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Something to consider.........

Have you made known your 'end of life decisions'?  No, not those terrific one-lines that have your friends laughing til their sides hurt... but, the real determinations that every human will face.  There will be opportunities for great one-lines if that's what you choose to do...there will be various opportunities for you to choose the how of living your end of days.

It is, seriously, something to consider.

Wild Horses...Sung by Susan Boyle

Geezer Streaker....

Two old men were sitting on a park bench outside the local town hall when a flower show was in progress.

One leaned over to the other and said, "Cripes! life is boring, we never have any fun these days. For $5.00 I'd take my clothes off and streak through the flower show!"

"You're on!" said the other old fellow, holding up five dollars.

As fast as he could, the first old man fumbled his way out of his clothes and completely naked, streaked through the front door of the town hall, followed by loud applause.

The streaker burst out through the door surrounded by a cheering crowd.

"Wow, what happened?" asked his friend.

"It was great!" he said, "I won first prize for Dried Arrangement!"

Thanksgiving's comin up. Whatcha gonna be doin??....

dinner at your house?  you cooking??  cookin what???

you carryin a dish to another's table?  you're fixin n takin what???

btw....... didja check out the Recipe section??   added a cake in a cup in a microwave.....yeah, really.

kaly said, "you doin the party this year??"
i said, "party?"
she said, "yeah.  you know...thanksgiving."
"ahh.  you think i should?"
"yeahhh.  then i could come help."
"ahh ha.  think we should have Deviled Eggs?"
got no words back on that one...just a big grin.

Re: I quit smoking.........

doing fine here.  like i said, "i quit June 2009."  quit.  never a cig since that day.

do i think about a cig?  of course.  and sometimes the 'feel' is quite strong and super tempting.  do i give in to it??  no way.  it ain't happening.  i will not allow even one ... back into my life.   and, i take a deep breath, feeling glad that i can.

Re: H1N1

yep, same true here.  youngsters (6mo thru prego's) are still the focus.  they say more vaccine is coming.  but, no one says When.  and it's hard to find a Where.

as bad as this organization is, what the hell would be happening if there were a bio-terror thing going on that every one needed to be immunized against??

so much for all our Great Protectors in our various gov administrations having their ducks all in a row.
bah!

Re: "WHINNYING ON LIFE" Tiny Hooves with Tender Hearts.

wal honeychile, i can't think of a better person to be drivin that cart, and leading that section of the parade!

you go girl!

Re: Sisters......

hey butterfly...... ain't nuthin bettern a sista, precious

Re: Some Crazy Facts.........

LOL!!!  yep, i tried to lick my elbow too..... then sat laughin at myself!

here's a thing that arrived in my email this morn:

Inside every older person
is a younger person
wondering what the hell happened!

Some Crazy Facts.........

In the 1400’s a law was set forth that a man was not allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have “the rule of thumb”.
Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen Only…Ladies Forbidden”…and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Coca-Cola was originally green.
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king in history:
Spades – King David
Hearts – Charlemagne
Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds – Julius Caesar
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural
causes.
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter “A”?
A. One thousand
Q. What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
A. All invented by women.
Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
A. Honey
In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase “goodnight, sleep tight.”
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts… So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.” It’s where we get the phrase “mind your P’s and Q’s”
Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they
used the whistle to get some service. “Wet your whistle” is the phrase inspired by this practice.

Believe it or not, you can read the following:

