Papa's Place

Nancy had an interesting visitor in the bookstore on Sunday May 16th which I thought was quite strange until today when Verna and I were visiting Classic Klutter in town today when we bumped into a couple ghosts from the past. Well Jim would have to have been a ghost but I guess Helen is still alive and well in the Land Down Under, but what was she doing in Lafayette?

Tonight Mom gives me a DVD that she got from Youth Encounter and says could you put this in, I'd like to see what is on it. So I go through the challenge of getting the DVD player to play. We are supposed to be able to turn the VCR and the DVD player on and the Dish Tuner off and all is supposed to work OK. Evidently the DVD player was not reading properly off of the disk because after I got every thing set right it had been playing for about 30 seconds. I stopped it and was going to restart it but no matter what I would do it would not start playing again. After tracking down every controller in the house looking for the right one and pressing every button on the DVD and VCR Mom says well if it was playing it probably won't restart until you REWIND IT. Hmmm???? can anyone tell me how to rewind a DVD??

Sunday night when things were starting to wind down at the Vandercar dinner at Susie and Jerry's the old four year old, before her time, Evia asks Sandy if she could come upstairs to one of the bedrooms to put a movie on for her. On the way up Evia tells Sandy "I need some alone time before I get in that car to go home"

I heard this guy on the Lutheran Hour broadcast.

http://burningbushleague.com/

He has some very enjoyable music that you can listen to and there is a link to his wife's blog telling of living full time in a RV.

I came across this in some of my reading and thought I would share it.

Taking Care of You

Drink plenty of water.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
Eat more fruits and vegetables and eat less that is manufactured in processing plants.
Avoid eating food that is handed to you through a window.
Live the 3 E's - Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy.
Play more games.
Read more books than you did in 2009.
Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
Sleep for 7 hours.
Take a 10-30 minute walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Your Outlook

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
Don't have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
Don't overdo. Keep your limits.
Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
Dream more while you are awake.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
Forget issues of the past. Don't remind others of their past mistakes.
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
Learn a new word every day.
Smile and laugh more.
You don't have to win every argument

Your Relationships

Call your family often.
Each day give something good to others.
Forgive everyone for everything.
Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
Try to make at least three people smile each day.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Your Life

The worst promise you can break is one made to yourself.
Do the right thing!
Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
The best is yet to come.
When you awake alive in the morning, thank God for it.
Your Innermost Self is always happy. Follow it.
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Keep these rules handy and review them often. Follow them and small, almost imperceptible, changes will accumulate into something big. Your life will change.

Nancy has a post on her site http://dancewithnance.blogspot.com/ with the Hayden's modeling their FFA jackets so I thought I would join in.

I'm a little further away from the days when I wore mine and the zipper is a lot further away from being able to be zipped up.

Looks a lot better from the back.

Of course in my defense I had to tell Verna that when I bought my jacket I was also wrestling in the 95 lb. weight class.  I'm much more muscular now.

Verna's comment was "Yes, Sandy we still have that"

Nana said can you believe your daughter is 27???? It can't be.
Happy Birthday Michele My Belle.