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Lost and Found

As usual of late, I’ve lost something important. The lost item doesn’t even belong to me. Yet, while searching for that, I found a whole stack of mail, including an Easter letter from a dear cousin, bills (good thing I know the schedule), and a great coupon to Joann’s Craft store from a few months ago. Just glad it wasn’t an invitation to a wedding or shower, since it is that season.

I’ve been losing far too many things lately. I feel dreadful about this bracelet that I need to repair for a woman at church. I HAVE to find it, because it’s not mine! It’s one thing to misplace my own items, but it’s a whole other thing to mess with another person’s stuff. Ack!

However, while looking for the jewelry, I found that I’m missing two other pieces of jewelry that need to be repaired as well as other jewelry that I’d like to wear for the summer. But I did find this pile of mail, my fancy camera battery charger, and a cookie from the Victorian Bakery (of course I ate it!).

Perhaps when I lose the next thing, I’ll find the last thing. Isn’t there a rule that something must always be lost?

Morale of the Story: Sometimes you have to lose one thing to find another thing.

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Posted by on June 19, 2013 in Uncategorized

 

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Content

When I’m out and about, I often think of great content for this blog. However, I feel it’s rude at the time to get out my cell phone and text myself (yes, the person I text the most is me – no text, no get done) (yes, I feel it is rude to dink around on my phone, even for legit reasons, when I’m with others). So, when I sit down at night to work on this, that fantastic idea is completely and utterly gone from my head.

I used to have a fantastic memory! Details galore: clothes, dates, times, who, when, what, etc. Over the years (and I’m not THAT old), it has diminished greatly. I’m not sure if it’s from the migraines or the medications to prevent or abort them. Any which way, if I do drag out my cell phone with you, there’s a 90% chance I’m sending myself a reminder for something-or-other. Usually dates, times, and the like.

Just like the clouds in the sky, my memory of things just flits right on by.

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Posted by on May 27, 2013 in Uncategorized

 

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Garbage Night

It’s Sunday night, well, to some it might be Monday morning. Until I go to bed for the day, it’s night. Sunday makes it garbage night.

Preparing for garbage night is usually on my list of least favorite things. It means the most thorough cleaning of the kitty litter all week, emptying the trash bins all around the house, and checking the fridge for miscellaneous icky things. Yet, there’s one part of the evening that is delightful.

After taking the garbage can to the street, I enjoy the walk back to the house. (Marketing: Garbage can is the term Best Way Disposal uses. As I appreciate them, they are my authority on all things garbage & recycling.)

That walk back to the house is a time to tilt my head back, look up into the sky, and see what I can see. Tonight, it was seeing the light clouds in the dark night, along with a few stars. Sometimes it’s stars galore, and other times it is an amazing moon of any shape or size. Every time, it reminds me of my childhood when my dad and I would walk to the house from the dairy barn.

My dad was a hard-working dairy farmer, as are all farmers. He was up before the crack of dawn (which I now refer to as the crack of stupid, thanks to Betsie’s intellectual remark). My mom figured that for many years he lifted 2,000 pounds each day, not including the extra weight from bailing hay in the summer. He milked 30 plus bossy’s twice daily. He often ended up repairing equipment, enduring salesmen, or being distracted by nagging children. Yet, at the end of the long, hard day’s work, he would still take a slow walk with me to the house and point out all of the constellations. It was a treasured time as he explained about a science he respected. He would share stories about weather, about the meaning of the stars, or about how light pollution reduces our vision into the night sky.

Therefore, the end result of taking the trash to the street is a good and joyful time.

Morale of the Story: Most things in life have a benefit, no matter how disgusting the activity.

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Posted by on May 13, 2013 in Uncategorized

 

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Reflections or Reality

Sometimes, I enjoy reflections more than reality. Memories of good times with friends and family, laughter over silly moments, and seeing the wonders at the Nature Center. Sometimes the memories are where I’d rather be when I’m working on a project I don’t care for, I have to hang up the laundry, or a loved one passes on from this earth.

And yet, without reality, there are no reflections to enjoy.

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Posted by on May 2, 2013 in Uncategorized

 

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Exercise

I do not like exercise. I don’t like running, jogging, basketball, football, golf, boxing, or wrestling.

I do like swimming, but I can’t do that at home.

I also like biking, but I’d have to put that in my car, and it doesn’t fit to take it to a bike path.

I do get in at least a half hour of exercise daily.

So what do I do for exercise? I use my memory.

You see, I don’t have one, so this is how I exercise:

  1. While sitting in the living room, I decide to get up to get a drink of water.
  2. I end up having to use the bathroom.
  3. I forget about the drink from the kitchen.
  4. I go back to the living room.
  5. Five minutes later I’m thirsty, so I get up for a drink from the kitchen.
  6. The dryer dings that it’s done.
  7. I take care of the laundry.
  8. I go back to the living room.
  9. Five minutes later I’m thirsty, so I get up for a drink from the kitchen.
  10. I end up wandering around from room to room trying to figure out why I got up.
  11. I go back to the living room.
  12. Five minutes later, I’m thirsty, so I get up for a drink from the kitchen.

I’ll stop there. Let’s just say that this goes on and on. Perhaps after a half hour I’ll have gotten the drink. That’s a half hour of exercise!

 
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Posted by on January 28, 2013 in Uncategorized

 

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