What would be ENOUGH???

We met a retired real estate agent who stopped me each an every time (sometimes I really try hard to run away from her!) that the NEW owners of the Bed & Breakfast are making money "hand over fist".  Well, I am happy for them, most honestly I am.  I did the best I could, failed, and moved on to something else.

Nando asks sometimes "Do you want to start another B&B?"  "No way!" I reply.  It wasn't that I didn't love 99.9% of the clients (I did!) but there were the ones who just could not be pleased no matter what.  A very drunk couple decided to make love in the shower but didn't want the WATER to bother them, so.....they turned the shower faucet to the FLOOR - "tick, tick, tick" the water began to leak downstairs.  We had a horrible leak and ended up pounding on their door (which we hate to do).  Our handyman said "I'll fix that! - I'll make it so they can't turn it to the floor" - but what happened???  We got complaints that the ladies' hairdo was all messed up THANKS to our shower....it COULD move - it just couldn't move to the floor.

And then there was the nasty lady who left her dirty sanitary napkins IN the bed - too lazy to use the trash.  AND the spoiled brat who because he didn't get to change the dates to his wishes (we were sold out the night he wanted to switch to) used our towels to CLEAN his muddy, dirty shoes. 

I hear the current place has flat-screen TV's in each room (some smaller than others) - but is it EVER enough??  We used to get people who ate out and wanted to keep their food in our fridge - NO PROBLEM.....but then they complained because the room didn't have a microwave to reheat the food. 

No, I don't miss the ones who could never be pleased.  The ones we LOVED - are STILL friends with us and we still love them.

I have no hard feelings; I've moved on to a different life with more time for my husband and daughter.  She and I play "What's the Word" games daily and we have also "downsized" our house to represent more of what WE want to keep, not what others want us to keep.

Life goes on, yes it does!

Egregious!!

Hoping you all know the meaning of the word "egregious" as in "what an EGREGIOUS (outrageous) statement!"

Some people open their mouths and make egregious statements.  They don't THINK of the consequences their words may have on others.  Sometimes these statements FESTER over the years because initially one cannot believe such a statement was made - we try as humans to "forget/forgive" but eventually those egregious words come back and smack us like a huge slap.  Usually, it is 5-7 years later but we VOICE it out - and then we are told "oh, didn't know you KEPT A GRUDGE so many years!!!" 

From TODAY - I vow I will not be manipulated by other human beings, no matter how much they claim to be my "friend".  If they make an egregious statement, I vow to now say "That remark was EGREGIOUS!!  Do you realize how it hurt me?  Are you prepared to continue our friendship or end it?  How important is it to you to make that hurtful statement?"

We have always been the type of neighbour/friend that (no matter what past hurts there were) if we were called at 11:00 p.m. to help move someone's husband off the floor where he fell (half expecting we might have to call an ambulance, but pleased he was only just SHOCKED and we were able to put him to bed).....we GO without question.

Those who don't believe in God - I guess you won't have to "answer" to anyone about your life and how you lived it.  We happen to believe in God very much and strive our present lives to be good and an inspiration.  Actually, I haven't figured out how athiests think.....do they believe that when they die that's IT - that's the END??  They were just born to die and that's it??  I have a good friend who is an athiest and I often wonder (as she is much older than I am) what she thinks about her END (and we ALL go to that point!).

Try not to make an egregious statement to anyone - it cannot be taken back.  Once I heard a story about a woman who loved to "gossip" - she was Catholic and went to her priest to ask how she could stop gossiping.  He told her to gather a bunch of feathers on a windy day and take them to the centre of the market square and set them down.  "But they ALL blew away!!!" she exclaimed to the priest.  "Yes, alas, that is what they do and once gone, there isn't a way to retrieve them".     

Il Divo - Unbreak my Heart and MORE......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJNzmNB48no&feature=artistob&playnext=1&list=TLkujyRQ-MCTc


Enjoy and continue on to see other You Tube videos they have made - we LOVE them - One is Spanish, another French, another Swis, another American - as a group they sing heavenly!

Don't Worry Be Happy - Bob Marley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4OnQpwjkc


Enjoy all!!

Still searching for an old friend in what was then Hong Kong - stayed w/ a very nice Chinese family - one of the members was named "Antero Kaw" (the family went by "Kaw", also "Kho" and there were other names according to dialect).  He was born in (more or less) January 1952.  He attended Royden House in Thailand.  He is a good guy and I pray to find him (especially as his sister, Anita, has also joined me in searching for him). 

I have tried many, many ways to try to find him.  Sadly, nothing turns up.  There is a dark feeling in my heart that he "went" to a place of "substance abuse" and perhaps could be lying homeless or could have passed long, long ago - but I try to have HOPE and not reduce my search to such negativity.  Have asked his sister to try Police (Hong Kong Police is excellent for finding lost persons and/or keeping records).....or Salvation Army (with hopes he might be in a "shelter".  A Methodist minister also gave me a contact in HKG to try to find him.

Thus far - it is as if he disappeared off the face of the earth and I am so saddened!  I last spoke to him in 1997 - from out phone in Florida - my husband and I both talked to him.  If anyone knows of his whereabouts - please help us (his family and our family) find him.  If he is in a bad state, we don't care....we will try to assist in any possible way.

Azores Power Point Show

Let's hope this comes through:

 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=138c08029da30315&mt=application/vnd.ms-powerpoint&url=https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui%3D2%26ik%3D419c6b7554%26view%3Datt%26th%3D138c08029da30315%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dsafe%26realattid%3Df_h531g3ey0%26zw&sig=AHIEtbQio7LnVU25uugR78Pm3CIoK2BeKA&pli=1

Everything that USED to be bad is now good....

Coconut oil!  For years it had a horrible reputation as raising cholesterol.....BUT, that was way before they figured out there are two types of cholesterol: HDL and LDL - coconut oil DOES raise cholesterol, but the GOOD kind!

Have been reading many articles that coconut oil can keep Alzheimers "at bay" (from progressing further) and can even reverse some symptoms of the dreadful disease - just 2 Tablespoons of it daily. 

Bacon USED to be "off limits" as were nuts, avocadoes, etc.   NOW reports say nuts and avocadoes are GOOD for us.