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the human mnid aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?

~~~~~~~~~~~AND FINALLY~~~~~~~~~~~~
At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

Re: H1N1

I hear ya butterfly.  The info we've been fed and are being fed, tends to contradict each other and it'self. 

Over the last several years, the Whoever (cdc/who/??) have been 'making noises' about seniors not responding with full immunity to the flu shots.
and i thought, "what are they setting us up for now??"

is this a tailor-made-virus?  i doubt we'll ever know.  The how, what, when, where of it sure has made me wonder.

Will i get the shot?  Yes.  As soon as it's available.  Do i feel it's safe?  I have my questions.  Do i feel it's safe to Not get the shot?  Dang ifin they're not the same questions.

Re: H1N1

The thing that bothers me about this 'swine' flu:  A mix of pig, avian, and human flu virus.

It popped up suddenly in Mexico....outta nowhere. 
Whereas previous years had it rearing it's ugly head in remote places in China, but always as a pig and avian flu...with the hoy and cry of "omg what if it should INfect a person with Human flu?!  om!"
Then, there it was in Mexico for heaven's sake.  Another place of majorly crowded and non hygienic conditions.

Then, popping up in diverse places that had NO connection to anything in Mexico.  No trips to or from mexico.  No airplane trips of any kind to or from anywhere. 

All the while the WHO and CDC giving a hoy and cry about PANDEMIC.......gads, we were being given mental images of humanity around the world being decimated by this horrid Swine/Avion/Human flu. 

Told often enough and loud enough, the human poplulation does exactly what it's being programmed to do...it panics.  It gets scared.  For itself, it's children and it's neighbors, but mostly.....for itself.  Hey, even on airplanes that's what they instruct...put the oxygen mask on yourself first, then help others.

Somehow in someway, the whole of it seems manufactured  Yes, the flu is real.  But it's the way of it that makes me question the how of it.

Ohh, remember the poor Mexican farmer who's pigs were blamed for the outbreak??  Also remember that no one in his family had the human flu.  No, it sure as heck did not originate there.

Re: H1N1

ok.  Here's the scoop:

We have the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere.  When it's summer here, it's winter in the southernsphere.  And winter here means it's summer there.  It alternates because our planet Tilts differently during the year:  1/2 year the northern half is tilted toward the sun, making it hotter for us northern folks.   Being tilted toward the sun means the bottom half is tilted Away from the sun, making it colder for them.

When it's colder, humans stay inside where it's warm.  Inside and in closer quarters means we're closer to each other and germs begin to get shared.  Like at school (our children are the germiest lil critters) so our kids share germs and bring 'em home to parents who then take them to work and share them there.  Poof, lotza folks getting colds and 'Flu'.
While we're doing that, folks in the southern half of the planet are outside enjoying spring and the oncoming summer....in the sunshine and warming air.  They're pretty much not sharing germs any more.

Now, for the doggoned germs:  those lil buggers mutate pretty darn quick.  The germs that are in our area now are the ones that'd been moving around with the folks down south durning their winter and spring.  As they moved, they mutated a lil here and there, and moving northward.

While that was happening, the CDC folks were identifying the Flu germs down south, and making innoculation fluids for the 3 worst flus that were circulating. 
Every Season (that 6 month period...but when we're pretty much indoors) there are 5 - 7 flu viruses making the rounds.

The shot protects us from the 3 most Severe.

The Shot contains DEAD cells from the 3 worst flus.  We canNOT get sick from the shot.  It gives our immune system a heads up on recognizing the new intruder....our body's army is ready to kick some serious ass.

The H1N1 shot is made of dead cells, we canNOT get sick from that shot.  That shot is made from the products gleaned during last spring's "What the hell is happening?!" Flu.
It's made because it is Killing age 49ish and younger, and those few who never had a flu from those long years ago.  Like you and your children and your grandchildren.

If it happens to your family, you suddenly go from 'ain't happenin to me!' to a 100%, and a funeral.

Whose life are you willing to gamble with???  Yours???  Theirs???

And should you get a slight case of the swine flu....what stranger and their child are you willing to kill because of your sneeze??? and a thing you touch?

The flu is real.  The self responsibility is real.  The choice is a life saver, or not.

Re: check out my slideshow.

Some great shots hon, for sure.  Is there a way, during the setup, to slow down or make more clear the pictures used in the slideshow???

BTW..... didja know that you can do that with the pics on your pc, using Windows Media???  Including adding music to the show.......and using transitions.

You've got the idea now from the progie you've used......... so, now, go play with Media or Media Center and have a ball!!!

Soon you'll be ready for YouTube!!! *for real...ain't kiddin*

Re: The Bathroom was right there....20 feet away, right across the hall..........

An extremely modest man was in the hospital for a series of tests, which had left his bodily systems extremely upset. Upon making several false alarm trips to the bathroom, he decided the latest episode was another and stayed put.
He suddenly filled his bed with diarrhea and was embarrassed beyond his ability to remain rational. In a complete loss of composure he jumped out of bed, gathered up the bed sheets, and threw them out the hospital window.
A drunk was walking by the hospital when the sheets landed on him. He started yelling, cursing, and swinging his arms violently trying to get the unknown things off, and ended up with the soiled sheets in a tangled pile at his feet. As the drunk stood there staring down at the sheets, a hospital security guard who watched the whole incident walked up and asked,
“What the heck is going on?”
The drunk, still staring down, replied:
