PONDERISMS

PONDERISMS

(comical food for thought)

• I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most
people die of natural causes.

• Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are
removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it
• comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

• The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a
replacement.

• Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

• There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

• Life is sexually transmitted.

• Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

• The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals
dying of nothing.

• Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one
talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again

• All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no
attention to criticism.

• In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the
world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

• How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes
a whole box to start a campfire?

• Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll
squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"

• Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna
eat the next thing that comes outta its butt."

• Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

• Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

• Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets
mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head
out the window?

• Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

• Do you ever wonder why you gave me your email address

or

Did you actually ponder why I didn't send this to you,

Or did I? Let's ponder over it.

I even PONDER why PONDERISM isn't in the dictionary - is that wrong of me?

I promise I will ponder less produce more.. spelling and all... good/bald/ sticky sweet/ cut throat/or just being me. I'm me if's my voice!! Don't you every Ponder why I ever let you know about this BLOG in the ifrst place. Because there was something I wanted you to know. I wanted you know ME.

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR GOING TO....

Mrs. S (Jen) as we so "used" to call you.
I dedicate this Blog to you.

I was around 5th grade and this song became a hit. It kicked but since it knocked off Barry Manailow and "I Write the Songs" so since at the age of what 10 I knew I had to listen in. It had to be a "winner". Little did I know that not only the song would mean so much but even the movie as many times as I have seen it (even tho it has been a while) I am still impacted by it and I wanted to just let you get a taste of it.

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is
showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?

Do you get
what you're hoping for?
When you look behind you
there's no open door
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?

Once we were standing
still in time
Chasing the fantasies
That filled our minds

You
know how I loved you
But my spirit was free
Laughing at the questions
That you once asked of me

Chorus: * Do you know...?

Now
looking back at all we've planned
We let so many dreams
Just slip
through our hands

Why must we wait so long
Before we'll see
How
sad the answers
To those questions can be?

Chorus: * Do you know...?

So the Tagline to the Movie - which of course I could not see at the age of what 10 was:

"Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with"

And I didn't understand really what the song meant except that I was the one that made MY DREAMS and I was the one that had to keep up on my dreams and I was the one that had to answer to those dreams. and answer those questions. Do I know where I am going to!! Do I like the things that life is showing me!! You know me I'd be singing it to you now!! Hey maybe I am speaking to me, Torrey, my sister-in-law - my neighbors my friends - we all should know where we are going!! In the movie which I finally did see when it was on TV she says "Your only young once, you can be immature forever". Nope, If I live with that, can't work doesn't make my dream work better either so the movie isn't perfect either.

Just wanted you to know your special enough for me that you now have a a Micki Blog dedicated to YOU!! Now remember the disclaimer on my profile nothing is related to nothing and nothing means nothing etc... take my advice or don't won't mean a hill of beans - lol

Now enjoy a little bit of Diana singing the song... just push the arrow

HMMM... who is her teacher??

I knew .... I downloaded these pictures and I thought.... they looked familiar... like someone was teaching her something... teaching her to grab the camera and just use it for their own use of some sort. Was it a society out there. I personaly can't do it. I tried once and got a picture of my toe. Somehow she has been trained and she has been trained well!

Now I do know someone who has failed the course fortunately his face is hidden and you can't tell who he is so his embarrasement will not be to big so that you will laugh at him if seen on the streets (or soccer field).

So...

The results of this Camera downloaded SHOCK? -hey how did HE get in the picture - now we all really know don't we!!

one whole year has past....

Happy birthday to my nephew.... yeah!!
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lots has happened... moving, new house etc....

I went back and looked at an old blog of mine

OCT 21 IN THE DARK

and I hope I am still trying not to pocket those dreams....
I think I'm doing a pretty good job at doing that!! Hopefully some other people have decideded to empty their pockets full of their shattered dreams and started living the life the really wanted in the first place too. All I know is I am seeing so much of Misawa opening up these boxes and putting things in their proper places in my new house that it just seems like yesterday I was on this computer getting ready for the next Bazaar or even the bazaar a year ago today folding those flyers. All those memories. If only my eyes had been more focused but that's what in the dark means. (hand hits forhead) I did find the perfect place for the Butterfly chest next to the red leather couch recliners in the den/tv room/game room. It holds all the games and looks great. So NO, Janet, not going to sand it down and re-paint it, although I really was hoping I was going to get to do it! Well - Misawa is not in the dark for me and I do miss some of it - I miss buying my bit of the Bazaar. I never got to shop. I always thought I would have another one to buy out. Oh well. So we bought a bigger house and real wood furniture and real appliances. No worries here!!

