I confess..as needed

OK, I am trying to pick up where I left off in my efforts to "stock up" for winter.  I hate going out to shop when the weather is cold, windy, icy or just plain nasty.  Therefor, I try to get ahead of Old Man Winter.  In my stocking up endeavors I can only buy so much due to lack of big bucks$$.

I did get two jars of Instant Coffee to add to the two that I got last month.  I bought three boxes of Instant Chicken Noodle Soup, extra Tylenol, Aspirin, Ibuprofen, bread for a buck and a couple of comfort foods that will not last long enough to say that I added them to the pantry.  The biggest items on the "list" were two new tires for the van.  I got two new tires last fall for the back and have been trying to save up for the other two on the front.  It took a while, but I finally took the plunge for the last two tires.  I didn't want to go into debt for them.

I thought I was done with driving back and forth to the Eye Doctors, but the pressure is up again in both eyes so I go again for the fourth time in a week.  It sure burns up the gas and wears me out as well.  Well, it must be done so I will do it, but darn it anyway.

I have a broken window that needs repairing.  I don't know how to get the window out so I will need to call someone...more $$.  It must be done before it gets cold.  I got a used freezer to replace the one that died.  When they brought it in they drove a corner of the freezer right into the window.  They said they would come back and fix it three months ago.  Well, that didn't happen and I was pretty sure that it would not get done per their attitude.

"Do unto others as you would do unto them."  That says a lot.  In other words we are not supposed to take advantage, mistreat, or take from others, but to "Love our neighbors as we love ourselves."  If we don't have respect for others they will not take care in their dealings with us or anyone else.  This is very true in our material, socialistic society.  "You reap what you sow."  Mostly I get taken advantage of especially when it comes to money or transactions.  I am aware of when I am snookered and generally let it go with the concept of what goes around, comes around, but they will not get my business or a good reference in the future.

I have been reading the Vatican  Two Documents and always find interesting tidbits to fill my brain.  However in looking through the prayers in my old Missal I found a section about confession.  I always  thought that one had to go to confession once a week or once a month or at least once a year, but that isn't so.  You are required to go to confession if you have committed a mortal or grave sin.  If you have committed venial sins, and we all do, we are encouraged to go to confession for our own edification in our spiritual life.  If we do not go to confession or need to, for mortal or grave sins, we should be contrite for all the little boo boos that we do.  I learn something every day.

So here is where I will stop, make a cup of tea and soon go to bed.

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Sometimes life moves faster than I do

SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT

 

PSALM 34:13
 

"WAR IS FAILED DIPLOMACY"

It's Wednesday again.  You thought I would forget...didn't you?  Well, I didn't...so there!  Even so, it has been a busy week and a busy day.

Today I had my 4th. Lazar treatment.  I hope this the last one...and pray that it is.  I am tired of running back and fourth.  It is time consuming and costly.  A rich person I am not.

I am just about over my cold or allergy, or whatever it was.  It looks like Father has it now.  No, I didn't pass it on.  I forewent  receiving the Precious Blood in the chalice just so I wouldn't give it to someone else.  Today Father could hardly be heard during Mass and had a glass of water on the back alter.

Last night I thought my refrigerator had died and was busy transferring everything form the freezer compartment to the regular freezer...at midnight.  Today, as I was checking the 'frig over I discovered that the plug was very slightly lose. It was so slight that you could not tell by just looking at it.  I gave the plug a little push and the thing started working.  I guess I must have brushed up against the plug while I was cleaning.  A lot of work at midnight, but I didn't want to lose everything in the 'frig as it had already started to thaw out.  Saved!  What can I say...you really could not tell that the plug was slightly out of the receptacle.

As I really have not had a whole lot of time to put much thought into this post....this pretty much all you get.

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OH NO! I FORGOT AGAIN!

At midnight last night I remembered that I forgot to post and then I forgot that I remembered.  So this is another day.  I was pretty busy yesterday and some of it was "hurry up and wait" which could not be helped.  I am not sure how my "new post day" is going to work.  It may turn into a "random" day of postings-such as when I can or when I remember-certainly not at midnight.  Nope...not gonna.

