I Resigned From Cooking.

At the top of the photo is a gecko that just showed up in my bathroom today. I live in Florida. Here, you don’t have to buy reptiles because they show up for free. Anyway, this is the biggest gecko to move in on me in a long time. In Florida, they are helpful. They eat a lot of bugs, which also show up for free. So, anyway, I won’t have to worry about bugs in my house for a long time. It seems like these geckos usually stay for about 2 months or so. Do you have these types of lizards where you live?

Here is my 2001 Subaru Forester (in the background). The 2003 Honda CRV is sort hogging up the picture. Both are reliable. Just, if you get a used one, you’ll have to replace a few expensive things, but it works out.

This is my little dog. He was shivering. So, I wrapped him up in a t-shirt that is so thick that it gives me hot flashes. Finally found a use for that old shirt. Plus, the dog is cozy now.

Happy Halloween, Everybody!

HOW TO DROWN OUT NOISY NEIGHBORS: (1)Buy loud box fan. (2)Turn on top speed. (3)Crawl into bed and sleep peacefully.

Kids that scream a lot

My intention here is Public Service:  If you have kids or you are in charge of kids and they are prone to screaming a lot for no reason, please make them quit. Here is what is happening in my world: The kids next door scream a whole lot for no reason at all. Well, my response to that is that I turn on 3 large, loud box fans and a radio to drown them out. I heard screaming today and immediately turned on the fans and the radio, all of which I let run for about 2 to 3 hours, only to find out that the kids next door haven’t been home for a week. They were not the ones who were screaming. Now, I have no idea who needed help, as I have been programmed, by these kids, to turn up noise to obliterate screaming. Parenting is NOT child abuse. Go ahead and tell yours to be quiet. It just might help someone who really does need assistance.

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It is now 24 hours later. Apparently the screaming eventually resulted in a well being check for someone on my street. Today, about 18 hours after the original screaming, an ambulance was on my street, blaring its foghorn at a house, perhaps in an attempt to get the resident to respond. Wow. Just think, if I weren’t immune to scream now, thanks to the turds next door, I might could have helped a long time ago!!!!!! If you don’t want to tell your kids to shut up, tell them Shelly said to shut the fuck up.

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If right now you’re thinking: “I can’t believe she did that last week,” or “I can’t believe he said that yesterday,” and you’re get angry or upset about it, you are the cause of your suffering in this moment, not the other.

A person may well have been the source of your suffering at the time, but if they’re not physically present in your life in this moment, they cannot be the cause of your suffering Now.

As Jack Kornfield observed: “The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?”

Don’t waste this moment on someone who isn’t even there with you… let it go and embrace the present moment: it’s where peace is.

~ a Spiritual Warrior

More on How to Drown Out Noisy Neighbors:  (1) Buy old-school clock radio from thrift store. (2) Tune radio to the 1980′s station. (3) Turn up volume. (4) Eat a crunchy snack while listening to the tunes.