Friday, July 31, 2020

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That’ll be fine

A recent transplant to the mountains of North Carolina writes: The folks around these parts have a peculiarity that drives me nutty. You ask them an “either/or” question, and their answer is– “That’ll be fine!”

I asked a lady the other night who was coming through my register at Wal-Mart, “Ma’am, would you like your milk in a bag or not?”

“That’ll be fine,” was her reply.

I looked quizzically at her, and asked, “Does that mean ‘yes’ or ‘no’?”

“I said that that’ll be fine,” was her answer. Since I was holding it up in my hand, out of a bag, I decided to assume that “that” in this case meant “that naked jug of milk that you’re holding in your hand, not in a bag.”

This feeling was further reinforced by a slight nod of the head towards the jug just as she said the word “that’ll.” I set the jug in the buggy without putting it in a sack.

“I said I wanted it in a bag,” she complained. “You want me to shout it or write it down for you?

“That’ll be fine!” I replied.

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This one always cracks me up!  I’ve known people like that!  lol

Have a lovely weekend!

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Sunday, July 26, 2020

Hebrews 11:1

Hebrews 11:1“[Faith in Action] Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

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Saturday, July 25, 2020

The Ice Cream Truck Test

You Are Conscientious

You are a very meticulous and careful. You have an eye for detail, and you don’t gloss over anything important.
Unsurprisingly, you are also highly ambitious. You want to be your best you possible, and you’d like the rewards that come with that.
You live a disciplined life, and you love it. You get more done on a Monday morning than most people get done all week.
Whenever possible, you try to take the prudent road in life. You feel like too much risk is hard to manage.
You are the type of person who tends to persevere. When everyone else has given up, you’re still fighting the good fight.
You are highly realistic and down to earth. You are willing to take a long, hard look at any problem and do what needs to be done to solve it.

This is one of the results from the quiz, The Ice Cream Truck Test

*****

Heh.  Not nearly as disciplined as I’d like to be. 

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Friday, July 24, 2020

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A Hole in One

The rabbi was an avid golfer and played at every opportunity. He was so addicted to the game that if he didn’t play he would get withdrawal symptoms. One Yom Kippur the rabbi thought to himself, “What’s it going to hurt if I go out during the recess and play a few rounds. Nobody will be the wiser, and I’ll be back in time for services.”

Sure enough, at the conclusion of the morning service, the rabbi snuck out of the synagogue and headed straight for the golf course. Looking down upon the scene were Moses and G-d.

Moses said, “Look how terrible—a Jew on Yom Kippur. And a rabbi besides!”

G-d replied, “Watch. I’m going to teach him a lesson.”

Out on the course, the rabbi stepped up to the first tee. When he hit the ball, it careened off a tree, struck a rock, skipped across a pond and landed in the hole for a HOLE IN ONE!

Seeing all this, Moses protested: “G-d, this is how you’re going to teach him a lesson? He got a hole in one!”

“Sure,” said G-d, “but who’s he going to tell?”

*****

I love this one!  I can just see the Lord doing something like that, too.  😉  lol

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Happy Pepper Day

It’s Pepper Day! 

And I forgot, until I saw a WordPress notice, from the lovely Rarasaur, and I was reminded.

Here I am on Pepper Day, with everything to say.

And nothing to say.

It’s like that space I fall into whenever I touch my husband’s things.  I fear I am going to hyperventilate and I fear I am going to stop breathing, at the same time.  I don’t know how I exist in this space.

The words travel through me and around me, in and out of me, in front of and behind me, and stay stuck inside me at the same time. 

The memories swirl through my space and time and collide with dreams we had of the future and there are moments it’s hard to detangle them one from another. 

Grief is old, as old as time, and fresh every moment of every day.  I could count the days since he’s been gone, but why?  Every day is an eternity, and every moment is but a blink, and how do you count that? 

I’m okay, really, and I’ll never be okay again.  That’s the honest truth.  There’s a new Normal in town and I don’t know how I exist in this space.

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I’ve been connecting with my older girls so that’s been super nice.  They came out for my husband’s memorial and have been incredibly supportive.  I’m actually considering taking my first oldest up on her offer to move closer to her – she lives in Ohio.  I’ve been working a few days a week for a couple from church, helping them with their “side-hustle” business and that’s been good.  Also interviewed for a full-time job for another place but haven’t heard back yet on that one.  And working on boosting my soaping business and getting my men’s line off the ground.  Been trying to spend more time with my younger two.  They’re not clingy, but they do miss their dad and I think it helps when we have meals together and just spend time talking.  They seem to like hanging with me, imagine that!  lol  “Teens like hanging with their mother, film at 11” 

We’ve been comet watching, too.  I found us a spot to drive out to so we can see and that’s been really special. 

So my WordPress neglect hasn’t been on purpose and I apologize for how long it’s taking me to respond to comments.  I will get there, I promise! 

That’s how I am on Pepper Day. 

How about you?

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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Isaiah 41:10

Isaiah 41:10“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

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Saturday, July 18, 2020

What’s Your Ice Cream Personality?

