AAADD Synptoms

I have most of these symptoms already. It started in August of 1997, right after delivery of my first born.

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From my InBox:

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Coke is getting warm,and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water.

I put the Coke on the counter and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

the car isn't washed

the bills aren't paid

there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter

the flowers don't have enough water,

there is still only 1 check in my check book,

I can't find the remote,

I can't find my glasses,

and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail....

Do me a favor. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

The Daffodil Principle

I am posting useful articles like this, one at a time on this blog. When my children are older and able to understand, they will have an archive of meaningful thoughts that I would love to share with them. What have you been doing one day at a time?
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Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come to see the daffodils before they are over."

I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead.
"I will come next Tuesday", I promised a little reluctantly on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and reluctantly I drove there.
When I finally walked into Carolyn's house, I was welcomed by the joyful sounds of happy children. I delightedly hugged and greeted my grandchildren.

"Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in these clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch!"

My daughter smiled calmly and said, " We drive in this all the time, Mother."

"W ell, you won't get me back on the road until it clears, and then I'm heading for home!" I assured her.
"But first we're going to see the daffodils. It's just a few blocks," Carolyn said. "I'll drive. I'm used to this."

"Carolyn," I said sternly, "Please turn around."

"It's all right, Mother, I promise. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience."

After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand lettered sign with an arrow that read, "Daffodil Garden."

W e got out of the car, each took a child's hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, as we turned a corner, I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight.

It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and its surrounding slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, creamy white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, saffron and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted in large groups so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. There were five acres of flowers.

"Who did this?" I asked Carolyn.

"Just one woman," Carolyn answered. "She lives on the property. That's her home." Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house, small and modestly sitting in the midst of all that glory. W e walked up to the house.

On the patio, we saw a poster. "Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking", was the headline.

The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read.

The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, and one brain."

The third answer was, "Began in 1958."

For me, that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun, one bulb at a time, to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountaintop. Planting one bulb at a time, year after year, this unknown woman had forever changed the world in which she lived.

One day at a time, she had created something of extraordinary magnificence, beauty, and inspiration. The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration.

That is, learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time, often just one baby-step at a time and learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time. When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world …

"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Carolyn. " What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty five or forty years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years? "Just think what I might have been able to achieve!"

My daughter summed up the message of the day in her usual direct way. "Start tomorrow," she said.

She was right. It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson of celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask, "How can I put this to use today?"

Use the Daffodil Principle. Stop waiting.....

Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die...

There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.

If you want to brighten someone's day, pass this on to someone special. I just did!

Wishing you a beautiful, daffodil day!

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

At a crossroad? Time to look at your palms.

If you have come to a point where you cannot decide what to do with your life, take a look at your palms and see if you are on the right track.

Are you holding a post that is stressing you out? Take a long at your ring finger and index finger. Which is longer?. Maybe you need to boost up your energies for getting things done. Hold your thumbs out at a wider angle from your index fingers. Or maybe, you should be in a creative field.

Are you in love with the right person? Take a look at where his or her Heart Line ends. Are you ready for this kind of love?

Maybe there is more to life than work and relationship. Take a look at Hand Analysis and decide what's your interest.

Rat Year. What's in store for Year 2008.

What's in store for 2008? This is the Year of the Rat and it starts from 7 February 2008 and ends on January 25, 2009 to welcome the Year of the Ox on the 26th. First, you may want to find out your animal sign.

Now find out what the following experts have to say in the local newspaper and on their websites.

What's in store for 2008 by Raymond Lo

Your Fortune & Luck for the year of the Earth Rat 2008 and yes, it's "A year to think big", so said Lilian Too of World of FengShui.

Eu Hooi Khaw reported in The News Straits Time (NST), "Into an auspicious Year of the Rat" by Tao expert Geraldine Goh

Tan Choe Choe and Chai Mei Ling of NST have more reports from astrologers in the following articles:

"Malaysia's wealth star will continue to shine".

"Lunar New Year Feng Shui: Directions to lucky stars" by feng shui master Chong Koi

"Lunar New Year Feng Shui: Unstable Rat with rich pickings" by Lillian Too

Chinese Horoscope Prediction for 2008 by Feng Shui Store, UK.

