Saturday, March 12, 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!!
Papa is so0 grateful for all the birthday wishes...thanks SO MUCH everyone!That's him on the left....he is so rarely photographed...BellaDaddy was the recent victim of a nipple tweak in this pic LOL
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Changes...they are a comin'!
Honestly, the exciting news, is more exciting for me....so don't go thinking we are announcing a new baby or anything similar. Um, er, ahem...not gonna happen...not anytime soon that is :-)
In the meantime, enjoy this silly pic, from Bella's school carnival...
...and...STAY TUNED!
will be offering up some hints this week...
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Exciting News!
Major Changes Coming Soon!
Stay Tuned!
And please, if you are following us, and we have never met, leave a comment. Let us know who you are...why you are following our little blog....and you may, just may, get some cool news yourself!
Cya Soon!
Stay Tuned!
And please, if you are following us, and we have never met, leave a comment. Let us know who you are...why you are following our little blog....and you may, just may, get some cool news yourself!
Cya Soon!
...COMING SOON!Monday, February 7, 2011
"Tolerance" - Really?
Hopefully this will simply be read, and understood.
I believe "tolerate" is one word over-used...too easily and overwhelmingly!!
Stick with me here.
Think about it. The word tolerate means (thank you Google):
1.Allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference
■a regime unwilling to tolerate dissent
2.Accept or endure (someone or something unpleasant or disliked) with forbearance
■how was it that she could tolerate such noise?
3.Be capable of continued subjection to (a drug, toxin, or environmental condition) without adverse reaction
■lichens grow in conditions that no other plants tolerate
Lets look at number #1:
"allow" being the first word, bothers me. Why would anyone simply "allow" someone else to just be? Allowing their "existence"...allowing? Hell, I may not remember being born, but I don't think anyone "allowed" me to be who I am. I just am. Who made these people master of all that is tolerated?
#2:
Lets go with the actual example. "such noise?" I make very little noise in this world, I would not expect anyone to "tolerate" me for being me. As I would not judge, nor tolerate anyone as such.
My point being: We all hear in the news, the Internet, the blogs, etc...how one group tolerates another. How one religion tolerates the others. One ethnic group tolerates another in a neighborhood. One nation tolerates the militaristic grumblings of their neighbors. One state tolerates the next states political visions. One gender tolerating another. That last one may be more acceptable than I am willing to admit, but hell, I have trouble with the same gender!
I DON'T WANT TO BE SIMPLY TOLERATED! I prefer to BE. That's it. Just BE!
I don't want to be tolerated for being who I am. For the color of my skin. How I think, feel and love. For the way I was born. How I live my life. For our daughters very special being - having two fathers. I don't want to be tolerated for having a family that just happens to be out of the norm.
Someone please tell me, what exactly is the norm these days?
My partner and I were at a dinner awhile back. There was a 20-something man, gay, heralding the idea of being a role model for gay youth. Sending a positive message that we can, and will, be who we are. That to teach "tolerance" was paramount in his endeavors. Get the word out, that gay people deserve to be tolerated.
I certainly salute his determination to make a difference, however, why on earth would you want to instill the ability to tolerate someone? I just don't get it. I don't want to be tolerated, damn it! I just want to be . I don't care to be accepted, or judged for sinning, but being loved as a sinner! How hypocritical is that? I only care to be me, a human being, taking up space on this mother earth. Don't think twice about who I am, and how I chose to live my life. My life is not yours to "tolerate". It is mine, and mine only!
We have such limited time in life. Why waste it judging people for who they happen to be. Love one another, smile for each other. Don't simply tolerate someone,. get to know them. Offer your life's experiences; absorb theirs. You may find some pretty cool friends, get some helpful hints for life...and downright walk away with a feeling of accomplishment and camaraderie.
Grin from ear to ear. Feel the love! We are all special in our own right. Open your hearts and minds to some thing/some one different from you and those who surround you.
In short:
"Don't Tolerate - Circulate! "
I believe "tolerate" is one word over-used...too easily and overwhelmingly!!
Stick with me here.
Think about it. The word tolerate means (thank you Google):
1.Allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference
■a regime unwilling to tolerate dissent
2.Accept or endure (someone or something unpleasant or disliked) with forbearance
■how was it that she could tolerate such noise?
3.Be capable of continued subjection to (a drug, toxin, or environmental condition) without adverse reaction
■lichens grow in conditions that no other plants tolerate
Lets look at number #1:
"allow" being the first word, bothers me. Why would anyone simply "allow" someone else to just be? Allowing their "existence"...allowing? Hell, I may not remember being born, but I don't think anyone "allowed" me to be who I am. I just am. Who made these people master of all that is tolerated?
#2:
Lets go with the actual example. "such noise?" I make very little noise in this world, I would not expect anyone to "tolerate" me for being me. As I would not judge, nor tolerate anyone as such.