OK, I am staring to get over myself.  I went from a very sore throat, to a bad sinus infection, into Bronchitis...with all the accompanying fever, aches and chills.  I still have the Bronchitis and wheezing, but the other symptoms are just about gone.  It seems like everyone I know has it and are busy passing it on.  I received communion, but skipped the Precious Blood in the Chalice.  I will do this for the next several days as I don't want to pass on whatever is being passed on.

I am trying to work up the courage to go out to a couple places and get a few things accomplished...other than getting up and breathing and annoying myself with coughing, rasping,  and blowing my nose.  I am afraid that I may blow my brains out my nasal nares!  The main reason that I need courage to "go out" is because it is hot...90's...and very humid, dry and dusty.  Summer finally arrived-in September!

I did get some things done yesterday and again this morning, with a lot more that needs to be done.  I added another 24 rolls of bathroom tissue to my stock.  One can't have too much TP! Not a lot as I have no place to store them.  I think I want to add a little meat in the freezer.  Again...not a lot as meat is expensive and my money trees is shedding it's leaves and blowing off into the neither lands.  I will post what I stock up as I go along.

Anyway, that is just about all I know...which isn't much.

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Semi-sick and Piffle Dust

Just to let you know:  I have been in bed for a couple of days with "something," a fever, aching joints, a headache, and a sinus infection.  I missed mass on Wed. and Thursday, but did make it today for First Friday.  I don't get sick very often, but when I do I like to do it up in grand style.  Needless to say...I did not get back to my post or finish my "list."

With that in mind I will add extra Tylenol, Aspirin, Ibuprofen, and cough medicine to have on hand if there is severe weather on the horizon.

Already there are Elven Folk rustling within the trees, the leaves are turning and scampering to the ground to fly away on the breath of gnomes and other fairy creatures, to hide along the fences and weeds beside my house..  Hide they may, while they can, before The Wicked Witch of the North comes  along to cover them with Piffle Dust.

See...I am feeling better already with just a touch of mild insanity/imagination!!

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Stuff

I am "making a list and checking it twice."  It is time for me to "stock up."  I am coming off my money diet for a short while and prepare for a cold, bitter winter.

As I said a month ago...the wild geese flew south early, the spiders started coming about the same time as well as flies.  And as noted last week The Farmers Almanac says.. it might not be a pleasant winter season.

I have already started stocking up buy buying some essential such as bathroom tissue and paper towels, shampoo and a few odds and ends, but I do need to get serious about getting what I getting need into the house.  I will make a list and share it with  you.  Keep in mind that I am not  a prepper or a survivalist.

Coffee and Tea.

While I have somd stocked up already
I will get some more

 

Bathroom Tissue

I have 30 rolls of the cheap stuff

but will get more.

 

More detergent and fabric softener.

Dish detergent.

Paper plates.

Paper Towels

Tooth past

Mouth wash.

 

I have plenty of candles

if the power goes down.

I have lanterns as well

I need kerosene.

I will store a few gallons of H2O.

 

 

 

 

I won" finish this tonight because I am sick.
I will post it and  maybe add to it tomorrow or the next day.

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I've been twarted...have you?

Thwarted:   I have been thwarted,  I get thwarted just about every day...Don't you?  I wanted to be tall and slim, but I was thwarted.  I wanted to be highly intelligent or at least smart, but again I was outsmarted by Thwart.  I wanted to be "intense and deep" but Thwart said "no."  Instead I am just mediocer or thereabout.  Life is tough with friend Thwart lurking about.  It is a normal fact of life that you are going to get thwarted sometime by someone or something.  Yes, you too.  Don't tell me it isn't true, because if you dare dispute this I will tell Thwart on you; then you will get your thwarting, too.

Jesus was thwarted, too.  Every day, but he was above it and always out-thwarted his nemeses.  As He preached and went out to the people, He had no place to pillow His head  as the as the fox in dens and the birds of the air did(see Matt 8:20 and Luke 9:58), but slept wherever and whenever He could.  He was thwarted in rest and in prayer by friend and enemies alike.  He knew it would be so, but He continued on.  He knew that He would be betrayed...it was part of His Father's plan, yet He continued to preach and teach.  He didn't let Thwart deter Him or any of the daily niggley(I made a semi-new word) trials, bumps and bruises along the way.  He...Jesus...thwarted the real and present Thwart and He won, didn't He.  Yes, in the end Jesus defeated Thwart when He died on the cross.

