9 Things I Hate About Everyone
1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time.... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
2 People who are willing to get off their ass to search the entire room for the T.V.. remote because they refuse to walk to the T.V. and change the channel manually.
3 When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?
4 When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? Gonna Kick their asses!
5 When people say while watching a film "did you see that?". No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.
6 People who ask "Can I ask you a question?".... Didn't really give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?
7. When something is 'new and improved!'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.
8 When people say "life is short". What the hell?? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!! What can you do that's longer?
9 When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here, dumbass?
The Pastor's Ass
The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so
pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won
again.
The local paper read: PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.
The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the
pastor not to enter the donkey in another race.
The next day, the local paper headline Read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS.
This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to get rid of
the donkey. The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.
The local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline
the next day: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.
The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of
the donkey, she sold it to a farmer for $10.
The next day the paper read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.
This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the
nun to buy back the
donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild.
The next day the headlines read: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.
The bishop was buried the next day.
The moral of the story is: Being concerned about public opinion can bring
You much grief and misery, even shorten your life. So be yourself and
enjoy life. Stop worrying about everyone else's ass and you'll be a lot
happier and live longer!
Have a nice day!
A married couple in their early 60s was celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary in a quiet, romantic little restaurant.
Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table saying,
"For being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish."
"Oh, I want to travel around the world with my darling husband.
The fairy waved her magic wand and - poof - two tickets for the Queen Mary II appeared in her hands.
The husband thought for a moment:
"Well, this is all very romantic, but an opportunity like this will never come again.
I'm sorry my love, but my wish is to have a wife 30 years younger than me."
The wife, and the fairy, were deeply disappointed, but a wish is a wish.
So the fairy waved her magic wand and - poof!
the husband became 92 years old.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Our Trip....
Hi there. Here is our trip. I will start with photo's of the girls and I. Jeff couldnt come in because of the sores on his legs and we couldnt find his shorts before we left so he was the photographer for me this weekend. Enjoy and I will get to how he did at the tournament here in a few minutes.
The girls in there new outfits Thursday night. Before I packed them away..
Beautiful traveling weather. Not a cloud in sight. the next few photos I am not sure if you will see what I meant for them to be really. Hopefully you can see what I am looking at.
Suppose to be those big electric things. They are to power houses and buildings.I cant think of the name right now...
Beautiful area called Horicon Marsh. Usually there are birds and all sorts of things but we didnt see any this trip through but I got this photo of the land mark and hopefully if you click on the photo you can see the words. Its a neat place really. There are trails and such during the summer time.
Kora waiting patiently while daddy checked us into our hotel room.
Bri waiting patiently in her new booster we bought her because she was getting to tall for her carseat. She prefers the booster. Its pink with flowers on the padding under her butt.
Bri and her new tube.
Kora and her new tube. I got them the same where they couldnt fight over whose was whose.
Mommy and her girls. The only complaint I had with this whirl pool was it felt so much warmer than most I have been in and I couldnt sit in it like I like to.
Daddy and his girls..
Ok before heading off to the Zoo here. I have to tell you about Jeff's games. He plays five games in two days. I dont know what the time controls are but he won four games and drew his last game. So he won the whole tournament this time around. We are so proud of him. I wont say how much money he won but he won enough to go back to Milwaukee in two weeks.
Now onto the Zoo. I didnt get as many photo's as I would have liked. My batteries died on me and I packed the spare set of rechareables in the suitcase when we left Monday morning. Not thinking I would need them so soon. Oh well we always go at least once a year but here is a taste.
Kangaroo's here but before I say anything more the one next to this one was awsome. It was a tree Kangaroo with a Joey in its pouch but I couldnt get that one to turn out because of how the Roo was sitting on the Tree. It would have been blurry due to having to take it straight forward instead of slightly off to the side like these were taken.
Beautiful fish if you can see it ok. I have no idea what it is but its just beautiful.
A Koala Bear up in the tree. Isnt he cute if you can see him...
The Billy Goats Gruff.. LOL... No that is not the names of them. LOL.. but that is my name to them. The one male in the herd scared me to death almost. He rammed his head and his antlers into a little house or something they have outside for them. You should have heard me scream. LOL.. Yes I yelped out loud when you heard that ramming noise. but here is my last photo since this where my batteries died on me.
The girls had an awsome time. We walked for about two miles through the Zoo and they both walked. You would think a 3 year old would get tired and want to be carried or put in a stroller. Nope not mine. she is a trooper like her mom and dad... But anyway one more story before I publish this.
We went down a bit further to see the Sea Lions. Well we were standing there and Bri started waving at the one in the exhibit well just as I looked down he was waving back at her. It was so cool to see. I wish I could have gotten that on camera. I was so mad at myself for not bringing in the extra set of batteries.
Then this weekend coming up we have the Circus... Yayyyy. I dont know whose more excited. Me or the girls... I have been to the Circus once. That was when Kora was Bris age and I was pregnant with Bri. Well alright enough. Catch you all tomorrow then. Have a good night.
The girls in there new outfits Thursday night. Before I packed them away..
Beautiful traveling weather. Not a cloud in sight. the next few photos I am not sure if you will see what I meant for them to be really. Hopefully you can see what I am looking at.
Suppose to be those big electric things. They are to power houses and buildings.I cant think of the name right now...
