What you think does matter

I've been having a bad week and have been openly venting my fustration with the high cost of living [ meaning everything ]. I mean [ not to sound old ] but I remember when milk was $2.50 a gallon. When a small bag a chips cost you 25 cents and when I first moved to florida gas was $1.25 a gallon. So here I am fustrated and openly talking about the high cost of living in front of my children. I forgot that my duaghter is old enough to know what I am saying but not old enough to understand what life is all about. So on one of our trips home from school she ask a very polite question: "Are we poor???" I really felt bad about forgetting that children pick up everything you say. She brought me to tears when she offered to give up her savings to help the family out..... I love my kids... Update: Video is gone due to Revver shutting down. I wish I had put it in youtube. It's been several years since I wrote this post and after these several years of economic distress [ reces...

I was sitting with my little girl helping her do her home work, it only took a few seconds before I realized that my little girl is realizing I am not the all knowing parent I pretend to be. It’s funny - the fact that things are the same and yet have changed so much. I was helping her with her math and I thought I knew what I was doing until my little girl screamed out “ your doing it wrong…!” She said, “that’s not how my teacher said we have to do it“. After conversing on how her teacher wants it done - I realized that my answer was right but my method was different. So I had to show my little girl that yes it’s important to follow her teachers instructions and learn from her, but never forget - there are others ways and sometimes simpler ways of doing things and getting the right answer.

Please, don't be offended... but you really have to wonder why all this nonsense is happening in the middle east. here is an interesting view: What the heck is going on in the Middle East anyway? We explain the whole thing -- in less time than it takes to tie your shoes. What a shame, the video [ really funny video too ] from Revver is gone. Apparently Revver has gone MIA and we have no access to any of the videos.

I know children are important. They are our future... We even have a famous song written how they are our future and we should protect them - ask Michael Jackson.... And I don't want to sound serious because the story really sounds silly to me, but with all the millions of babies we abort, Parents kill, murders take away from us - It's no wonder we're in such desperate need that Countries have to make these kinds of "incentive offers"..... _____________________________________________________ (AP) Make a baby. Win a car. Don't be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region Wednesday as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia's demographic crisis. Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Morozov has decreed Sept. 12 a Day of Conception and is giving couples time off from work to procreate. Couples who give birth nine months later on Russia's national day - June 12 - receive money, cars, refrigerators...

I’ve been robbed several times in my life, and it was part of life because I lived in NY in one of the worst neighborhood around. In all the years I live in New York I was scared of being robbed, mugged, held up, beat up, and so forth ……. But not once did I ever think that a criminal would stop to lick my feet? Yes, lick my feet……… But apparently - I guess if you live long enough your bound to see anything and every thing. This crook apparently had such a bad foot fetish that he just had to stop in a middle of his crime - to lick this ladies feet. Oh please take my wallet and by the way, I didn’t wash my feet today…….

I remember I couldn't wait for my children to be potty trained, why - becuase them things are expensive man. And babies run thru'em like water.....

On a personal note, I lived in New York for 22 years. Grew up there, wonderful place to live if you don't mind the crowds and such. I remember when we moved to florida and on one of our vacations to NY with my brother-in-law and his new wife. We had to take the subway becuase his wife had never seen the subway.... She wanted to experience the crowded NY subways. It makes me wonder what she would have done if she saw this bill board????