Does that mean that Thwart is no longer a threat or hanging around...or just waiting for the opportune time to cause havoc, and chaos?  No, It means that we as people of God will have our own confutation with 'Ol Thwart as he will always be in our live to some degree or another.  He is sly and comes in many forms of disguise.  He can wear many mask, hats or identities.  Thwart can even come in the form of good, or  beneficial actions or intents.  Yes, to be thwarted is an everyday state of affairs for most of us.  We have all traveled this road...been there...done that...and continue to do so.

Thwart is not a word commonly used anymore.  It is almost archaic.  It 's meaning is pretty simple 'though.  It is to "prevent, to stop, to negate an action or thought."  There are less used definitions  and usages of the word, but you can find them in your dictionary. It is good to know a few archaic or old English words...makes the readers think that the writer might be half-way smart...but only half-way!

I think we are in our last gasp of summer and the weather people are calling this a "heat wave."  Actually this has been a mild season.  It has been much hotter and much more humid in the past.  I think we will have an early winter and a cold one at that.  Now the Old Farmer's Almanac is making the same prediction.  A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the wild geese are flying south early and the flies and spiders or setting up housekeeping within my confines-perimeter.  Mother Nature speaks in her own indomitable voice and she has a big mouth.

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Cain slew his brother Able...don't you.

I was talking on the phone the other eve. with a friend.  She was telling me how she had not seen her brother for over twenty years.  That rang a bell for me as I have not seen or heard from my sister for just about an equal time.  It is her choice to disasocciate herself from family and friends.  I guess she is happy with her choice; I don't know.

It made me think.  Now...you know what happens when I get to thinking.  Smoke comes out my ears and my hair ignites...not really.  But...(never start a sentence with a "but" or an "and") but..I just wonder how many dysfucnctional families there are in the country...or any country.

Time, place and circumstances play havoc on the persona, or can cause mental, spiritual growth in the individual.  We are born with free will.  Generally we can make choices at what or who we become and are.  There are exceptions of course as no one that I know choices to be blind, deaf or have any physical debilitation.  Again..no one I know wants to be bound by these balls and chains of adversity.

Adversity, if unfettered and directed can become strength through the free will given to us to by God.   You can unbound from dysfunction if you make a choice through free will and and dysfunction can morph into grace.

Jealousy, selfishness, meanness, and a host of other personal traits can cause and perpetuate the dysfunctional family.  Parents, can give rise to "me" centered individuals instead of God centered social units and families.   Parents will say that they love their children equally and don't have favorites.  It is impossible because of our human nature, not to have a favorite son or daughter...unless there is only one.  So parents take care and don't show this trait to your children.  It will be hard not to do so, but if your able to be equal with all your progeny...you will win the battle...hopefully the war, against having a dysfunctional family.

I would like to see my sister again, but if not, it is her choice within her free will.  She has two grown sons that I have never seen.  I have heard that she also has a dysfunctional family.  I also hope that my friend gets to see and be with her own brother.  It isn't good  nor does God wants us...to carry our emotional baggage to the grave and beyond.  "What so ever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me."

Well, I have been busy running around here and there; to the Dr. and for Lab work and a repeat of the same.  No one gets older without a few glitches here and there.  I guess I should "kick the tires and have the oil changed" more often.

Tomorrow I will be over at the Little Sisters of the Poor.  A friend and I will start pricing stuff for the rummage sale.  I think the Sister can use any money they get for the benefit of the home and residents.  Most of the goods are donated so it is free and clear for the home.  I don't think Obama Care has helped any Catholic Hospital or Nursing Home.  Just wait Obama...someday you will get old and dependent, too.  Will the government or the Little Sisters be there to feed you, bath you, change your tidy whiteys, wipe your chin or sit with you as you prepare for that big "pie in the sky" bail out?   Noooo, I do wonder, though.

The End

 

Ohhhh, I thought I saw a guy in a red suit

lurking outside the Pearly Gates!

 

You did see that...right!!!  Hee Hee.