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June 10 AAADD...Very Important...Please ReadAAADD
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS......PLEASE READ! Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better even though I have it!! Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests: I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first. But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water. I put the Pepsi on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize tha t tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the water is still running in the driveway the car isn't washed the bills aren't paid there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only 1 check in my check book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys. Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.... Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who I've sent it to. Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming. May 27 Things every man should know......I haven't written anything in quite a while, haven't really had much to say I guess. But I read something today on MSN that caught my eye. It is a list of things every man should know. Not things to become rich and famous. But things to just get through life. So here goes the list that I read and how I interpret it. The entire list and how to do each is described in greater detail at http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-life/just-dreaming/staticslideshowes.aspx?cp-documentid=19816828&imageindex=25. I still haven't figured out how to do the link thing on my own so you might have to cut and paste the website. Sorry. But ya know what. I do know how to do most of the list below.
1) How to get a bartenders attention. This one I gave up a long time ago. But when I used to walk into my favorite bar the bartender had my drink set up before I even made it to the bar. Kept him well tipped too.
2) How to bet the horses. I was stationed in Arkansas for a year and a half early in my adult life. My dad used to go to Hot Springs at least twice a year and I would meet him there. He told me something that I had to learn all on my own. "When gambling son, you will win a few and loose a lot". Boy was he right. I miss you Dad!
3) How to skin a moose. What?! I am not Sarah Palin ya'll. I don't intend to track, kill, gut, behead, skin and butcher a moose. I learned on small game. Rabbits, squirrels, birds and fish. I think it all applies to any size. I have never seen a moose except on TV. I like it that staying that way.
4) How to give a good massage. Now we are talking! Yeah baby! Oh! That might be how fatherhood started now that I think about it.
5) How to fell a tree. For building that cord or rick of wood that we might need when we become survivalists. I think? But I can do that one.
6) Buy a woman clothing. On of the best pieces of advice that the article gives is a big DON"T. It is a sure fire way to start an argument.
7) Fillet a fish. Isn't that a sandwich at Mickey D's? I know how to do this one. For heavens sake. I grew up fishing.
8) Make eggs 4 ways. Scrambled, poached, baked and sunny side up. I guess making cheese omelets last weekend while camping with my son doesn't count here. But I love eggs. Wonderful fruit of the chicken. Cackle fruit I believe.
9) Sew a button. Something every young child should learn. I think I was 6 when I learned this one.
10) Console a weeping woman. The hints mentions handkerchiefs and stuff. Who keeps a hanky in their pocket anymore? Not me. But I have met my share of weepers in my life. Some even suffer from misplaced bladders. Their bladders are behind their eyes and leak quite often.
11) Look good in a picture. The article tells us to turn our head a little, twist our hips a little askance and to SMILE. My son last month said he doesn't smile in pictures because male models don't in the magazines. He doesn't get it and I didn't want the argument. Some day he might wake up to the fact that he can light up a room with his smile.
12) Calm a cryng baby. Hold the baby correctly and close. Talk softly and in a deeper voice. Sing softly. I used to sing to my boys. I these don't work the child might need changing or feeding. Be prepared for a poopy or wet diaper or the bottle brigade boys.
13) Parallel Park. You know something? I haven't had to do this in a long time. Is it still taught in drivers ed to our kids? Always came eay to me though.
14) Wire a ceiling fixture. All right now we get to use tools. But please turn off the electricity first. I had a friend that curled his hair one day after saying in a very manly voice that only wimps turn off the juice.
15) Make pancakes from scratch. Here we are cooking again. No IHOP or Village Inn guys and gals. Do it yourself time with not all the added junk (preservatives) put in at the factory for the ready made stuff. We can do it!
16) Stop a running toilet. This doesn't mean getting up and jiggling the handles either. It means learning how to take the stuff inside apart and actually fixing it. Saves a lot of do-re-mi with your local plumber.
17) Rock the man in the boat. If'n you can't figure this one out. Ask your wife or girlfriend. I am not helping you with this one.
18) Carve a turkey. Brings back memories of "A Christmas Story". Easy enough to do, but can you do it right.
19) Make a drink just for her. Well, we don't drink anymore at my house but I think this means going further than opening her a beer or unscrewing that top off of the wine bottle guys.
20) Pick a ripe one. Cantalope that is. We don't want rotten fruit do we now.
21) How to jump start a car. This I learned as a kid as well. My family owned a Gas Station back in the "Full Service" days. Please read your owners manual. I worked as a line mechanic for many years before I returned to college for my degree and replaced a few ruined computers because the jumpers were hooked up wrong. Be careful.
