A good night's sleep, chocolate, the happiness and satisfaction of sharing on AgingCare forum. Does anyone have some favorite things to think about? Yes, this phrase is from the song in the movie "The sound of Music". My husband and I often resort to using movie lines and song to improve communication. We were the only two in a gathering of people who heard the background music playing. We both had the same (cassette tape/CD). A connection bringing two people together. To this day, we crack up when one uses a simple movie line to make a serious point.
SO, What is one of your favorite movie line, some of your favorite things?
Coloring books
Embroidery
Ebay
Watering my potted flowers
Sitting alone in the back yard, looking at the wild birds taking a bath
A NAP!
My husband bringing in the grocery
Making jewelry
Shopping at goodwill
Another nap
Popcorn and a movie mom can understand
Rain
Chocolate & Red wine
Laughing like a fool
My precious chihuahua
This blog
M88
Rest helps, even if I pop back awake again later. Clean sheets, music, and nothing bad happening at this moment is a great time for me.
Goodnight everyone!
I dated a man once that had a dog that I just loved. I got angry with him (the man, not the dog) because he was laughing and telling me why the dog hides under the porch all the time - because he has beaten it so many times for jumping on people, now it's afraid to come out. Then he regaled me with the tale of how the dog used to run out onto his paintball field (behind his house) and he would let his buddies take potshots at her with their paintball guns and pellet guns - so again, she runs and hides under the porch when cars pull in, because she's afraid she's going to get shot. The dog would come out and just cling to me and look up at me with eyes that said, "Please get me out of here!". I contemplated driving over there late one night and letting her jump into my vehicle and driving away with her. I waited too long to take action. We stopped dating because I just couldn't stand how mean he was to the dog - which he found absolutely incredible - that I would actually break up what he thought was a good relationship over a "stupid dog". Shortly after we broke up, he contacted me and tried to get back together. While we were talking, I asked about the dog. He said he hadn't seen it in several weeks, and that he figured the hunters had gotten her, because they had threatened to shoot her on several occasions when she would chase the deer they were hunting in the woods behind the house. I asked him why he didn't put her in the garage or tie her up during hunting season - his response: "She didn't like being tied up and barked all the time." Ok...so she likes being dead better?? That was the end of that. I haven't spoken to him since, even though he's made attempts to contact me.
My *least* favorite thing today:
Spring snow/sleet/ice storms. 2 days ago, I was outside in a t-shirt, cleaning up the fallen branches and 1/2 a roof's worth of shingles (mine) out of the yard. Today and tomorrow, the yard will be buried in snow and ice again.
My favorite thing today:
Beautiful snow falling gently, even though it annoys me for the above reasons....
oh, and the absence of a nasty stomach virus that laid me low for a few days. So glad to be able to eat again!
Goodnight Gershun!
On the First day of Christmas my true love sent to me
a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
On the Second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
On the Third day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Three French Hens,[3]
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
Subsequent verses follow the same pattern, each adding one new gift and repeating all the earlier gifts, so that each verse is one line longer than its predecessor:
4 Calling Birds
5 Gold Rings
6 Geese a-Laying
7 Swans a-Swimming
8 Maids a-Milking
9 Ladies Dancing
10 Lords a-Leaping
11 Pipers Piping
12 Drummers Drumming
They are inside your head You got a voice that says You won't get past this one You won't win your freedom
It's like a constant war And you want to settle that score But you're bruised and beaten And you feel defeated
This goes out to the heaviest heart
[Chorus:] Oh, to everyone who's hit their limit It's not over yet It's not over ye-et And even when you think you're finished It's not over yet It's not over ye-et
Keep on fighting Out of the dark Into the light It's not over Hope is rising Never give in Never give up It's not over yet
Oh, game set match It's time to put it in your past, oh Feel the winter leavin' It's redemption season Long live the young at heart (Here we are) Cheers to a brand new start (Here we are) We're revived and breathing To live a life of freedom
[Chorus:] Oh, to everyone who's hit their limit It's not over yet It's not over ye-et And even when you think you're finished It's not over yet It's not over ye-et
Life is a race we run So run till the race is won Don't you ever give up (Here we are) Oh no never give up (Here we are) Life is a race we run So run till the race is won Don't you ever give up (Here we are) We will never give up (Here we are)
Keep on fighting Out of the dark Into the light It's not over Hope is rising Never give in Never give up It's not over YET.
For King & Country It's not over Yet song on youtube
Sorry, I know this is supposed to be favorite things thread but glad's story just reminded me of that.
It is a lazy, rainy day again, hubs wants to bbq. (California style) hamburgers today. Easy dinner, no work for me while I cuddle with a blanket.
Favorite thing today: Allergy medicine and Aleve. 'nuff said.
It is getting so its not that funny anymore, but yesterday was stressful.
Woke up about 7, unheard of, time change helped. Hopefully I will wake up at my usual 5 yesterday, 6 today, to get to work on time.
I can't wait to work on the yard some more - it really needs help after 30+ years of simply being mowed every week. No rolling, de-thatching, patching of dead spots...it's a lumpy, bumpy, muddy mess. Needs weed n' feed, rolling and some TLC.
Rest? Rest?!? What's that? No rest for the wicked, right? I must be pretty darn wicked.
SPRING.
It seems to have arrived as quickly as winter did this time. We had a weird, warm winter, thanks to El Nino, with only about 6" of snow until about 3 weeks ago, when we had 20" in the space of 10 days! Then the temps quickly rose into the 50's and 60's, and it all melted in a matter of 2 days.
So I've been getting out in the yard to clean up the winter debris off and on throughout the day - when I take a break from my work, I go out and pick up branches and shingles (darn it), then clear the dog poo from a section of the yard. Then I go back in to work for a while and then go out and do it again. :-)
The warmer temps and lack of snow is inspiring me to do some deep cleaning in the house too. Have been using 1 or 2 of my "breaks" during the day to venture into the basement to try and clean that up too.