Reverse Psychology

So here is a very unpretentious guide to staying unhappy.

1. Put a frown on your face and keep looking in the mirror. It will remind you at all times to not let yourself move from the unhappy place.
2. Make sure you only think about yourself and your own misery. Never ever consider volunteering at a homeless shelter, a home for abused women or an orphanage abroad. This way, you can hold on to your sheltered self-centeredness that renders you so unhappy.
3.Indulge in everything that fosters a bad mood: junk food, fast food, alcohol, cigarettes, pornographic and twisted literature, movies about guns and evil men, pity parties, depressing music, staying home alone for days on end. Have a regimented diet of these.
4. Make a thorough list of everything that has gone wrong in your life. Then make a second list, and on this one, write down everything that you have not yet accomplished but should have. Finally, make a third list in which you will list every one who has let you down thus far in your life. Make sure to memorize the three lists so that you can quote them whenever you need to.
5. Dabble in the occult a bit. You only need a bit for this one to work for you.
6. Don’t go outside and breathe in the fresh air. Do your best to stay cooped up in stale rooms, never giving your brain a chance to be refreshed with pure oxygen.

7. Never ever take any time to do things that you enjoy, like knitting, or walking, or shopping, or talk on the phone. Focus all your attention and time on your duties.
8. Refuse to daydream. Enough said.
9. Be very diligent about not sleeping more than 5 to 6 hours a night. Keep yourself awake at all cost.
10. Listen and/or read the news three times every single day, religiously swallowing every bite of it as medicine. Make sure to pay attention to the details of each evil act reported. Even better, talk about them.
11. Move your body the least amount possible. No biking, hiking, lifting weights, swimming allowed.
12. Don’t ever think or talk about all the ways you are “blessed,” like food on your table, roof over your head, people in your life etc.. This one is vital, for it will help you stay in a state of unthankfulness–utterly necessary in order to stay unhappy.
13. Be very, very busy. All day and every day. Try to add every evening as well. Or at least five times a week.
14. Consider everything that you need to do and keep thinking about it. Even when you are doing well. Never allow yourself to enjoy the moment that you are in.
15. Most importantly, don’t ever open a Bible or talk to God, because they point to every reason you have to hope and be filled with joy.

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Images on the Internet
by Pat Darnell | Feb 22, 2013 | Bryan TX

For me one of the draws to the Internet is plethora of photo's and pictures... visual junkie that I am. But it is a grey zone when we share them. While TEXT is easily searched, IMAGES require many times more computer memory and power to search.

There are programs that crawl through the Internet looking for "pirated" images, and remove them from peoples' web pages. It has happened more than once to MooPig Wisdom, which has over 8000 pictures in its pages.

Syld, contributing author to MOM2POP, posted an image of a kangaroo basking in the sun to her faceBook page. She cannot find record of it today. The image was probably taken down from the Internet due to copy right issues.

I await the future development of "Internet IMAGE and TEXT policing," and thus the end of fun. Here are some images I found in Google Images, Kangaroos, and a Quokka:

[Quokka]

Neki Hokey UPDATE

At Long Last, some Evidence
by Dave Darnell via email  |  Feb 22, 2013  |  Pearland TX

But, like the conclusion to this script, we are still a long way off to discovering the Neki Hokey:

"...  Meanwhile at Headquarters --

'Tracy, just what do you think of these"wild boys" and old George Ozone?'

'Chief, we haven't scratched the surface.' ... "

Mom told me that she and Dad can continue to keep going because of "us kids," and I daresay we kids can keep going because of those parents.  It's been an awesome life so far; never a day passing without pulling from that base of true grit, integrity, Bibilical principles, Southern values, and patriotic courage.  Thanks be to God, Father above for it all, and Mom and Dad.

I'm standing by with Mom while Dave and Dad are at the VA Hospital. It is time for Dad's yearly check up, shots, knee, blood test. and all.

Sitting with Mom just now, she told me that "all she ever wanted was a family to dote over. To dote over each one."

This came at the tail end of she and I talking about "things" as they were, as they are, and how things will be in the future.

She gives us all GREAT reviews.

I am smiling ear to ear.