Here is what Vincent Koh at Singapore Feng Shui Centre have to say in his Forecast On The Year of Rat, 2008

Chinese Astrology Online indicated that 4 February is the start to the Year of the Rat in their "2008 Chinese Astrology - The Year of The Rat" report.

What is your Gua number? Just type in your birthday into this Gua Calculator posted on FengShui Times.

Know your own personality profile and see if you have found your ideal mate. Just key in your birthday and Chinese Astrology have these answers and more for you.

You may not be able to read some of the articles posted by the newspaper after a period of time and with so much information to grasp, how can you remember all the useful points? Watch out for my how-tos the green way in my next posting.

Have a good year.

Pastor has Guts (True but...)

Snopes said this is a true prayer but some discrepancies have been spotted.
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It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session Of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good", but that is exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We confess that.

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it Pluralism.

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery,

We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare,

We have killed our unborn and called it choice,

We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable,

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem,

We have abused power and called it politics,

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition,

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression,

We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent to direct us to the center of Your will and to openly ask these things in the name of Your Son, the living Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen!"

The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev.Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea.

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story", and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.

With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God".

If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything." Think about this: if you forward this prayer to everyone on your email list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world.

The Danger Of Eating Chicken Wings (False)

Read what About.com:Urban Legend has to say about this email before you forward it.

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Don't eat chicken wings - Ladies especially!

This is a true story! I am very concerned about the health of the people out there especially the women!

A friend of mine recently had a growth in her womb and she underwent an operation to remove the cyst. The cyst removed was filled with a dark coloured blood.

She thought that she would be recovered after the surgery but she was terribly wrong. A relapse occurred just a few months later. Distressed, she rushed down to her gynecologist for a consultation. During her consultation, her doctor asked her a question that puzzled her. He ask if she was a frequent consumer of chicken wings and she replied yes wondering as to how, he knew of her eating habits.

You see, the truth is in this modern day and age, chickens are injected with steroids to accelerate their growth so that the needs of this society can be met. This need is none other then the need for food. Chickens that are injected with steroids are usually given the shot at the neck or the wings. Therefore, it is in this places that the highest concentration of steroids exist.

These steroids have terrifying effects on the body as it accelerates growth. It has an even more dangerous effect in the presence of female hormones, this leads to women being more prone to the growth of a cyst in the womb.

Therefore, I advise the people out there to watch their diets and to lower their frequency of consuming chicken wings! People who receive this email, please forward it to your friends and loved ones. I am sure no one wants to see him or her suffer!

NEW USE FOR VICKS VAPORUB (Anecdote)

Snopes reported that the claims about Vicks Vaporub have not been scientifically proven by the research Council in Canada.
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Amazing! READ ITALL. It works 100
percent of the time,
although the scientists at the Canada
Research Council
(who discovered it) aren't sure why.

To stop night-time coughing in a child
(or an adult, as we
found out personally), put Vicks
Vaporub generously on the
bottom of the feet at bedtime and then
cover with socks.

Even persistent, heavy, deep coughing
will stop in about five
minutes, and stay stopped for many,
many hours of relief. This
works 100 percent of the time and is
more effective in children
than even very strong prescription
cough medicines. In addition,
it is extremely soothing and
comforting and they will sleep
soundly.

I heard the head of The Canada
Research Council describe these
findings by their scientists when they
were investigating
the effectiveness and usage of
prescription cough medicines in
children as compared to alternative
therapies like acupressure.
I just happened to tune in to a.m.
Radio and picked up this guy
talking about why cough medicines in
kids often do more harm
than good due to the chemical make-up
of these strong drugs,
so I listened. It was found to be more
effective than prescribed
medicines for children at bedtime and
in addition to have a
soothing and calming effect on sick
children who then went on
to sleep soundly.

My wife tried it on herself when she
had a very deep constant and
persistent cough a few weeks ago and
it worked 100 percent! She said
it felt like a warm blanket had
enveloped her. The coughing stopped
in a few minutes, and believe me, this
was a deep (incredibly
annoying - every few seconds!),
uncontrollable cough, and she slept
cough-free for hours every night she
used it.

If you end up sick, try it yourself
and you will be absolutely amazed
at the effect.