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MichCamper's Chit-Chat Thread - v2.0 Everyone Welcome! Friendly Talk & more
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Welcome everyone. A lot of you have been telling me you miss having friendly talks so here we are in my own little campground at SD. Come on in, pull a chair or a stump up to the campfire, and stay a spell.
:camp:
Omlets in a Baggie
Breast Cancer Awareness - help for free every day.
Taco Tater Casserole
2009 Birthdays & More List
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easy chicken cacciatore recipe
10 Useful Email Addresses
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lovely pictural posts to brighten our thread..
and special greeting from lindy...
I, personally, send along a
may this day bring a special moment for you
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One of my goals for this evening is changing out the rotator controller box for my roof antenna and hoping I can get it to properly turn. I had the rotator replaced and I know that it works, but the controller currently on it apparently will not work properly with that model. Dad gave me his older controller and it's hopefully going to work.
My roommate last night did something very nice for me. He paid for one of the best armor shields in the online game that we play and had me come pick it where it dropped off of one of the monster mobs in the game. My character and experience in the game is not to the point where I can go in and play in that particular zone, yet, so this was super nice of him and his raid group. When I got it, the members of my in-game guild were jealous and amazed that I had that shield. One of the leaders of my guild plays the same sort of character class that I do and even he does not have this shield, although he has certainly tried to get it. It is a no-trade item so you either get it by being part of the raid group that is playing in the zone, are lucky enough to have it drop, and are lucky enough to win the random loot process or you get it like I did through in-game purchase and coming to pick it up yourself. It's an amazing upgrade for my character.
Nice day after all the rain, and I do mean a lot (a lot) of rain, all day yesterday.
Sinus attack this morning and I'm still having sinus troubles even now after having taken my sinus pill.
Missing Janet - I hope all is okay.
I have some more planting to do this weekend (all the planting I didn't get done last weekend). I need to replace a couple 4-packs of lettuce if I can find any.
Laundy
dishes
cleaning
vaccuuming
I hurt my hand (stupid me) and I'm trying to cope with that too.
Lindy - nice to see your post.
Hugs to all
I'm several hundred pages into a novel that I can not seem to stop reading. I've been up late almost every night this week since I got into reading it. One night I only stopped reading when my laptop battery died sometime after 4am in the morning. It's very touching with a number of themes and primary characters. It's about best friends, family, love, self discovery, learning to love and accept oneself, the bonds that tie us all together, doing the right things, heros, brothership, college, parenthood, the real things that matter in life, and a whole lot more. Most of all it's about love and the many forms that love takes. I have laughed, and cried, and I am enjoying every single page. Before you ask, it's a book that someone I know wrote and is not in print yet (sorry). All I can say, is this is one of those books that touches your very soul and changes you as you read it.
I'm not ashamed, either, to say that I want you all to know that I love you all. It's not so hard having read this much of the book to know how important it is to tell the people that are special in your life just how much you love and admire them. Having shared these many months with all of you and having come to know more about each of you, I thought it was about time to tell all of you that. You each have so many endearing qualities that it's hard to put into words how much I love each of you. You people are more like family than much of my blood relatives. I share more with all of you than with my real family. I know more about your lives than my families lives. I can go weeks or months with no contact from my relatives, but I can't seem to go days without wanting to hear from all of you. Like Ana, I find myself thinking of each of you on a daily basis and wondering how you are and if things are okay for all of you. I spend more time calling some of you than my own family. I look up to you people and I am truely honored to think of you all as my online/extended family for it is those that treat you like family that are family more than DNA makes you family. I am touched by the caring you all display towards those online and in real life. Your outpouring of support for one another is amazing and touching. You each hold a special place in my life, my heart, and dare I say those of the rest on here. I find myself wanting nothing but the best in life for each of you and for you to be healthy & happy. I find myself thinking at times how much better life could be if all our flowers, hugs, and kisses for each other were real. How much they would sustain us all in tough times and when we are down. It's so meaningful to know that we share our ups and downs with each other for that is a true sign of best friends and family. I know I'm likely coming off as rambling, but I felt the need to let you all know how I was feeling about you. I'm not going to single anyone out for particular note, since each of you in your own way touch and enrich my life. I have strong feelings for each of you, and no doubt at this point would feel a profound loss if you were no longer a part of my days. The college life portion of the book I'm reading helped clarify that people tossed together by happenstance can and do form new and meaningful family units that don't necessarily replace the famiy at home, but rather expands the love received and shared with one's fellow man. The newly created family can strengthen the love for those at home. It can help one grown, it can hold one up when one is down, it can help provide guidance to dealing with others, and it can help one to grow in ways we don't even realise.
Thank you all for being a part of my life.
Thank you all for what you bring to my life in your own special ways.
Thank you for being my friend.
Thank you for being you.
Thank you for accepting myself and each other for who we are.
Most of all - I want you to know that I love you. I respect you. I cherish you.
How did you hurt your hand, and are you okay??