Beautiful area called Horicon Marsh. Usually there are birds and all sorts of things but we didnt see any this trip through but I got this photo of the land mark and hopefully if you click on the photo you can see the words. Its a neat place really. There are trails and such during the summer time.
Kora waiting patiently while daddy checked us into our hotel room.
Bri waiting patiently in her new booster we bought her because she was getting to tall for her carseat. She prefers the booster. Its pink with flowers on the padding under her butt.
Bri and her new tube.
Kora and her new tube. I got them the same where they couldnt fight over whose was whose.
Mommy and her girls. The only complaint I had with this whirl pool was it felt so much warmer than most I have been in and I couldnt sit in it like I like to.
Daddy and his girls..
Ok before heading off to the Zoo here. I have to tell you about Jeff's games. He plays five games in two days. I dont know what the time controls are but he won four games and drew his last game. So he won the whole tournament this time around. We are so proud of him. I wont say how much money he won but he won enough to go back to Milwaukee in two weeks.
Now onto the Zoo. I didnt get as many photo's as I would have liked. My batteries died on me and I packed the spare set of rechareables in the suitcase when we left Monday morning. Not thinking I would need them so soon. Oh well we always go at least once a year but here is a taste.
Kangaroo's here but before I say anything more the one next to this one was awsome. It was a tree Kangaroo with a Joey in its pouch but I couldnt get that one to turn out because of how the Roo was sitting on the Tree. It would have been blurry due to having to take it straight forward instead of slightly off to the side like these were taken.
Beautiful fish if you can see it ok. I have no idea what it is but its just beautiful.
A Koala Bear up in the tree. Isnt he cute if you can see him...
The Billy Goats Gruff.. LOL... No that is not the names of them. LOL.. but that is my name to them. The one male in the herd scared me to death almost. He rammed his head and his antlers into a little house or something they have outside for them. You should have heard me scream. LOL.. Yes I yelped out loud when you heard that ramming noise. but here is my last photo since this where my batteries died on me.
The girls had an awsome time. We walked for about two miles through the Zoo and they both walked. You would think a 3 year old would get tired and want to be carried or put in a stroller. Nope not mine. she is a trooper like her mom and dad... But anyway one more story before I publish this.
We went down a bit further to see the Sea Lions. Well we were standing there and Bri started waving at the one in the exhibit well just as I looked down he was waving back at her. It was so cool to see. I wish I could have gotten that on camera. I was so mad at myself for not bringing in the extra set of batteries.
Then this weekend coming up we have the Circus... Yayyyy. I dont know whose more excited. Me or the girls... I have been to the Circus once. That was when Kora was Bris age and I was pregnant with Bri. Well alright enough. Catch you all tomorrow then. Have a good night.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Chapter Three....
The Core of the Ego....
Let me start this Chapter out by asking how many of us hear a voice inside our heads? Do any of you talk to yourselves and then find the answer shortly there after? This is the Egoic mind. We call it the Egoic because of the self "I" (ego) in every memory, view point, reaction, and emotion you might know this as your unconciousness. Content in our minds for thinking are conditioned by our upbringing culture, family, background, and so forth.
The main part of our minds work with repetitive and persistant thoughts and emotions. This entity is the ego itself. Each content of the ego varies from person to person. It says here that ego's are all the same but only differe on the surface. Ego's live on identification,and separation. For the single "I" you need an opponent called other. It is called the conceptual other to the conceptual "I".
Complaining and Resentment..
I could have went on for ages here but had to restrict myself for what the book was saying...
Lets start here. When you have had a fight with someone, do you resent them even if you are the one that started the fight? I know I do sometimes until I cool down and have time to think.
How many of us complain about something? I know I seem to be always complaining about something or that is what I am told at least.. LOL.. How many of us complain our loud? Or to your self? I usually do both really.
Now on to labeling people when you are angry. I know I do sometimes unless I have the chance to walk away from the fight before it escalates. But if it goes to far I cant walk away. And every dirty name comes flying out of my mouth.
Resentment goes hand in hand with emotion and complaining.Resentment is to make a person feel bitter, indignant, aggrieved or offended. People resent what others have and dont have. If you have a nonreaction this is, is the best to your ego. The only way to do this is noticing its coming from someones ego. Sometimes you catch yourself trying to protect yourself from someone. I dont mean physically.
Complaining here means talking behind some ones back or telling some one what another person has or hasnt done. I know I know. I am a good one for that. Look at how I talk about Laura right?? Last part here. When you hear the voice realize you are not the voice. You are just the awareness.
Reacting and Grievances...
Resentment often goes along with complaining but sometimes can go with or be added a stronger emotion. This here sounds like me. The ego seems to hold things in until the dam cracks and then everything come tumbling out.
A grievance is called a strong negative emotion. Example if you are thinking about a negative emotion it will effect a good emotion you are doing or having. One strong grievance can contimaninate large area's of your life.
Truth: Relative or Absolute:
I suppose many of you have this I am right you are wrong thoughts? Doing this makes it a mental Dysfunction. Its like some churches. One believes they are right and all others are wrong. We hav such separateness with that.
What do all of these have in common? they are made up of thought. It says you are the truth but if look for it else where you will be decieved everytime.
The Ego is NOT Personal:
Between two nations, races, tribes,religions, or ideologies is long standing extreme and endemic. They both believe they are to be in possession of the truth. Right here it becomes obvious for the ego to be "us" against "them". the worst people have inflicted on another human being is there ego. Its not our criminals or guns or knives.
