Posted by Shirley Anne on February 9, 2010
When there is something that needs doing or something that needs facing, do you find yourself procrastinating? There are things in life we find distasteful doing. There are things we just simply hate doing and there are things we are afraid of doing but know we must do at some point. Some people dive straight in to a task and think nothing of it. Others are more cautious in their approach and with others it all depends on what needs doing. Children are often more cautious but sometimes rash in their approach to things. As adults we can make educated guesses about the outcome of anything we do. They say that nothing ventured is nothing gained so that is important to any decisions we make. Having made the choice do we hold back or ‘take the plunge’ and dive straight in? Over my lifetime I have had to make many choices and some ventures I undertook with great trepidation. These days I apply this principle, ‘What is the worse thing that will result from my actions’? When looked at this way I find the outcome is most often not as bad as I thought it would be. All of my life I wanted to transition and when the day came that I wanted to carry it through I found myself applying this principle. Life is about choices. If we fail to follow our hearts because of irrational fears we do ourselves an injustice. Life is for living so ‘take the plunge’ and have a good swim around!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 8, 2010
Today I had two jobs to do. The first was straight-forward but I couldn’t complete it. It was more of an assessment than actually doing it but I still got paid for that part. Tomorrow I will complete it. The second job was so awkward I began to feel that I should never have taken it on. In fact the client said as much herself. ‘I bet you are sorry you came here’ she said as I struggled with it. It was one of those jobs where nothing was easy and different problems awaited around each corner. No matter how I approached the task I faced a problem that was out of the ordinary. The first task involved assessing the original circuit wiring before I could continue and that meant removing power outlets. Mistake big style but it needed doing! The outlets would not replace easily due to broken box components which happened during the original installation. Now I am not one to pull apart somebody else’s work but the installer must have known about these faults which became exposed when I removed the outlets. This made my job even more difficult. I finally succeeded however but I was a little annoyed at the previous electrician’s poor workmanship. I am often faced with this sort of thing and there is really no excuse for it. To be perfectly honest, it is a ‘bit of a nuisance’………LOL
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 7, 2010
I don’t know about you but I like watching sport on television, specifically football (soccer for my US readers) and rugby football. I like watching other sports too but not as much as these two. Yesterday marked the beginning of the Six Nations Cup 2010, member countries are England, Scotland, Irish Republic, Wales, Italy and France. It is a Rugby Union event and is great to watch. Ruby League is slightly different from Rugby Union in that there are differences in amounts of players participating and differences in the game’s rules but essentially the basic game remains the same. I like watching football and as long as the game is dynamic it is enjoyable. Football strategies on the pitch vary considerably and it affects the style of play. Some games are somewhat boring but mostly they are enjoyable to watch. I prefer watching dynamic sports than those which are slow-moving. That’s probably why I hate golf!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 7, 2010
Over the last few days I have noticed that my arms feel weak. I am sure you know the feeling when you’ve over-exercised your muscles and a day or so later they ache. My arms feel just that way now. The only difference is I haven’t used them for doing anything strenuous so it is a bit of a mystery. That’s my physical feeling but I have another feeling based on instinct. I have the strangest feeling that something dramatic is about to happen and I am uncertain what it is. I guess you could call it a premonition. It isn’t a prophecy because I have no idea what it is. A prophesy would mean I had a message to relay and I have not. I do not know whether the event is going to be good or bad. I do not know when it will happen. Maybe I am dreaming but it’s just a feeling.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 6, 2010
This is something I posted on my other blog (Minkyweasels Musings) but I wanted to post it here as a witness. I am a Christian and am not ashamed of this.
So you think you can tell…?
An old Pink Floyd title and it asks about knowing Heaven from Hell amongst other things. I want to talk about Heaven and Hell and ask just what do those things mean to you if anything at all? Perhaps you have no opinion or perhaps you have other ideas about where we came from or how we were created and whatever you think, we do have a past, we did come from somewhere. The question is, where? If you believe in the Darwinian theory of evolution then you must believe that all life began by chance and that we are freaks of the Universe, something that came about by a mistake of Nature. For me that isn’t enough. I have to believe in a creator. For many years I was an atheist and didn’t really consider a creator until I was 43 years of age. I began reading the Bible, not because I was looking for God but more out of curiosity. I have to tell you now that once I started reading I began to believe and I wanted to know more. If you think about it you can never know for certain what is the truth unless you seek it. I was keen to know more. I found that through reading the Bible I was drawn closer to the idea of a creator and after only a matter of months, about eight in fact, I became a convert, a ‘born again’ believer. Since those days and after many times reading the scriptures I am more and more convinced that I was created and did not come about by some accident. Once you know something is true you do not let go of it. It is like finding some precious gem and you want everyone to know about it. The problem with that is not everyone is interested or convinced. Too many are lost in their own imaginings, too introverted in their thinking, too stubborn in their hearts to think these things could really be the truth but it takes faith to believe. You must have faith and with that faith all becomes revealed, your eyes are opened and you see for the very first time. Yes there is a God, yes there is a Heaven to be gained and a Hell to shun. These are real places, spiritual places and they exist in the here and now, inside our lives and out of it. We are spirit beings inside a physical body. When our flesh dies we still live on in the spirit. We are all made of the same stuff and yet we are all different beings inside, billions of us, all different. If you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, if you think you know all the answers, if you don’t believe these things then ask yourself this question….What if you are wrong?
