Sending loving thoughts to all of you - I miss you so!
February 14, 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day
Posted by Marti @ November 30, 2007
The Day I Snapped
On this ship of fools called Life, I am the comic. I entertain folks with funny stories to take their minds off their own problems. I am the strong one, who always manages to look on the bright side, see the light at the end of the tunnel, and all those other clichés. I am made of steel (literally if you count the metal plates and screws in both ankles).
Yet even steel will break if placed under enough stress, and this week, I snapped.
The tidal wave of trouble had been building for some time, and it gathered enough force to wash me overboard. I have cried an ocean of tears lately, and suddenly found myself drowning. I floundered, treading water, thinking I was brave. It wasn’t brave, it was arrogant. Arrogant to think that I didn’t need help. Arrogant to try to go it alone. Arrogant to exclude my friends.
So I cried out. I cried out and you threw me a buoy. You saved my life.
You shared your own problems, so that I could see that I was not alone. You told me I was worth saving, something I’d come to doubt. You offered assistance, you offered friendship, you offered hope.
I can not thank you enough.
Sometimes even comics have pain, in fact most comedy is born of pain. You gave me my smile back, and I can once again see the humor in things. And although Thanksgiving was last week, it was this week that I learned to be truly grateful.
Thank you.
And since this IS a humor blog, I’ll leave you with a joke, a smile and my warmest wishes. God bless.
The Threesome
A fella met an older woman at a bar last night.
She wasn’t bad for 50, they drank and talked a bit, then she asked if he’d ever had the ’sportsman’s double’, a mother and daughter 3-some?
He said no.
They drank a bit more, then she says that tonight was his lucky night.
They went back to her place.
She put the hall light on and shouted upstairs:
“Mom you still awake?”
September 19, 2007
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Avast ye mateys! Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Have fun!
Enjoy this cute graphic
from Susan Reynolds and delight in the day, me hearties!
Categories: Special Days, Friends, Humor, Blogging
September 10, 2007
Free Hugs
Today is free hug day. Last year I was involved in the Project 2996 blogger tributes to victims of 9/11.
This year I wanted to do something in remembrance, and I discovered Free Hug Day on Facebook.
From the site:
September 10th, 2007 will be remembered as the biggest Free Hug Day this world has ever seen. Everybody get ready, this one is going to be HUGE.
Invite everyone you can!!!!! Thank you!!!!
The Reason for the date,
September 10th is the day before 9/11. We will all sit down on that day and think about the tragedies that have befallen this world, we will think of the twin towers, of the Iraq war, of the terrorist attacks all over the world. We will think to ourselves…what has this world come to? where has the good gone? That is why I created this event, so when you do ask yourself that, you think about all the hugs you had received the day before and you think to yourself that there is love left. I want people to be reminded that this world has a great amount of good left in it, and that it should never be forgotten.
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I think this is a beautiful thought - to think about those we love, who touch our lives and live in our hearts. Share a hug today with those people - in real life and on the Internet.
Peace and joy to all of you!
{{hugs}}
Categories: Special Days, Friends, Humor, Blogging
May 11, 2007
Stick it to me
What a week this has been!
Daughter is now 18 years and one week old, and is convinced she is an adult - LOL
She has become obstinate about bedtime and other rules that I, her darling mother, chose to impose on her for no apparent (to her) reason. She has decided to repeatedly stick it to me with reminders that she is now 18. Gee honey, thanks for that, I forgot since you told me three minutes ago. Since you’re all grown up, be a good girl and go get mommy a bottle of liquor - LOL
It has rained, dear gawd how it rained! Perhaps you’ve seen the news regarding flooding in the Midwest. That’s my house floating down the river - LOL
Just kidding. We’re 15 miles from where houses are washing away, but we did get enough rain to make life miserable. Power and Internet access have been sketchy, because this is an old building and all things mechanical and electronical *snicker* hate me.
I apologize for not visiting and commenting. To those of you who “tagged” me for memes or lists, I haven’t had the time to participate, sorry.
What little time I am able to access the Word Wide Web, I’m working, deleting spam (grrr) or checking the ever-depleting bank balance (grrr to over $3 a gallon gas prices that stick it to those of us who pile up automobile miles faster than those crazy people who stack sports cups, a new fad I totally do not understand, which must be proof that I am getting old and I digress way too much - sorry) and trying to figure out who’s got their fingers in my pie. Literally.
I bought a pie at the grocery store the other day. A lovely cherry pie. When I got home (Digression alert! Getting home was no easy task, as the main thoroughfare to town was flooded so I had to take the go-through-the-country-on-the-winding-washed-out-road-with-one-lane-bridges and-blind-hairpin-turns) and unpacked the bags (sinful me, they were made of environmentally-unfriendly, flipping-the-finger-at-Mother-Nature plastic! Sorry, digressing again) my pie had a giant hole in it. Yes, I had a pie hole.
It looked like the cashier or bag boy had poked their thumb (or some other appendage that I don’t even want to consider) smack into the middle of my sweet cherry pie. (Oh great, now I’ve got that song stuck in my ever-digressing head. I’m told the proper term for a song stuck in your head is “earworm,” but that sounds really gross and is too reminiscent of The Wrath of Khan, and dammit I’m digressing in my digressions. Grrrr again.) Gawd knows what other indignities my no-longer-a-virgin pie was subjected to. I didn’t want to think about it, so the entire pie bit the dust in the bottom of the trash can. Bye, bye Miss American pie (another earworm for all of you playing along).
(Dang, this is supposed to be funny and cheerful - don’t worry, be happy, don’t even think about THAT song - LOL) At least the sun is shining today! Hooray for sunshine! Hooray for mothers! Happy Mother’s day to all you mothers! Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right…well you get the drift, or the float, if you live around here.
Peace and joy to all of you!
