special effects

It's Super Bowl Sunday! Some of you folks just love trash talk, smack talk, taunting, baiting and excessive celebration a.k.a. special effects and some of you don't. TV shows a lot of it sooooo many of you must like it (i.e. it's all about what the folks want that brings in the money, don't kid yourself).  And others of you don't like cocky celebrating!  We are all different, aren't we.  Remember that when reading this "It's Saturday."  

    

SusieQ who is a variety pack, says folks just love special effects.  Soooo why is that SusieQ?

I don’t try to do everything that other retires do here in the valley or try to live their lifestyle.  How I do things might be different.  I might not have an interest in some stuff that they do or maybe my values are different or somethings what others do just aren’t important to me or I don’t want to spend the money. Maybe that is just being independent or something! haha BUT, I’m really quite okay with my lifestyle; pretty content. BUT I am thinking about painted part of the inside of my 399 sq. ft. tin hut here in the desert.  I plan to paint over the pink flowers that the previous owner liked.  I think I will do it myself. I’m not really a painter but it will be a new challenge, a new adventure.  A new look! I can do it. I will make it a game! I will get a lot of advice from many folks who are experienced. It will be like having a special erv effect, like special effects of Star Wars, well, maybe not that drastic! Folks do like special effects. Oh ya!

I’m thinking about you, you know who you are, who don’t use special effects but are the rock of your family. You are the ones who hold or have held your family together during tough times.  Your spouse maybe have left or was out doing special effects!  My hat goes off to you.  I’m especially thinking about you, you know who you are, you are very special. Amazing! No, you won’t get the Citizen of the Year Award and your name and pic won't be in the paper, but your family will be winners because of you. You are just plain a special person. Dynamite! One of a kind. And you might not even feel this way.  BUT you are. There is no question. You don’t use special effects, but you are soooo real, my kind of person. You know who you are!  Listen up, if I think that way, others do tooooo. I’m not that smart to be the only one who knows that and sees that.  I realize that you won’t get the attention that the special effects folks get. Oh no! BUT does it really matter? Not to me. You are a star in my eyes!  Yes you are. For sure.

MovieWatcherRenise says--It's a great special effect when folks share their life with someone else. We beat around the bush a lot in America right now, but reality is we are not animals or some other crazy thoughts who some think they are.  I heard PastorJohn, anybody can be a John, say that other countries are teaching their kids important information and we are teaching our kids crazy stuff. What is going on? It’s not going to work! Is that just his opinion folks? But a small percentage of America really likes these special effects and get a lot of attention and preference it seems. Sooooo maybe we need to share our own special effects with folks. What are your special effects? I know folks who always speak the positive and not the negative who make me happy (i.e. great encouragers). Now that is a pretty good special effect. I know a person who really could be bitter and discouraged but chooses not to be and is very happy (i.e. is really a great person, my opinion). You know who you are. When I see you, you have a sign on your back that I see that says “SPECIAL.” Sooooo stick-to-it!

Have you ever seen on TV when an egg is fried on hot blacktop?  I always wonder if it is real or if it’s just special effects.  I recently visited some friends who I have known for maybe 55 years who lived in Butler County but right on the county line. Now they live in the Valley of the Sun. They sent me an email and here is part of it--It made me laugh but it is also sad--Glad to hear you are out here now, hope all is going well for you. I had a weird summer, fell barefoot on the hot blacktop, and had a blister the size of a golf ball on the outer edge of my left heel. That meant six weeks of a burn nurse coming to our house three times weekly after we went the first two weeks not realizing it was so bad. When someone tells you an egg can be fried on a hot blacktop, believe them!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I went to a presentation of Annie Oakie here in our community. I enjoyed it. She was part of the Wild West Show put on by Buffalo Bill (i.e. a show that had some true stuff in it and a lot of fiction a.k.a. special effects; Buffalo Bill gave the folks what they wanted to see and hear, a lot of action and a lot of noise, audiences from all over the world loved it! Annie Oakley was a major performer of the show.  Many folks thought it was a put on as they didn't think she could be that good of a shot (i.e. just special effects).  She had to prove herself that she was just that good. That made her reputation even more amazing.

I have a friend who is professional photographer.  With advanced technology they can do amazing things with pictures.  Just amazing.  Many folks don’t like to have their picture taken as they think they are prettier than what they actually are.  No problem anymore, they can now make ugly folks pretty! They ask—how do you want to look? For a few extra dollars, I can do.  How about making me look a little lighter through the middle? Can do! It’s sorta kinda special effects!

