Posted on 04/24/2006 10:26:24 PM PDT by JustAmy
What better way to celebrate your birthday than to give! I bet you'll end up with beaucoup of presents and well wishes before the day is over. Let's see you'll be what 27, 28?
I'll go to the store and get a cake and eat it for you. I warn you though it will be fattening - double, triple quadruple intense heavenly devils food cake with equally wonderful icing and just for kicks some vanilla and strawberry ice cream. You understand I have to eat it for you because you'd have to wait to long for it to arrive and the ice cream will have melted by the time it got there.
Oh, if only one of Heinlein's portals where available. East Coast to West Coast in 10 minutes! Think I'll read Stranger in a Strange Land again for the 10th time. Although Lazarus Long is such a neat guy.
BTTT
Hah-hah! Lazarus Long is a stinker! He has to have been the dark, curmudgeonly side of Heinlein.
Hmmm. I've only read Stranger about eight times, but I have both versions. Maybe it's time to read it again.
I tried to look something up in a Heinlein book once, and I realized I had forgotten so many other details, it was almost like a fresh read!
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. We start UP a project before we finish it UP. When irritated, we sometimes tell others to let UP, lighten UP, or shut UP. To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. And then there's check UP, give UP, shake UP, clear UP, make UP, cover UP, put UP, grow UP, cheer UP, break UP,.........One could go on and on, but my time is UP, so I'll wrap it UP.
So, Whats UP Amy???
April 25, 2006
Life Is Real
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In the comic strip Peanuts, Lucy had just broken the news to Linus that children cannot live at home forever. Eventually they grow up and move away. Then she said that when he left she would get his room. But Linus quickly reminded her that at some time she too would have to leave home. When this realization hit Lucy, she was shocked, but she quickly came up with a solution. She turned the TV up loud, crawled into her beanbag chair with a bowl of ice cream, and refused to think about it.
Avoiding unpleasant circumstances is not as easy as Lucy thinks. Life's realities cannot be avoided. We may try to run and hide, but struggles and trials have a way of dogging our footsteps and eventually catching up with us.
Instead, we should face up to our problems. The psalmist David did this when beset by persistent foes and false friends. He didn't try to minimize his danger; he acknowledged the storm that was raging around him and looked to the Lord. He wrote, "In God I have put my trust" (Psalm 56:4).
Let's follow David's examplenot Lucy's. Facing up to life's difficulties may be a frightening experience. But when we trust God and draw close to Him, we'll experience real deliverance. Paul Van Gorder
When troubles call on you, call on God.
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Mornin Meg.
Thank you for a fun thread..Great collaboration!
Precious Pledge collage!
Wonder-filled sketches!
G'mornin'Mama Bear, HUGS!
Hi Meg mice pic! Take care!
mice meant nice hopefully obv! :)
Good morning, NnB.
Still to early to find an appropriate Thank You Graphic but I wanted to say a special thank you for your contributions to today's thread.
I appreciate all of the poems that you have so graciously written for me to use here and at Amy's Place.
Good Morning Just Amy.
LOL.
Great thread.
LOL.
I love Maxine and her straight forwardness and wisdom.~chuckle~
This video of a French-speaking musician playing classical music is unbelievable...by beeping a variety of horns attached to his bodysuit!!
What an unusually imaginative and spectacular talent!! Definitely a Maestro!!
Click on: http://media.hugi.is/hahradi/fyndnar/maestro_1.wmv
Morning Dolly.
Wow,That is one cool video.
Thanks for posting the link.
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