Dogs First Ride in Their New Booster/Car Seat

Call me weird, crazy or whatever... Our dogs are little and when they go on car rides they tend to jump all over the place because they are trying to look out the window but have trouble reaching, so we bought them their own booster/car seat.

The seat solves 2 problems: it boosts them up high enough to see out the window and it secures them to the seat belt so they don't slip around when we are braking or turning.

An added bonus that the dogs LOVE is that we can open the window for them to stick their heads out without having to worry about them falling out of the car. It has made rides with them very easy now.

No Bobdy - After "A Door" by WS Merwin

This corpse is where no door could ever be
where here I'm cowering
from this dark inside my walls

through still another night
there will be no shadow
no window out
where I don't belong

No one could breathe
stagnant fog that closes
behind me once I've gone
nowhere after me could
no body ever open it.

-RW Hershey Jr

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A Dog's Ten Commandments....

1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is likely to be painful

2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.

3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being.

4. Don't be angry with me for long and don't lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, your entertainment, but I have only you.

5. Talk to me. Even if I don't understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me.

6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it.

7. Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I could hurt you, and yet, I choose not to bite you.

8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak.

9. Please take care of me when I grow old. You too, will grow old.

10. On the ultimate difficult journey, go with me please. Never say you can't bear to watch. Don't make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there, because I love you so.

Wonderful advice from Aunt Denise

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17.. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38.. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Its estimated 93% won't forward this. If you are one of the 7% who will, forward this with the title '7%'.

I'm in the 7%.

Remember that I will always share my spoon with you!

Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.

Don't ever fall in love

Did you ever love a boy
but knew he didn't care?
Did you ever feel like crying
but knew you'd get nowhere?

Did you ever see him dancing
when the lights were turned down low?
Did you ever whisper, "God in heaven"
but God didn't let him know?

Don't ever fall in love my friend
You'll find it doesn't pay
It only causes heartbreak
It happens everyday

And when it starts you'll know
Why you wonder day & night
Remeber you're losing him
No matter how hard you fight

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Love is fine, but it hurts so much
the price you pay is high
If I could choose
Love or Death
I think I'd rather die

And so my friend
don't fall in love
You'll be hurt
before you're through
You see my friend
I ought to know
I fell in love with you!

I have this posted as 2 seperate poems. However I have recently discovered a similar version of these 2 poems combined as one online with authorship attributed to a 20 year old name Jewelia Lindsey. Considering I am transcribing this from a hard copy of my Journal (discs have been lost) from 1991 I find this highly unlikely as she would have been one.

If anyone could clarify this I would appreciate it.
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CURTAIN RODS---- This is PRICELESS

She spent the first day packing her belongings into boxes, crates and suitcases.

On the second day, she had the movers come and collect her things.

On the third day, she sat down for the last time at their beautiful dining room table by candle-light, put on some soft background music, and feasted on a pound of shrimp, a jar of caviar, and a bottle of spring-water.

When she had finished, she went into each and every room and deposited a few half-eaten shrimp shells dipped in caviar into the hollow of the curtain rods.

She then cleaned up the kitchen and left. When the husband returned with his new girlfriend, all was bliss for the first few days.

Then slowly, the house began to smell.

They tried everything; cleaning, mopping and airing the place out.

Vents were checked for dead rodents and carpets were steam cleaned.

Air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in to set off gas canisters, during which they had to move out for a few days and in the end they even paid to replace the expensive wool carpeting. Nothing worked

People stopped coming over to visit.
Repairmen refused to work in the house.
The maid quit.

Finally, they could not take the stench any longer and decided to move.

A month later, even though they had cut their price in half, they could not find a buyer for their stinky house.

Word got out and eventually even the local realtors refused to return their calls.

Finally, they had to borrow a huge sum of money from the bank to purchase a new place.

The ex-wife called the man and asked how things were going.

He told her the saga of the rotting house. She listened politely and said that she missed her old home terribly and would be willing to reduce her divorce settlement in exchange for getting the house back.

Knowing his ex-wife had no idea how bad the smell was, he agreed on a price that was about 1/10th of what the house had been worth, but only if she were to sign the papers that very day.

She agreed and within the hour his lawyers delivered the paperwork.

A week later the man and his girlfriend stood smiling as they watched the moving company pack everything to take to their new home.........

And to spite the ex-wife, they even took the curtain rods!!!!!!

I LOVE A HAPPY ENDING, DON'T YOU?

Flip-Flop, Psycho

After all the drama my BIL and his new wife have caused, they have out done themselves now. He has now decided to give my MIL 30 days to move out of his house, which he wouldn't have ever been able to buy if she hadn't sold her house and gave him all the money from the sale to pay off his debts so his credit score would actually qualify him for a high interest mortgage.

He and his snotty wife have already rented an apartment for themselves and the kids leaving mom alone in the house because his new manipulative bitch of a wife doesn't want to live with his mom. She has manipulated him to the point of throwing his mother out onto the street with no home, his kids are so stressed out at the age of 8 that their mother had to take emergency custody of one of the twins and the other will be going soon enough, his entire family has disowned him at this point and he keeps trying to start even more shit.

The flip-flop, psycho part is that after all this, whenever he's away from the manipulative bitch, he calls his "mommy" to chat like nothing has happened??!! Then he wonders why she's not the same with him on the phone.

Call me stupid, but if within one year of letting some tramp and her kids move into your house, your kids therapists is concerned, your kids leave you, your mother becomes physically ill from stress, your entire family disowns you and you're not allowed to even tell your family where you live - I would seriously reconsider my relationship with the tramp from hell. What does he do? Marries the hobag!

Stress Relief

Just in case you are having a rough day (week, year, life), here is a
stress management technique recommended in all the latest psychological
journals. The funny thing is that it really does work and will make you
smile.


1. Picture yourself lying on your tummy on a warm rock that hangs out
over a crystal clear stream.
2. Picture yourself with both your hands dangling in the cool running
water.
3. Birds are sweetly singing in the cool mountain air.
4. No one knows your secret place.
5. You are in total seclusion from that hectic place called the world.
6. The soothing sound of a gentle water fall fills the air with a
cascade of serenity.
7. The water is so crystal clear that you can easily make out the face
of the person you are holding underwater.

Human Body Trivia

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).

The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

Women blink twice as often as men.

The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

Women reading this will be finished now.

Men are still busy checking their thumbs.

The seven deadly sins of narcissism:

Shamelessness - Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.

Magical thinking - Narcissists see themselves as perfect using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.

Arrogance - If a narcissist is feeling deflated, s/he can reinflate him/herself by diminishing, debasing or degrading somebody else.

Envy - If the narcissist's need to secure a sense of superiority meets an obstacle because of somebody else, s/he neutralises it using contempt to minimise the other person's ability