VENTING day.... i am ashamed of myself-- it was teh 19th.... and i was comfortable to sit around and eat cake-- but did not make tehe effort to get a cake to my local fire depaartment - thank heavens we had reports of people who did their paying forward duty.. my lack of effort was what i have allways deemed to be "sloppy living" ---i was so busy eating my own cake that i just could not make teh effort to "do for" others as i am so willing to accept that they do for me...
i must get there-- a day late, --- the excuse of being old with a short term memory problem is about the best thing about being old... it works --- everybody forgives that as norm.... that's a buncha crap. it is sloppy living.... if i push this button around my neck... they would hop in theri firetrucks and come running, i would be very happy to accept theri help-- there is something wrong there... even if my taxes pay their paycheck --- it hqs to be more than that to do some of the things they have to do... same for police people -- or lord knows school teachers !!
my assignment of yesterday was to write a couple paragraphs for the inside of the calendar. kitty thought "paying it forward" is a good topic- as sooooo many of ouur recipients do that in so many ways... to try and be correcr.... i asked Pam for a definition -- before consulting wikepedia myself--like buying a cuppa coffee for the guy behind you at starbuckis.... pam put it better int he 34 minute video now on our web-- our dogs do for people what we can not do for them ourselves.
---dogs are so much better at giving--- hands up for whoever would like to accompany erica for her daily classes at law school-- or lie quietly on a bqth mat while bella learns that 6 times 9 = 54
in my opinion..... 9 times out of 10, to be called a dog is a step UP for most of us.
our dogs are very happy to have a job they understand- and are sooooo good at it... work is a good thing. how many people haVe that aTTITUDE??? SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO THINK THAT LYING ON A BEACH IN TEH BROILING SUN WITH A BOOK OVER THEIR FACE GETTING SKIN CANCER IS A GOAL IN LIFE.-- SLOPPY LIVING TO ME. HOW MUCH HAPPIER IS TEH BUS DRIVER WHO WELCOMES
EACH PASSENGER WITH A SMILE AND "GOOD MORNING"-- SDP IS SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE-- MANY RETIRED-- WHO CHOOSE TO CONTINUE TO CONTRIBUTE RATHER THAN LIE IN TH ESUN...
SDP NEEDS THEIR EXPERTISE.... THERE IS NO END- YOU WILL LOVE THIS ONE....
FILLING THE REGFRIGERATOR WITH BOTTLES OF SODA OR WATER IS SOMETHING I NEVER SPENT MUCH TIME THINKING ABOUT. WE USE ALOT... MUNDANE CHORE SO OFTEN I WARTCH THE OPEN DOOR AND THINGK OF ELECTRIC BILLS AS PEOPLE LOAD IT UP 2 BOTTLES AT A TIME...
UNTIL YESTERDAY----A - CP- KENYON COLLEGE FRIEND OF DAUGHTER GWEN -- ANALYZED TEH SITUATION ---TOTALLY UNWRAPPED 96 BOTTLES OF 8 OZ WATER BOTTLES-- LINED THEM UP 24 AT A TIME IN THE 4 CARDBOARDS- OPENED TEH FRIDGE AND PLACED THEM ON SHELVES SHE HAD PREVIOUSLY PREPARED--
DDUUUUUUHHHHHH. THINKING......
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SO ON TO DOG TRAINING.....
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO JUST OWN DOGS... AND TRAINERS.
" you must LEARN TO wait for your food, jUST becaUSE YOU MUST LEARN NOT TO DIVE INTO IT WITHOUT THINKING....
BUT I WILL NOT MAKE YOU WAIT JUST TO PROVE I CAN DOMINATE YOU.
. I DO NOT LIKE TO SEE PEOPLE "COMMAND" THIER DOGS TO "SIT" FOR NO APPARENT REASON--- THEN WALK AWAY- ALL PLEASED WITH THEMSELVES THAT THEY MADE THE DOG DO SOMEHTING...AND TOTALLY FORGET TO RELEASE THEM.
ASIDE FROM BEING RUDE TO THE DOG, THEY HAVE JUST TAUGHT THE DOG TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES WHEN THEY WERE FREE TO MOVE AROUND.
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PEOPLE PROBLEM......SLOPPY THINKING...