#3:
Well, I can relate to that one. We all can. Our bodies need to tolerate here and there...but our minds? I don't think so! We have the ability to choose. That is what makes us unique!
My point being: We all hear in the news, the Internet, the blogs, etc...how one group tolerates another. How one religion tolerates the others. One ethnic group tolerates another in a neighborhood. One nation tolerates the militaristic grumblings of their neighbors. One state tolerates the next states political visions. One gender tolerating another. That last one may be more acceptable than I am willing to admit, but hell, I have trouble with the same gender!
I DON'T WANT TO BE SIMPLY TOLERATED! I prefer to BE. That's it. Just BE!
I don't want to be tolerated for being who I am. For the color of my skin. How I think, feel and love. For the way I was born. How I live my life. For our daughters very special being - having two fathers. I don't want to be tolerated for having a family that just happens to be out of the norm.
Someone please tell me, what exactly is the norm these days?
My partner and I were at a dinner awhile back. There was a 20-something man, gay, heralding the idea of being a role model for gay youth. Sending a positive message that we can, and will, be who we are. That to teach "tolerance" was paramount in his endeavors. Get the word out, that gay people deserve to be tolerated.
I certainly salute his determination to make a difference, however, why on earth would you want to instill the ability to tolerate someone? I just don't get it. I don't want to be tolerated, damn it! I just want to be . I don't care to be accepted, or judged for sinning, but being loved as a sinner! How hypocritical is that? I only care to be me, a human being, taking up space on this mother earth. Don't think twice about who I am, and how I chose to live my life. My life is not yours to "tolerate". It is mine, and mine only!
We have such limited time in life. Why waste it judging people for who they happen to be. Love one another, smile for each other. Don't simply tolerate someone,. get to know them. Offer your life's experiences; absorb theirs. You may find some pretty cool friends, get some helpful hints for life...and downright walk away with a feeling of accomplishment and camaraderie.
Grin from ear to ear. Feel the love! We are all special in our own right. Open your hearts and minds to some thing/some one different from you and those who surround you.
In short:
"Don't Tolerate - Circulate! "
AH, You So Punny!!
or...For a Good Laugh, read on:
1.The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island,
but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whiskey maker,
but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class,
because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope,
it'll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road
and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race.
They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.
The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway.
One hat said to the other: “You stay here; I'll go on a head.”;
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.
Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: “Keep off the Grass.”;
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and
pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts.
In feudalism it's your count that votes.
19. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris ,
you'd be in Seine .
20. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons.
The flight attendant looks at him and says, “I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.”;
21. Two fish swim into a concrete wall.
One turns to the other and says “Dam!”;
22. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft.
Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
23. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, “I've lost my electron.”;
The other says “Are you sure?” The first replies, “Yes, I'm positive.”;
24. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal?
His goal: transcend dental medication.
25. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh.
No pun in ten did.
GET IT? GOT IT? GOOD!!!
Which one is your favorite and why?
He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island,
but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian .
3. She was only a whiskey maker,
but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class,
because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. No matter how much you push the envelope,
it'll still be stationery.
6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road
and was cited for littering.
7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
8. Two silk worms had a race.
They ended up in a tie.
9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.
The police are looking into it.
10. Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway.
One hat said to the other: “You stay here; I'll go on a head.”;
13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.
Then it hit me.
14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: “Keep off the Grass.”;
15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and
pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
17. A backward poet writes inverse.
18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts.
In feudalism it's your count that votes.
19. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris ,
you'd be in Seine .
20. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons.
The flight attendant looks at him and says, “I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.”;
21. Two fish swim into a concrete wall.
One turns to the other and says “Dam!”;
22. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft.
Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
23. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, “I've lost my electron.”;
The other says “Are you sure?” The first replies, “Yes, I'm positive.”;
24. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal?
His goal: transcend dental medication.
25. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh.
No pun in ten did.
GET IT? GOT IT? GOOD!!!
Which one is your favorite and why?
A HUGE THANKS to our friend, and Bella's Buddy; SUSAN C.!!!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Could Not Resist...(thanks Jeanna)
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning....Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crud like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in paradise! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
1) When we were kids, we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butt! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to own music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and buy it yourself!
5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) We didn't have fancy features like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
7) There weren't any cell phones either! If you left the house, you just didn't make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crud like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in paradise! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!
1) When we were kids, we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!
3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our butt! Nowhere was safe!
4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to own music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and buy it yourself!
5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and mess it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?
6) We didn't have fancy features like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
7) There weren't any cell phones either! If you left the house, you just didn't make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please!
8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your cousin ... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances!
9) We didn't have Wii, PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!!
9) We didn't have Wii, PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were out of luck when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your butt and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!!
11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
14) And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!
12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!
14) And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!
We could go on and on and on, but, why? The world changes, technology advances...we learn to live in the now. But please, do not complain how difficult you have it...not without thinking of life long before.
The Over 40 Crowd and...
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