whatever the case Renee….
you and Trips and Bingo have pepped me up ….. though at the end of this day ….. my dog …. whom I get attached to ….. same as I have gotten so attached to so many here …. those i’ve met …. and those i’ve just talked with … I love.
my dog ate some mouse poison. we live in the nature and they come in during the beginning of winter. we have to take measures or they’d take over the house. usually we have wild cats living under the house but the owls have taken care of that lately.
anyway … dog was taken to emergency vet ….. cost me almost $400 ….. sigh, and more cost to come. we didn’t have a great month last month … big winner at Brightshare last days wiped out a considerable amount.
now I’m faced with both Thanksgiving, Christmas and a sister’s wedding in between. I don’t know how i’ll pay for it all and keep up the usual costs at supporting family.
kinda depressed. I don’t give up. and this thread has been a upper. I thank you all for that.
I have decided to spend time with kids tonight. Dog is home. waiting to see if she makes it. looks like it …. but won’t know for a few weeks according to vet.
shit happens …… i know. just doesn’t seem to help to know that right now.
but back to original question….. ya ….. if you can’t laugh at yourself ….. what chance do you have at laughing at others in a non-offending approach?
I leave this with this …. a few years back I put up a rope swing over the river for the kids. Tried to set it up …. lifting myself by putting my self in a loop in the rope that would / should have lifted me up to tie off the rope. ended up tossing myself over on my ass and as i lay there ….. butt sore … back feeling like it was broken … looking up at God and saying “this is why you keep me around? I’m too damn funny to kill”.
ya …. laugh at yourself especially. do that ….. and world laughs with you. not at you.
thanks for all the posts. this day has ended up very stressing …. but will work out as things always do.