Ouch - sounds nasty.......... hope your shoulder is fully recovered now......( plus I wouldn't want your shoulder to hurt when you give me the elbow! ;) )
wedward - 'u' have been reading Dickens, haven't 'u'?
'Annual income 21 shillings, annual expenditure 21 shillings and 3 pence; result is misery.........annual income 21 shillings, annual expenditure 20 shillings, 11 pence and three farthings; result is happiness'
There is absolutely no point in worrting about the future if you have just enough money to survive today........ after spending many years making provision for my future that came home to me with a huge bump when I lost everything. Until I stopped worrying about the future it was as though I had no future.
It is true that the love of money for it's own sake is a 'sin'. I remember at one time being so miserable both at home and at work that I used to work out how much income I was getting from my investments on a daily and even hourly basis - it didn't make me happy at all..........I guess if one is rich one can be miserable in comfort, but I've always been happiest when I've been relatively poor but in the company of a loved one.
This time around I feel positive that things are different. I know that whatever happens I am capable of survival, but that ultimately I shall die like everybody else - so I do my best to make sure each day counts!
Simple things in life can give great pleasure and they don't need money. The opposite of having money though is the 'prison' of debt......that is so debilitating and reduces your comfort zone to an ever decreasing circle of of ability to do anything positive.
I feel very strongly that the young men and women who are in University in the UK are being burdened with debt that will haunt many of them for many years to come. How can a youngster save up for a car, let alone the deposit on a house if they are burdened with huge debts before they even start a career?
I think Jacko would remember the old saying in the forces about mind over matter - 'I don't mind and you don't matter!'
I wasn't too keen on that saying as I thought it was somewhat insulting, but the other one 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going' had me in stitches as my own motto was 'When the going gets tough I want out of here!'
By the way, I am quite a fan of John Keats - he showed huge maturity in his thought for somebody who died so young. He really was a romantic in the meaning of the movement of the same name through which he lived and one of his well-known quotes 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' is far deeper in meaning when you really think about it.
Oh well, life goes on - it's the weekend and I hope you are all enjoying yourselves whatever you're doing.
I wimped out on going out tonight....if I go out on the roof I can just hear the band playing at the Cornucopia... ~sniff~ ~sniff~
Anyway, I'm determined to go to the bbq next Friday evening and take along a lady as my guest - I hate eating and drinking on my own, even though I'm sure I'd dance with a few ladies after the meal (as one does)........'In the summer time, when the weather is fine, you've got women, you've gotr women on your mind' - well, that's the lyrics of an old song anyway!
One of these days I'll organise a party for you guys over here in Gozo - now that you're in the EU you don't need a special visa to come over! ;)
Have a great break from work soon, Therass - though I don't think you'll get as much time off as Brunette.........maybe we should go down to Lisa's hotel one day and commiserate with her! (I'm sure she'd love us all to come round and visit her while she's working hard....... )
Hmmmm........ I have a cunning plan!
Where's Baldric (aka Sir KT (Bt.)? Bring round the badger carriage - pronto!
You ladies are just so cruel to this poor old Gozitan..........reminds me that I must take some new pics of myself as I look way better than the grotty pics I have on my profile!
I hope Brunette has a great time off too, including the cruise, and look forward to her 'people watching' comments on her return......
Bru - maybe you could keep a diary in the style of 'letter from America' but entitled 'letter from my cruise' and entertain us with your comments on the service, food and the antics of other passengers, etc!
I really genuinely apologise for the steaming elephant hot stuff...... it wasn't meant as an insult to you.
You're a very funny person, and I was foolish not to realise that you'd take my 'funny' remark personally instead of as a joke.
You've got more personality than twice that of many women who are less than half your age, and I admire you.
Sometimes, like me, you go a little over the top. The difference is people love you, but seem to dislike me. I find this weird, because you must know I'm as loveable and cuddly as a nice cool reptile.
wow! kewl! kool! cool! beep beep! peace man! thumbs up! y'all all have a nice day, y'hear!
I am awestruck by the irritable bowl syndrome - did I tell you about the time.......no, no, no - never mind!
Excellent - we gallant grumps beat the crap out of that tv programme 'Grumpy Old Men'!
The Slavic gentlemen wearing bow ties made out of human flesh - that sounds so Wewardian! hahaha
Today is Brunette's last day at work. Let us all hope that she doesn't melt on her way to or back from work in her 'karozzi mandish air-conditioning' and that she is able to pull herself together and put on her bestest, sweetest smile while entrapped on her Mediterranean cruise; let's also pray nobody irritates her on the ship too much or we'll be reading about it in the papers:
'Cruise liner loses not one but several passengers 'overboard' under mysterious circumstances - beautiful young Maltese lady being held for questioning.............'
Oh - hi Dave small pants, Jacko, Brunette, Sir KT (MB - Master of Badgers), Solitaire, any yummy ladies who read this post et al..
Awwwwww smoky - I am sorry you didn't find it funny...........I didn't mean to upset you - really........ it was the Buffalo Rally that got me all excited
'If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.'
We all need love. It's a yearning need that never leaves us however wise or rich or clever we may think we are. Most children are lucky enough to know that they are loved, and that love gives them awesome security. As adults, many of us feel estranged from that love and question the thoughts and actions of other adults. We find it very hard to accept that love is for real; especially if we, as individuals, hold back from being truly loving in our own actions.
To have a simple, almost childish, faith is wonderful. To accept in a belief that we all have an ultimate Creator who loves us means every breath we take is a gift. Life is a wonderful gift. Life is a gift of love. Love your life and may your life be filled with love.
Yes - you look way too sweet and innocent..............and yes (duh) I did know about the elastic band thingy having watched some rather sad tv show a few years ago.........and yes, I did know that the former President Nixon used the same trick as a young boy to be able to pee further than the bigger guys who bullied him! (Never tried that myself, but maybe you could tell me if it's a myth or if it works!)
I always thought Luxembourgers were strange, evil people! So Luxembourg actually made all its money from the use of secret child labour?
I'm only kidding, and I can read that your ethnicity is asian, so I must assume that 'my country' is your country of origin where maybe children are employed to make leather footballs to be sold cheaply in the UK (?).
I lived in India as a kid for three years and the poverty totally shocked me....to see kids begging who had any kind of abnormality made my heart break.
I was a poor little rich kid - it was only my good fortune that my parents were so well off compared to those poor wretches..it made me feel guilty to be so priviledged when I had done nothing to earn what I had given to me so freely.
I joke a lot, but living in Calcutta (now called 'Kolcotta') really upset me terribly - it took away my childhood innocence, and happiness, forever.
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RE: Summer Break!
sleep well, MERTI - God bless and pleasant dreams!