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Have ya heard the one about ...........?

September 30th 2006 03:27
My Mom has been emailing jokes to me since she learned to email. They're always good enough to share or she wouldn't share them. So, I've decided that my Friday (maybe your Saturday) posts from now on will be dedicated to Mom's jokes.


The new supermarket near our house has an automatic water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on, you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh rain.
When you approach the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and witness the scent of fresh hay.
When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle and the air is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying.

The veggie department features the smell of fresh buttered corn.
I don't buy toilet paper there any more.!!!

Japan Fish
The fish isn't funny, I just brought him along for company



Reading him his Miranda Rights, a female police officer arrested a manfor drunk driving. The female officer tells the man, "Sir, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you." The drunk replies, "Boobs."



An elderly couple, Margaret and Bert, were married for 52 years.

Bert always wanted a pair of authentic cowboy boots.


So, seeing some on sale one day, he buys them, wears them home, walks in proudly and asks his wife: “Notice anything different about me?”

Margaret looks him over. “Nope.”

Frustrated Bert storms off into the bathroom, undresses, and walks back into the room completely naked except for the boots.

Again, he asks, a little louder this time, “Notice anything different NOW??????”

Margaret looks up and says, “Bert , what's different? It's hanging down today, it was hanging down yesterday, it'll be hanging down again tomorrow.”

Furious, Bert yells, “AND DO YOU KNOW WHY IT'S HANGING DOWN, MARGARET??????”
“Nope” she replies.

“IT'S HANGING DOWN BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT MY NEW BOOTS!!!!!”

To which Margaret replies... “Shoulda bought a hat, Bert. Shoulda bought a damn hat!!!!!”
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Use Your Virus Scan to Meditate

September 29th 2006 03:20
Even if you don't do it, you can't deny the benefits of meditation. Stress reduction alone accounts for more positive results than you can shake a fist at. (But you shouldn't still be shaking fists after you meditate, you know.)

Some days, though, even if we're good at (which I'm not) completely calming ourselves and shutting the rest of life out for a while, life has a way of screwin' up the works.

Braingle posted a suggestion to stare at something (a pencil, a plant, the dirty laundry) for about 5 minutes to help bring yourself back to focus. I tried it and it works for me. (Didn't make the laundry any cleaner, but I sure could focus a whole lot better.)

Today, though I learned that a run-of-the-mill household high-tech product can be a wonderful meditative tool. I ran a virus scan and was absolutely mesmorized. The left half of the document files line didn't change. It felt like that part of the line was my anchor. The interesting thing was that as I watched the right half of the line while it kept moving moving moving (not sure, but I think three 'movings' with no commas means 'real fast'), I began to calm myself enough to focus and find my center.

It looks like another use for an already useful tool. And, by the way, my computer is virus free.
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Do You Name Your Body Parts?

September 28th 2006 00:52
I don't live under a rock or somewhere where I'm alone all the time, but a lot of the things I see and hear about people and what they do strikes me as being really, really strange. But I figure it works the other way around, too, so it's a wash.

One thing that I always thought of as being downright wierd is men naming their penises. Isn't it enough that it already has a name? Are theirs so special and unique they can't be called the same as others?

And there's a companion twist to part naming. Some women can't be content calling their breasts breasts or boobs or anything like that. Nope. Seems like the men aren't the only ones to give individual character to body parts.

My sister, Susie, and I were talking about this oddity this afternoon. It's quite ok with us for others name whatever they want any name they want. We did, though, have trouble with where to draw the line. For that matter, why is it drawn at all? Or did we miss the memo about only naming the naughty parts? Are we supposed to only name the parts we cover?

I also wonder about introductions. If my sister and I were to meet you for the first time, I'd say "Hi. I'm Harmony and this is my sister, Susie". But will I have just made a faux pas? Perhaps the more correct etiquette would be to introduce the 2000 parts of each of us, while I'm at it.

Jeez, I'd really like to know the rules before I make a fool of myself, I mean us.






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Wapiti Magic

September 27th 2006 02:54
This post might not be too long, because I'm having trouble reading my badly scribbled notes. But I'll do my best to decipher this mess. I'm also making a mental note that it's not necessary to take research notes on scrap paper because my computer has a copy and paste feature.

Yesterday I dressed this blog with probably it's first picture ever, "Wapiti Magic". I distinctly remember saying something to the effect that it was so cool,
Wapiti Magic

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So here we are at the start of a new week and what a wonderful week it will be. (Did you count the doubleyous in that last sentence?) And how do I know it'll be a wonderful week? I don't, but it's easier for me to look at the positive than to anticipate any negatives that may or may not come about. My therapist doesn't like for me to get too anxious over negative projections.

So, anyway, how do you like the new color scheme here? I like it. I don't mind listening to suggestions, though. There are other colors on the wheel.

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Multi-tasking is the Work of the Devil

September 24th 2006 01:23
Probably most of us do it at least some of the time, but it's an evil thing. Ohhhh yes it is, too. And nobody can defend it to me enough to make me think otherwise.

It's ridiculous that I even attempt to try to do more than one thing at a time, because the results . . . . . Don't get me started on the results. Too late, I'm already started, but I won't dwell. I'll simply say that sometimes if the results are as good as less-than-satisfactory, they go in the success column.

