Have you ever had one of those days when you feel like a Yo-Yo? Up and down and up and down.
I have closed the computer, grabbed the Safeway ad, and walked into the living room four times this morning. Four times I've stopped, put everything back, and restarted the lap top. The weather is really ugly, gray and raining, so maybe that's it? Or maybe I'm developing some form of O.C.D?
On one hand I truly don't want to go out in this weather. On the other hand it's going to get worse. I think I'll brave it now. Nope did it again, so that's five. Eventually I managed to get out the door and drive to Safeway. I got a Starbucks latte and picked up a prescription. I did not food shop. Wanda and I can do that Friday. As long as we do not lose power today we have lots to eat.
I keep reading about the big Power Ball jackpot of five hundred million dollars. The drawing is today and I will not win it, or any part of it. I am tired of disappointment, if I don't play I can't lose.
Yesterday's news: When you are paid three hundred thousand dollars a year to pretend you are someone else it's best to keep the real you quiet. I've never seen the TV program "Two and a Half Men." The young man that appears on it got religion and said "The show is filth please don't watch." Today he sent out his heartfelt apologies. Charley Sheen who left the show to enter rehab in 2011 had this to say, "The show is cursed".....Dude!
You need to know which side of your bread is buttered and who signs your paycheck. Don't bite the hand that feeds and for sure, never ever ever, poop where you eat. Now, if the kid buys some lottery tickets, just sayin' is all.
This is the first time I've ever used a complete news story in the blog. It's too good to pass up.
By Jane Chung | Reuters – Mon, Nov 26, 2012
Rodin's Thinker is pondering even harder than usual as he sits astride a toilet at what has been dubbed the world's first theme park dedicated to the humble restroom - a monument to one South Korean man's vision.
The park, located about an hour outside of Seoul in the city of Suwon centers around a toilet-shaped museum building that was once the home of the founder and first president of the World Toilet Association who, legend has it, was born in his impoverished grandmother's outhouse.
"He is a man whose life literally began in a toilet and ended at a commode-shaped house," said Lee Yeun-sook, manager of planning at the "Mr Toilet Sim Jae-duck Foundation"
Sim, who died in 2009 at the age of 70, shot to fame in South Korea when he provided loos for soccer fans when the country hosted the 2002 World Cup.
The organization he founded has as its mission spreading the benefits of hygienic toilets around the world, joining the like-minded World Toilet Organization based in Singapore.
Before Mr.Toilet's house was donated to Suwon city, visitors could book it for an overnight stay, but at the cost of $50,000 a night - the charge to raise money for a toilet building charity. There were no takers.
Other exhibits at the park include Korean traditional squat toilets, European bedpans, and Marcel Duchamp's sculpture "Fountain," a porcelain urinal.
Suwon has since dubbed itself the mecca of toilet culture and has pushed to get toilets recognized as a central part of everyday life. It has funded toilet building programs in developing countries such as the Philippines.
At home, toilet conditions have rapidly improved as South Korean living standards shot from poverty to riches in a generation.
"For our generation, a toilet was a very dirty and smelly place where you never wanted to go," said Kim Gye-soon, a 52-year-old tourist at the theme park. "But now it is totally different."
Suwon will continue the life-work of one of its most famous sons by constructing a toilet culture center in 2014 near the current park, which has attracted about 40,000 visitors since it opened in July.
Like many of the best things in life, the toilet museum is free.
"Going to the restroom is as vital as eating. In a sense, nations and governments should work to make sure everyone has an equal access to toilets and feels happiness in there," said Lee.
Many people are looking for that ever elusive "thing" that they think will make them happy. Companionship, love, material goods, wealth are but a few. Life would be much easier if they knew the secret to happiness was a good toilet.
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