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No longer on the river and, again, an empty nester. Back to living on Fleming Island and making some more friends!

Monday, October 5, 2009

As morning breaks

Once again I was awake in the dark but Suzanne explained this all to me in her comment to Sunday's posting. She drives to work in downtown Jax before 7:00 a.m. and noticed that it is much darker than when she began her job a few weeks ago. What is going to happen when we "fall back" on November 1st? I will lose half the day waiting for the sunrise to wake me!
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I had such a fun night last night without leaving my house! All evening long, it seemed, I chatted with my sisters in WI, in two separate cities, via Facebook. My day began with a chat with Linda before she had to get ready for church, and ended in Oshkosh chatting with Kerry. She helped me find some folding chairs with footrests that Judy J. and I have been looking for. Target carries them, logo chairs, but the "tool" used to see if area stores have them in stock was not available last night. I must check today or even just go to the store to see. If I do go to Target I must also remember to look for a color cartridge for my printer because it is starting to fade. Color is used a lot in this household and that is why I am not shy about putting printer cartridges on my CHRISTmas list! (If you have my name, I need HP 56 and 57...)
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Sundays are slow TV nights normally, unless one of the teams I follow is playing football, that is. Fortunately my growing DVD library comes in handy plus I can watch about any program on hulu.com. The Family Channel was showing, back-to-back, "My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding", which I thoroughly enjoy. Even though I own this movie, I like to watch it on TV when I can catch it. As I wrote to Linda this a.m., I still laugh at the same scenes, am moved at the same scenes, and laugh some more. "You don't eat no meat?? You don't eat no meat?? (dishes crash to the floor in horror...) Don't worry, I make lamb!" Opa!!!
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This weekend was a big one in the world of football (the Jaguars won!!!) and it continues tonight with a momentous game between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football, kick-off at 8:35 pm. Ladies' Group meeting must be wrapped up quickly so I can be on my way! Besides the rivalry (my sister, Lynn, is a world-class gambler---she has to make chocolate chip cookies for her co-worker if the Vikings win) the former quarterback for the Packers is now with the Vikings, unless he has retired again since last night. In my hometown, my alma mater of Manitowoc Lutheran High, plus the public high of Lincoln, celebrated their homecomings. Both teams won their big games, yippee! My niece, Alayna, who lives north of MLHS, reported seeing the cross country team from Lincoln go running by, carrying the game ball to the opposing team's field, or from it, not sure which. That night was their big dance after the game and I received a lovely "gift" via Facebook from that dance:
These are two of my nieces, Alayna and Allie, who posed for a picture together to send me!!!! I get choked up just thinking about it. Both girls attend the public high school. Alayna is my sister, Kerry's, daughter, and Allie is the daughter of John and Mona, bro and sis in-law, who took care of my father-in-law. Alayna is a senior and is a class officer and Allie is a junior and part of the cross country team who carried the game ball. And they had a ball at the homecoming dance! Thanks, girls, for thinking about me down here, missing all the fun!

The Garbage Truck Law

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.
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We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy; and I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!'
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This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'
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He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
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The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.
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Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...... 'Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.'
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Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.
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~Author Unknown~

Thanks for posting this great story! My name is Dawn, and I work with David J. Pollay, the author of The Law of the Garbage Truck™. I just wanted to stop by and let you know that you can read the original story on David’s blog, http://davidjpollay.typepad.com/david_j_pollay/lawofthegarbagetruck.html. It would mean a lot to us if you would let people know that David is the author of The Law of the Garbage Truck.

You can also find out more information about The Law of the Garbage Truck onwww.thelawofthegarbagetruck.com. Make sure to check out the video of people in New York City taking the No Garbage Trucks!™ Pledge: www.bewareofgarbagetrucks.com. It’s pretty cool.

Thanks again!

Dawn