Greed,selfishness,exploitation, cruelty and violence are all pervasive on this planet. When you dont recognize them you fall into personalizing a person. The egoic pattern you recognize most is one similiar to your own. But you are unwilling to see this in yourself. I am skipping some of this and hoping I hit the high points of each chapter again. Enjoy and I will catch you all tomorrow or Wednesday ok. I miss each and everyone of you and its been a fun weekend. I will get to that post tomorrow or Wednesaday also ok.
Let me start this Chapter out by asking how many of us hear a voice inside our heads? Do any of you talk to yourselves and then find the answer shortly there after? This is the Egoic mind. We call it the Egoic because of the self "I" (ego) in every memory, view point, reaction, and emotion you might know this as your unconciousness. Content in our minds for thinking are conditioned by our upbringing culture, family, background, and so forth.
The main part of our minds work with repetitive and persistant thoughts and emotions. This entity is the ego itself. Each content of the ego varies from person to person. It says here that ego's are all the same but only differe on the surface. Ego's live on identification,and separation. For the single "I" you need an opponent called other. It is called the conceptual other to the conceptual "I".
Complaining and Resentment..
I could have went on for ages here but had to restrict myself for what the book was saying...
Lets start here. When you have had a fight with someone, do you resent them even if you are the one that started the fight? I know I do sometimes until I cool down and have time to think.
How many of us complain about something? I know I seem to be always complaining about something or that is what I am told at least.. LOL.. How many of us complain our loud? Or to your self? I usually do both really.
Now on to labeling people when you are angry. I know I do sometimes unless I have the chance to walk away from the fight before it escalates. But if it goes to far I cant walk away. And every dirty name comes flying out of my mouth.
Resentment goes hand in hand with emotion and complaining.Resentment is to make a person feel bitter, indignant, aggrieved or offended. People resent what others have and dont have. If you have a nonreaction this is, is the best to your ego. The only way to do this is noticing its coming from someones ego. Sometimes you catch yourself trying to protect yourself from someone. I dont mean physically.
Complaining here means talking behind some ones back or telling some one what another person has or hasnt done. I know I know. I am a good one for that. Look at how I talk about Laura right?? Last part here. When you hear the voice realize you are not the voice. You are just the awareness.
Reacting and Grievances...
Resentment often goes along with complaining but sometimes can go with or be added a stronger emotion. This here sounds like me. The ego seems to hold things in until the dam cracks and then everything come tumbling out.
A grievance is called a strong negative emotion. Example if you are thinking about a negative emotion it will effect a good emotion you are doing or having. One strong grievance can contimaninate large area's of your life.
Truth: Relative or Absolute:
I suppose many of you have this I am right you are wrong thoughts? Doing this makes it a mental Dysfunction. Its like some churches. One believes they are right and all others are wrong. We hav such separateness with that.
What do all of these have in common? they are made up of thought. It says you are the truth but if look for it else where you will be decieved everytime.
The Ego is NOT Personal:
Between two nations, races, tribes,religions, or ideologies is long standing extreme and endemic. They both believe they are to be in possession of the truth. Right here it becomes obvious for the ego to be "us" against "them". the worst people have inflicted on another human being is there ego. Its not our criminals or guns or knives.
Greed,selfishness,exploitation, cruelty and violence are all pervasive on this planet. When you dont recognize them you fall into personalizing a person. The egoic pattern you recognize most is one similiar to your own. But you are unwilling to see this in yourself. I am skipping some of this and hoping I hit the high points of each chapter again. Enjoy and I will catch you all tomorrow or Wednesday ok. I miss each and everyone of you and its been a fun weekend. I will get to that post tomorrow or Wednesaday also ok.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Just some stuff since I will be gone through Monday.
Hi all. We are leaving tomorrow and wont be back till sometime Monday evening. We are going to a chess tournament that ends Sunday night and then are looking at staying one more night and then goiong to Milwaukee for the day to the Zoo.
So here are some pix of the girls and hopefully they will be good enough till I come home and a photo of me in one of my new outfits I paid ten bucks for. Enjoy and catch you all Tuesday. I will make rounds today but after rounds I meant Tuesday.
Valentines party Pix...
Then other photo's to come when we come home. I want one of Jeff and I all dressed up. I am hoping he will let me. He got two new pairs of dress pants on sale last night and two shirts.
So here are some pix of the girls and hopefully they will be good enough till I come home and a photo of me in one of my new outfits I paid ten bucks for. Enjoy and catch you all Tuesday. I will make rounds today but after rounds I meant Tuesday.
Valentines party Pix...
Then other photo's to come when we come home. I want one of Jeff and I all dressed up. I am hoping he will let me. He got two new pairs of dress pants on sale last night and two shirts.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Thanks Squirl..
Like Squirl not much to say today. I said it all yesterday.
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You Are a Newborn Soul | ||
 You are tolerant, accepting, and willing to give anyone a chance. On the flip side, you're easy to read and easily influenced by others. You have a fresh perspective on life, and you can be very creative. Nonconformist and nontraditional, you've never met anyone who's like you. Inventive and artistic, you like to be a trendsetter. You have an upbeat spirit and you like almost everything. You make friends easily and often have long standing friendships. Impulsive and trusting, you fall in love a little too easily. Monday, February 18, 2008Just some Thoughts..
