clarification

i just reread that last posting. need to clarify. i was wearing pants, etc., not just a sweatshirt!
i love language, don't you?

the last rose

yesterday i gardened all afternoon in shirt sleeves. don't ever remember doing that on the 11th of november. planted bulbs and baby iris, had an all-around great afternoon outside. tonite i went for a walk under a skyful of stars wearing only a sweatshirt. only in wisconsin.

a message from your public health nurse

Love Story I will seek and find you . I shall take you to bed and have my way with you I will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan. I will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop. I will exhaust you to the point that you will be relieved when I'm finished with you. And, when I am finished, you will be weak for days. All my love, The Flu Now, get your mind out of the gutter and go get your flu shot!

we've all been there

WET PANTS

Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.

The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, "Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat."

He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.

As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.

The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie.

She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done enough, you klutz!"

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispers back, "I wet my pants once too."

May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good..

Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.


thank you, dear emilie for sending this to me...it brought back lots of early grade school memories!!

fall back

did you remember??

wasn't it great to have that "bonus" hour this morning for sleep, lounging, coffee, the paper, whatever?

i couldn't download a maxine cartoon for you today--technical trouble, but in it she says: "don't forget to turn your clocks back tonite. i'm turning mine back to when i was 20."

if you could turn your clock back to when you were 20, would you??

maybe that's too heavy a question for a sunny sunday morning because it inherently implies that if you could do it, you might also choose do some things differently or choose a different path.

it would be like having an "undo" button for the decisions made that might not have been the wisest.
now there's a thought----that would blow that "easy button" marketing concept right out of the water!!

i definitely would un-do some of the stupid decisions i made.
i would've gotten more serious about college sooner than i did, and would undo any hurts i caused other people.

most importantly though, i'd have chosen not to go with the afro perm.
that'd be one less thing for my kids to tease me about now.