Thursday, December 11th, 2008
12:01 A. M.
Thursday Thirteen & stuff


I caught the bug! You remember that I said last weekend, that I went out to get tickets for the Corpus Christi Ballet of The Nutcracker? And ended up with a flat tire? Out alone because Bud was home, sick, in bed? Well he hasn't improved much in the last few days and yesterday I woke up with a scratchy throat. I took some Alka Seltzer Plus and have been consuming Green Tea like it's going out of style! I actually think the Green Tea is helping....it feels so good going down the raw throat. And it has made the nasty cough subside. You know me, I don't like taking drugs if I can help it, so being that the tea is natural and that Alka-Seltzer Plus is purely aspirin which I take daily for the heart anyway....Still, we both have the achy. run-down feeling and we've napped most of the last three days. It's not fun!!! Woe is me. LOLOLOLOLOL According to the Oriental culture, Green Tea, is a miraculous thing. Oh ya, and I'm saving the tea leaves. I hear they're good for outdoor and houseplants!! A miracle grow in disguise.
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Don't get too close!!! I WILL get to all those that left comments yesterday when I can...the strain right now is taking me back to bed about every two hours.



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edition #85 I believe


...and here she is again!!! I love humor, I love joking, I love laughter. Hope you will too. My thirteen this week comes from a wise ol' lady named Jefé [pronounced HEH fay in Spanish slang - meaning 'boss or chief', being in this case, a "chieftress" but I like Jefé - you guessed it, I really DO have chin whiskers'] These are thirteen tried and true living experiences from the aged one with her keen perception on life-------




English feed their babies with little tiny spoons and forks; Chinese mothers use toothpicks. [kidding]

I drive far too fast to worry about cholesterol.

Everyone has a photographic memory. But some folks don't have film.

Old age is when you still have something on the ball but you are just too tired to bounce it.

Speaking of old age ---cramming for finals to us seniors is reading the good book!! Page for page.

I've come to the conclusion a hired investor IS a broker. Trust me.

Roman paramedics refered to IV's as "4's".

Face it....Disney World is a people trap operated by a mouse!

Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him. Hmmmmm.

Never trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent.

I believe five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

Modern Latin: VENI, VEDI, VISA - I came, I saw, I shopped!

The third hand on a watch is called a 2nd hand!

Thursday 13 below my health update.

Well, my 1st annual follow-up from my heart ablation at the end of September of last year is over. After doing an EKG and many other tests, I got a good report! I asked several questions and he answered them thoroughly...I like this guy. That is saying a whole heckuva lot if you want to really know. I told him I didn't like my other cardiologist after so many bad side effects from Lisinopril and he doing nothing to change and me ending up in ER...that he said he understood. He then didn't degrade the former cardiologist, nor did he pressure me in any way to get a new one. Giving me a 'good to go' and 'good to do', I'm feeling mighty fine. I pray it continues to be good for me. He also told me to get my cholesterol down...well, I had to explain to him [since he knows the list of medications I'm taking] that I got my cholesterol down WITHOUT any prescription drugs. He was amazed and very pleased!! As I am. Too, I hope I can continue to do so, tho I must confess I ate red meat a couple of times. Which I vowed not to do again. I felt relieved that all was well with my ticker! I feel now that it's not a time bomb waiting to go off...[tho in the back of my head I do know that I'll always be a 'high risk' patient]. If all goes well, I don't need to return for another year. And my Primary Care Physician only wants to see me for picking up my blood work papers if I continue to feel well. That says a lot to me also. I'm happy with the outcome.

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edition #83




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...and here she is again!!! I love humor, I love joking, I love laughter. Hope you will too. My thirteen this week comes from a wise ol' lady named Jefé [pronounced HEH fay in Spanish slang - meaning 'boss or chief', being in this case, a "chieftress" but I like Jefé - you guessed it, I really DO have chin whiskers'] These are thirteen[?] tried and true living experiences from the aged one with her keen perception on life-------



1] Noah kept his bees in archives!