Hi there. I may piss a few of you off but I need to get these thoughts out. I am not very political as most of you know by now but these are my thoughts on this upcoming election. Feel free to express your opinions in the comments. That is what they are for.
But I hate these comercials they are running on each candidate. You know why I hate them. They are berating eachother. What fun is that.I know to them it is but for us that do watch TV and do so in moderation dont like all the bashing they are doing. I know we as Americans have to have some one run America but come on people. These comericals should be banned unless they are just going to talk about themselves. I mean look at the war we are in with Iraqu. Just because Bush was the President when it happened doesnt mean it wouldnt have happened. I mean by that is that it could have been anyone not just Bush. I am not defending the man trust me. I mean we have Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, Obama, and a few others I know I am missing to compete for this place of power. I have never voted in my life and even if I did I wouldnt know who to vote for this year. This is where I may piss some one off. I dont care who is our President really because they will still have to clean up Bush's mess and if it would have been someone else I think we would still be at war. I have friends over there and I want them home. One of them has four kids to take care of even though him and his wife are now divorced. They are still his responisibilty. I know if we pull out the troops too soon things could go haywire on us so lets take it slow but It still could have happened with anyone but Bush. I am sorry if I offended anyone with my ramblings and just want you all to know I do care about myself and may family and what happens in our future but it always depends on the President of the United States on how that future is going to turn out. This future stuff is amazingly difficult to imagine sometimes knowing some day we might not be here if this war doesnt end soon. Or sometime in the near future. It scares the living daylights out of me really. I try and be a good person but I am just not political and dont care much for the stuff going on around me with all of it. I mean I read Gayles blog and get information but I am not interested in voting and all that good stuff. I have never heard it being illegal not to vote. But I could be wrong. Well anyway enjoy and have a good day. I will catch up with you all later on. NO More Snow Please.....
Hi all. We got hit pretty bad last night. We got another 12+ inches of snow yesterday. Jeff went out and shoveled us out last night at 10 PM. But I had to go shovel out the end of the driveway where he could pull back in this evening and then shovel out the side walk to the front door. Sure great excercise if wouldnt have been freezing rain before it started to snow and then it froze. That makes shoveling even harder. Esp on the back. I hate shoveling. Well alright I dont mind when its light and fluffy but this heavy wet snow is terrible and then we are suppose to get hit again this coming weekend.
   The only bad part about this coming weekend is that we are suppose to go to Madison for a Chess Tournament. We booked our room already and Jeff paid for his entrance fee. Oh brother. We are leaving Friday morning and just hope we dont get stuck down there for longer than we are planning on staying. I love going places but I love coming home when planned on. We have never gotten stuck some place because of the weahter but still there is always a first time. We are going to have to shovel out the driveway next weekend before we can even get back into it with the car more than likely. But we need a break from here really. We need a small vacation.You know the same thing happened last year right before this particular tournament. It was so bad we cancelled going. We just werent going to put us in danger of going in this weather. When Jeff called me and told me that it was going to do the same thing again I was expecting him to tell me the trip was off. You know if it was I think I would go to our Tundra Lodge for the weekend and just enjoy ourselves with the slides and water park they have there. My back hurts. I was even using my legs and not bending like I have a habit of doing. I will go out and take photo's of the drifts we have and piles of snow we have outside our garage here in abit. I was going to do that before I started shoveling and forgot. I just wanted to get the job done and them come in and get the girls fed some soup. I am sick of ramen noodles. They are good but when that is all you eat you get sick of them fast. I want some more chicken noodle soup and some crackers. On another note I have finished Harry Potter books 4 and 5 now on 6. Very interesting how that one is starting out. I cant wait to see what is after Harry at the end. So I spent most of yesterday curled up on the loveseat with my yarn and my Harry Potter books. I am still reading Hoax too. I havent finished it yet.I got into Harry Potter and set it aside for the time being. But getting through my books slowly i am decluttering my seat.. LOL.. I want to get new furniture sometime. I want to do away with these sofa's and get two recliners and a sofa. We dont get that much company that we need a sofa and love seat anymore. I know the girls will have to share but oh well. Its life.. I am rambling again arent I? Sorry about that. Anyway I will catch you all tomorrow. Sunday, February 17, 2008Need Help here...
OK people. I need some help here. I need to know how to turn this damned Debugging shit off. I cant even comment on Zombie's blog without this coming up with every letter I type. Need to get rid of it ASAP... New posts will be under this one until the first. Or until some one can help me with a solution. If not I dont know what to do. Maybe I will ask Jeff when he comes home tonight. He might have a solution but I try to keep him away from my blog as much as possible.
Another Hope Foundation Needs our help if you could please. I dont usually ask this here. but I just heard from one of the orphanages that I work with, with the pen pals and the kids are only getting one meal a day. And they have no way to pay there bills. Is there some one willing out there to put up a small donation to them please. Go to there website and just look around. I am getting a documentary from them in about two weeks or so when it gets here and she asked me to help her put it up on You Tube but I have no idea how to get the video off the cd onto You Tube. Any one have any suggestions? On a lighter note I have a great Hubby.he brought me home six red roses last night on his way home from work. I have a photo of them but havent put it up on the computer yet. Saturday, February 16, 2008Fixed..
