Wacky Funster

Hey Chaz...I remember when you met for your first day with the man in the chatroom!!!!!!!!!! Talk about WHERE THE TIME IS GOING!!!!!!! Sheesh!!!! LOLOL Happy Andreas!!!! I didn't know there was a new tike in the mix. :) You know, I'm not a far drive!!!

Glad the birthday was great, BB!!!! Love, Wacky xoxoxo

Happy Happy Day Hills!!!!!

vpw died when the year the 13th corps was to graduate....the 13th corps...not so with it.

Welcome, granddaughter...have a cuppa joe, have a seat and relax...can't say we're all sane, but, we do have one major thing in common...we relate to you and understand where you are coming from. That was the greatest thing I found at Waydale. Even throughout all the therapy, the therapists didn't quite understand "the Way" and how complicated it was...and how multi-faceted and divided I became because of it. I think it is safe to say that most of us, if not all, here understand you fears, concerns and heart of you. welcome

Congrats on the almost black belt rascal!!!!! I remember when karate was just a thought!!!!! and baby, look at you now!!!!!! Proud Wacky :)

Hi Linda...I miss GS sometimes myself... Hmmmm...let's see...... Besides the classes... There is a book by Judith Viorst. I just found a used copy and gave it to one of my clients who is 59 to turn 60 this month. She is rich. She has an awesome husband. She has a gorgeous house in the woods. She has the "dream" life. She looks like hell and she is mega depressed. We talked a bit...and Judith's book popped into mind because it was life altering for me. It's titled "Necessary Losses"...have you heard of it? It's subtitle is on the lines of dealing with loss of not only people, but dreams and expectations and youth...and it's pretty eye opening and leads on to contemplation, and perhaps tears.... However...the book released me. Another thing I do, LindaZ, as you know, is travel. I go off season where anywhere in the world is about $200rt....youth hostils are anywhere from $8-&28/ night...and that's NYC (the later). Learning about different cultures and people outside of our horizons is enriching...it yields compassion and curiosity...not only are THEY interesting, but YOU are interesting to them as they learn to see Americans in another light. I have dogsledded in the wilderness, opal mined in Australia, hiked in canyons in the middle of nowhere, Mexico....slept in the Arctic circle with the Laplanders....been sailing on a Sailboat with Jonathan Edwards (my idol)...I've almost done everything I've wanted to do...I just got back from New Zealand, where sheep are plentiful! Perhaps I'm organized (in a very cluttered way), perhaps I'm just a free spirit...but, I've never let anything stop me from doing things that might float my boat. The hardest thing in life is to figure out your boat!!! What's your passion? What's your bliss? After I read the book, and many other self help books, I took classes...I drove to Vermont alot...I mingled with all types of people, all over...and found out the things that turn me on..... I consider myself poor, financially. But I've learned to sacrifice the crap the world has to offer, with it's capitalism and brainwashing... (i.e. every new electronic device, going to movies, Walmart and consumerism) and learned to think on my own...whoever said" know thyself" should have really elaborated... I save my pennies, literally. Today I splurged and bought a grey sheep fleece and some mohair curls. I spent alot of money, but I've spent all morning outside in the sun washing it, cleaning it....doing a little felting (I made an absolutely gorgeous ruffled felted scarf!) and now I'm off to work for 3 hours (and I love my job)...and my day has been full and plentiful.... I got a good tan today, sung some songs, helped the farmers out by purchasing their products (sheep and goat fleece)...fed my birdies outside, had a little lunch, ate a little watermelon and cut up the rind and buried it in my compost pile...and now I'm off to "work". Could it be anymore pleasant? I think that saying "life is good" is alot of hogwash. I don't believe there are many people living a truly full life. I'm not sure many people really know what that would mean to them.

Hi Fincho....I spend my life with people "in transition", so this question is pondered by me all the time. I also am divorced, single and childless...I didn't expect it either ....but, I absolutely love my life...I am thrilled to wake up...I just love the way it has carved itself out for me...but, it wasn't always this way. When I was in the space you seem to be in now, I was much younger than you, and knew I would have to prepare and map my life out, if I wanted to, not only survive financially, but survive without being in despair, or depressed. I did many things and if you want we can email...I won't take up time and space here....but, here are a few things offhand I did, and pass on to people everyday with whom I deal with...in fact, this was a major topic of discussion with 2 people just today!!!! If you plan to remain where you live, look at the night school. Sign of for classes you would have NEVER thought you would....I did "cake decorating"...I don't even bake, but, it was a blast for the time being, and opened door to me of texture and color....which turns out to be a piece of learning that I needed to be where I am today, perhaps 6-7 years later. Night school is cheap, but it will open doors to yourself... I remember in that little book "As a Man Thinketh" there was a quote I still use to this day...and I give it to you now--- "Circumstances don't change a man...they only reveal him to himself". Get yourself in situations that are unusual, uncomfortable, fun, awkward...join little hiking groups, swimming classes at a local high school pool... Give this a few years....and, you'll pop out of mid-life just fine...a brand new Fincho....and you might even be surprised!!! I was!!! Hope this helps. P.S. I'll pray your dad has a peaceful passing. That's the best I can do.

So glad you're back...I was beginning to wonder where you were!!!! Perhaps a little visit up north to the beaches sometime, eh?

XOXOXOXOX Herb :) :wub: :P

Happiest of Birthday's to you Oaks :)

Golly...I must be getting old. I remember this song as if I'd heard it yesterday. Paul McCartney is 64 today.... Did you ever think???? you would get this far? I was just a teen, kissing the television set!!!! and here he is old and grey already...I must not be far behind.....

