Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Things I've Learned

Some things I learned lately, or at least had reinforced.

-You can send a kid to the office easier if you tell them, “It’s a good thing I like you.”

-If you drink Beet-carrot-celery juice, you will see a change in color of your urinous waste.


-You can use less electricity and have you bill go up (& up).


-Cold dogs will put up with doggie sweaters but hot dogs will not.

-Some dogs think plastic food dishes are chew toys.

- If it's on the floor, a dog will chew it.

-If there is fluff in it, a dog will get the fluff out.


-Spell check can give you a word then tell you it is spelled incorrectly.


-You can work 6 days straight on the Wii Fit and not loose an ounce.

-If one dog has itthe rest will want it.

-Dogs never want to eat out of their own food dishes.


-Friends like you better if they don’t see you too often.


-Dogs don’t care if you get a good nights sleep as long as they can lie next to you and push you with their feet to be sure you are there. You think that they could just smell you.


-You can deny God’s existence but he will never deny yours.


-Don’t put the squirrel feeder and house inside the Jack Russell yard.


-My cranberry relish still taste's good and is good for you.


-The book “Coralline” (yes with an o) is going to be coming out as a movie.


-Husbands stop listening to you even before the loose their hearing.


-The colder the temperature, the finer the snow.


-Six dogs in your house can be too many and too few at the same time.

-A dog loves you, even when you say something offensive.

-Most dogs are good for a snuggle.


-Don’t blog about communication, before you take your antidepressant.

Pax Christi!

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Sorry

For what even I have done or said that has bothered you in any way, I am honestly and humbly sorry. Really! I mean it, wondering why intelligent people can not communicate their feelings clearly and non-offensively? Is it because we are so smart we look for hidden meaning or omens in everything?

Recently, two people came to visit. It had been a while and I and Pop looked forward to it with anticipation. Even though we had a great time, there was fear and trepidation, on my part at least. Every time I spoke I worried that I was offending some feeling of theirs, and several times I did just that. Our beliefs on some things have become quite different. I noticed some sighs and eye rolling coming my way.

Every parent has some regrets and feels that they were poor parents. Mine grow around the stick of lack of truth or clarity in communication. But this feeling of inadequacy spreads through out every thing I do. I know I’m a good person and have much to give. I know I care about all life from a germinating seed of a human to the germinating seed of a plant. Life is LIFE, a gift from God. I know I care and mean only the best. I’m not vindictive, I love, try at least to be patient, kind, not jealous etc.

You would think I’d have a bunch of good close friends. You would think that, but you would be wrong. I have some awesome friends. They are far away and are not near me day in and out. People whom that is forced on, I wind up offending and they pull away.

Pop is right in a way. He once said, “…., you offend everyone you talk to.” The truth in the statement is I eventually will do just that. Ah, I know. I am wallowing in self-pity and regret. That does not change the truth. 60 some years old and still can not talk to relatives and friends. There is none in the world whom one can just be our selves with. Funny, that is what we all want. To be accepted “as is”, non returnable, you have to keep me even with the flaws.