ANOTHER MOVIE QUOTE

"Hairy legs are your only link to reality."

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HERE'S YOUR SIGN

Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you had been born 100 years before? 20 years before? Even one year before? I mean, even one year would mean you would have been with that cooler senior class - you might have had an inspiring teacher in calculus instead of that scary old lady who made you swear off mathematics after your junior year - you might been stepped on by a dinosaur when you were ten (oh, wait a minute, that WAS when I was ten).

I am somehow convinced that if I had been born just a bit LATER I would be into graphic design. The first computer I worked on was with a black screen, green letters and a c: prompt, for goodness sake - there was no such THING as computer graphics.

So I grew up making signs the old fashioned way - cardboard and paint. Signs for yard sales, signs to sell cars, signs for horse owners with their horse's name - signs signs signs.

Tonight I'm making signs for my neighbor's yard sale this weekend, and actually enjoying it. If I had some way to blow-up my little computer images, they would be way more professional, but I think they are okay for a yard sale.

(And isn't this last one just the cutest thing you've ever seen?)

I AM GOD

Okay, maybe I'm not God, but the title got your attention, didn't it?

How about I can RELATE to God.

God has all of us whinny children here on earth saying, "But I don't wanna do this, I want the prize right now, why do I have to be nice to that person? I don't wanna play anymore" etc. etc. etc. We complain to Him about our petty mortal problems, our short-sighted time-restricted view and keep Him on the line with a whole lot of 'I WANT IT NOW, I WANT IT NOW, I WANT IT NOW!!!!" while banging our fists against the floor and screaming.

So when I am dealing with someone (we do not need to discuss names here) on the phone with "but I wanna see the movie TOMORROW and no I don't have the money but I wanna see it TOMORROW and why can't I just take the money out of savings and I NEVER get to do anything and NOBODY likes me and why are you so MEAN"...

... yeah. I can relate, God.

HAIKU

My house burned down
Now I can better see
The rising moon

WHEN TO LET IT GO

Movie trivia question for the night: what movie, and who said it? "I was very angry at my father; took $80,000 for me to say that. I say it very well, so I'll say it again - I was very angry at my father."

A conversation tonight with my mother-in-law: her granddaughter (my niece-in-law, if such a term exists) was taken to court by her ex-boyfriend, and father of her son, to sue for custody of the boy, after not being any part of his life up to that time. Took several thousand dollars (some of it from my mother-in-law, who lives on her Social Security) to get a smarter lawyer than he had hired, and seems to be getting resolved (now the idiot is on the books for never paying any child-support - any job he has in the U.S. from now on will have the payments taken directly out of his paycheck before he even gets it)

A lot of memories were stirred up - and it look me a walk outside for a while to recognize that it is simply best to let those memories go. We can keep them alive - stir the pot - keep the heat up... or we can decide that peace is more important. I don't mean forgetting the lesson(s) learned - and I don't think the actual memory is ever going to leave - but we don't have to keep re-living it, re- experiencing it, re-telling it.

Thanks. This message is just for me, but to post it helps.