Quotes

I was looking at some quotes and found some pretty interesting ones.

Enjoy

"A Hospital is no place to be sick. "
- Samuel Goldwyn

"The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes."
-Dave Barry

"I installed a skylight in my apartment...The people who live above me are furious."
-Steven Wright

Light up the nights

Happy Chanuka everyone

What was some of your favorite college experiences?

Also, what was the hardest subject you took?

There is an excellent lesson in which the harder the class, the greater the reward is. For example, it feels much better to get an A in calculus than in elementary algebra. Plus, if you do well, your confidence gets a boost. If you don't do well though, at least you tried. And you can try again. I was thinking about this because of my own experience and the boost in confidence during that time.



Have a good weekend everyone

More music

Remember the group Shalsheles? Now there's Shalsheles Junior and it's so cute!
here it is

As for adult singers there's this new album by Lev Tahor
here

Olam hablog

Wow can you believe it, it's alsmost 2006! I wonder if any bloggers are going to do a review of 2005 and mention memerable posts from the year. Then again, maybe somebody already did and I don't know it, or maybe they're going to. Obviously since there are so many Jblogs, they won't be able to mention all of them, but will just mention some. And if a bunch of bloggers mention their favorite posts from the year, then I'm sure a blog that wasn't mentioned in So & so's blog will be mentioned in another.

Why did you start blogging? I started in order to say what's on my mind and also to socialize with others. I think most of us probably do it for these reasons and then some. Before I started, I was just a reader and wasn't really interested in doing it myself. Later someone told me that I might decide to make one myself and I thought neh, I don't think so. Well we all know how that turned out, lol. When I first started, it was so exiting because of the possibilities. It's also hard because it takes up time and effort. But I think the positive outweighs the negative. You meet many people and make many virtual friends. I guess you can do that without being a blogger and just being a commentor, but with blogging you get to share stories and other stuff that's on your mind.

Well that's all. Have a good week everyone.

Just be there

For those in this situation
-

Being a teen was no picnic for them
Worse was the pressure all around.
Nothing made any sense.
And invisible was the beauty and joy

They walked away and
just wanted someone
to talk to who will listen,
but they didn't know who

Time went on...
She was talking to a friend
and wasn't sure whether or not
to tell her.
She decided to just
go for it and was
pleasantly surprised.
Finally, she found that person
who will just listen and be
a friend
They spoke about many different
things like music and other things.

Their friendship might not be the same
as before, but it's still there and
that is what counts.

Epilogue
They continued to hang out with each other. And later on, the friend invited her to her house for shabbos and they had a nice time together. These two friends were like sisters.

Tagged

I've been tagged by Pragmatician to list some simple pleasures.

The assignment is:

Name simple pleasures that you like most, then pick people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use 5 things that someone else has already used.

Ok here goes.

Standing on smooth soft sand at the beach(unless it's hot) and also in the water.

Smorgasbords like at weddings.

Getting a little more sleep on the weekend.

Sitting with friends.

Beautiful colorful sunsets.

I tag Eli7, Sara from trophy..., Shoshana, Elster and Josh

Some humor

I think I can fit it in


More like half off

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http://www.jr.co.il/humor/medicalcharts.txt

Actual HMO Medical Chart Entries...

Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
On the 2nd day the knee was better and on the 3rd day it disappeared completely.
The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1993.
The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
Discharge status: Alive but without permission.
Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.
The patient refused an autopsy.
The patient has no past history of suicides.
Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.
Patient's past medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.

My thoughts

I was at a judaica store near my house and I was listening to an album at the listening station thinking I wish I could download this song. However, I'm not into the downloading for free from kazaa thing and so I shrugged it off my mind. Later on, I was looking at the Sameach Music Podcast just to listen to something and I saw a post with a link to the song I wanted to download. Which is nice because I didn't really expect it, it was just a thought.
Plus, since it was just a thought, I wasn't really wishing hard. There are other songs on that album also that I like and so if I want, I could just buy the album.

Don't you love when you get something you like that you didn't expect to. What worries me though is the cliche 'be careful what you wish for'. Sometimes I have thoughts that I totally didn't mean to think and I'm afraid that I might cause something to happen to others by mistake. And so I try to think of something positive for them. For example, I'm walking down the block and I see someone and then these scary thoughts come and so I stop the thoughts and try to wish for something good. It's like the yetzer hara is puting it in my head and my job is to conquer it.
On the upside, keeping myself occupied helps me to concentrate on other stuff. And also sitting and relaxing somewhere. And so Baruch Hashem there's that. Plus, I'm working on controlling bad thoughts before they fully materialize by immediatly stopping them when I feel them coming, and saying I wish nothing bad or quickly saying some positive words.

Flashback

Were you ever a camp counselor before? I don't know about you, but for me it was very enjoyable. I mean, you got to go many different interesting places, chat with the other counselors, get paid, and were doing some productive.

The day camp I worked at some summers ago was a camp for special needs children. We didn't get paid much, but we got something, plus the feeling of doing something for others. A lot of the counselors there were girls and guys from Yula highschool. I remember looking at the guys during orientation and trying to spot the good looking ones. And some of them were good looking.

Okay, back to camp. Man, there are so many memories. The ratio was one or two campers per counselor and the bond between them was amazing. There were a few regular kids there too which was good because it benefited both types. The special needs child gained a friend (close to their age) and a helper. And the regular child gained some sensitivity to those that are different from them, which is an excellent lesson for children.

What was really special was seeing the excitment and joy that the campers felt during the trips and the on campus activities. The camp director told us that this is the highlight of their year. I think the bond b/t counselor and camper showed most during the dancing that we did every Friday. Separate of course, guys here and girls there. The counselors did not hold back but went all out to make it very fun and enjoyable for them. And the music added a lot also.

At the end when camp was finished for the summer, we had counselor parties at different places. I worked there three summers and each summer, these gatherings grew to more gatherings. I don't really keep in touch with them anymore. But once in awhile I see one of them and we catch up.

Inner Peace

Here's a beautiful article on inner peace

poem

A big business he had
and had a big cash flow.
Power he felt ran through
his vains and was very joyous.
Until it collasped.
Disappointment and dread
swept over him.
How? why? were the questions
on his mind.
In his mind, he was in control.

waiting

Ever feel like you are always waiting for something? Sometimes I feel like that. Whether it's for this or that, there's always something. I think that's how I learned patience. Then again that's probably how we all learn patience. But still it's hard, especially if it's something that you don't just have to wait days for but months or maybe even years. I admit, some of it is my fault because of my procrastination. But some of it is also out of my control and it's just not the right time for me to get that piticular thing yet. I made a list of the things I'm waiting for. I guess I just need to keep doing what I need to go and those things will eventaully come when it's time. In a way, I think it's probably for the best that I have to wait because some of those things I'm not ready for anyway. What I am ready for though, I should try to get acomplished soon and then work on the other things.