Chinese??????? Eating Chinese?????? Hope....NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Eat Amsterdamian, whatever that could possibly be!!!!! Shopping???? Are you shopping til you're dropping (and I've seen you shop ) What items do they make there, or is everything imported from China? So, have you gone to any museums yet? Isn't there a dam there that a little boy stuck his finger in to save the city? or is that somewhere else? Great to hear from you!!!!! Have a super fantastic time.... What's it like being "single" again?

Hope..I'm sooo jealous!!!! Amsterdam...you can smoke alot of pot there, if you're into that sort of thing. I just returned from a month of backpacking in New Zealand. How to not look like a tourist: figure out what is Amsterdamian, and then blend in. 1- Don't shop til you drop...that's a #1 tip you're an American. 2- When in ______________ do what the ____________ do. Take your cues from them. Oops...gotta get to work.... Have a blast!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Hopeful....I hope and pray all is well with you. I think of you often, wondering..... I am off for a month of backpacking in New Zealand tomorrow....I remember when we first met I was travelling Oz.... Even more of a reminder for me to continually pray for your well being and future plans whichever path they may so turn and lead you toward. Blessings my friend. Love, WackyKiwi xoxoxo

Hey OnionEater, my friend!!!! I hope you had a wonderful day....whatdya do? :)

Years ago, while teaching, I read a little Serendipity book named "Leo the Lop"...I vowed that day I would have a lop named Leo. I bought 2 lops, because that was all they had at the time...one spotted, one brown...Molly and Polly....but no Leo :( Six months later, as rabbits have it ;) , Leo was born...a fawn color fuzzy lop eared rabbit... He's the greatest!!! and smart!!! and litter trained!!! (most of the time ;) ).... I love him to pieces. One day soon, when I'm done travelling, I hope to purchase about 5 angora rabbits ranging white, fawn, grey to black. I've been collecting Leo's hair to spin....did you know you could pluck a rabbit? (angoras you can place on your lap and spin right off of them!) Since he is about 5 years old now, his softer fur is becoming coarse...I'm sure I have enough for a sweater by now... I love lops. Wouldn't have any other pet.

d...do you still have that copy? I'll buy it from you!!! I use to sit on the hood of mine at my church, which was a cathedral, and meditate. I was into meditation in my early teens and continued til I was witnessed to by a cwow in college. I had a photo of me somewhere....on the hood of my light green bug, in front of the cathedral...what a pic!!!! I miss those days.... I have a convertible, Cabrio now....rust is building (just like it should on a VW) and soon I'll have a huge rust hole at my driver door!!! I was thinking of painting flowers on the rust areas....they are growing as I live by the sea. I wish I had had a vw with a sunroof, mstar...your legs are long tho, not sure if I could have done that trick!!!!!!

Yes, Kit!!!! A MANGLE!!!!!!! dmiller...is that a Mass license plate I see? I had the exact same color!!!! The one in storage for my old age is white. I put an 8 track in it too!!! The battery fell through the floor under the car...I put a bar across underneath the seat, and let the battery rest on that!!!! How did those things run? :blink: :blink: :blink:

I remember S & H green stamps....got them at the grocery store...my mom would give them to me to lick and put in the books. Then we'd go buy something when we filled a few up....wow.... When I go to NY to visit my mom, she still has all her rotary phones plugged in and working...typewriter...she finally got a color TV, altho there is still a Black and White in her bedroom... she still uses one of those rotary hot irons (I forgot what they're called) to iron her pillow cases!!!! She's 89 this year, bless her heart. My first car was a hand me down '64 VW bug...light green....got into the Word in that car....was a CWOW in that car....I loved that car!!!! My brother has a '63 VW bug I bought for him a few years back. He's fixed it up for me and it's sitting in his garage, when I feel nostaglic enough, I'll go ride it around.... Still uses points and plugs and all that. Remember points? setting them with a matchbook cover? My bug could ride on fumes...I believe a few of us drove to our first ROA in that bug. I painted little butterflies with another Way friend on the rust spots I worked over.... "And the seasons, they go 'round and 'round.... ...we can't return we can only look, behind from where we came....."

LOL...could be either!!!!! I was thinking about skipping stones on a creek or lake. Who can get the most skips...Now, that takes skill!!!!!! Or jump rope!!! Now that's no easy task...and then they could have competitors doing tricks in the jump ropes, flips and such...dontcha think? :P

Glide? I've seen them crawling on all 4's...eyeball to the ground...I can't figure out what they're doing....are they looking for something? smelling something? What's on the ice, besides ice....air? Do they move air?

After pondering "curling" as an olympic sport, I figured I would let my imagination go with it and offer us a thread to stretch our brains into listing "sports", like curling, that should have been in the Olympics also...like: Hammering...who can hammer a nail in a log the fastest. Or, speaking of logs, how about a roll logging sport in a lake....who can stay up on a rolling log the longest.... I'm sure there are more...got any?

If anyone understands this concept, would you kindly explain it to me?

Welcome to the land of the "free".... This country's on a scarey path, mstar....there are camera's everywhere...and then some!!!! I can hardly believe people get excited that you can get a satellite pic of your house....scares the gojeebies outta me!!! My cousin in Jersey city had his house robbed. Someone was surveillancing his house via satellite, waiting for both the cars in the driveway to be gone, when they broke in. Pretty scarey stuff.