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Hello and welcome mdh313…
I hope you make lots of new friends here, its glad to meet you…
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Some famous Churchill and Lady Astor quotes…..they were famous for these repartees….
Lady Nancy Astor (to Churchill): “Sir, you’re drunk!”
Churchill: “Yes, Madam, I am. But in the morning, I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Lady Astor: “If you were my husband, I’d put arsenic in your coffee.”
Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I’d drink it!”
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So that we don't offend the identified sticky stuff, who we pretend to like…
What is so special about cloud number 9…??
This is mine from my Face Book page…
“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”
I can definitely assure you are not the only one who 'misses' important appontments due to the effects of lack of sleep or sleeping at the wrong time….Dr's appointments, Hospital appointments, Work meetings, Therapy sessions…etc, I've missed them all
I have this uncanny knack of falling asleep just when I shouldn't…ie: around about 15 mins beofre the alram is set to go off as I have an appointment of some sort that day…and such is the sleep I descend into that I am completely oblivous to the alarm….I know that I should get up when it gets that close but to be honest it just happens, with book in hand and glasses sliding halfway down my face I am so unaware of it….
The other problem is the effect lack of sleep has on my memory, I always tell my friends and family, don't tell me anything as two things will happen, 1) I will forget and 2) I won't rememeber….I have numeroous diaries and reminders and I still fail to remember to go to an appointment…this cause no end of problems especially if I have missed a Dr's appointment, getting another one with my own Dr can sometimes take weeks, I even missed a brithday party and once forgot to go on a pre arranged date as I didn't know what day it was….never did get another chance there, 😮
So I can empathse with you, and say again…you are not alone….
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Just got back from seeing the new Iron Man 2 movie today…I was lucky enough to have my nephew off school so it gave me a good excuse to take him… 😛
Anyway, let’s get the big question out of the way: Was Iron Man 2 better than the first film..? My answer…Not quite. 😮
Having said that, remember that the first film set the bar high, so not topping it doesn’t mean this sequel was bad….far from it….what it means is that while I liked it a lot, I didn’t quite love it like I did the first film….
This film has a lot going on, one may say too many plot lines running concurrently…we have the Stark Industries’ rival Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), another wealthy weapons manufacturer who is the less charismatic version of Tony Stark. Hammer is jealous of Stark’s Iron Man tech and is determined to bring him down…there's the fact that Stark is being slowly poisoned by the palladium that powers the miniature arc reactor in his chest…..and it’s getting rapidly worse and despite applying all his genius towards finding a replacement, he hasn’t been able to find anything that works — he’s dying and it’s going to happen sooner than later….
Then while all this is going on we have Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) over in Russia, whose dying father was apparently shafted big time by Tony’s father, Howard. Vanko manages to build his own miniature arc reactor and vows revenge against Stark…..which brings us finally to Scarlett Johansson playing “Natalie Rushman,” an accountant who comes into the Pepper Potts/Tony Stark relationship…..
Enough about the so called negatives — It was a pleasure to see Robert Downey Jr. back in the role, and I have to say that everyone involved did an excellent job……Gwyneth Paltrow’s role was expanded……I actually would have liked to have seen more of Mickey Rourke in the film and Scarlett Johansson was very good in her role and she certainly kicked ass big time when the time came….
There is more than a hint of Avengers foundation-laying here through multiple appearances by Nick Fury and mentions of SHIELD, but it feels more like icing on the cake rather than a driver of the story……
The action sequences surpassed the first film in both quantity, quality and length, I won't go into to detail as I wouldn't want to spoil things too much for you…
Overall you shouldn’t be disappointed and Iron Man 2 is a great way to kick off the 2010 summer movie season. Oh, and do hang around to watch the full credits…you won't be disappointed…. 😛 😛
Good Times: Looking after my 10yr old nephew today
Good Times: Got to see the new Iron Man 2 movie
Bad Times: My car is sick and needs to see the doctor
Bad Times: A good friend has just been diagnosed with terminal Ca… 🙁
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.” – Woody Allen
No…..I am not in love, well not in that sense, I love my family and friends lots, but no I have not yet met that special one (again)…however, this has led me to examine the question…yes the one posed…and so I have decided to impart a little of my wisdom…..
What is True Love?
Is it 'the real thing', temporary insanity, or a cruel myth? Lets take a look at true love…… aaaaahhhh……
Does it really exist?
LOVE is not a feeling…. Love is an action…… Love is a choice.
True Love is the action to choose unconditionally in the process of offering to another human being the qualities of:
Affection, Care, Concern, Respect, Thoughtfulness, Forgiveness, Compassion, Trust, Joy and many other positive emotional expressions of value and worth toward ANY living being as being loveable and valuable.
Removing life support for a dying loved one……
In every example, Love is an action through choice…..
When you see each other and have a smile on your face, when your loved one makes a mistake and you can’t get angry on him/her even when you try hard. When you think of spending every possible time with your loved one.
Yes this is true love……….
“True love” can and will differ from person to person based on emotional maturity. To know true love you not only must love in such a way that you would give your own life at the drop of a hat to save him/her, but you must be loved in return.
“We always believe that our first Love is our last, and our last Love is our first.”
If you get married to someone, and fifteen years later, you can still look them in the eye and feel the same you did on your first date, then it’s true love. Like I said in the quote above; a good way to know true love is to base it on how you feel for the last person you loved romantically in your life.
I can recall when I had this love and how I used to get choked up telling her how much I cared about her……
* the pain I felt every time she hurt.
* every couple I saw reminded me of her.
* everything I wanted to do I wanted to do with her.
* if I had a craving for something I craved it with with her.
* it still excited me when she called.
* telling each other we loved each other meant more each time.
* I knew that I loved her more on that day than I did the day before.
* her beauty in my eyes never faded.
* we could disagree and compromise with each other.
True love is very hard to find and extremely painful to lose, can be the best thing that happens to you or the worst, can drive you crazy or keep you sane, can destroy lives or save them, can stop wars or start them, can clarify or confuse, pushes and pulls people away, obvious and subliminal, is impossible to define
* When one is aware of shortcomings of the partner and yet accepts.
* When the ego does not come in between in differences and one would rather clear the air, or apologise and patch up, than break-up.
* When one ‘desires’ the partner inspite of not ‘needing’ or ‘wanting’ the other.
* When you ‘chose’ to be with him/ her inspite of other options – not because there are no options !
* When you give each other space and respect individuality.
* When you enjoy togetherness – talking or even silence – and tender touching.
* When you cant even think of hurting or insult the partners feeling.
That's true love……. Maybe too idealistic ? !!
And it may or may not mean that it is reciprocated. It could be unrequited for all you know. But yet the memories bring a spring to the step and a smile on your face. You never wish him/ her ill and would never harm in any way.
These are just a few points which come to my mind but there is so much more n more n more.
Like true love the topic is also ‘endless’…..
I sincerely hope that before my life ends that I can once again experience this most magical of feelings and that all my friends and family be blessed with the experience of feeling it too….xx
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