Facebook: To befriend, or not to befriend...That is the Question!

Just saw The Blind Side today. Walt and I actually got to go to a movie! It was terrific. Humor, sad moments and HOPE! For me, it is right up there with Facing the Giants, and Remember the Titans.

My Renovational Thoughts

Thursday, December 17, 2009

• Blue dye on silver hair...not cute, at age 43!
• Weather can be a great excuse to wear a great hat! (Covers bad color!)
  
• Is it supposed to be this cold in Austin, Texas?
• I need photography classes!
• What are some people seeking when they reach out to a person on FB?
• Saw a great cupcake trailer at Zilker Park tonight! Want one...someday!

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

     I adore Mark Twain. He said what apparently could no longer be held in check. I hear tell that his wife had to clean up some of his work. Today he most likely would not have been subject to such editorial judgment. If Mark Twain had a page on Facebook, whom would he befriend? Would people befriend him due to his charm, his wit, his "friends?" How would ol' Samuel have looked upon people who contacted him from his childhood, his not-so-long-ago past, from his future? Well, look at what I just found: look at the comment about keeping his tongue in check! Got my answer to some of my queries.

     In NO WAY, do I liken myself to Mark Twain. Questions just exist between my ears. During my renovation time of the day, I work things out in order to maintain or gain serenity. I am a big fan of Facebook, thus far (I reserve the right to change my mind!). I can keep in contact with the family brave enough to venture out on that technological limb. I can reconnect with former classmates and discover what wonderful people they have become. Then there are those who actually send a request in my direction. Bewildered, I, with GREAT hesitation, press the "add" button. As soon as I do, feelings creep up from my fingers into my arms and then rest atop and between my shoulders. What could those people possibly want in keeping up with this Jones? Looking at that, term...am I just that? Some people need something about which to concern themselves; that is usually for conversation sake alone. Hungry? Have they simply not "et yet?" Am I about to be a pick with which they will remove flesh from their teeth?

Function: intransitive verb

Date: 1974

slang : to have a strong desire or craving for something ing for a drink>

    Some people need something about which to concern themselves; usually for conversation sake alone. Hungry? Have they simply not "et yet?" Am I about to be another pick with which they will remove flesh from their teeth?
     So, in a working moment, I look up another person who has been viewed by friends, foes, and plain ol' gawkers throughout the facets of his life, Willie Nelson.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

There are things you have heard before, that you have been told before, and yet, that one time it all comes together and you just get it! It's like you have just heard it for the first time and you are so on that band wagon. Well, that was the way Willie's quote (though the thought is not original, it is still in his way). 

Lesson learned today: I am truly indifferent about those who were not able to stand during the roughest winds which blew through the last ten years. I have been blessed with God, love, disease of all things fermented, cancer, financial devastation, and family and friendship of likes I never dreamed! I belong right where I find myself every day. Amazingly, today, I am NEVER alone. I can give of myself. I now look for the positive in things which in the past would have meant devastation for me. Don't get me wrong, life still sucks on some days. Always has, always will. But, today, I have a way to work it out, to check my pockets and find a grateful heart and happy thoughts - not resentments. Thank you God. In answer to my title question, it really doesn't matter anymore! I'm good!

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

     

Tomorrow Was Right On Time This Morning!

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne (1907 - 1979)

My Renovational Thoughts

(and I made that word up this morning!)

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

• Learned this morning that blue-hued black hair color turns silver hair...BLUE!
• Waxing my upper lip is NOT an enjoyable task
• Why does your underarm hair grow faster than all other hair, other than facial?
• Why does the hair on your head become silver before that on your legs?
• Why does weight loss HAVE to result in more WRINKLES?
• Why does the dog actually ask to go out when I don't want to take her out?
• I must REALLY love my husband, 'cause I despise ironing! Told him that, too!
• Oh, back to the other day: When pronounced down here De Salle sounds like deh-cel. Bugs the tar outta me! 
• Pecan pronunciations also bug the tar outta me. My papa told me that a pee-can was used on the trains! I say Puh-khan. Just sharing! Wink-Wink!
• Then there is CARAMEL...I say car(think automobile)mull.
  

Likin' John Wayne's quote above. Kinda lookin' for some Twain this morning, but the Duke spoke to me first. Yesterday I had to write my way out of a self-imposed pit. Gotta stop that!

However, I am glad that tomorrow arrived on time this morning. I am a big fan to new beginnings and being able to fix something or fix it up some. As you could tell from the list above, I was fixin' myself up. Gettin' ready to travel up to see my family next week. 

I had allowed the move to Austin to frighten me as far as being away from my parents, brother, sister-in-law, and nephews. We all lived next door to each other. Well, as next door as you can be at a quarter mile apart (but, on the same land). I so love my family and really did/do not know how to be so far away from them. That to is a learning process. One I give to God daily (or by the hour). Just had a thought...I, for one, am very glad that God does not charge for His services. Geesh, daily or by the hour, I'd be more broke than I am already! 

Guess we all have to learn to live without some people in our lives. Circumstances are all different: death, divorce, distance, disdain. Man, those all begin with a "d." Hmmm, must think about that for a while. But, if there is distance, we can make it work. Technology is a big help. 

Timer is going off. Sending cupcakes off via Fed Ex tomorrow. Hmmm, I wonder who is gonna get cupcakes on Thursday???

All for now, I will be attending a study this evening and will have more to share in the morning.