Mind Meanderings December 5th 2023

-

 

A couple of weeks ago, I truly celebrated a long-awaited milestone birthday.  Facebook friends sure made me feel great. 

One message was from a friend who sent birthday message at 12 midnight … one second after midnight to be exact … he said he wanted to be the first one to tell me happy birthday on my birthday … he said it’s not fair when people say ‘happy birthday’ on the day before …

But he cared enough to stay up late … just to be the first happy birthday wisher … we discussed this … told him I was surprised he and his family had stayed up so late … on a school night and all …

He replied, “Well, I set an alarm to wake me at midnight” … so, he had been asleep, set the alarm, sent a happy birthday message and went back to sleep. 

Man, that really got to me … People can be so kind to other people…

I guess the 'Twelve Days of Christmas' song is the worst torture ... it is like the Christmas version of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall ... And, I think the worst job would be the bus driver on a bus with middle schoolers singing that song about beer bottles on a wall … I realize this should not keep me awake at night but, truly, I would feel much better about the world if there was a law against the beer bottle song and that dang 12 days of Christmas torturous song …

You hear, “Let me replenish your drink” … but I never hear about just plenishing the drink … Is that pouring into an empty glass … Again, keeps me awake, losing sleep …

Here are some phrases I like:

·      It’s time to face the music (when someone is in trouble… they got to FACE the MUSIC … never understood that phrase but I like it)

·      I can’t bear to think of it … why is an animal’s name inserted into this? 

·      ‘Nothing doing’ … best answer to any question with the answer being ‘NO’… nothing doing…

·      Excuse my French … I guess they do a lot of cussing in France …

·      Rigamarole.

·      I’m no spring chicken … Ok, Thank you Dr. Obvious.

·      Ants in your pants.

·      Strung out.

·      Innards.

·      We are ‘fresh out’.

·      Deader than a doornail (Again, Thank you, Dr. Obvious)

·      Wait till the cows come home.  So, do cows stay on Daylight Savings time … is there an announcement by the Alpha Cow?

·      Healthy as a horse.

·      Strong like bull.

·      She’s about to Domino (when an expectant mother is about 10 ½ months pregnant) She’s got a bun in the oven.

·      It never dawned on me (I really like when people say this to me after I explain to them why they are wrong about something ….)

·      He was ‘three sheets to the wind’, that drunkard Otis in Mayberry … talk about elder abuse … get that man some assistance…

 

And, so, I’ll end this little ditty with something Mother Goddard said the other day … quoting her grandmother, I think … “Well, if they are bad mouthing us today, that means they are giving someone else a rest!”

Thank you for being my friends … and don’t expect me to set an alarm for 12 midnight to wish you a happy birthday … Let’s don’t and say I did …

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Chasing Wild Geese ... not just a single goose...

-
Image
  I’ll tell you this: If I am ever on a chase… it will be for wild GEESE (plural). I’ll not go on a chase for one wild goose. Higher expectations … get more geese …Yesterday, I saw a flock of geese flying in formation and heading northwest … honking encouragement at their leader goose … We all make mistakes when we were young … and for the record, I was young last night …I tell myself often … Words in my head … You know how sometimes you get a song in your head and it won’t go away. I have that same phenomena with words. The little voice in my head is really like that cartoon character who could blow holes into a mountain saying, “Kaboom” … Ugly as homemade sin. A drip. A drop. A dweeb. I can’t get over the phrase, ‘in broad daylight’ … is there a margin of difference in daylight when in becomes ‘broad’ … I never hear of ‘narrow’ daylight but might try to start that saying … might go ‘viral’ … which is another word I hate … viral is like a spreading virus … so much of our ...
Read more

Lights Out in June 2024 ...

-
Image
  So, this happened. I did something good for all the bad reasons. No, maybe I did something bad for all the right reasons. Yeah, that’s the ticket. A couple of Mondays ago … I cleaned out the freezers. Threw away anything which was frost bitten … which was just about everything. But, I got snake bit ridding us of the frost bitten … I put out FIVE trash cans for the Tuesday ‘solid waste’ pickup. I always put the maximum amount out for the trash day … I feel like I get ‘gypped’ if I don’t … like I don’t get my money’s worth unless I’ve rounded up a lot of trash… kitty commode scoops always top off the garbage take out … So, Monday night … huge storm. Rain, hail, lightning that was so lightening that the darkness-activated landscape lights were blinking … no idea if night had turned into day. The wind was hellish … And … all sprinkler systems came on despite their moisture detection gauges which are supposed to block all high cost waterings … And five trash cans (bins…to use a...
Read more

Advice for Helping Those in Grief (thank you Delta County Funeral Home for assistance)

-
Image
While there is no one perfect way to respond or to support someone you care about, here are some good ground rules.  #1 Grief belongs to the griever. You have a supporting role, not the central role, in your friend's grief. This may seem like a strange thing to say. So many of the suggestions, advice and "help" given to the griever tells them they should be doing this differently, or feeling differently than they do. Grief is a very personal experience, and belongs entirely to the person experiencing it. You may believe you would do things differently if it had happened to you. We hope you do not get the chance to find out. This grief belongs to your friend: follow his or her lead.  #2 Stay present and state the truth. It's tempting to make statements about the past or the future when your friend's present life holds so much pain. You cannot know what the future will be, for yourself or your friend -- it may or may not be better "later." That yo...
Read more