What Daddy taught me

I believe that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I believe that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I believe that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.

I believe that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I believe that it isn’t always enough, to be forgiven by others. Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I believe that you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life Forever.

I believe two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.

Why do I believe all of these things? Because that’s what my Daddy taught me and he taught me well.  He was a very wise man, don’t you think?  I sure do.

Interesting story since we just watched the Super Bowl

In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy, was busily working when a new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register 4. Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the call. As he approached the check-out stand a distant smile caught his eye, the new check-out girl was beautiful. She was an older woman (maybe 26 and he was only 22) and he fell in love.

Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, smiled softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left. He looked at her card, BRENDA. He walked out only to see her start walking up the road. Next day, he waited outside as she left the supermarket, and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she accepted. When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again, outside of work. She simply said it wasn’t possible.

He pressed and she explained she had two children and she couldn’t afford a baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter. Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following Saturday. That Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to go with him. The baby-sitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply said, “Well, let’s take the kids with us.”

She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed. Finally Brenda brought him inside to meet her children. She had an older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, and then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair. He was born a paraplegic with Down Syndrome.

Kurtis asked Brenda, “I still don’t understand why the kids can’t come with us?” Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman with two kids, especially if one had disabilities – just like her first husband and father of her children had done. Kurtis was not ordinary – – – he had a different mindset.

That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids, went to dinner and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of him. When he needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his wheelchair, took him and brought him back. The kids loved Kurtis. At the end of the evening, Brenda knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life with. A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her children. Since then they have added two more kids.

So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the check-out girl? Well, Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona. If you tune in on 1 February, you can watch him quarterback the Arizona Cardinals in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers! Is this a surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an ordinary person? Some athletes are also great people.

It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI. He has also been the NLF’s Most Valuable Player twice and the Super Bowl’s MVP. On Sunday, 1 Feb I’ll be rooting for Kurt and the Cards. It’s a shame they didn’t win but he’s already a winner in my book.

When did it start paying to do something stupid or illegal?

Kara Walton, of Claymont, Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000 …oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

This is part of what’s wrong with our so called ‘Legal system’.  It’s also why our insurance is so darn high too.

Here’s three in one!!

Idiots # 1: A pair of Michigan robbers entered a record shop nervously waving revolvers. The first one shouted, ‘Nobody move!’ When his partner moved, the startled first bandit shot him.

Idiot # 2: Arkansas: Seems this guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he’d just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back knocking him unconscious. It seems the liquor store window was made of Plexi-Glass. The whole event was caught on videotape.

Last but not least: This person lives in a semi-rural area (Weyauwega, Wisconsin). They recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: ‘Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! – I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.’

I have no more but I’m sure there are more out there because they multiply!!

Is your life full of stress like mine?

I am one of those people that can handle stress up to a point.  Once I reach that point, look out!!  I heard about motivational keynote through the Stress Institute, and decided to check it out.  I was amazed at the information in it that really helped me a lot.

Everyone has stress like crazy right now between the stock market going up and down and layoffs left and right.  No one knows who’s next.  Take the time to check out this web site and see if it doesn’t help you out some too.  I bet it will.  It sure helped me out.

I found more mailboxes!!

That’s the good thing about the Internet, if you keep looking, you’re bound to find what you need.  Well I happen to be looking for mailboxes right now and found more.  I didn’t realize how many different sites there were or how many different types of mailboxes there were either.  That makes it hard to choose just one.

I was also trying to find address plaques and they had some really nice ones too.  Living in a townhouse, I don’t need any mailbox posts but my mother does since she’s also looking for a new mailbox.  She found a couple of sites I hadn’t found yet too.

I really think I like the Whitehall mailboxes the best of all now that I have checked out so many.  They are available in a lot of different styles and materials too.  I just wish I could make up my mind.  My mothers having the same problem I am too.  I wonder if you can have more than one mailbox???  I don’t think my mailperson would appreciate that, do you?

Some people just don’t think

I don’t know how true this is but it was sent to me as true anyway.

There is a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. The medical student quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital.

She calmed down and at the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. Then the medical student told her that she had better bring her daughter in to the emergency room right away.  What was she thinking????

Do you shop online like me?

I really hate to go shopping in stores anymore than I absolutely have to.  Especially during a holiday, no matter what the holiday is.  The crowds, the crying kids, the whole thing gives me a headache.  Not to mention, I can sit right here in front of my computer and find just about anything I’m looking for.  If I’m looking for something for my home or garden, I go straight to ShopWiki because I know I’ll find it there.

It’s time to start thinking about my flower beds outside so I was looking for flower bulbs online and found exactly what I wanted.  They were even cheaper than at a local garden center or any other store around here.  Trust me, I called around to see where to get the best price too.  I even found bird baths too.

Then my darn coffee maker went kaput so I needed another one.  I wanted a good one but as usual, I didn’t want to have to pay a fortune for it either.  I found just what I was looking for online again.  You can find just about anything from furniture to grills and paint or hardware and tools.  The best part is all of the money you save and you didn’t have to leave the comforts of your home.

This should be posted in every workplace and school

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this! Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent ‘s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

I love plants, don’t you?

Plants not only clean the air in your home but they just add something wonderful I think.  But the planters they are in have to be considered too.  Without nice indoor planters, the plants just aren’t as pretty.  They have to fit your room just like furniture does that’s why I always buy decorative planters for my plants.  They add that something that the pot they come in doesn’t, especially when you buy a high end planter.

I even have outdoor planters on my patio too.  They make my patio look so much more dressed than just plain.  I don’t like plain.  You can also get garden planters.  I use those in the summer to grow tomatoes so I can have fresh tomatoes instead of having to buy them.  I get quite a few off of them too.

I also have window boxes on the front windows of my house.  They look great and add so much to the look of your home.  In the fall, I plant pansies in them.  In the summer, it depends on the mood I’m in as to what type of flowers in them.  I try not to use the same flowers every year to give my home a different look each year.