Tag: people

Blogging Questions

Having been in the blogging world for a long time there are certain questions that come to mind from time to time?

1) Is the blog legitimate? (It’s a much tougher question to answer today.)

2) What does this person look and sound like? Are the pictures real?

3) Will WordPress ever make the “gremlins go away? ( I suspect not)

4) What is the motive behind the blogger?

5) Will all of us stop making grammar mistakes?

6) Will people ever stop worrying about clicks and views?

7) Will people stop to realize it can take a very long time to build a following?

I am sure many of you can add to this partial list. These are just a few to ponder.

Home Repairs and Women

Ladies, I am sure many of you have been full of frustration when going to a home improvement store.

The 2 major ones are Lowe’s and Home Depot must have classes that teach whenever a woman walks in she has a flashing neon sign that reads.

She is stupid and we can take advantage of her and the sooner the better. Having been doing maintenance work for years I have been frustrated by the way so many women have been treated.

So when it comes to doing your home maintenance repairs most of those you can do yourself.

Let me make this clear under no circumstances that I recommend that you get into your circuit breaker box. Those are to be done by professionals. Electricity is to be respected at all times.

That being said there is no reason you can’t do things like rewiring light fixtures and the like because most of those are 2 simple wires. One black and one white.

If you are going to a home improvement store take the part that you need fixed.

You must remember that most employees at these types of stores are limited in their knowledge. Keep in mind that when those classes are offered they want you to but their stuff.

A good resource can be YouTube Videos. I use them from time to time.

Five Second Rule of Life

You may be wondering what is the 5 second rule of life anyway?

For me, this concept started many years ago when my wife’s health started to fail. It became apparent to me that if I needed to do something, I needed to do it right then because I had no idea what would happen 5 seconds from then. Since then, that is how I live my life, not knowing what will happen 5 seconds from now.

In reality, it should be called the one-second rule because none of us have any idea what is going to happen one second from now.

Let me make this clear is not a fun way to live life but when you are a long-time caregiver it just becomes a part of your life.

You know that one day any 5-second rule ( or one-second rule) will become a zero-second and that is when all of those things you thought were so important will not matter at all.

Picture Perfect Life

In life, we put so many unnecessary stresses on ourselves in an attempt to have a picture-perfect life. That begs just one question. What is a picture-perfect life anyway and what are the criteria?

For some, it’s a race to see how many material possessions they can garner before they die. Which of course is a fruitless endeavor and can only lead to despair in the end.

However, some believe that if they are a good person ( whatever that means) their life will be picture-perfect. Wrong!

The problem with trying to lead a picture-perfect life is that it causes you to really miss enjoying the things that matter and many of those you can’t quantify by some unrealistic metric.

In the last 24 hours, I got a stark reminder of that fact.

Thankfully a Godly woman and 2 Godly men let me know that I matter and for that, I will be eternally grateful.

Hidden in Your Life

For those of you that claim you are not hiding something in your life, you are only fooling yourself! We all have something that we don’t what the world to know. Even in long-time marriages. I just love those couples who claim they share everything between them! After you get off that bottle of your favorite bottle of acholic beverage come back to the real world. The thing is do we want anyone to know exactly what we are thinking all the time? I suspect not. I know I don’t! The thing is sometimes we fool ourselves by thinking that with over 7 billion people on this earth that we are the only ones having these exact thoughts. We are not and that should be a comforting thought. So we all will continue to hide things and that will never change.