Merry Christmas!!!!!

Wednesday

Today is a little better but there's a feeling I have lost something. I am exhausted, I ache all over, my head hurts.

I feel like I have nothing

I feel very down and alone.

Mucking through Monday

A few lazy postbits:

1. Had to get my brake pads replaced for the second time since spring.

2. Things seem pretty bleak to me these days...my life is like Bolero...just marching on and on, the same every day without change or progress. One day slips by and then another and another...before you know it, a whole year is gone.

3. Christmas shopping is difficult but it's an obligation that I can't ditch.

4. My children bring me joy. They do the best they can, they try to love everyone, and want everyone to love them.

5. I love Jerry and his children. Jerry is the love of my life and his kids are wonderful. I know he tries to do the best he can too.

6. I feel soft, weak, unattractive, messy. My muscles and joints ache. I feel tired all the time.

7. I need to exercise and eat better.

8. My daughter is working on an Indian long house model. This is one project I actually haven't helped her with. She and her friend have done all the work themselves.

9. Jerry and his kids, me and my kids have a trip to Hocking Hills planned for this weekend. I have been looking forward to it for a long time. I plan to do everything in my power to make it happy for everyone. I hope to have great meals, soaks in the hottub with Jerry, me and the kids, Jiffy pop in the fireplace, afternoon hikes.

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, revisited

Trying to cheer myself up...... Hope these help you too.

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."

A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, "Hey, old buddy, how's it going?"

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.

As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!

A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them be real quiet, then open a door and there's the monster, sound asleep.

Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.

As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.

A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.

Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?

Blow ye winds, Like the trumpet blows; But without that noise.

Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our "stink" around. The second is we both get hit by cars a lot. The third is stripes.

Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.

Can't the Marx Brothers be arrested and maybe even tortured for all the confusion and problems they've caused?

Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

Feeling Blue