“I think I just beat the crap out of a ghost.”

Life Quotes.........

Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is
fighting some kind of battle.

We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.—Anonymous

The last great freedom of man is the freedom to choose his attitude under any given set of circumstances.--Victor Frankl, noted Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. -- Fr. Alfred D'Souza

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. --C.S. Lewis

Common sense is not so common. – Voltaire

No man was ever wise by chance. –Seneca

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. --Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.—John Lennon

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.—Unknown

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. --George Eliot

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.  If you're alive, it isn't.  ~Richard Bach

Life's not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.  ~Cherralea Morgen

Life is a foreign language:  all men mispronounce it.  ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.  ~Kathy Norris

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.  ~Charles Schulz

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.  ~Author Unknown

Life is like a coin.  You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.  ~Lillian Dickson

We are born wet, naked, and hungry.  Then things get worse.  ~Author Unknown

Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates.  So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game.  Sure, once in a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting.  In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper.  ~The X-Files

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.  ~Grandma Moses

A Hug.......

Next time you give or receive a hug, pay attention to what's actually going on.  By golly, methinks it's 'bout the bestest thing in the world!
When you wrap someone in your arms and they wrap you in theirs, and you both just squeeze and hold on...the world disappears and there's only the two of you in that envelope of shared caring.  Shared, because the depth of that sharing ripples to the very core of you.
In that moment, for a mere fraction of a moment, you can see the beauty of the spark of you sans any self manufactured facade that you've choosen to wrap around your daily self.  In that fraction of a moment you are the pure wonder that you are.  And, that is awesome indeed.

LOL...sure, go hug someone.  Truth is, they need it as much as we do.  So go ahead, make their day, and yours too.

Re: Welcome LadyBex and Peacedove

A warm welcome LadyBex and peacedove.   Jes sitcherself down and jump right in. 

Yep that msn fiasco scattered all of us hither and yon, for sure...and left most of us feelin a mite lost without all our years and years long time friends.  But, here we are in da cabin.  A place where new and old friends gather.  Don't be timid, you know most folks here and others will find their way back here too.

We talk about most anything and you know Classic already... the what and how of her, and that marvelous humor of hers.  So please make yourself at home....and i hope you'll come to feel that you Are home, at da cabin.

blessings younguns......... many blessings...........
granni

Most Dangerous Cake Recipie in the World....Mug Cake in 5 minutes

This is a Very Chocolatey flavored cake.  Adjust to your particular taste/craving/like.  I diminish the cocoa to 1 Tbsp and the chocolate chips to 1 1/2 Millk Chocolate chips.

hmmm....could substitute White chocolate chips or peanutbutter chips..... ohhh myyyy.

4 tablespoons flour 
4 tablespoons sugar 
2 tablespoons cocoa 
1 egg 
3 tablespoons milk 
3 tablespoons oil 
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional) 
A small splash of vanilla essence 
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to your largest mug and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using), vanilla essence , then mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). 
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! 

Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.


EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous).


And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? 

Because now you are only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake  at any time of the day or night!

Re: H1N1

Yep.  Wal, ifin the shots ever become available.  Lordy they've been slow comin, particularly after all the hype and the promises and promises then the revamps and revamps.  Sheesh, don't know when of if they'll ever show up.
This weekend in Fargo, it's for lil kids....for lil kids located in Cass County.  In ND they're doing it by county.
Next week it'll be for...........?  So we wait til next week.

I quit smoking.........

Yeah.  Really.  I quit.  Course it took 2 1/2 tries with Chantix.  But the last time, two weeks into it, i quit..June 2009.

Crave cigs?  sure.  But each time it happens, i take a deep breath and feel glad that i can.  For the rest of my life i'll probably crave a cig....but, i'll never again have that first one....only one....i can handle it...i'll just have one.  No.  there will never again be one cig and me.

Course, i then took up Skittles.  One at a time.  Tiny lil things they are ya know.  Round, crisp, a lil tart, a lil sweet and crunchy that slowly becomes a gummy nothingness and then is....gone.  So i reach for another one, maybe a yellow this time.

Yeah, i've quit cigs.  One of these days i'll have to work on quitting skittles.

The Bathroom was right there....20 feet away, right across the hall..........

"You must keep your leg straight!  You can't get up!!!"
"i understand.  but, i have to go to the bathroom."
"Sorry.  You have to stay in bed and keep your body flat and your leg straight.  Stay in bed."
"k.  I know why and how.  You don't understand.  I realllllllllly have to go to the bathroom."
"We'll give you a bedpan."
"you'll do what?!"  as i began to sit up, and was quick pushed back down to full flat again. (they're quick!)
"Get a bed pan!" she called to the other nurse.  "We'll give you a bed pan."  and the other nurse handed her this little green thing that should have a small potted plant growin on the dining room table.