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What Can I Do This Weekend?

September 23rd 2006 01:34
This morning, Liz Strauss, Successful Blog wrote an interesting post called "Life, Weekends, Memories -- Finding Time for the Time of Your Life.

Well, that got me to thinking first about having no plans for the weekend. Then I thought about it again and realized I have no plans for the weekend.

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Trash Picker's Ball

September 22nd 2006 00:39
Something a bit different from me tonight. This is a short story I finished yesterday. Remember, if you can't say something nice, be honest.


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It's not uncommon for most of us to have heard of someone guilty of committing insurance fraud. Even if we don't know of any specific instances, we're surely aware that this fraud is widespread.

Until recently, I must have been living under a rock, because I didn't realize that it's not only widespread among the general public, it seems to be quite common with the provider sector.

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Can a Computer Get E.coli????

September 20th 2006 02:51
Ok. I know my computer really doesn't have E.coli. And I know that that was a really silly thought.

Sometimes I worry about it, though. Oh, it's in great shape; no problems with it at all. Well, except for the ones I cause myself. But when a site doesn't load fast enough or when the computer doesn't immediately respond to a page command, it can be annoying


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I Need to Catch Up With the Future

September 19th 2006 01:32
No dressmaker's form yet. The girl who thought she had one can't find it. No, something that big doesn't mysteriously get itself lost. It's probably tucked neatly in her storage bin. Oh, well. If it doesn't work out with her, I'll just put it out there again.

The skirt's not finished yet, either. It's coming along nicely and could be finished tomorrow, if I don't sidetrack myself the way I did today.

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Freecycle for the Environment

September 18th 2006 03:58
In yesterday's post, I mentioned that I belong to a Freecycle Group in my area and assumed that everyone would know what I was talking about. I was wrong to assume. Apparently it's a good idea to talk about the group now, so you'll know what it is and what it does.

The statement on the Freecycle Network website is: "Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources and eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community". From my experience, that is precisely what Freecycle does and does well. One person gets rid of an unwanted item and gains some space. Someone else wants that unwanted item and fills some space. No one has to spend any time trying to figure out the half life of bulk trash in a dump. No one has to spend any time wondering why we need to look at the bulk trash in a dump. Everyone wins


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I Get a Dressmaker's Form Tomorrow!!!

September 16th 2006 23:50
I know freecycling groups have been around for much longer than the couple of months I've been dabbling with them, so many of you will know what I'm talking about. Even though freecycling is so much cleaner and more civilized than a good old dumpster dive, it's ok; I still use it when I can.

The other day, it dawned on me that, with all the sewing I do, a dressmaker's form would be a great tool (apparently, I can be a little slow sometimes). A true Eureka! moment, if ever I had one. So, this afternoon I placed a request ad for one and someone a couple of miles away has one that Susie, my sister, will help me pick up tomorrow. Yippee! I won't stick pins in myself anymore!

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Progress on the Black Skirt

September 16th 2006 02:38
I'm so very happy that Friday the 15th is almost over where I live. There were no disasters and no surprises, but there were interruptions that I either didn't count on or didn't realize would take up so much room in my brain. Anyway, before tomorrow comes with its' special brand of things that go bump to my psyche, let me talk about the progress I've been able to make on the black skirt.

In my first post, I mentioned that the skirt started out as a size 20 and I'm more of a 6. If it were the other way around, the job would have a different set of rules altogether. Things being what they are, however, this is not an insurmuntable task.

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The Lousy Wardrobe Blues

September 14th 2006 22:57
Up until about five or six months ago, my wardrobe could only be kindly described as 'pitiful'. No, no, it wasn't a typical pitiful state. I mean I could have rented my closet to a homeless person. I had a winter dress and a summer dress (and I'd had those for too many years). I had a dress skirt (but no blouse nice enough to wear with it), and a denim skirt (and it was getting pretty tired). Consequently, I wore tee shirts, sweat shirts or flannel shirts with either my old raggedy jeans or my raggedy old jeans.

Then, as I've said, about five or six months ago I went through a massively positive and positively massive mind change. I'd always known I was a girl, but suddenly I wanted to dress like one. Fortunately for me and my paltry budget, I know how to sew.

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Sew Glad You Stopped By

September 13th 2006 21:09
Hi. My name is Carolyn Manning and I apologize for the awful pun in this title. The only thing holding me back from writing this blog is the length of my experience with the various crafts and their several mediums. Don’t think for a minute that I’m a novice seamstress and crafter. Nor did I read a book last month and claim now to be expert in the field. Nope, it’s not that I have little experience under my belt, it’s that I don’t like to admit that I’m old enough to have as many thread years behind me as I do.
Enough of my vanity. Let’s move on to the things that brought us to this page in the first place. I’ll start telling you a little bit of my soft-craft history and you can see if you like what I have to offer.
At 13 or 14, my first knitting project was a disaster. Mrs. Crane, our neighbor, helped me with the basic knits and purls and I went to town on a sweater I wanted to make for my father. Mrs. Crane, however, neglected to mention the importance of gauge and the sweater would have fit Dad if he looked like a stovepipe with monkey arms. Lesson #1: everything in the instructions is written for a purpose


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