22) Get a table in a restuarant. I normally pick up my food at the counter and find a table. But that is not what this means. Remember when you dated. Go to a nice place and have a fine meal. It is work to find the right place and the right table, but the work is worth it.
23) How to kill an injured animal. This one is tough. Really tough. No time to be squemish. Use what ever is needed to get the job done. Be quick about it. Don't let the poor animal suffer if it can't be saved.
24) Shine a shoe. Now here is an art that has gone out of fashion. Some of us learned the hard way. By having a drill sargeant yelling and breathing their foul breath down our necks but I learned. I have been complimented about my shoes by a member of the church I attend. She said that her daddy told her that you could tell how a man will take care of his family by looking at his shoes. Makes sense to me. They cost enough and are an investment after all.
I hope and pray that all of you will have a blessed day and week. Take care now.
Stew May 10 Happy Mama's Day ya'll.....Happy Mama's Day to all of the Mama's out there. I have never been one to use the formal type of speech when the familiar will work hence the use of Mama. Our children and most of us (I would think) said Mama before we ever said Mother. I like the basic's of life. So again Happy Mama's Day ya'll. Oh! I am still around spaces from time to time, when I can find time to get on the computer.
This has been a good week for my household. My oldest is home on leave. I know that Deb has blogged about that. We have laughed with each other more. Have been out and about just enjoying each others company. It has been great. Daniel will be going back to Ft. Hood in Texas today to start his new direction in Army life. He will be going to Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri (or as it is called in the military, "Ft. Lost in the Woods") for truck driver training. After he finishes that he will be stationed at Ft. Bliss in El Paso. That will be about 600 miles closer to home for him. And us, thank you Lord. Good stuff. He was also born in El Paso and lived there until he was 14 and still remembers some of the fun things to do there. There sure ain't much to do in Killeen, Texas the home of Ft. Hood.
Again I want to say Happy Mama's Say to all of the Mama's out there on Spaces.
Have a blessed Sunday ya'll.
Stew April 19 Robin (Commander) is doing great...For those of you that have communicated with Robin Pritchard (Commander) in the past he has been silent for a couple of days. That is because he had to have surgery to replace a blocked artery in one of his legs. Lots of ice was probably used to help with the swelling. A tough surgery so Deb and I have been worried about him. We wondered how to get in touch with him.
Well yesterday Deb and I did some cyber sleuthing. She remembered that he had mentioned a hospital in one of his blogs last month where he had some testing done. We got on line and found that hospital in Engand. We found their swithboard number and I called. Was switched to his floor and was given a number to his room. I had to hang up and call back. He was "rather tongue tied" as he said. Later his son emailed me and said his dad is doing better. That his foot and leg have good color to it. So please all my peeps out there in our cyber neighborhood, please keep Robin in your prayers. His leg is still swollen and sore. He still has physical therapy and months of recovery to go through. May God give him strength. I told him that he could run, but with the internet available, he can't hide. Deb told him over a speaker phone that she wasn't stalking him. He had a good laugh about that.
Sarah (Lady Arygyll) sent me an email as well this morning. She was in his room when we called and she said his face lit up. Sometimes that is all it takes to someone that is down and out for awhile. A kind word. A letter. Or even an overseas phone call.
Well, I gotta go. Today after church we are having a church picnic. Expecting several hundred people there. We have to have it early in the year due to the heat here. It is supposed to be 91 degrees Fahrenheit today.That would be 33 degrees celsius to my friends across the pond. We will go through lots of ice today to keep things cool. Keep in touch ya'll. I will try harder to get back here when possible.
Stew April 17 She had fun and hit her target....I know that Deb has blogged about her day at the Bass Pro Shop. Call her Dead Eye Deb from now on. She did pass her course and is now able to register for a concealed weapons permit if she desires to. She hit her target with most of the shots in the lower abdomen/groin area. I told her that if the target had been a man that when she shot him he would have done one of two things. He would have either bent over from the waste or fallen to his knees. Then the second shot would have gone thru the top of his head or between his eyes depending on his position. Either way, the party would have been over.
Last night I walked by her while she was on this ol' puter and dropped a "Rifleman" magazine onto the keyboard and kept walking. I wish you could have heard the laughter. She actually read the thing. I meant it as a joke, but she is taking this seriously. Who knows where it will take her. Probably to the gun shop then a shootin range. She doesn't like golf.
Keep the faith my friends. I hope to get by later to visit most of you. I do spend some time daily on facebook. Drop me a line.
Have a blessed weekend.
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