As the kids would tell me - to just cool it - and peace out! One year I'm there! It's Cool and peaceful!! Have you guys ever seen them smile bigger!! - ok maybe Torrey is giving Corbin a wedgy.

Just when you think YOU had a bad day...

Ok.... I gave my child something to do - something to do while waititng for the furniture to arrive and this is what he did, or rather they did.

If you want to know more about where you too can make your own BAD DAY please see FERGI so you can spend hours and hours on your computer not getting anything done.

ENJOY! Corbin and Torrey and the time of their life doing it!!

sometimes you just have to have a little fun

Trying to take some pictures for Mom and guess what - I got some extra help - or rather hands at it!!

It Slithered and Slid and Snuck up to get me....

And then TORREY yelled"COOL" "SNAKE", and it went the other way.... and it went into the grass and she ran into the house to get the camera so we could get some pictures of it.
I guess you could say we have an abundance of reptiles that like to linger around all the windows and eat all the bugs. I also have kids that like to chase them, try amd catch them and take endless pictures of them. I myself have been face to face with a gecko in Hawaii while pregnant with Torrey on the toilet frozen so nothing would ever surprise/shaken/or bother me. I like Snakes, in fact in the old days (back when I was their age I even gutted a few of them water moccasons that got caught on the traught line) oops - just started talking back woods talk didn't I. I like frogs too. And yes it has been proven they do get a little tipsy if you do throw them in a bucket of beer (of course Mom the BBQ's Beer was never used for this test). I'm thrilled that we have a an abundance of plant life and varmants living in our back and front yard that Ivan and Dennis didn't scare away. I'm thrilled that we have beautiful flowers just as abundant as the lizards and of course bugs the lizards love to eat! I'm glad the kids are enjoying their adventures out lizard hunting!! I can't wait till Callie comes and meets the Armadillo that has made her home under the deck in our back yard!! It will all be interesting then!!

Seems like there are always a flower blooming at this house!!

Counting my blessings and again when I think I have it all

God reminds me he can take it all back away from me just as easy as a storm!!!!

I finally found the picture of the house we stayed in for those glorious days (see Sept 13th BLOG below where we saw it was all gone and bulldozed away). This is this picture of the house on the beach where we spent the Christmas of 2004 with Nonny and Poppy and Grandma and let Callie chase the birds. As Corbin says "This is the best Christmas ever"!! We stayed on the left side of the house on the top part three bedroom with a loft and that huge window!!
Again - I have been reminded many times this year, God in a second can take my family away from me, my husband away from me, and my life away from me. But God told me HE is on my side and I believed Him, even tho I knew that a year ago and back six months ago and even in March and today I just didn't know how He was going to get me through life and make it easy for me to understand. The Truth of how He was going to be in that fight with me and how the Truth would be set free. Funny in Sunday School the lesson was on TRUTH - How Paul talked to Timothy and even tho my belt might me a lot smaller my belt of truth is much smaller but the smaller it gets the stronger it seems to be.

God can destroy so much in just a moment but building back up takes a lot longer.

Well... the Ferguson's are doing just that building you can see it in our faces - were back to being the family we left.... the last house we left... was the one in the picture above... ironic isn't it!

I look at the picture and just think.... oh - but couldn't you just look out that window one more time and watch the waves hit the shores while doing a puzzle.

One storm, one person, one accident, one incident can change your life forever. Guard your family. I'm lucky - This past year as I look back I finally saw through people and got to see what and who they really were (why I was so blinded I don't know) I got blindsided many times but I got up with the help of people I didn't even know cared for me, got my best friend back and have got to reflect more on who I am as a person. I realize after being here just a month that I too would have survived Ivan and Dennis and fought back if I were here. God gives us these trials (when we lose something or almost lose something) to only fight to get them back or trying to do anything to keep them intact. I also have seen more caring people in the last month since we have been back in the states in one month than I did in the whole time we were in Japan. Just out pouring kindness from people that knew what it was like to have lost half a roof or a car or maybe a whole house just pouring out with love and kindness no matter who they were or where they came from.

Regardless ... The house I am living in now is wonderful.... that 1983 old beach home that needed lots of work and was right on the water was my winter dream home!! Yes, I said dream home but "winter" dream home not summer would have been awful - but if only one more time.... just to see out that window....

but... better to have lost a home (a rented one at that) than a family, a husband, or a life!!

I count my blessings - two of them are out chasing lizards one is mowing the lawn and I am here misspelling words that will be corrected by a husband later when he looks at my Published work that has bad grammar and spelling.

Again - scroll down to Sept 13th for the aftermath of what we saw when it was all gone.