Hey all. Jeff fixed the computer for me. Some how some setting got set that shouldnt have been set and he dug until he found it. He didnt think our computer was suppose to do what it was doing. Yayy. I can finally comment on Zombies blog again without having to go and hit the NO button with each letter. Well I am off to get some white yarn here in a short while. I am doing another ripple blanket with the rest of my bimini blue and white this time around. But the V pattern is much steeper than the one on the last one. Here I will show you all what I mean.
 Its 45x57 approximately. I think it turned out real nice. but this new one is the same color as the middle and it will have white every few rows. I was thinking it would look like waves coming in with the white foam hitting the beach. I am sick of winter so I am dreaming of summer days already.. LOL.. Well I suppose the girls are down stairs with Jeff while he studies for the tournament this next coming weekend so I am off to the store. A nice walk by myself. I need some mom time. Just me time and sometimes this is the best way to get it. I am off. Talk to you all Monday. Thursday, February 14, 2008Chapter Two
Ego: The Current State of Humanity.
Words or sounds no matter how they are presented put up a hypnotic spell up on us. You can believe you are attached to that word or sound. You have no idea what it is and you have only added a label to this not thinking about it really. Everything you might know is unknowable. Like tree, a person you have known for ages, and even a simple stone. We only look and even think of the outer layer we dont look at the inner layer as humans usually. Looking at a stone or more easily a flower can bring you back to God the real source. When a person doesnt cover up the world with words and thoughts miraculous things happen or things are brought back to your live without you knowing it. They seem to regain newness and frehness. To do this you must untangle yourself from the sense of I and beingness. When you attach verbal or mental labels to things people or situations the more shallow and lifeless our realties become. Our language consists of five different basic sounds. A E I O U That is right out vowels in our alphabet. A question here taken from the book, Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth? The Illusory Self "I" yes that little vowel says it all doesnt it? Or does it not?? Well anyway the book says it embodies the greatest error and the deepest truth depending on how its used. Interesting isnt it? I think it is. I never thought like this before and its weird really. I have give this much thought over the past few hours since reading this chapter. Other related words to this are (me,mine, and myself). I that small vowel again is suppose to be one of the most misleading of them all. It gives us all a misperception of who we are. This is called the ego. When you think of Ego you dont think of that. You think of other things that this chapter actually highlights for us. Albert Einstein had some deep insights not only into the reality of space and time but into human nature as well. Its called or referred to as "an optical illusion of conciousness". This becomes the basic of the original illusion for our relationships, and interactions with others, and such. If you can determnine illusion as illusion it disolves. If you can find yourself or see who you are the other will disolve. This chapter and chapter 3 help with understanding this process better. When you say I you are confusing yourself with the vocal sound I. So question from the book. So what does the usual "I" and the related "ME", "MY",and "MINE" refer to? When a young child learns vocal cords in his or her name that refers them or his or her name. Then they put a his or her name to them to visualize a mindset of who they are. Most kids at this stage refer to themselves in third person instead of saying I am hungry they will say something like Kora is hungry. Its like when a toy breaks its My Toy broke. Yes they get attached to things. So do adults really. But when thinking about there are so many other things that come in and out of there lives that they forget quite quickly about that broken toy. Then they move on to another toy. Then as the child grows it becomes to another sense of the word I like gender, possessions, the sense-percieved body, a nationality, race, religion, and a profession. The I also refers to a mother, father, sibling, and so on. Our identities are only held together with what has happened in our pasts. We look at our pasts and can tell a story and say it well with all the MY stories in there. The Voice in The Head Eckhart tells a story here about when he was in University at the age of 25. He had been riding the subway going to the college library and he had seen this woman many times before so he was intrigued with her this particular time. She was talking to herself in anger. And looking at the seat beside her like she was talking to someone so when they subway stopped he got off at the same stop with this woman not realizing they were going to the same place he decided to follow her. Well he then realized they were going to the same place and he didnt dare confront her. That is when he found out about the voice in the head. Who you are really talking to not what you are talking to. Most people think some people are insane for talking to themselves. I do it all the time but dont get answers usually. But anyway he reaches the inside of the building since he was walking about 20 paces behind this woman and she has dissapeared somewhere in the building. Then he was in the mens room and he said not realizing he had said this out loud that he hopes he never turns out like that woman and another man looks at him like he was crazy. From what I have read this lady had anger issues and thought out loud and Eckhart thought more to himself than out loud. He was laughing out loud and realized it was a big bellied laugh of Buddha. A quote that is great "Life isnt as serious as my mind makes it out to be." He had to attempt suicide before he understood what that thought meant exactly. I hope none of us have to do that to realize that either our thinking or what nots arent in the propper order. Identification with Things I skipped a part here. It wasnt big enough for me to get my general ideas out on so I skipped it. But here we go anyway. You have Advertisment companies out there wanting us to buy there product right? Well they get all these glamorous adds and go about putting them on billboards and tv and such. We all know we dont need these items but they are trying there hardest for us to buy them anyway right? Well sometimes they convince us that there products are better than there competitors. You see famous celebrities and they say if you buy this product you can look like them or be like them but only wait a minute here if you do that everyone will look and be doing the same thing. Not to fun is