Thank you Mich for your wonderful, touching post and sharing your deep feelings.... you are a dear, special friend. Feel a big, warm hug from me....
How did you hurt your hand, and are you okay??
I actually sort of jammed the fingers of my hand and I think much of the pain is nerve related. I don't think that anything is broke. I can move all the moving parts, but I can only imagine that the discomfort I'm going through is like really bad arthritis might be like. I took a bunch of Tylenol[ish products yesterday and will likely take more when I get home to help make gaming possible.
Thanks for the kind words about my post. This is a very deep and very moving book with many, many layers, themes, and sub-themes to it. There are very emotional and personal interactions between the characters and you would have to have a cold, cold heart to not be moved by it. I'm not even what I would think of as an overly emotional person, generally, but sometimes good writing and good storylines will move me deeply. That having been said, I like to think that this book would touch anyone. In doing so, it makes you think about the relations you have with people in your own life and through the lessons of the characters it teaches or re-enforces lessons with the reader. I do post for all of you and will write some heartfelt things for each of you or all of you, but there are times when I just feel the need or want to do so again. Sometimes in little ways and sometimes in big ways and today is one of those big ways days.
LOL - I guess I'm feeling that way again. It's got a lot to do, I think, in the call I just had with Ana and our talk about my earlier post and the book. Ana, thank you for one of the best calls we've had - I really enjoyed our talk.
Well - hugs to all you fine people and thank you for spending time to read my rantings.
I really do appreciate and love you all. My life is richer for the time you and I spend with one another here. Blessings to you all. :grouhug:
Sorry to hear about the hand Mich.
The game is nerve racking. 0-1 Pens....
Ah, digital TV. I can't get a NBC station to come in. So, I'm reduced to listing to the radio for the game. Oh well.
Go Wings. They have 30ish minuets to tie and win. That's the problem with one and done games.... Woo hoo, a chance, a powerplay, finally.
Mich, your list sounds like what I did today, except I snuck in cutting grass.
I did finally complete my garden, even with a mesh fence to keep the large and small animals out. The damn raccoons or possums dug up the stuff the first night. They just love loose soil, they're looking for treasure. I did a tray of Romaine lettuce today in hopes something will grow. But, I'm not expecting much since they're aged seeds. It is my first garden that I've planted, so, it's an experimentation year.
I was a chubby, nerdy guy as a youngster, but as I age I developed the bod of a god, a sharp mind, and a pleasant smile. I didn't understand and wouldn't of believed that had anyone said that to me in high school, but i now know it was true. No credit goes to me for i as it was the genes I had been given.
I never forgot that i was a nerd and had been teased, and never forgot my resolve to treat all people as equals, and to try to stop as much bullying and teasing as I could.
I found out later that small gestures can have big and long lasting effects. It was at my High school 20th reunion that two different people cam up to me with their spouses and proudly introduced me as someone who had had a major effect on their lifes. One was a girl who was probably the heaviest in our class, with nerdy glasses, who always looked fearful. We shared a number of classes, and all I did was look her in the eye and speak to her just as you would to any person, when there was a discussion, and publicly greet her when we met in the halls.It was no great effort for me to be civil because I had taught myself to evaluate the weight of any teasing or disdain I might encounter against what I knew in my heart to be right. At the reunion she had turned into a princess, trim and svelt and even very flashy and happy. I take no credit for that, only for reminding her with my acts that she was as worthy of personhood as anyone else, and that she was not an ogre or monster.
The second classmate was a boy i had known through grade school. In junior high when kids can be so cruel, and they believe that making others seem smaller will make them look bigger, there was an encounter between my classmate and another kid. Bill was an outcast as well, poor, rural, poorly dressed, gangly, and not cool or with it. One evening after swim practice, outside the pool while we were leaving another boy stole his wet towel with his swim suit and athletic supporter in it and began waving
bills jock in front of all the girls who were coming into the pool at that ime for synchronized swim. Bill was embarrased and angry and beside himself. I took the jock from the taunting kid, and punched him once quite forcefully in the shoulder and told him to knok it if. Bill got his gear back, and his dignity, and I hope the other kid lrarned a lesson, I believe he may have as there was never any ill will between us in later years. I had spent maybe 10 seconds trying to do the right thing, not expending much effort, but for b
Bill it seems it was a life changing event.
Thank you Mich again for your words today. I think many of us here experience moments of lonliness and despair that is soothed by the presence and comments of other people on this thread. I am often awed beyond words by the kindnesses of many of the posts that appear here, and feel unfit to speak to the people who are on a level so much higher than I have been able to reach.
another sermon from the old fart, but I pray you all have a chance topractice acts of kindness for those in your lives who need them. You may never know how much the little things you do may change someones life for the better in ways beyond your comprehension.
My love and prayers and wishes for some joy this weekend to all of you, and one more time thank you mich.
it is so true the impact others do have on our very inner well being...
I am so glad you had the opportunity to hear from others in your past that was impacted by your kindness... I think appreciation is nice yet just as important is the reminder these encounters lend to your continuing to make the effort no matter whether you hear back or not...