2] Part-time bandleaders semi-conductors.

3] Think about it: Pilots take crash-courses; it's called simulation.

4] Speaking of pilots, getting off a non-stop flight would be a challenge.

5] I 've, in all my years, not seen a toad use his stool yet.

6] For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

7] Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

8] Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. Trust me.

9] The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

10] A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

11] Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

12] After driving in Texas, I'm convinced that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone licensed in this state would be stupid enough to try and pass them.

13] Just seeing if you're paying attention!!! Oh....sorry, my last bit of knowledge is: A man who walks sideways will get to Bangkok!

edition #69

She's back...with full force today. Our little Jefé [ya, I know, that is the masculine version, but I like the sound of the word more than Jefa with the 'a']




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...yep, here she is again!!! I love humor, I love joking, I love laughter. Hope you will too. My thirteen this week comes from a wise ol' lady named Jefé [pronounced HEH fay in Spanish slang - meaning 'boss or chief', being in this case, a "chieftress" but I like Jefé, not Jefa - the chin whiskers on her entitles her to be known as Jefé] These are thirteen tried and true living experiences from the aged one with her keen perception on life-------



1] If you don't want relatives stickin' around, don't let them know you have money!

2] If at first you don't succeed, then, skydiving is not for you.

3] Trust me... The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.

4] Just because it's "Tourist Season" doesn't mean you can shoot 'em.

5] No, I don't have two belly buttons. I merely stated I was born again.

6] Yes, disgruntled is a voiceless pig!

7] I tried this over and over and have never succeeded. I guess no one can draw a blank after all.

8] I've been asked through the years for another word for thesaurus. Other than "THEE" 'saurus [related to T-Rex but more gigantic], Ummmm, does dictionary come to mind? Look it up!!
[insert tribal talk "mumbojumbalya crawlfishfiah doo dah" here]

9] Trust me....WRECKless driving is an oxymoron.

10] When I dial up a wrong number, I find they're NEVER busy!

11] I say this! It should be in terms of "Leaving a dump" instead of taking a dump! After all, you are leaving something behind. Y'sure as heck don't wanna take it with you.
[insert tribal talk "'atylputa zipinurdoo" here]

12] Deer can read!!! Why else would they know to cross between those yellow signs on the highways?

13] Call me insane one more time, and I'll eat your other eye!

edition #64




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She's ba-a-ck!!! I love humor, I love joking, I love laughter. Hope you will too. My thirteen this week comes from a wise ol' lady named Jefé [pronounced HEH fay in Spanish slang - meaning 'boss or chief', being in this case, a "chieftress" but I like Jefé - you guessed it, I really DO have chin whiskers'] These are thirteen tried and true living experiences from the aged one with her keen perception on life-------




1] When you have a package that has "Open Here", STOP! Opening somewhere else, in any other room, may be hazardous.

2] Never sleep with a drip! Call the plumber!

3] I suggested there be two horns on a vehicle; that talk! One would say "Get off the road you S O B!!" --The other one: "Oops, sorry!"

4] It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
[insert tribal talk "ratatooie boomagoobaloo" here]

5] The severity of the itch is proportional to inability to the reach it.

6] The early bird gets the worm. But it's a fact that the 2nd mouse gets the cheese!!

7] I tried it already -You can't set your laser printer on 'stun'!!!

8] A see-through nightie is popular 'cause love ISN'T blind like people say it is!!

9] Sniffing Coke with ice cubes is not kosher!

10] Drink white wine with fish. And if you must...white grapes with sushi!!

11] Trust me...gaining weight is not caused by jogging backwards.
[insert tribal talk "backawardz nogotumstepazzulu" here]

12] Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

13] Don't just stand there doing nothing! You won't know when you're finished.

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Weekly, we go to the Half Price Book Store in town. It's like a thrift shop, they're putting out different books every day, almost all day long. So we try to go at least once a week. And I have a list of books/and or subjects that I always take with me. And search the shelves for those particular ones.

