Saturday, March 1, 2008

Wisdom...

 

 It's been a bit slow in the blogging world lately. I think half of the bloggers are out with the flu and the remaining bloggers are all suffering a bad case of cabin fever. Spring is taking it's sweet time arriving and a lot of us haven't been having much excitement in our lives to blog about. It's been awhile since I wrote a blog and today I thought I better get on the ball and post something...just anything...to blog for blog's sake just to have some kind of activity to stir up the staleness of my page.

So today's blog is going to be out some of my own personal bits of wisdom. Not that I am particularly wise, far from it. All of my personal bits of wisdom I have learned the hard way, but in reality isn't that what wisdom is all about?...Learning stuff the hard way...it makes a lasting impression on you...



Vic's Bits of Wisdom....

Don't lend friends and relatives money. If you feel you have to,... don't call it a loan, call it a gift that doesn't expect to be paid back....because you won't be paid back. Thinking of it as a gift, helps you to deal with watching them buy motorcycles, new cars, big screen tvs, and all kinds of other fun stuff instead of paying you back...

No matter how big of an attitude you have, your cat's is bigger...

Don't throw a bag of frozen gooseberries in a fit of anger,...you will be finding gooseberries for months afterwards....

Don't put a hot glass pyrex dish on a damp counter...it will explode...

Sweet little old ladies are few and far between....

Don't tell your niece and nephew you are an alien from another planet...they will believe it as long as they believe in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus..and possibly longer...

Don't say anything in front of a three year old that you don't want their parents to hear...

Don't correct or chastise a child who is tearing your home apart while visiting... Do expect to hear a lecture from their parents on how since you don't have any kids your opinion doesn't count...

Don't take away anyone's fantasy world by trying to get them to face reality. Some people need their fantasy world in order to function...

Not everyone who attends church is a Christian...

Not all atheists don't believe in something...

Socks are only meant to last one year...

Buy a good bra...

A good neighbor is worth more than a new car...

Do your spring cleaning before May or you will never get it finished the rest of the year...

Pet your neighbor's rotweiller puppy to make sure it grows up to like you...

An active imagination and a bucket of rocks will keep a kid entertained for hours...

Don't steal someone's thunder,even inadvertently...

You don't have to wake up perky and chirpy in the morning...just be glad you woke up...

A good pair of shoes is hard to find...

Four cups of uncooked macaroni makes a heck of a lot of macaroni salad...

Silver has to be polished often, and that dipping stuff doesn't work worth a darn...

Dusting is futile...

Quickest way to learn how out of shape you are, is during the first full day of Spring yardwork...

Don't expect everyone to like you, some people you just rub the wrong way...

Don't expect everyone to read you blog and comment...


I know I have a lot more to learn...and I am sure I will learn it....the hard way...

Have a great week-end peeps!

 

 

22 comments:

  1. You are very wise, grasshopper....

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  2. OMG! I can sooo relate to many of those sayings! And how TRUE they are! And that one about kids tearin' up your house! Hey, just cuz you don't have kids, don't mean the same thing don't happen to the rest of us. Nuthin' like watching someone's kid on a rampage in your house, and their parents sitting quietly watching "Johnny" have fun! Ugh!

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  3. I don't care whose kid it is...in my house my rules are rules and if the parents don't have the brains to say something about their kid/kids using my home as a well equipped park, swing set and all, then I'm gonna say something.
    Luv the attitude of cats...ya got that right!
    Great blog Viccles I sure can relate to all of them.
    Ohhh...on the silver if you do a good job polishing, you put a cube of Camphor on every shelf of china cabinet or in the silver chest it won't tarnish for a good year thus saving on slowly removing the finish of silver off ya stuff. Here you have to get the Camphor block from the pharmacist it is not sold over the counter any more.

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  4. OK I am off to throw away socks and to buy my first bra. Thanks for your thoughts oh wise one...

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  5. I have yet to find a good bra...let alone buy one....or two

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  6. I agree with it all...yep yep! BTW, I did find a GOOD pair of shoes hee hee. I think I rub a lot the wrong way:) But letting it bother you that they do not like you, pffffttttt, nope. As far as blog comments, I have a few drive by comments that I really appreciate, but I have no high expectations ha ha! Waking up perky? big HA...but I do wake up very grouchy if I find I'm out of coffee:) Getting on to a child that is turning your house upside down *gasps* The best way to remedy that is to tell them that cooties are all over everything:) ha ha problem solved!!! Have a wonderful week, Vic, hugs!

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  7. "Don't take away anyone's fantasy world by trying to get them to face reality. Some people need their fantasy world in order to function..." thanks Vic ...I do live in a fantasy world most of the time hehe

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  8. Miss Vic, you are one of our national treasures.

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  9. Great blog Vic! Now are you ready to go shopping? I hear Victoria's Secret has bras that make you look 19 again! Now thatz a good bra!

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  10. 19 again?.... Now that really would make them a "miracle bra',lol...

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  11. Oh Poppy and Vic,
    I think Victoria's Secret means 19". Ain't that just our luck?

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  12. I personally agree that you cannot tell little children you're from another planet or even mentioning in passing that you're on another planet at the moment you're speaking right now - it will come back to haunt you forever.
    Now then about cabin fever - um twitches eye and shrugs left shoulder - I don't have cabin fever I'm perfectly fine with the snow growing higher to keep all the grass underneath out of view and in some places the trees, I'm absolutely fine with that. Could you pass me the crayons please?

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  13. Great blog, Vic. You're quite wise for one so young! LOL.

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  14. Ummm...who were you throwing that bag of frozen gooseberries at? lol
    Loved this blog!

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  15. Hello oh great and wise viccles. good to see ya again.

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  16. Not a word of this is untrue! I tossed milk bones over my neighbor's fence to his snarling rotty. He was just a big old noise box who loved me within days. (The dog, not the neighbor.)

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  17. I dont get bras my size..I get them custom made at a parachute factory. Thankyou for the pearls of wisdom...I suddenly feel enlightened.

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  18. Victoria's big secret is she doesnt make bras for ppl above 40!

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  19. And I expect EVERYONE to read all my blogs. How dare they don't??!!

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  20. And I think I've been on this page too long..so I am going ....to annoy someone else.

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