I have often taken the time, made the effort to send a note to people who have impacted my very existence to share how appreciative I was for that encounter... noting how important that moment was to me, personally... and wanting them to know how each and every time we encounter another person we have a impact on their life whether it is a positive or negative feeling yet often we will vocalize the negative ones but forget to acknowledge the positive!...
Just before I left the Pacific Northwest, I ran into a person who I had written such a note too almost 15 yrs before this encounter... and she shared with me how much that acknowledgement of her kindness to me was pivotal to her efforts after that with others keeping in mind my words that we do have a impact whether negative or positive in each encounter with another... as a matter of fact, she opened her purse to pull out a yellowed old piece of paper that I realized was that very note I had sent her when I saw my handwriting that she said almost was in pieces for the many times she has pulled it out and read again reminding herself to be more understanding of others ... oh, my, that brought tears to my eyes! To think... she had gifted me with a kindness... I had in a way gifted her with my note... which in turn who know how many other people were affected too by her further efforts because I had brought it to her attention...
I always remind myself, daily, that whether it is the smile we share with a stranger who is standing on a corner waiting for a bus while you are waiting for a green light or perhaps a soft hello to someone who seems so alone or even reading and responding a a post on this thread... it is a gift to another... who may very well need that at that very moment ... AND one never knows when 'you' will be gifted in your time of need also....
one of the very reasons I so look forward to each and every post on this thread in particular for the gifts they offer me AND when I can that I may offer my support to another in their time of need...
and having expressed before I truly look forward to your posts for the gift you give to me is your words of expression... always gives one the opportunity to look at any given situation differently... make more of an effort for others... reminds one of the importance of each and every effort we make in our encounters with others...
thank you, oldgreyguy, for your gifts to me...
and to each of you, too... who have shared a thought, lended words of support, hugs, prayers... made an effort to gift a homemade item to another... shared treasures from around the world or even from ones neighborhood... searching and sharing pictures to brighten the day... oh, my, so many things you each have given to us... and maybe I do not express my appreciation often enough to you each yet each effort on your part is so appreciated by me... daily you each gift to me the 'very word' I need to hear in that moment... thank you...
oh, my, what is in the water, today, that has brought on these expressive posts...
ok, ok, Mich, I know, I just had to make a joke for all the feelings were overwhelming in the moment...lol...
sorry
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may each of you 'feel a hug' from me
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Thank you Ana and OGG for your touching posts. I really started something this time, I guess.
I've posted about the depth of this book that I'm reading and it's many themes and subthemes. Among them are the very things Ana and OGG wrote about. How much little acts of kindness towards others can have a profound impact on both the receiver and the giver. How little acts of doing the right thing, even at risk to oneself, can be a life altering occasion for someone else - perhaps even saving a life. How much you gain as the giver by doing something for another, how much the person receiving your kindness may look up to you or be moved by you, and how others who may only be observers are also in turn touched and perhaps moved to do something as well.
I remember one time, years after I was no longer a Water Safety Instructor (WSI) for the Red Cross being approached by a former student who recognized me. I sadly didn't place him until he told me how we knew each other, but it turned out he never forgot me and how kind I was towards him. I had made a major difference in his life even over a short period of time. You just never know.
The book is filled with random acts of kindess, lessons on making real friends, helping others, looking up to one another, being a role model, defining being a hero both silent and otherwise, and so on and so on. There are some deeply moving moments in the book where doing the right thing is front and center. It moves the characters, and the reader, to want to be better people towards each other, towards family, towards strangers, to friends of friends, to workers at stores or restaurants or food banks or...
There are little things like buying a coffee or danish for the security guard, or clothing for a little boy in need, donating time, money, and efforts for a food bank, gifts to those less fortunate, standing up when you see an injustice being done, and many other examples.
This thread is much the same way. When I think of the kindness we have shown for one another it reminds me a lot of the things I'm reading about. Reaching out, making new family, loving and supporting one another, and taking the time to listen when needed. One of the things that stands out in this book is the bonding of people and the love that flows so freely on every page. I doubt that you could go a page, maybe two, without a mention of loving one another. Not in some sappy sort of way like that might sound, but in a true and caring manner. Even when people disagree or have misunderstandings, there is a love that flows below the surface that never disappears.
I'm touched by the book (in case you couldn't tell), and by all of you. If love spoken, expressed, and shared in such a story can have deep meaning than doing so in real life should too. You never know what the next hour or day may bring. There may never be another chance to do the right thing, or to tell someone that you love them or they matter to you or that you respect them or that they have made an impact on your life. Live life to the fullest every day, avoid regrets, do the right thing, tell others how you feel, and your life (as well as the life of others) will be so much richer for the experiences.
Seriously though, Thanks for the post Lori and know that we
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I was just thinking how wonderful it would be if we could all meet together at once in real life, but before we do that I think I would buy stock in flower and tissue companys.