And with me, when I do find something of interest, I take it home. And no matter if I have a book on my nightstand that is being read, I have to stop reading that one and open the ones I had found that day. Of course, it was just that way this week.

I'm in the middle of reading:


"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by H. Jacobs; it's an excellent book. It was on my list of books to search for at the HPBooks. Mary, at Mary's Writing Nook, suggested it some time ago. Of course, it's a troubled life of a slave girl, and I'm, like I said, about half way through it. While I'm reading this, I have had so many questions regarding her being hidden for years, and why she wanted so desperately to become free after her children were given their freedom. Yes, I know ---it's slavery! But she was never mistreated, physically, but still had a strong distaste for her 'owner'. Still, while reading this memoir, I'm thinking...being cooped up in her grandmother's attic that is only three feet high at its highest, for years, becoming more or less a cripple because of it....why not go back and enjoy the last few years of her life being his daughter's mistress? I'm just not sure my own pride would allow me to become so diligent to accept days, months, years being in darkness and losing so much of my own life to not choke down my dignity and live a bit more 'normal' [although still in slavery of course] --with food on the table, clothing, daylight, comfortable sleep, the little bit of luxuries of living I would think more needed. Of course, I've only lived a lifestyle OF FREEDOM, so it's probably best I didn't live back then, right? I guess I have to read the rest of the book to find the answers to my quandary.

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Okay, so I found this other book on the 'clearance shelf' for $1.00 this week!! And as usual, I had to pick this one up and begin perusing the pages. It is of another favorite subject of mine. And it's a biography [one of my favorite kinds of literature!] This one is on:

A British Library selection of "writers' lives'....CHARLES DICKENS. I read from his early childhood years 1812 through to when he arrived in American in 1842 so far. I just love reading these written works. I read about how he came about writing the "Pickwick Papers" and his pay. Fighting for the rights of copyrighted work. His marriage, his father's inability to stay out of debt, his children and his long hours of working to make ends meet.
...of how he met and fell in love with Catherine. Marrying her and having children with her. [I also read about his first real 'true love', Maria Beadnell....tho, because of his stature and position in England because of his father's debt, he was finally snubbed by Maria by her father's insistence. The photo to the left, taken from the book, is of Dickens's wife Catherine in 1852; just after giving birth to their tenth child, Plorn.
I look forward to completing this book. I can then go back and re-read several of Dickens's works like Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, and have a lot more background in mind; knowing just who the characters are and who they really represent from his own life's story. It amazes me how so many of the characters so well known from his writing is now a bit more clear on just how the people evolved in his mind and his work; taking them from his own life!! This photo is of Charles Dickens and his family at Gad's Hill.


Y'all CAN read the "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" online here.

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A new feature that may show up again, will be all in fun. I love humor, I love joking, I love laughter. Hope you will too. My thirteen this week comes from a wise ol' lady named Jefé [pronounced HEH fay in Spanish slang - meaning 'boss or chief', being in this case, a "chieftress" but I like Jefé - you guessed it, I really DO have chin whiskers'] These are thirteen tried and true living experiences from the aged one with her keen perception on life-------



1] Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

2] You really should be scared that doctors call what they do "practice".

3] Trust me....your nose does run, and your feet do smell!

4] 22 is pronounced twenty-two, but 11 isn't pronounced onety-one!!!

5] A wise man and a wise guy are opposites!!

6] Barbie is not that popular...why else would we have to buy her friends and Ken?
[insert tribal talk now -"Oomgumbow-wow"]

7] Chairs are made the way they are 'cause our knees bend only one way!!

8] I've never been able to find a specialty shop for the plastic shoelace ends!!

9] "Fonetic" is not spelled the way it sounds!!

10] Throwing a cat out the car window does not make kitty litter!
[insert tribal talk now -"pittergumboogaloo"]

11] Speed of light, yes....but there is no speed of dark!

12] You're up the crick without a paddle on a one-way dead end!!

13] The reverse side also has a reverse side!!

BONUS: The alphabet is in that order because of the song!!!!

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