Six Word Saturday

  Let's say thanks to Cate today.

I'd like to invite everyone to join me today in saying a big thank you to Cate at  Showmyface .  Cate does  a great job of hosting Six Word Saturday every week. There were over 70 participants last week and there have been more other weeks.  I have gotten a comment from Cate every time I have participated in 6WS and I know most every participant gets a comment from Cate. I have gotten acquainted with some great blogs through 6WS and I'm sure many of you have to. Let's all show our appreciation to Cate today with a big "Thank You".

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My 6 year old grandson, Justin, recited the following poem at the Oral Interpretation Program at his school tonight.

No Difference / Shel Silverstein

Small as a peanut

Big as a giant,

We're all the same size

When we turn off the light.

Red black or orange,

Yellow or white

We all look the same

When we turn off the light.

So maybe the way

To make everything right

Is for God to just reach out

And turn off the light!  

Justin

He did a great job and he had a lot of fun playing with the flashlight he used as a prop. There were over 100 kids that participated in the program, including two of my other grandchildren, Jared and Hope, all of them reciting something they had memorized. (Most were fairly short, and some were in groups, so it didn't last as long as it might sound like .)They all worked hard and did a really good job.  I hope some of them remember Justin's poem.

Random Dozen

I'm answering the Random Dozen questions today. Linda offers up 12 questions every week and it is fun to play because the questions are, well, so random.

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1. Are you pleasant when you're ill, or are you a grumpy, fussy patient?
I am very fortunate that I don't get sick very often and I haven't been really sick for a long time, but if I'm not feeling well I mostly just want to be left alone.


2. When you find out that school is canceled (due to inclement weather) what is your gut reaction?
Since my kids are all grown with kids of their own, I mostly just wish that my work was cancelled too so I could go play with my grandkids.


3. What is one domestic skill you wish you could improve?
I am not very domestic at all these days. I used to be, but my domesticity kind of left when my kids grew up. I wish I had more desire to cook. I am a good cook when I do it, but I don't cook very often.


4. Do you decorate your home for Valentine's Day?
No, and those of you that know me know the reason why.


5. What song is on your mind today?
"Take This Job and Shove It". That sounds pretty harsh, huh? I don't hate my job at all, but I get tired of being tied down to it.


6. Do you prefer contemporary movies or classic?
I always intend to watch or go to movies but don't do either one very often. I guess I prefer contemporary because I prefer to go out if I am going to see a movie. I alway find other (undomestic) things to do if I try to watch a movie at home. I don't sit down and sit still very well.


7. How well do you "compartmentalize" your feelings? For example, how well can you put aside a really trying moment to deal with the immediate situation which is not related to the trying moment, e.g., putting aside a tiff with your spouse in order to finish wallpapering a room.
Not well at all. If I have any kind of conflict going on, that conflict needs to be resolved before I can focus well on anything else.


8. What is the first thing that attracted you to your spouse? (Or if you're single, to your best friend.)
We both found a lot of humor in the situation in which we met.


9. When was the last time your heart raced?
When we thought our dog was lost.


10. What are your memories of Valentine's Day at school?
I bet a lot of people answer this in a similar way.......I remember wondering who I would or would not get a Valentine from.


11. If you were going to receive candy for Valentine's Day, which would you prefer?
Dark chocolate truffles.


12. Red or pink?
Red, unless it has to do with my granddaughters, then it is pink all the way.

What's That Lassie? You Say Timmy Fell Down The Well?

Bark, bark, bark. "What is it Lassie? Timmy's in trouble? He fell down the well? Let's go, Boy." Lassie saving Timmy from the well is the iconic example of an intelligent and skilled animal saving a person from danger.

I have written a couple of times about Doc being somewhat over the top, let's say twitterpated, about Dodger, the dog we apopted from the pound a few months ago. Well, it seems that, according to Doc, Dodger had his own "Lassie" moment the other night.

Last Friday night I wasn't feeling very well and I went back to  the bedroom to lie down for a while, something I rarely do. At one point Dodger came in and put his nose on the bed for a minute, kind of nudged my hand  and then left. A while later he came back into the bedroom followed by Doc, and when I sat up and talked to them Dodger jumped and barked and did a doggy happy dance.

Doc said Dodger had come  in and sat down by him making a funny whining sound he had never heard him make before and kept putting his paw up on Doc's leg. Dodger got up and paced for a minute and then sat down by Doc again with the same whining and pawing. The only times Doc has seen similar behavior from Dodger was when he has done something he knows he shouldn't do......then he comes and sits by one of us and just sort of hangs his head. Thinking from the way Dodger was acting that he had chewed the arm off of a chair or something, Doc got up to investigate.  Doc said Dodger led him back to the bedroom "Lassie style" where they found me asleep. They woke me up and the doggy happy dance ensued.

Doc is positive that Dodger thought there was something wrong with me and that he made sure Doc came to "rescue" me. I haven't argued the point with him.....there would no changing his mind, and maybe he is right.

Our hero, Dodger

 I also haven't told Doc that Timmy never actually  fell into a well on the show. He got stuck in a pipe, and fell in a river, but it was Lassie who fell into a well.

Six Word Saturday

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A wee gymnast, pretty in pink.

My granddaughter, Ellis, just turned 2

Senior Discount

A funny post by my friend Betty at A Glimpse Into Midlife got me thinking about our self image in regard to our age. Do any of us think we look the age we are? I'm pretty open about how old I am (62), but I like to think I look pretty good for my age. Oh sure, I have an 11 on my forehead between my eyebrows and I'm developing parentheses around my mouth, but surely those are just laugh lines. I'm a happy person.

There's nothing that shatters a good self image about how we look for our age like being offered the dreaded Senior Discount. There's nothing that will kill the buzz of finding a cute new sweater or a fun new pair of shoes like having the person at the check-out say "Hey, old lady, wanna save some money?"   I, of course, take the discount and limp home, go on feeling good about myself.

So far, in truth, my age doesn't bother me (much). I feel good, I look okay and I know what I have lived through to get here. It's all in the attitude.

How do you feel about how you look for your age? Is there something that can shatter your self image about how you look?

Silliness

It has been a long week (already ) at work so I am just going to share some silliness that was shared with me.

Say What?

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

I had amnesia once....or twice.

All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

If the world was a logical place, men would be the ones who ride horses sidesaddle.

What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free?

One nice thing about egotists....they don't talk about other people.

My weight is perfect for my height....which varies.

The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.

How can there be self-help "groups"?

And a little known fact....

The first testicular guard "cup" was used in hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974.

That means it took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.

That's all folks!

Okay, sorry, I'll go back to work now.