Your Ice Cream Personality is Dramatic

You don’t hold back with ice cream. You love it, and you’re a fan of almost every flavor – especially the chocolate ones.
You can appreciate a simple one scoop sugar cone, but you really flip for ice cream with tons of mixings and toppings. You love the works.
You don’t see ice cream simply as a treat – it’s a whole food group to you. Almost everything is better with a bit of ice cream added to it!
When it comes to ice cream, you believe that more is more. You’re the type of person to have a half dozen varieties in your freezer.

This is one of the results from the quiz, What’s Your Ice Cream Personality?

*****

You mean, not everyone thinks of ice cream as a food group?! 

Happy National Ice Cream day tomorrow!

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Friday, July 17, 2020

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Cat Nipped

In front of the local butcher’s, an art connoisseur noticed a mangy little kitten lapping up milk from a saucer. The saucer, he realized with a start, was a rare and precious piece of pottery. It was, in fact, a collector’s item.

He strolled into the store and offered ten dollars for the cat.

‘He’s not for sale’, said the butcher.

‘Look’, said the collector’, that cat is dirty and scabby, but I’m an eccentric. I prefer cats that way. I’ll raise my offer to twenty-five dollars’.

‘It’s a deal’, said the proprietor, and pocketed the money immediately.

‘For that amount of money I’m sure you won’t mind throwing in the saucer’, said the connoisseur’, ‘The kitten seems so happy drinking from it.

”I can’t do that’, said the butcher firmly, ‘That’s my lucky saucer. From that saucer, so far this week, I’ve sold 18 cats”

*****

Never try to scam the scam artist!  lol

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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Matthew 4:4

Matthew 4:4“Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’””

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Saturday, July 11, 2020

The Ice Cream Personality Test

Your Ice Cream Personality Is Sweet

You are not a particularly modest person. You’re proud of who you are, and you don’t care who knows it.
You are incredibly cautious. You would rather miss out on something than make a mistake. No one would ever call you wild… but they would call you responsible.
You are a very open minded, liberal, and flexible person. You love many things. You tend to have tastes that range from down home to cosmopolitan.
You tend to have a one track mind. You prefer not to multitask.
You can be a big dramatic and over the top sometimes. You are bold in every way

This is one of the results from the quiz, The Ice Cream Personality Test

*****

This kind of sounds like someone who is all over the map!  lol  Which, may or may not, be true of me.  😉

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Friday, July 10, 2020

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Old Penny Pincher

An old penny pincher had no friends. Just before he died he asked his doctor, lawyer, and pastor to gather around him at bedside.

“I have always heard that you can’t take it with you. But I want to disprove that theory,” he said. “I have $90,000 under my mattress, and when I die, just before they throw the dirt on me at my burial, I want you each to toss in an envelope with $30,000 within.”

The three attended the funeral and each threw his envelope in the grave.

On the way back from the cemetery, the pastor said, “I must confess. I needed $10,000 for my new church, so I only threw in $20,000.”

The doctor then said, “I must confess too. I needed $20,000 for a new hospital I was opening up, so I only threw in $10,000.”

The lawyer looked at them both and shook his head. He then said, “Gentlemen, I’m surprised, shocked, and ashamed of you. I don’t see how you could dare to go against that man’s final wish. I mean, I threw in my personal check for the full amount.”

*****

His personal check!  Niiiice!  lolol

Have a great weekend! 

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Sunday, July 5, 2020

Isaiah 12:4

Isaiah 12:4“In that day you will say: “Give praise to the LORD, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.”

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Saturday, July 4, 2020

Are You Red, White, or Blue?

You Are Red

You are a highly passionate person, and you’d stand up and fight for anything you believe in.
You’re a lot like the founders of the United States. You are a bit of a revolutionary.
Like most modern Americans, you have things you love and hate about the USA … and you’re not afraid to say what they are.
Keep expressing your opinion and acting to fix what’s wrong. People like you are what makes the USA great.

This is one of the results from the quiz, Are You Red, White, or Blue?

*****

Well.  Yeah.  🙂

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Friday, July 3, 2020

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The Things Kids Say

1. I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, ‘Mom, that lady isn’t wearing a seat belt!’

2. On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, ‘The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.’

3. A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of its glass jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer it.

‘Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now,’ she said. ‘She’s hitting the bottle.’

4. It was the end of my shift and I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me.

‘Is that a dog you got back there?’ he asked.

‘It sure is,’ I replied.

Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, ‘What’d he do?’

5. While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my rounds. She was always fascinated by people’s canes, walkers and wheelchairs.

    One day I saw her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, ‘The tooth fairy will never believe this!’

6. Walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates found a dead robin. Feeling that a proper burial should be performed, they secured a shoebox, lined it with tissue, then dug a hole to dispose of the deceased.

    The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers. With all the dignity he could muster, he intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: ‘Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he goooes.’ (I want this line used at my funeral!)

7. A little girl had just finished her first week of school. ‘I’m just wasting my time,’ she said to her mother. ‘I can’t read, I can’t write, and they won’t let me talk!’

8. A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.

‘Mama, look what I found,’ the boy called out.

‘What have you got there, dear?’

With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered, ‘I think it’s Adam’s underwear!’

*****

Kids are the funniest of all! 

Have an amazing weekend!

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