Got these from Adee via email:
* I’ve learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing “Silent Night.”
Age 5
* I’ve learned that our dog doesn’t want to eat my broccoli either.
Age 7
* I’ve learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back.
Age 9
* I’ve learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up again.
Age 12
* I’ve learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up.
Age 14
* I’ve learned that although it’s hard to admit it, I’m secretly glad my parents are strict with me.
Age 15
* I’ve learned that silent company is often more healing than words of advice.
Age 24
* I’ve learned that brushing my child’s hair is one of life’s great pleasures.
Age 26
* I’ve learned that wherever I go, the world’s worst drivers have followed me there.
Age 29
* I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
Age 30
* I’ve learned that there are people who love you dearly but just don’t know how to show it.
Age 42
* I’ve learned that you can make someone’s day by simply sending them a little note.
Age 44
* I’ve learned that the greater a person’s sense of guilt, the greater his or her need to cast blame on others.
Age 46
* I’ve learned that children and grandparents are natural allies.
Age 47
* I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on and it will be better tomorrow.
Age 48
* I’ve learned that singing “Amazing Grace” can lift my spirits for hours.
Age 49
* I’ve learned that motel mattresses are better on the side away from the phone. Age 50
* I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Age 51
* I’ve learned that keeping a vegetable garden is worth a medicine cabinet full of pills.
Age 52
* I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you miss them terribly after they die.
Age 53
* I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Age 58
* I’ve learned that if you want to do something positive for your children, work to improve your marriage.
Age 61
* I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
Age 62
* I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
Age 64
* I’ve learned that if you pursue happiness, it will elude you. But if you focus on your family, the needs of others, your work, meeting new people, and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you.
Age 65
* I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
Age 66
* I’ve learned that everyone can use a prayer.
Age 72
* I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
Age 82
* I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch – holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Age 90
* I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Age 92
For MsTT (and any / all bacon lovers)
BACON!!
32 Katfish
The Commies always end up getting eaten by their own. But not before they get that wealth transferred into their bank account. Rahm Dead Fish will be just fine.
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When a loony LEFTIE loses even Al Sharpton…………………..
Video: “Who gotta go? Rahm gotta go!”
#25 Sarge
I heard Pataki’s dropping out mentioned on talk radio today, and several people called to say they were surprised to hear he had still been in till now.
The schadenfreud.
It is good.
#25 Two thoughts, I didn’t know he was running,……and who the HE!! is George Pataki? Never heard of him!
Louie Gohmert hosted the Sean Hannity show today. In the 3:00 hour the guest was very interesting. He had a lot of knowledge of the Mid-East, speaks Arabic, lived there, and was in one of the alphabet soup security agencies we now have. Louie asked him what he would ask the female shooter in California if he were screening immigrants.… Read more »
Vicious muzzy backlash results in an arson fire at a mosque here in Houston. Obviously it was a white redneck racist zealot, right? Mebbe not.
#25 Sarge
Am thinking the headline to that story is being deliberately and brutally satirical. 🙂
The amazing thing about this is that somewhere out there somebody actually gives a rat’s about this.
Radio news at 3:30 reports the mosque fire on Christmas Day was indeed arson, and it was an inside job. Ding Ding Ding. Are we amazed, folks? And the Chron on Tuesday had a front page above the fold piece “Area Muslim leaders worry of backlash”. I dare say now they ought to seriously look to their own congregants for… Read more »
#20: BRAVO!
Considering the afternoon I have had, that was like medicine from
G-D, thank you.
#17 Shannon
Don’t know much about texting regarding saving the texts some place, but if they can be retained you have a lot more material for a story when all the dust settles.
We always suspected you were a flag hater.
Pretty cool piano playing!
I put a reply to a post on FB saying I “didn’t need a stupid flag overlay” on my face.
Two of the Products of Public Education promply called me out for calling the flag stupid.
I had to explain that the word “flag” was an adjective in this case, not a noun.
/facepalm
The movie, The Big Short, has a real-life character named Michael Burry. He’s apparently one of the few good guys. Here is a very, very interesting interview with him in New York magazine, a rag not known for producing decent journalism. The biggest hope I had was that we would enter a new era of personal responsibility. Instead, we doubled… Read more »
16 Adee I have twice as much going out via text to interested family and friends, but those are updates with info Hamsters wouldn’t necessarily be interest in. Y’all just get the funny stuff…..like keys locked in trunk late at night….reports on the two zoos (the one across the street and the one she is in). By the way, Fire… Read more »
Shannon 9 & 10
You can’t make this stuff up! Good thing you sort of have a journal of this entire happening on Hambone for when Fay is home and cured and normalcy has returned to your household and Max is convinced he hasn’t been abandoned. On account of this does have to be written up and published somewhere.
#5 Texpat
LOL
But yes it will be nice when she can be moved closer to home.
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And no physician or facility will accept a patient until she is deemed “medically stable” with specific recommendations on continuing care and type of facility needed.
11 mh42
There’s no way any responsible surgeon is going to let a major internal surgery patient out of their sight until they are absolutely sure that patient has no signs of infection.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Fay could be relocated to a hospital closer to home? Until she is released…
They had moved her back to ICU yesterday. I can’t imagine the logistical nightmare of evacuating that unit.
Well, gang, here’s a new twist. I’m en route to Hosp and Fay texts me:
“May be some where else, fire Marshall want to evacuate this area. Been a mess. Of course happens whenPT here.”
Never a dull moment. 🙂
Listening to my favorite piece.
Jupiter
A totally unreasonable stunt that would never happen to the navy of a real leader. I think the stunt was yet another finger in the eye of the USA with the tacit approval from JugEars. Under the administration of a T or Cruz, the ship firing off the missiles in a similar circumstance could be sunk or at least fired… Read more »
David Limbaugh has a nice piece skewering Pantsuit for the walking contradiction she has positioned herself to be.
3 Adee
I believe the proper term is Mogadishu on the Mississippi.
Enjoying my classical music channel on Pandora this morning. Needed something other than political wrangling today on the radio.
Good second to last morning of 2015 Hamsters. Gloomy overcast and 50 greets us here on the moors above the swollen and fast-moving Brazos. Lotsa good soil moves down to Freeport in it.
Received the OC I’ve Learned list from dear friends who live in St. Paul, aka Somalia West.
Judicial Watch: Secret Service Expenses for Obama’s 2013 Hawaii Christmas Vacation Cost Taxpayers $316,698.03, Taxpayers Paid Over $8 Million for 17-Day Vacation.
I just wish that I could be off work for 17 days, let alone afford 17 days in Hawaii……….SPITS~
Hump Day
Mornin’ Gang