TB and I are at the end of our financial rope. We talked today about which bills we should pay and which ones we should try to work something out with the creditors. The funny (maybe not so ha-ha funny but weird funny) thing is that the creditors all said that we are current and we can't make any special arrangements until we are delinquent. Isn't that a kick in the head? Here we are trying to head off trouble and protect our credit ...
I was feeling angry that this was happening to us as a result of what the damn insurance carrier did to us. We wouldn't be able to get our good name back, either, because I'm sure we wouldn't be able to sue them. But TB did call his lawyer to let him know we were in dire straits and didn't know what to do. The lawyer had already sent a letter to the insurance carrier stating: they'd cut TB off because their robotic doctor said TB couldn't be helped by any further therapy or surgery. Meanwhile, TB had the surgery, it was a success, and he's doing much better now.
Our lawyer called the carrier's lawyer, who'd already been in touch with the company. Yes, they acknowledge that they screwed up and now they have to calculate everything they own. Their lawyer told our lawyer the company would issue a partial check so we don't go down drowning.
Well, thank God. And we found a credit card in TB's name and it has a ton of credit available on it. The Lord works in mysterious ways all right but now we don't have to worry so much.
What song reduces you to giggles, or is guaranteed to cheer you up with the sheer absurdity of it when you need a good laugh?
I was just thinking about the upcoming holiday season. I?m looking forward to listening to round-the-clock holiday music. We didn?t have such marathons in Maryland so it was a real treat for me to find such a station when we were living on Long Island. Well, one morning I heard ?Dominick the Donkey? and I started howling with laughter right at the get-go when I heard the chorus. I?d never heard this song before. I laugh every single time I hear it, no matter how often. And I love to sing along with it!
Dominick The Donkey
By: Lou Monte
Chorus)- Ay, Jing-a-di-jing hee haw hee haw
It's Dominick the Donkey.
jing-a-di-jing hee haw hee haw.
De Italian Christmas Donkey.
Lalalalalalalalala. lalalalalaladidooda.
Santa's got a little friend his name is Dominick.
The cutest little donkey, you never see him kick.
When Santa vists his Paesans with Dominick he'll be.
Because the reindeer cannot climb the hills of Italy.
(Chorus)
Jingle Bells around his feet and presents on da sled.
Hey look at da mayors derby, on top of Dominicks head.
A pair of shoes for Louis and a dress for Josephine.
Da label on de inside says dare made in Brook-a-lee.
(Chorus)
Children sing and clap dare hands and Dominick starts ta dance.
Dey talk Italian to him and he even understands
Wednesday Whatevers
1. What would society be like without religion?
I started to say we?d have chaos and anarchy but then I thought some more about it. Some of the worst violence in the world resulted from religious clashes. John Lennon had a song, ?Imagine?, which was about a world where there?s no religion:
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
So ? is this what it might be like? I have no idea.
2. Why are separate languages developed?
Well, the story in the Bible says everyone used to speak the same language. They decided to build a tower way up into the sky to touch or almost touch heaven. God took exception to that because if they could make that tower then they could get together and do other things. So He jumbled all the languages so that no one understood each other anymore.
We all live in different parts of the world now and our words are rooted in different languages. We have different dialects, even within the same language. So our words might be similar to others? but there will still be differences. For instance, in English we say mother and in German we say mutter. They sound alike but are different.
I don?t know if there would be any advantage to everyone speaking one language. I think we?d still have the same problems communicating.
3. How does nature affect us?
I always feel better when I am at the beach or even at a park. There?s something uplifting about being in the fresh air and watching little animals or fish or crabs or what have you. I feel better during spring and summer, when the days are longer and we have more sunshine. I get cabin fever when we have a long spell of rain. I?m sure other people.feel the same way so I would say that nature affects our mood as well as our
It's about time we heard from those insurance idiots.
The problem with religion is, religions worship God in man's way not the way god intended, which is in spirit and truth. We get so involved in trying to place limits on each other, when if we follow God's plan we will have true freedom. So many of the great "religions" have "truth" in them but we stray from that truth by trying to "interpret" what God says by what we want it to say, and then become enslaved by it.