01:14 Apr 24 2009
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An email that I got today that makes me think.......thought it might you too.
Will You Dance With Me?
READ THIS VERY SLOWLY.... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.
Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.
I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.
How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?
How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?
I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gasp and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.' And my personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together..
Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!
We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet... We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.
Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.'
When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.
My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-Decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you.
Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butter fly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask ' How are you?' Do you hear the reply? ??? ???
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.' And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say 'Hi?
When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift....Thrown away..... Life is not a race Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.
'Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!
21:04 Apr 22 2009
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A conversation with the artillery commander of the group of which I am a member.
Doing ok Staying busy and waiting for sunshine....which it seems I will get this weekend in spades :)
Tomorrow is the anniversary of my first date with Bill 5 years ago.
I still have not heard from him...it will be almost two months. I assume he has moved on to greener pastures. I am trying to deal with it and
let it go. There were good times and good memories. He will be a nice guy for someone if he will let himself commit. I hope he stays in
reenacting as he did seem to enjoy it. And if he comes to events as part of your crew....I am ok with that....or at least try my damndest to be. :)
Life is too short to be angry and hold grudges. So.....with all that said ..
Yeah I am doing ok. :)
Her response - Good cause he sent his membership money in the mail yesterday.
OK THEN>>>>Guess I need to prepare for that encounter.
To fill anyone in that is not Rat or Cat...
You see.....he just stopped calling. No reason that I am aware of. I sent him a birthday present a week before mine. He called to acknowledge it....and that was the last I heard from him. And in 4 days that will have been two months.
19:51 Apr 21 2009
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I watched QVC this afternoon. Bare Escentuals was on. I am such a bad, bad, girl........and Rat will love that.
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