it? Well anyway things wont be worth what you paid for them. Only a fraction of what you paid for them. Ok there are things that we do need that are important and more important to others than some. Ok we need housing, clothing, furniture, tools, transportation. Either horses and buggies as I have seen here in WI with the Amish people or cars. I mean we love our homes. Either renting or owning. In most ancient cultures things have had an indwelling spirit. Our Ego identification with things attaches us to things so our obsession with objects is more of a dysfuction. The Lost Ring. Another story told by Eckhart. Sorry for such a long post but I think this is a fabulous chapter. It starts with him being a councelor or spiritual teacher. He was sitting with this one lady ready to pass on in her early 40's with cancer. Well she had gotten a very special ring from her grandmother and one day she couldnt find it so she accused the nurse or what ever was taking care of her for several hours a day that took it. Well Eckhart asked her three questions. and she thought about them. Finally she realized that things are just things and we dont need them after death but still most people are afraid to let go of there possessions. I know I am afraid right now. You just never know when its your time. But after they talked about this for a while she started giving things away even to the woman she thought stole her ring from her. Well a while later the womans mother called and said she had passed on and they found the ring in the bathroom cabinet. They will never know if the woman accused of stealing brought it back or the dying woman put it there not remembering where she put it. The Illusion of Ownership. What does it mean to own something? Another question that sounds important is what does it mean to make something "mine"? Its like if someone stood on a corner of any city and said that building is mine. That person is either very rich or a nut case with big dreams right? Well that is what some people say. When they say that is where I work. They will say that building is mine and I work for it. Some people would ask for proof that the building belonged to that person. Or if there is no proof you would be recommended to go talk to a councelor. Anoter concept I got from here was this but its not in the book. When a married couple is together like Jeff and I we dont own each other but I know that till this day ok. But in some ways dont we all say "my, Mine or what not at some point in our relationships?". When you look at some one that has more than you do, does it bother you? I have never had that problem. Never not once. You know why because what I have had has always seemed enough. Sure kids dream of having more but now that I am the adult I dont mind one bit. I have a house, car and two wonderful children and a husband. What more could I want. Money why? You tell me and I will answer with something esle ok. But there are people out there that want more. I have to admit Jeff is one of those people. He wants more money, more this and that. He gets flustered being around people that have more than we do. I am always asking him why? He gets jealous of these people. So what. They have more but are they happy with the more I always ask him. Ok I am going to leave this here for now. There is more but I dont want to bore you with the rest. Read the book if you want to find out more about the chapter. I will have Chapter 3 done soon. Not today of course but next week. Once a week or twice a week and Candy said we could tag team this book. Its a good read so far. I am still thinking about some of the things I read. Esp about this Ego. Just wow. On another note always look on my craft blog. I have that blue ripples done. Its beautiful. Wednesday, February 13, 2008The Party
Hi all. I have one thing to say about the party. The girls had a blast. I have pix but I want to make copies of them for my dad before I put them up here where I can clean my memory card off and then not have to clean up my photo's on the computer for some reason. For a while my memory card was only down loading the new photos but after the first six months it quit doing it. So everytime I take new photo's all the photo's get put back in the computer. If any of you have suggestions for this let me know how to fix it..
But the girls played games, and made a small craft each and then we had a snack and a story and then handed out there Valentines cards and then we left. We were there for two hours and the girls made a new friend and she wants to get together with the girls in a week or so. So I am trying to find a good place to meet up and or have them here at our house. Not sure yet. Well I suppose. I have to read my second chapter today and get my review up. I was suppose to do that last night. I mean read. Lots on my plate right now. I am excercising trying to lose 30 pounds before the end of the year hopefully. We started last night with the Eliptical machine and we both got winded after 2 minutes. We are starting out slow and will gradually go up from there. I am so looking forward to being able to go for about 5 minutes without feeling like some one hit my knees. I was so wobbly after we got done last night. I am so happy to be doing this for myself. I need this. But anyway I will keep you all posted on my progress with my excercising. I need to get going for now. Take care and catch you all later. Hey forgot to tell everyone to check out my crafting blog. I have that new ripple up and its just beautiful. Tuesday, February 12, 2008Our Day...
Hey world. The girls and I are going to a Valentines Party this afternoon. I have them all dressed up and ready to go and then now all I have to do is go shower and get dressed myself. Jeff and I bought a Eliptical over the weekend and a punching bag. I am so looking at getting back into shape and losing some weight. Go me.. We almost didnt get it together because the black things holding the side bars wouldnt go on and I sat down last night after Jeff got home at 9 last night because his truck broke down. That is a piss off but anyway I sat down and started pounding and got it most of the way and got excited and started yelling for him to get it the rest of the way. And I got the second one with some presistence..And now all we have to do is get some brackets for the punching bag. I am hoping the boards down stairs will hold the bag with the brackets. Well I suppose. Talk tomorrow and I will have that next installment of the book up hopefully tomorrow too. N.
Monday, February 11, 2008Break Down of a Book...Eckhart Tole A New Earth Awakening to your Life's Purpose
Hi all I am going to be doing something different here for a while. I got a book from Candy and I am seeing what its like and I am not doing one big book review on the book. I am doing chapter breakdowns. I know it might get boring here for a while but I need to do this for myself here. I hope you all find this as interesting as I did.
