, brand new ideas and thoughts? Somehow I disagree with that. We are bound by our physical DNA to achieve a sameness expressed in varied ways perhaps but how can all be original? Now that I've managed to stump myself, I am going to find an on-line source that evaluates this piece of literature. For those interested in ancient, old, documents and books, the link to Google's library is: http://books.google.com/books Check out some of the philosophers and writers of eras gone by. By the way, spell check saw every one of those words I had to look up as being misspelled but had no alternatives for them. *sigh* Forgotten language - English. |
| 8. Everyone Needs Advice Now & Then.... | ID #675944 |
| Posted: 11-12-2009 @ 9:18 pm EST Edited: 11-12-2009 @ 9:57 pm EST | |
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...don't they? Of course you all do! I think I shall never see anything as grand as a talking bush |
| 7. Veterns Day - Did you remember? | ID #675824 |
| Posted: 11-11-2009 @ 10:58 pm EST Edited: 11-11-2009 @ 10:59 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** From the President's speech at Fort Hood's Memorial to those killed: We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with gratitude for the lives that they led; and with a determination to honor them through the work we carry on. This is a time of war. And yet these Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great American community. It is this fact that makes the tragedy even more painful and even more incomprehensible. For those families who have lost a loved one, no words can fill the void that has been left. We knew these men and women as soldiers and caregivers. You knew them as mothers and fathers; sons and daughters; sisters and brothers. But here is what you must also know: your loved ones endure through the life of our nation. Their memory will be honored in the places they lived and by the people they touched. Their life's work is our security, and the freedom that we too often take for granted. Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town; every dawn that a flag is unfurled; every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – that is their legacy. ******************************************************************************************************************************************** "The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Abraham Lincoln --December 1, 1862 ******************************************************************************************************************************************** “The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.” Albert Einstein ********************************************************************************************************************************************* We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us. - George Orwell ********************************************************************************************************************************************* Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons. - General MacArthur ********************************************************************************************************************************************* No matter your stance on war, politics, the Armed Forces - today was a day to pay tribute to men and women who gave to their country and the payment was high. |
| 6. You Can Apply to Be A.... | ID #675458 |
| Posted: 11-9-2009 @ 2:59 pm EST Edited: 11-9-2009 @ 3:16 pm EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** What is the definition of a Hero? All writers should know it, as they create them when they write. In case you have forgotten, however, here is the dictionary definition: A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life  Kimberly MunleyThat mother of two girls living in a small suburban area of Texas, holding down a nine to five job while her husband is away fits that definition doesn't she? And the most noted quote everyone by now should recognize is: "I live a good life...a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully at night knowing that I may have made a difference in someones life." What does it take for an every day sort of person to become a hero? Is it recommended by one out of five dentists? Will it tighten those gluts or make your teeth whiter? What score do you get for reaching HERO status? In today's world of instant gratification, we are grateful instantly that Kimberly Munley didn't care what it took to be one, she is our HERO even if she won't accept that. Be a hero to someone in some small way today. |
| 5. A Candle in the Night | ID #675166 |
| Posted: 11-7-2009 @ 10:04 am EST Edited: 11-7-2009 @ 10:05 am EST | |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** And it came to pass that the people gathered. Where tears were shed, there were also shared hugs. Anger and confusion reigned, and no one had any answers. Then a flame lit the night of sorrow. The flame was passed, from one to another and finally there was light in the dark. Fathers, mothers, children, weeping for an act that went unexplained. Those in charge falter in providing more information. Fobbing off the questions from around the world these same leaders look to the people to take charge of the situation and hold together. Leaders looking to the masses for assistance. Now, once again, a religion becomes the focus of the anger. Once again a people are targeted. The candlelight flickers and perhaps one by one they too will falter and die off. Something good must come out of this act of brutality and insanity. Keep the candles lit. Keep faith with what is good and right. |
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