Have you ever wondered why we are officially thankful only once a year? Is there such a thing as being too thankful? Do you ever take the simplest of of the sense's for granted?Why must we be reminded of being thankful only when we see someone with no legs,no arms, blind,missing a finger.Does it take seeing someone who has been badly burned beyond recognition to realize that could be me? I know , We are thankful when we see a homeless person who needs some money to eat but realize that, you know what, if I give him some money he will probably not use it for food anyway and that is the reason to look away when we are in our CAR.
I'm sure there are at least 1 or 2 more reasons that I could be thankful for if I were to really dig deep.
The news is a great way of triggering our thankful button.Like this evening I was watching the sports on our local channels and came across one of the anchors who was celebrating his 10 year anniversary of doing the triathlon,but the story wasn't about him it was about a kid who came up to the anchor and congratulated him at the finish line.pretty simple,right?Only the young boy at the time had no legs above the knee..Both of them! he was wearing prosthetic legs and was not as ashamed of them.he could have been wearing pants, I'm sure, but why?( That was the first insecure thought that came to my Thankless head)
Once again the news at first was to celebrate the anchor finishing the race then the young man came into the picture.Being a journalist I'm sure he wanted to follow up on the young lad who by now is 21 and sure enough, he found the young MAN finishing up his own triathlon.The anchor walked up to the Man,shook his hand and thanked him.
The triathlon was I believe 140miles total, of swimming,bicycling,and a full 26mile marathon.Didn't quite get to the finish of the news.I had better things to do.
TO THANK GOD FOR EVERYTHING THAT I DO HAVE!!!!!
Joe
Monday, November 23, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!
That is how I feel right now.Not in a negative AAAAHHHHH. but in a jubilant scream of excitement AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!.I was beginning to think I would never post again..I was getting ready to start planning our next adventure of a snowboarding trip to the local Mt's,and find out who was the next "Great Tomato, or Red, actually I think hes called the Flying Tomato"That would be the famous Shawn White.Pro shredder.
See, I had this great idea of trying to motivate myself into thinking that I will only post if both of our teams win at least one game on the same day.I didn't want to say anything negative about either squad,like one of the teams went a perfect 0-12 for the first half of the season.Or the other team went 4-8 with the help of one team not showing up and that gave them 3 wins..No, no, no, I didn't want to say any of that.er,,But finally, We both won on the same day and now i can post away AAAAAHHHHHH!!!
I didn't realize how rusty we were,those who played before,O.K. I was really rusty.I haven't played since one of our members moved a few miles to KANSAS CITY!! but I wont mention any names.Actually I think Ive already forgotten "his" and "her" and "little hers" name..I think "little her" is taller than I am now and she only 11.Any ways..we were all rusty.The ones who were new to the "bigger white ball game "found it a little harder to hit when you don't use a bat or glove .Then we have MS Debbie, who defiantly hasn't forgot how to serve.WOW she has this semi,overhead,tomahawk serve that will get them at least 5 to 6 points every time.and her rookie son,lets call him, Scott. After a few pointers he is becoming quite the server in his own right.being a lefty and a pitcher in the "really small white ball sport" he has become the 3to 4 point in a row little mini me of his mom.Not quite the skills of the slammer but coming along quite nicely.
I have to say,the most improved by far has to be Victory.After showing her how to play in the basic 1-5 where she is the full time setter, she has become a great player and she was the reason both teams won last Saturday. So come on out a watch the few remaining games we have left and we are just practicing ready for spring V-Ball.After the 4 games we have left we will then discuss , no not Snowboarding but PIZZA!! AAAAHHHH!!!!
Joe
See, I had this great idea of trying to motivate myself into thinking that I will only post if both of our teams win at least one game on the same day.I didn't want to say anything negative about either squad,like one of the teams went a perfect 0-12 for the first half of the season.Or the other team went 4-8 with the help of one team not showing up and that gave them 3 wins..No, no, no, I didn't want to say any of that.er,,But finally, We both won on the same day and now i can post away AAAAAHHHHHH!!!
I didn't realize how rusty we were,those who played before,O.K. I was really rusty.I haven't played since one of our members moved a few miles to KANSAS CITY!! but I wont mention any names.Actually I think Ive already forgotten "his" and "her" and "little hers" name..I think "little her" is taller than I am now and she only 11.Any ways..we were all rusty.The ones who were new to the "bigger white ball game "found it a little harder to hit when you don't use a bat or glove .Then we have MS Debbie, who defiantly hasn't forgot how to serve.WOW she has this semi,overhead,tomahawk serve that will get them at least 5 to 6 points every time.and her rookie son,lets call him, Scott. After a few pointers he is becoming quite the server in his own right.being a lefty and a pitcher in the "really small white ball sport" he has become the 3to 4 point in a row little mini me of his mom.Not quite the skills of the slammer but coming along quite nicely.
I have to say,the most improved by far has to be Victory.After showing her how to play in the basic 1-5 where she is the full time setter, she has become a great player and she was the reason both teams won last Saturday. So come on out a watch the few remaining games we have left and we are just practicing ready for spring V-Ball.After the 4 games we have left we will then discuss , no not Snowboarding but PIZZA!! AAAAHHHH!!!!
Joe
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