I have to admit I got this weird feeling in the pit of my stomach as I was reading the book. I cant describe the feeling I got. But on to what the book is and such. Eckhart Tole The flowering of Human Conciousness Chapter One..... Lets start 114 million year ago after sunrise. This flower has been covered in vegatation for millions of years. Mosst of the fist flowers didnt survive. Then one day there was an explosion of color and beautiful smells. One day people would be drawn to those colors and smells to be part of the evolution conciousness. These beautiful plants provided inspiration to artists, music, poets and such. If a flower can awaken humans what says other things cant either. Like meditation, prayers of some sort. It starts here "Any life-form in any realm- mineral, vegatable, animal or human can be said to undego enlightenment." It asks here people of human beings lose the density of there conditioned mind structure and become like crystals or precious stones? It is also saying Buddha, Jesus, and others are of them are not known to human kind. Touchy subject I know here but just reading and saying what the book says. Are we more ready now than when the first flower bloomed to hear and understand this? We are not adding new information to but awakening our minds to how we might well else think. This book can only awaken those that are ready ro its meaningless according to the author. Dysfunctions explained here is mots intriquing. They talk about Sin. Sure we all have done that but some people go furter than neccessary. It says here our dysfunctions started with WW1 in 1914 and never stopped. Highly intelligent minds created bombs, machine guns, submarines, and flame throwers and poisonous gas. We watched neighbors die or get mutilated or disfigured by this. Have you ever looked at some one and could tell they liked power? Well most human beings even not realizing it has fear,greed and power issues at some point. We fear alot and then those that have power issuses make those of us that have fear look more fearful. The greed works in almost the same way really. Greed now is where some one wants it all and doesnt want to share. I have seen my share of greedy people. I lived with a person like that for many years... OK touchy subject here but the book says this and I tried as much as possible to put it in my own words OK.. Spirituality and Religion Touch subject here. Some people believe in Jesus or other form. Many people get stuck in realm of believing there is only one way of thinking and that is the correct way. I dont want to ruin the book or the chapter so I will leave this as it is. I hopefully hit the high points of the book. I know I skipped a bit but I dont want to give the whole book away either if anyone is interested in it. Enjoy if you are. Its a bit dazzling at first. i had to read the first chapter over several times before I could write this review of the chapter. I am going to take a few days between chapter break downs. Friday, February 08, 2008Hip Hip Horray Its Friday....
Hi there all. Its Friday already.. I am looking forward to the weekend even though I have no idea what we are doing. Its suppose to be cold again but we might find something to do inside. I am making Jeff a blanket for his B-day. His B-day is in April but I am going to start it now because I can only work on it while he's at work. I have Zombie Slayer making my chess Pieces for me where I can do them on onion paper and then back stitch them onto the blanket. I just hope this works. I am nervous with a new project like this. I have never done this before. I mean I have made squares like I am going to make but never tried putting other things on top of it.. Lets just hope it works.
I know I e-mailed many of you last night but what I was lookig for was someone to draw or know that they could print 8x8 inches of chess pieces for me but Zombie said he could do them. I am in no hurry to get them since I want the blanket done first. I think Jeff is going to be very suprised when I get this done for him. He gets upset when I talk about him but I am not bashing him here. Just passing on what I am making him for his B-day. Oh by the way I have my blanket almost done and it will be put up in my craft blog here this afternoon sometime. Its a lightish blue with a windsor blue edging. Really pretty. I am guessing because I havent measured it exactly yet. Its something like 45x57 inches. Rippled. Very pretty. I think I am going to talk Hubby into a hair cut this weekend. I need a hair cut real bad. I cut my hair the other day when it was in a pony tail Braid but now the back is all crooked.. I do that from time to time. I get sick of the dry ends and just chop.. Then I have to get a hair cut a month later.. Silly mee.. Life is good here. I have been thinking real hard about our trip at the end of the month. I am so excited about it. I love leaving for the weekend. This trip there wont be any computers to get to you all at. So it will have to wait till after we come home. Jeff is taking Friday Feb 22nd off through Tuesday the 26th. Just to recoup from the trip. I dont blame him one bit. Chess takes a lot out of him. Sometimes more than working his physical job he has.. Gardenia suggested I write a book on yesterdays post. You know I would but dont know where to start in it. I could start with when I was born and go from there. Like a book about me and then into my adult life and what I forsee as my girls get older and dreams for them. Any suggestions I am willing to take.. I am not so sure about school. Jeff and I talked about it last night and we both have fears really. He is afraid I will be making financial decisions without him and I am afraid that I would have a job that he would just pack up and move out with some of our past fights. Wont mention them here though.. But its still up in the air. We both would love to know what it feels like to be double income but I would need more help at home I think than I get now from him if I went back to work. We would have to set some guidelines for schooling Kora too and Bri of course. I also e-mailed Laura last night and told her why my girls arent allowed to play in her house and she hasnt e-mailed me back or called. But she did call and ask if Kora could play in there house even though I told Kora I wanted her outside for a bit yesterday since they had been in the house all day yesterday and Wednesday. The girls are going to a Valentines Party on Tuesday. I can take the bus to this one. The city Transit. Yayyyy for us. I get to talk to other adults while the girls get to socialize with kids there own age and older and younger. It feels nice really. I am rambling and I am sorry for that. I just have thoughts on my mind that needed getting out. I know that is what happened last time I vented and it got me introuble but I didnt say anything incriminating this time.. Well happy weekend my friends and catch you all later. N. Thursday, February 07, 2008Ten ways to Know I wrote a Book
Well I got this one from Hammer. He didnt tag me but said if we felt like doing it let him know.So here I go.
