Seriously thoughtful Three good things that happened today

[Moejoe]

Coffee, boiled eggs and soldiers (yes I still call them that) and a lovely sunny day. As threesomes go, it's not a quarter bad.

[omk3]

Hey, I got one more! Marc's post above. Especially this part:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

These are just silly things that matter, when other stuff that shouldn't matters too much. I wanted to say it so I can look tomorrow and see if it reminds me, and signifies.

Four things in one day, and there's still so many hours left in it.

Let's focus on the silly things that matter. Always good to try and remember. Thanks, Marc.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

The day has just begun, but the coffee was wonderful, the tomato picked from the garden looks good, and MobileRead is still on the job.

Yesterday my daughter came to visit, Norton's baby-oil rubdown seemed to do wonders for his dry skin (probably from too many dips in the pool), and the fellow who installed our house windows returned and re-did his work to the satisfaction of my wife.

In addition to the above, I continue to be married to one of the biggest-hearted women on the planet.

have you tried giving him fish oil and/or a little olive oil on his food?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

have you tried giving him fish oil and/or a little olive oil on his food?

He gets the oil from tuna cans along with a bit of tuna on a semi-regular basis. Outside of cheese, tuna is his favorite food. I believe it's the frequent pool dips that are causing his itching. That and the fact that it's been a terrible season for fleas. I put some Frontline on his collar and harness where it won't wash off so easily, but even before we started going in the pool this year he was having problems with fleas. Next month I'm switching to Advantage to see if that works better. In the meantime, I have a flea shampoo that I bought from the vet. The baby oil really seems to help the dryness, though. I've also started spraying him down with the hose after swimming to remove any chlorine residue.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

He gets the oil from tuna cans along with a bit of tuna on a semi-regular basis. Outside of cheese, tuna is his favorite food. I believe it's the frequent pool dips that are causing his itching. That and the fact that it's been a terrible season for fleas. I put some Frontline on his collar and harness where it won't wash off so easily, but even before we started going in the pool this year he was having problems with fleas. Next month I'm switching to Advantage to see if that works better. In the meantime, I have a flea shampoo that I bought from the vet. The baby oil really seems to help the dryness, though. I've also started spraying him down with the hose after swimming to remove any chlorine residue.

try the fish oil tablets. seriously. the same ones you are buying for yourself at Costco. give him one a day. it's great for their coats and joints! olive oil never hurts! if you are getting fleas in the house try sweeping 20 Mule Team Borax into the rug. when I've had flea issues around here, I've purchased a nemotode that consumes the flea larva. you put it around your yard. pretty effective!

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I try to avoid positive-affirmation threads like this. The specifications currently attached to my life are significantly better, I am fortunate to say, than average, and I should feel "happy" (and a lot of the time I do). I hate affirming these things because of the intense imbalance between the objective positive nature of my current life, and the farking misery and frustration and anger and hatred and deep, drowning melancholy that hits suddenly on the most featherweight of triggers and inspires a need to abandon it all and set myself permanently adrift. It feels so much like failure and dogged disappointment. Inexcusable.

But sometimes other things, drifting, drag themselves into view or flow past my skin like a coastal summer breeze. Sometimes that thing is simply...a coastal summer breeze. I cannot obtain focus on complex joy or rich contentment. But I can hold a simple summer breeze inside my view and feel, even if momentarily...calm; real.

Last night, this morning, too much thought, too much ruction, too much of a feeling of repeat of past bad experiences, an environment that feels... broken... unfixable... deja vu of the same destructive mess being imminent... this had me down in the drowneds, looking to log off from it all again.

Those things come along though. I am not better, but I have three things:


Cheers,
Marc

Sounds like you need a hug you poor thing. I almost feel admonished for starting this, but I wanted to be able to write down some things that were good even if they were boring and ordinary. Because I myself tend to focus on what is wrong rather than what is good.

So today...

1. I had a lovely warm sleep-in in crisp clean sheets on a cool morning. bliss.......
2. Got some good news about a party date change now bloke CAN go. yippee!
3. We are going out to have a grown up dinner with friends tonight.

Life is good

[recluse]

1: My phone didn't ring all day.
2: My underwear was comfortable.
3: Vision returned to my left eye.

[Sweetpea]

hmm,

1. We'll finally leave South Africa today (I hope)
2. It's another beautiful day (except that I'm inside, at work)
3. The cats didn't wake me this morning! (but those crows and doves did...)

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

He gets the oil from tuna cans along with a bit of tuna on a semi-regular basis. Outside of cheese, tuna is his favorite food. I believe it's the frequent pool dips that are causing his itching. That and the fact that it's been a terrible season for fleas. I put some Frontline on his collar and harness where it won't wash off so easily, but even before we started going in the pool this year he was having problems with fleas. Next month I'm switching to Advantage to see if that works better. In the meantime, I have a flea shampoo that I bought from the vet. The baby oil really seems to help the dryness, though. I've also started spraying him down with the hose after swimming to remove any chlorine residue.

Garlic. Put garlic in his food. Our dogs often had problems with fleas. My mother put some mashed (fresh) garlic in their food and problems solved. The fleas don't like the smell that comes from the skin...

Which reminds me, I need to get some more Frontline...

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by recluse

1: My phone didn't ring all day.
...

That's always good news. Well, almost always. I hate phones and hate talking on them. Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell didn't realize it, but they invented telemarketers.

[TGS]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

As threesomes go, it's not a quarter bad.

You should get out more, (or alternatively stay in more)

[SneakySnake]

Yesterday's good things because it is too early for today..

1. My new mobile phone came , and its looks like I can drive it. (at least this one has buttons. bluddy touch phones!)

2. I stocked up on alcohol. So the wine rack is overflowing. Always comforting!

3. I had my first eye test since laser surgery and I am still OK to drive. Although I have a bit of regression in my left eye, but the good thing is that eye is helping me to read.

[GraceKrispy]

Great thread (tried to give arma, but guess I can't )

--got the job I wanted!

Have been enjoying vacation a little tooo much

-staying very active and walking daily

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

Great thread (tried to give arma, but guess I can't )

--got the job I wanted!

Have been enjoying vacation a little tooo much

-staying very active and walking daily

Congratulations!

[recluse]

1: I made baked ziti today.
2: I took my dog to his playdate with a neighbor's cat.
3: I bought some more Ovaltine today.