Stuff That Matters in Life

I don’t deal well with losses.

Last night we sold our little Tercel. It made me sad and kept me up part of the night. He (he is a “he” to me although people say cars are female) was such a good little car for us. He was easy to maneuver, got good gas mileage, the radio and air conditioning worked great, and the paint job was not faded though it was a 12-year-old car.

I sort of regretted that perhaps we should’ve tried to repair it. But 2 mechanics told me it wouldn’t be worth the cost. Then I regretted that we sold it cheap. We probably could’ve gotten more for it…well, maybe not, but it’s just that he was valuable to us.

At least he went to a nice family…

Perhaps my emotional state over the selling of the car is just transferred from the feelings of losing Audrey, when she moves to college this Saturday…. maybe I am emotional preparing myself for that. (There must be a psychological term for that.)

No problem in this relationship:
There’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me, and there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for him, and that’s exactly what we do. We do nothing for each other all the time, that’s right. 🙂

Heard this on Family Life radio program on the topic of conflicts in a marriage.

Roger Federer won the U.S. Open today – no surprise there.

I read in the Parade Magazine that Paris Hilton dropped out of school in the 11th grade to do modeling.  She said she eventually earned her GED.

A comic:  Waitress saying, “The hotcakes are selling like Harry Potter books!”

Nicole Kidman turned 40 in June. She looks pretty good.

This is really neat. You can look on a map the location of a place found in any passage in the Bible, and even information about each place. What a good use of Google maps.

Makes a Sunday School teacher’s job easier.

“So how are you doing?” my sister asked me yesterday.

My first thought of response was very negative: “Real estate is in the dumps, we couldn’t afford to go on vacation this summer, how do you think I am?”

But then I thought, am I really doing badly? Why do I evaluate my life based on work? Aside from business and finances, what else is going on with my life?

I don’t have an abusive husband; in fact, he is a great husband.

My kids are not doing drugs; in fact, they are responsible, A-students.

Our air conditioning worked during the over-100-degree heat wave.

I have great friends that I can depend on, helps out whenever I need.

My knees are holding up and I have the pleasure of walking Amy to school every morning.

I am even getting a free piano from my friend.

In fact, I am doing very well, and I am optimistic that God is in control.

Thanks for asking.

“If brains were dynamite, you couldn’t blow your nose!”

From yesterday’s Brewster Rockit comic.

One thing I don’t like about some comics and comedies is that the dads/men always seem to be the brunt of the joke. They are the morons and the women roll their eyes at them. Seems to me a feminist attitude. But most of the writers of those comics are men. Why is that? Off the top of my head, I can think of Blondie, Drabble, Simpsons, Brewster Rockit with that motif. Comics such as Zits and Baby Blues makes fun of both the husband and wife equally. I can think of only one comic that makes fun of women, and that is Cathy.