1. I would talk about my little family.. 2. I would make some jokes or add jokes that I have gotten from family and friends to my book that I thought were great. 3. Nothing political would go into my book.. 4. I would have plenty of photo's in my book with descriptions. 5. Tellings of all our adventures that we go in a year. 6. My bitchings of friends that dont call you back when they say they are going to and dont.. 7. Little things in life that are keeping me going. 8. Ramblings about nothing inparticular. 9. My dreams in going far away in life but not sure if I will ever get there or not. 10. My last and formost is how happy I am to be married and have a family. Like Hammer I am not going to tag anyone but if you want to have a go at this let me know. I will surely be there to take a look when you are done. On the other hand. Jeff and I are almost back to normal. He doesnt quite understand it how I can have male friends and I get upset when he talks to another woman.No that is not what happened. but I wont go there again where if he does just by chance come across this we dont have another fight. I wasnt mad at him for talking to her. I dont care if he talks to other females. I just wish he would have said my wife asked me to do something and could I come back and finish our chat. That is what I was most pissed off about. Anyway I am not going to rehash this. You migh notice I wont talk about him here for a while. I will all let you know how he does in Madison this month. Wednesday, February 06, 2008Book Tag
I was taggged by .Ortho
1. Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages). 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the next three sentences. 5. Tag five people. He studies me for about five seconds, then shakes his head, glances at his watch. "I am really busy. My Secretary will take your application. Now I am to tag 5 people... Lets see here. Red SME Here today gone tomorrow Jeannie WC Here are my tagged five. If they are interested in participating. I think we were suppose to give the name of the book but I am not and making you all think. If you cant think or find out who this is tomorrow I will give you the name and author. Have fun with it.. Let me know when you finish or I will just drop in tomorrow and see you all. Tuesday, February 05, 2008Will catch up with you all tomorrow.
Hey all. Jeff is home with some sort of bug so I will catch up with you all tomorrow. Take care have a good day. Thanks for all the advice. Again I needed a wake up call. Talk to you all tomorrow then.
Monday, February 04, 2008Thanks My Friends
Hi there all. I just couldnt decide on what to say to each of you for your comments in the last post so I am doing a post on it instead. Thank you all for you comments and idea's and such. You all are right maybe I vent to much about what happens here at home. I will tone it down just incase Jeff does read my blog again.
I just have to say I am a very open person but I have to tone it down or lose my marriage if he reads this again. And what started it was that I mentioned his new friend. And he didnt even read the whole post. But hey what ever right. Its over and done with. Anyway I guess to bore you all is about my girls and myself and such. I might slow down in posting but not sure about that yet. But anyway when we went to Neenah Jeff bought this interesting Psycology book. I havent read it yet. I am into my Harry Potter Books and the one SME bought me for X-mas. I am also making another afghan to sell on my crafting blog. This one isnt for anyone particular but its there if you want it. LOL.. Havent finished it yet. I am looking at next week. My hand is getting stiff. But I love what I do. I was handing Bri a bowl of chips to bring to Jeff the other night and before I could hand her the bowl I dropped it. Almost like I lost control of my hand but my fingers went numb almost. Not to worried about it. YET at least... Looking forward to going to Madison this month. We are leaving on a Friday and coming home late Sunday night. It will be Feb 22-24th. Another Chess Tournament and then that will be it for a while. These two at the beginning of the year are our favorites. We get to see all of our friends we have made and such between these two. Anyway again thanks for the advice and such. I needed a wake up call on what to do. The one thing I have never done is bash him on here. I would like to some days but I have never done that. I love him and he knows it. As much as when we fight he says I dont but he damn well knows I do... LOL...Alright going off again. Well I suppose. My girls are hungry and I need to get going. Catch you all here in a bit. I wanted to post today before making rounds. Now I dont have to worry about posting later.. LOL.. Take care my friends.. Saturday, February 02, 2008Not Sure What to DO...
Hi there all. Jeff and I had a round last night about the post of Loads on my Mind. He told me to delete it because he was pissed off at me for posting about us. Well we fought last night and I was going to take my things and leave him. I better watch what I say since all he has to do is google this and find it. I have considered becoming like Gardenia where you have to sign in to read my posts.
Now lets see how many of you over the weekend say that is a good idea where Jeff cant read my blog. There is no way he could get into that way is there??? Just wondering. Let me know what you think then I can vent all I want without him looking in it. But with it being linked to my other two blogs can he view it from them? Thankfully the girls were sleeping by time we got to this argument last night. There was no physical fighting but a lot of yelling from me mainly. I have decided that I need help and I dont know where to go to get it. I have always had an anger issue but the lady I was seeing back home just didnt know what was wrong with me. I dont want to be put on pills but if it keeps my anger and what not in check I will do just about anything right now. I am also looking at going back to school for Child Psycology. Not sure yet on that one. It will be one of those mail school that I have to get my text books through and such. I will keep you updated on my decision. I couldnt find anything last night for work with it after getting the Degree. I was so mad last night at Jeff that I told him I would delete my blog if he wanted me to and he asked about my crafting blog. I told him that I didnt need to delete that one. He said I didnt have to delete this one either just dont vent about our persnal stuff on here again. I look at myself in a mirror sometimes and wonder if I am depressed besides the winter blues. But I need to get a few things done since I didnt bother with them yesterday. Catch you all on Monday. Nik....
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