WEDNESDAY VIGNETTE

I was looking at today’s day planner and I had a lot of crazy little things to do but I said, “Pass I’m just going to enjoy this day”.  I will go pick up Craig & Trin and go running around, then come home a handle the little things. My foot and is still killing me. Tammy remarked yesterday, Oh you, and your foot… (well it hurts). She’s still in the bed with the flu. So to that, I said, “Oh you, and your stomach flu”.  

• Task management can be broken down into four concepts: prioritize, track, capture, and retrieve.

 I chose PRIORTIZE: Not Urgent!

Take a day and see how many activities you can label both “unimportant” and “not urgent.” How much time did you spend on them? Revealing, no? 

Taking time for yourself isn’t selfish, and don’t ever let anyone tell you it is!

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Yesterday was amazing, I took Trin for a badly needed haircut; a short shag, to refine the do, she had given herself a few weeks back. Then we went to Claire’s to get her ears pierced. She picked some tiny little light blue sapphire daisies and it took some coercing to get the second one done but after a getting purple sucker she came around a said yes to the second ear piercing. After all you can’t walk around with only one. She looks absolutely beautiful. I hope they heal quickly.

 

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I received this little ditty – Oh so true… from Lena – Cookie’s sister this morning.

 

It’s winter in Ohio.

And the gentle breezes blow,

40 mile per hour at 10 degrees below!

Oh how I love Ohio,

When the snows up to your butt;

You take a breath of winter air,

And your nose is frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful,

I guess I’ll hang around.

I could never leave Ohio

Cause I’m frozen to the ground!

Time changes March 08, I can’t wait!

 

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I wanted to say “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” to Kathy Lee Reamy today and wish her MANY MORE!!!

 

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ADKINS ALERT:

• You know the cemetery is full, it can’t hold anymore of the Adkins Clan so one them needs to be famous, I think if we start publishing something that someone there had written, we can claim a famous author or poet resides there and make it a famous landmark. What do you have on hand that we could make them famous with?
• Tammy & I were talking last night and we think that plot should have gone up on eBay and let us all bid on it. Who decided he got it anyway? I’m only teasing. But he better run for office or publish a famous manuscript as soon as possible if he wants to keep the old place from falling into the archives.
• Thank you, to Carolyn Pigg for today’s recipe the Mexican Lasagna. I really appreciate your sharing this with the rest of the family.

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“I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.”  ~ Margaret Thatcher

 

The moral is…

This has circulated on the Internet for some time. I do not know its origin, but am always taken with the appropriateness for virtually any situation.

 

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might this contain? The mouse wondered…and then was devastated to discover that the package contained a mousetrap!

 

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning:

 

There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!

 

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it.”

 

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!”

 

The pig sympathized, but said, “I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in my prayers.”

 

The mouse turned to the cow and said, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house.”

 

The cow said, “Wow, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you but it’s no skin off my nose.”

 

So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap alone.

 

That night, a sound was heard throughout the house…like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

 

The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

 

The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

 

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient.

 

But, his wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.

 

To feed them the farmer butchered the pig.

 

The farmer’s wife did not get well. She died.

 

So many people came for the funeral; the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

 

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

 

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn’t concern you, remember…when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all involved in this journey called life. We must keep an eye out for one and other and make an extra effort to encourage one and other.

 

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He fables, yet speaks truth. –M. Arnold.