Sooo I decided to read a James Patterson book as I never have read any of his books (i.e. I think my golf buddies have read them all).  I decided to read Kiss the Girls, one of his most popular.  I checked online and saw that it was at the Mesa, Red Mountain Branch Library.  Soooo I looked for it in the fiction section but couldn’t find in amongst the 30+ of his books.  There was this attractive maybe 22-year old gal in the aisle soooo I asked her if she would help me—I will try. She couldn’t find it either and suggested I talk to one of the librarians. This pretty, little gal in the aisle had the worse smelling breath I have ever smelt; it was atrocious. It wasn’t just a bad stale last night beer breath, but it was a world class stinker.  I was 5 feet away from her and it was still appalling!  I went to the librarian, and she said some of his books are also in the mystery section. I found it amongst another 30+ of his books. I didn’t’ tell the gal she had such bad halitosis. She was soooo nice to me, sweet, and I didn’t’ what to hurt her feelings even though she could kill somebody with that bad breath before the day was over!. I just didn’t want to be a stressor! You think I should have? Will Rogers said—"Good judgement comes from experience. And a lot of that comes from bad judgement!” As I left the library I thought—I usually learn something at the library and this time I learned, erv, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover! haha

For some of you this will make no sense whats soooo ever! I wonder if the smartest folks are the ones that can understand the un-comprehensible stuff!  erv, how can anyone understand the un-comprehensible stuff, it can’t be done.  What are you thinking.  Oh, I think it can be done and some of the smartest folks can do it. You might have 5 PHDs from Ivy League schools in a variety of subjects but if you can’t understand the un-comprehensible stuff, you aren’t really a very smart person, my opinion. My Daddy, Chester, had less than an eight-grade education but I think he understood the un-comprehensible stuff which made him a very smart person, again my opinion. ItchieBitchie says—C’mon erv, you got to have proof; if there is no proof it’s not fact and then I don’t understand it or believe it. ItchieBitchie, I would say, you aren’t very smart! You are just dealing with special effects of your mind like money and power and fame and position! Maybe you need to get smacked in the head a.k.a. humbled!  Ouchy ouchy! I was at Costco eating my $1.62 hot dog and diet Pepsi the other day. A guy came and sat with me. He told me he lost part of his stomach and part of his hand in the war in the Middle East and spent 5 months in a hospital in Houston.  Now his wife of 42 years died. He said these events have really change him mentally, spiritually and physically.  

Soooo do you know who Eutychus was? Okay, Apostle Paul was preaching at Ephesus. Eutychus was sitting in the window and fell asleep (i.e. Paul went on forever) and he fell three stories to his death.  Sooo Paul went down there and by the power of God, brought him back to life.  Would you believe in God if you were there and saw that?  Or would you say—it has to be some “special effects” like in the movies.  I still don’t believe.  Some folks are pretty hardheaded (i.e. it happens yet today). And do you know what Paul did then?  He preached tell daylight! I don’t think Eutychus sat in the window again though!

Have you ever really pondered—What do I really want?  Really, what do you really want? Soooo you say, you want a new car.  Is that what you really want?  That’s not flying very high.  You can do better than that, for sure. You need something that will give you special effects excitement! Something SPECTACULAR!  Out of this world amazement.  Try again you earthly, worldly thing! Anybody can get a new car! You don’t even need money to do that! Even the gals who want to be Miss Universe say they want world peace (i.e. the routine, standard generic accepted answer which will never happen unless…). JoeCowboy from Timbuktu, ND says—There can be peace and that peace comes from within ourselves and in order to get that you have to find peace with Jesus.  JoeLiberal from North Redwood Falls, Minnesota says—There are two schools of thought on that; there is a lot of distance from here to Timbuktu!

I had a discussion with some real smart folks about maturity.  Oh maturity!  Are you mature? Based on what comparison are you mature? We sorta kinda decided that age isn’t necessarily the same as mental maturity. We all know young folks who are mature mentally and even though not physically and some folks who are physically mature but not mentally. Sooooo I asked OneSmartPerson why?  They said maybe character qualities and experiences—what are they—the way different folks think—like genetics?—maybe. I have a great nephew who just enlisted in the Marines.  We talked by phone and I told him that I’m happy for him. I think it will mature him.  Military does that to a lot of folks.  BUT I’m thinking of a senior lady from Butler County who I think is still immature mentally.  She has never got there yet! My opinion of course! If she was asked, she might think differently. You have heard of first responders, well, her history says she's an instant responder! Ouchy ouchy! But I'm not giving up on her yet as it is written--There is more hope for a live dog than a dead lion!

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

erv

MyFriendJean said--It takes as much energy to hold out a helping hand as to point a finger.

P.S. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."--Franklin D. Roosevelt   Do you think everyone understands that statement the same? Sooooo what is the knot?