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Well, the Lord is willing, and the creek didn’t rise, soooooooo I’m here again with another “It’s Saturday.” ha ha

There are some smart folks who are trying to take the clunk out of some folks’ lives.  I was putting on my shoes at pickleball and I introduced myself to the guy next to me.  He asked me about my life and I did the same.  He was a retired instructor of psychology.  I said—You must know a lot about the human mind—not really; it seems that no one really does—soooo what is the newest trend in psychology—flourishing—what is that—in the past we have spend most of our efforts on folks who were 10s, meaning the worst. We have been trying to get them to a 7 where they can be functional in life; now we are spending more time on the 7s to get them to a 5 or 4 sooooo they can find happiness in their lives—sooooo what is the best antidote—education.  It was his turn to play soooo I didn’t get to ask him about the type of education.  What do you think he meant by education?

When my sisters and brother-in-laws were here we were talking

about reading.  Our home had very little reading while we were growing up and our brother-in-laws read a lot as kids. A sister and brother-in-law are both retired elementary teachers. I was telling them that a friend just told me that she comprehends much better when she reads out loud.  They confirmed that is true.  They gave me this idea that you might what to give to your grand kids.  I call them “Listen To Me.”  Kids can whisper and still hear themselves read.  Sooooo I made some for our grandkids.  I don’t know if they will use them or appreciate them.  But, one of my brother-in-laws has taught me—If you have a good time doing it erv, it doesn’t really matter!  Such is life.

ConservativeHaley says--The average Thanksgiving dinner for 10 was $49.12.  It would have been lower except for our friend SuperCookDeb who skewed that figure. Her dinner cost more (i.e. way more); God only know how much more!  But I bet it was really good.  Way to go SperCookDeb, you are a good cook and you are also good for our economy!  ha ha I bet you had a good time Deb; good for you! Besides, it’s only money!

A friend was telling us that he doesn’t have much interest in sports; he said he use to.  But he still watches his Pittsburgh Steelers.  He said he tapes the games and watches them if they win; if they lose he doesn’t watch it.  He can watch a game in 20 minutes as he only watches the good parts.  I told him that he is a real piece of art!

Clunk, it’s done! TerminatorAlice says—You can only live 3 minutes without oxygen—then clunk you are dead.  You can only life 3 days without water—then cluck you are dead. You can only live 3 weeks without food—then clunk you are dead.  Soooooo folks, we don’t have to eat all the time.  But if we do, we’ll clunk clunk along!  ha ha

Many of you folks are really smart folks (i.e. at least some of you think you are ha ha).  What is the most important thing you know?  Is it to make money? To farm? To do a business deal? To parent? To be part of the social elite? To be good in some athletic event? I have thought about what the most important thing I know.  That is a good question for me.  I really don’t know (i.e. I’m not that smart).  While eating my oatmeal with half a banana on it, I read what Ricky said—"You might know string theory. You might know chaos theory. You might know quantum physics. But if you don’t know God, you’ve missed the purpose of your life.” CLUNK!

TrumpetJan says--It’s time to think about Christmas presents.  TurboCarylon says--Your presence is the best present. The second-best present is making someone laugh. I was talking to a friend who has some serious health concerns.  I told him he makes me laugh.  His response was—I think my purpose in life is maybe to make just one person laugh—I don’t know if I’m that one person, but you make me laugh.  Saturday question—What is the purpose in your life do you think?  Really? One smart person told me this—Ego says--When everything falls into place, I will find peace.  Spirt says—When I find peace, everything else will fall into place.  SusieQ says—I seem to just clunk along, confused as ever!  Such is life.

A friend has as her slogan—B HAP P! That will sorta kinda take the clunk out of a person’s life.  ItchieBitchie says--The old question is “why me” when something does not go our way.  But today I said—Why me when everything went my way.  I have no idea why I changed my thought process!  I have no idea why you changed ItchieBitchie but…Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled “One Habit to Make You Happier Today.” The writer said, “Repeating a positive phrase, or mantra, to yourself creates new pathways between neurons in your brain, conditioning you to feel calmer and healthier. Research shows that thinking of a word or phrase that affirms our values—and repeating it over and over—produces powerful physiological changes…. Mantras can create and strengthen new neural pathways that are positive and not toxic. And that can make our brain much calmer and happier.” ItchieBitchie, that might change yourself from a clunker to gladiator!

LiberalFrank says--Your brain generates 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts every day. Amazing! But the bad news is all those brain generated thoughts are mostly the same ones we generated yesterday (i.e. boring boring clunk clunk). And the day before, as far back as you can remember. We don’t think new thoughts very often.  We don’t like change soooo we don’t want to think new thoughts (i.e. clunk clunk).  I think that is funny.  Some folks like the same ol’ same ol’. Now that is a life of having a life in neutral, never moving forward (i.e. clunk clunk). What do you think of that? That is what I thought! 

I hope your Thanksgiving celebration was not clunkie because you brought up politics, religion or money!  A friend told us that they have a daughter-in-law that is very opposite to the other family’s political position. He was told by his son to not bring politics up!  Another friend then said—one of their adult children is very liberal and the other is very conservative.  We know a couple of couples who are our friends, where one is very liberal and the other very conservative.  I hope all of us kept our mouth shut!  CadillacJack says--BUT it is very hard when you think they are wrong! I read this in the paper soooo it must be right—Heated political arguments have erupted in class. Teenagers report being shunned if their opinions don’t match their peers. And some say they’ve lost friendships over politics.  Holy smokes, I bet that can be happen to adults tooooo.  What do you think? That is what I thought. 

We spend a couple of days with our children, their spouses and our grand kids.  We really had a good time.  Everyone was sooooo sweet and kind to Arlene; unbelievable! A great experience for them and us. I am just amazed how sweet and kind our grand kids are to her.  Amazing.  Either they were born with good hearts or were taught it.  Which one is it do you think?

One of our little granddaughters and I agree on this.  She called me the other day and was soooooo excited as she was going to get her ears pierced.  I asked her why she is doing this—well, grandpa, I have saved my money and I don’t need anymore toys as I have soooooo many soooo I decided to get my ears pierced and buy a couple pair of ear rings. I don’t know if she and I  will agree on politics as her parents seem to be more liberal than I am, but she might agree with me on saving money—We have a recurring mantra in our house - we can buy anything we want - as long as we've saved for it first. My uncle George said to me many times as a kid—erv, it isn’t what you make, it’s what you save.  BigSpenderCasey says—I spend my money on booze, broads and boats and waste the rest! Ouchy ouchy!

Have a FUN day my friends unless you have other plans. (-:

erv

MyFriendJean says—Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.