Wednesday, July 02, 2008
I'm grateful for the little things
having a good night's rest, a family that helps you, a kindly phrase or gesture, a well-turned gam, finding some spare quarters in some pay phone, a girl who will give you the time of day, going to Wendy's during a lull period and five minutes later it gets busy, parking at a meter with alot of leftover time that somebody didn't use, going north on the parkway when the southbound lane is clogged for some reason, driving during July and August without school buses, going to Barnes & Noble with your magazine and actually finding a nice comfy chair without a duff in it and going through a whole day without skid marks.
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on the downside having the same day off as your boss's day off, like you always have to see him, i mean like what's the point? there should be some union rule against this or something.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there's so many things to get down about I thought I'd flip it around here like Beth prefers summer over winter and I reverse it so I said maybe we can blog about the pluses and minuses of each season. Ole Man Winter's gotten such a bad rap you know but in summer you have mosquitoes, poor sleeping weather, power outages, whenever you see an anvil-shaped cloud it portends a t-storm, more people are out late at night up to no good like breaking into cars, doesn't happen when the evening's a nice frigid 12 degrees and oh did I mention poisonous snakes practically hibernate in winter. Along the lines of if life gives you lemons make lemonade well if winter gives you snow make a nice snowman.
ReplyDeleteGood attitude to have, my friend.
ReplyDeleteI'm lucky I'm even blogging today. My main library closed way too early today on this July 4th eve (that is if you're a patron, if you're a worker there it's great). Tomorrow the library's closed of course, Saturday I'm doing something with a friend, Sunday all libraries are closed during the summer months so I won't be back in the blogging saddle again until at least Monday. A little break in the action but I was wondering about one of the most common phrases we use, "it's not brain surgery" to describe simple tasks, what saying do the brain surgeons use kind of along the par of that old philosophical conundrum if God sneezes what do you say?
ReplyDeleteThey probably use "it's not rocket science."
ReplyDelete....and going through a whole day without skid marks....
That's a helluva nice day. LOL
& the rocket scientists probably say it's not brain surgery. A friend of mine once said you know you're gonna have a good day when you get up in the morning and it makes a clean break. Like our moms used to say always make sure you always have clean underwear on, you may get in an accident and wake up with a doctor's face above you. Kinda hard when you get on in years though.
ReplyDeleteThe thought occured to me that people often complain of poor sleep but even here you can be grateful for the little things. "Oh, I only got 4 hours last night." "You did? well be grateful for the 4 as opposed to the zero. The 0 will make you value the 4 that much more." The medical gurus don't philosophize this way though, you have the constitutional right to 8+ hours of John Tesh/catlike sleep with a saucer of milk in the morning.
ReplyDeleteOur homily this week was about martyrs, and you know thinking about people getting boiled in oil, fed to the lions and all sorts of torture, a hangnail really shouldn't ruin our day, everything in perspective folks. It even makes me realize dealing with a bad mooder husband is better than an abusive one, I could have it much worse.
ReplyDeleteYou watch Judge Judy and people sue over bad haircuts and everything. We're a spoiled country. I regularly see people complaining about their orders at McDonald's thinking they're at Mama Leone's or something, taking getting the wrong shake personal, geez man get a grip!
ReplyDeletesounds like a wise old priest you have there Beth or maybe a young one. Personally I like the ones who always give a short clipped homily like they have to catch the rest of the football game after, you can schedule your day better. Had a parish priest when I was young and his masses were always 30 minutes exactly, no shorter no longer, didn't even bother to pause for commas in the missalette and his confessions were always short and sweet, say 3 Hail Marys. His confession line was always longer than the pastor's, people would switch over like in the supermarket to a better line. The ones who ramble on in their sermons they're interesting and all but then your mind starts to drift and you start studying the names on the stained-glass windows.
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