They handed it to me.  This lil plastic green thing was only a little bit bigger than what they used to call a sepsis pan.  Hmmm, they probably don't use those any more.  Folks today probably barf in a plastic zip lock bag for tidiness and quick disposal.  But, there it was and they wanted me to.....lay on it.
"Just roll over.  KEEP that leg STRAIGHT...and roll over."  and she placed that lil thing against my bare butt hangin out the back of that hospital gown and then she said, "ok.  Now, keep that leg STRAIGHT and roll back til you're flat on your back again."
i did.  and thought, "ain't no way this is gonna work!" as i envisioned what happens when i'm lactose intolerant.  Ain't no one wants to be around when that happens.  I don't even want to be around.  and they want me to do it in that tiny thing.  omg!
she began the litany all over again, "Your leg has to be kept flat and no pressure on it so the artery doesn't start bleeding.  You can NOT walk on that leg yet!!"
I looked at her with all the compassion i could muster for what she intended and desired and protocal demanded of her and said, "Look.  I'm here.  Surrounded by the best in the profession.  If there's going to be a blow-out, this is the absolute best place for that to happen.  I have to go to the bathroom.  It's right there 20 feet away.  I am going to have diarrhea.  The kind that literally blasts the porcelain.  Let me git outta this bed!!!"
They both stood their ground and looked determined enough to tie me to the bed as an unruly patient.  This was gonna be a no win thing for sure.  And that lil green pan was not up to the task.  They truly did not understand the direness of this situation.
About that time, in walked my friend who was going to 'babysit' me cuz i'd have to stay in town "in case anything happens we don't want you to be all the way out in the country...and you can't be alone."
I told her what'd been happening.  Bless 'er heart, she didn't even laugh.  But said, "when i've had that kind of problem with location, i'd convinced myself to 'hold it'.
I thought about that.  Yep.  That'd work.
Redefined squinch, and got that dang green thing gone from me and the bed.
i said, "you know i'm gonna need Metamucil."
she grinned, "yep."
"Where do you want to eat tonight?"
"Do You realllly think that you're gonna be up to going out to eat??!!!  I'll get us something from the deli."
We did McDonalds.
So much for turning it into a girls night out dinner for the rare time either of us were in town for the night.

and for the curious minds that want to know (LOLOL@classic)...didn't need metamucil.

an old lady's poem.......

An Old Lady's Poem

What do you see, nurses, what do you see?
What are you thinking when you're looking at me?
A crabby old woman, not very wise,
Uncertain of habit, with faraway eyes?
Who dribbles her food and makes no reply
When you say in a loud voice, "I do wish you'd try!"
Who seems not to notice the things that you do,
And forever is losing a stocking or shoe.....
Who, resisting or not, lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding, the long day to fill....
Is that what you're thinking? Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse; you're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am as I sit here so still,
As I do at your bidding, as I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten ...with a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters, who love one another.
A young girl of sixteen, with wings on her feet,
Dreaming that soon now a lover she'll meet.
A bride soon at twenty -- my heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows that I promised to keep.
At twenty-five now, I have young of my own,
Who need me to guide and a secure happy home.
A woman of thirty, my young now grown fast,
Bound to each other with ties that should last.
At forty, my young sons have grown and are gone,
But my man's beside me to see I don't mourn.
At fifty once more, babies play round my knee,
Again we know children, my loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me, my husband is dead;
I look at the future, I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing young of their own,
And I think of the years and the love that I've known.

I'm now an old woman ...and nature is cruel;
'Tis jest to make old age look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles, grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass a young girl still dwells,
And now and again my battered heart swells.
I remember the joys, I remember the pain,
And I'm loving and living life over again.
I think of the years ....all too few, gone too fast,
And accept the stark fact that nothing can last.

So open your eyes, nurses, open and see,
...Not a crabby old woman; look closer ...see ME!!

we are all like that.  both genders.  to not age requires dying young.  and that's a thing none desires.  so we age.  and as we age, it seems as if in Their Eyes, we disappear a lil more with each passing year.

Then comes a day when we're in a clinic or a hospital...ourselves, or with a beloved person who's older than us and we witness the View of Us or them, through Their eyes.  We hear it in the way they speak, in the tone of their voice.

I could be gracious and say it's their recognition of what they themselves are becoming and it's a view that is so frightening at a deep unrecoginized level that it's simply their attitude that reveals the inner fear.  But, i'm not going to be gracious.  I refuse to be gracious.  I didn't condone rudeness when i was young, why the heck should i now?

Re: Good God - Why didn't somebody tell me I am too dang old to be moving..........oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

ok.  you're too old to be moving.

we didn't say anything cuz we knew you wouldn't've listened.  just like no one told us cuz they knew we wouldn't've listened.

there is a lot to be said for payin someone to do the major moving of things tho.  did it that way one time....loved loved loved it!!!!!!!  then came inflation which would be a hugely bigger chomp than the sticker shock i'd dealt with wayyyy back then, so it's never happened again.  i did like you.

good news:  in a coupla weeks you'll be like a brand new person.  well, that's after you heal.

Re: Hi Granni

om!!  ladychak5!!!!!   hello precious!!!!   welcome home honey!!!!

granni