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 6, 2010
If you read my post yesterday I talked about people crossing my path instead of waiting for me to pass. Today it happened again. Three times. On my journey out-of-town somebody was about to pull out of a side road when they realised I was too close. By the time they had stopped I had already swerved to avoid a possible collision. Motoring on after buying materials I was driving along a main road when somebody else pulled out of a side road to my right. The driver reached the centre of the road before they realised I was there. I had already reduced my speed as they decided to reverse back into the side road. On returning home later yet another driver pulled out from the right and began to crawl in front of me. I had to apply my brakes and came almost to a stop behind them. I had the right of way in all three incidences but it seems nobody else was acknowledging that fact. Other incidences involved driving behind timid drivers seemingly unable to drive at the allowed speed and causing tail-backs behind them.
Apart from my encounters with some of the idiots on the road my day has been good. Work has caught up with me and I have been busy today.
I noticed the weather is beginning to change for the better and although it isn’t very warm I can see Spring just around the corner. This time last year I had been on an extravagant shopping spree with my ex. and we bought many things for our holidays in the warmer months ahead. This year we’ve not planned a vacation, yet! Anyway life moves on……unless you are behind a dawdler!
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 5, 2010
…..wrong footed! You must have heard the expression ‘got out of bed on the wrong side’. For no clear reason you greet the new day feeling a little grumpy and it rubs off on to those you meet. Something has made you feel that way, probably something small but for some reason it has irritated you this day. You have started the day on the wrong foot! Had you arisen perhaps five minutes either side of that time you probably wouldn’t be so grumpy. It seems illogical but it happens.
Today I had occasion to drive a few miles and before I had gone a couple of hundred yards somebody did something to annoy me. They slowly pulled out across my path when all they had to do was wait for me to pass. There was nobody behind me. Now I thought to myself, ‘Yes, please ‘make my day’, make me feel irritated, wind me up and get me annoyed’. Well yes it did annoy me and I gave him a ‘toot’ on my horn just to let him know. I forgot the incident a moment later because I didn’t wish it to spoil the rest of my day.
Sometimes it is too easy to let things bother you and allow them to spoil your day. Sometimes it takes much self-control to stay unruffled but it is better to do that than to stay upset.
Have a nice day…………………..
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 4, 2010
From the moment we are born we begin to learn. A mountain of information and experiences awaits us and we feast on it like a sponge absorbing water. Our brains are never satisfied, never filled with too much information. It’s appetite is insatiable. In time our understanding improves and grows. We sort the information and store it away. Later in life we refer to our vast library and use the information gathered to aid us in whatever we do. Not all information is accessible for some but for others there is no problem. For some people the information gets distorted and therefore gets miss-used. In the eyes of the more cognitive they become fools. Having great wisdom is desireable and only the wise will use their knowledge properly. The fool doesn’t care for he lacks that wisdom. He is unaware so it isn’t a problem. Who is the wise and who is the fool among us? Does it really matter? Of too much learning we become fools but we can never learn too much. Who then is the real fool? Is it wise to become foolish or is it foolish to become wise and what is the difference? The miss-use of knowledge is a lamentable thing and only the wise know what is best. Not all are wise, not all are foolish. The wise do not seek foolishness and the foolish do not seek wisdom. When the foolishness of the wise is greater than the wisdom of fools however they are no better off. Seek wisdom but use it wisely. Be foolish and all is lost.
Ecclesiastes (throughout)
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 3, 2010
I am enjoying a restful time just now. There is little work available although I have done some. The new year has brought with it a tightening of the belt. Few people are requesting my services. The problem is, I am getting used to doing nothing and that is a concern! I am almost resenting having to journey out of the house when a call comes in. Life is hectic at times but I like that. I could never lead a sedentary life. I can do the things I like doing of course for instance playing my guitar more often. I usually play for an hour or so each day if possible but fingers get tired after that. Occasionally I will have a couple of sessions. The weather isn’t that good at the moment so outdoor activities are kept to a minimum and unless I make myself unavailable for work I it limits my movements. This week I have to stay at home when I can because I am expecting delivery of a large parcel. If I have to go out my ex. will stay in for me. So one of us is pretty much tied to the house until that parcel comes!
UPDATE………the parcel arrived, we went out to a carvery lunch and had a great afternoon.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on February 3, 2010
This morning as quite often I was listening to and occasionally watching the news on my television whilst I was dressing. Yes, I am one of those sad people with a television in my bedroom. Anyhow one item of news centred around Alzheimer’s Disease and the percentage of the (UK) population affected by it. Included in the facts were the financial costs to the Country. It calculated the financial burden on the economy in the range of billions of pounds per year. I notice that the practice of calculating financial costs to the economy is commonplace when there are reports of this kind. Recently a report about the latest ‘flu epidemic raised similar facts about the financial costs and also the number of ‘man hours’ lost. Everything it seems centres around financial costs. Monies not earned because of external influences are only prospective losses. Authorities talk however about losses as if they had already been earned! Everything boils down to money because it seems, money matters!
Shirley Anne
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