Gadgets and Gizmos

Gadgets and  Gizmos,  our lives are ruled by them now , we have them to do almost anything. There is not a day goes by that we do not use at the very least  6, most of us use more . Seems to me that if we keep going like  this we won’t need to even move a muscle! As it is we have a gadget for every conceivable thing …..A gadget wakes us  in the morning ,it then tells us all day what time it is , whether we want to know it or not. A gizmo boils the hot water for us to make our tea or coffee in the mornings, another 1 cooks our breakfast, and if in a hurry another 1 cooks it very fast with a  ” beep .beep. beep ” to tell us its ready.

That much done we then head for the bathroom where yet more gadgets and gizmos  allow us to , shave ,  dry our hair ,keep warm. Then to the bedroom , lol, and before you deviates say it ,  no not for those gadgets. The gadgets in the bedroom to   curl our hair , talk to us from a box in the corner ,telling us what is going on in the world where we want to know or not ..

Next ,once dressed we  use a gadget to wash our clothes, then another to dry them  , and yet another to iron them when they are dry. When that is all done we use another to vacuum  the floors , and if you have it another 1 to steam mop the floor in the kitchen , and bathroom.  Then we use another , if we have it to load all the dishes in to be washed, then yet another to put food in to cook ( otherwise known as an oven ).  After all this we either go to work to use more gizmos or shopping  to use yet more .

Lets look at the shopping side for a minute , in every shop all the products have gizmos on them to prevent you nicking them , and or to tell the gizmo at the desk how much they are . Then there are the gadgets at the hole in the wall , that if we ask real nice give us some cash ( if we got any )  they also tell us what is left in the account , if they have not told you to nick off already as you’re broke , lol. So in every single phase of  shopping there are gadgets and gizmos , ones to take us between floors , ones to help us spend our money.

Then of course if you have gone to work , there is a whole new world of gadgets and gizmos depending on what kind of work you do , ones like this that put the words together , then print it all in a nice neat parcel. hmmmmm wish there was a gadget that put men in a nice neat parcel * sigh *  but that is wishful thinking  , lol.  Must not forget the other gadgets at work  also supposedly to make work easier quicker and more efficient . Of course we must never forget the gadget that some us have from time to time given flying lessons to ( like chucking them across the room )  these gadgets do not allow us to have any chance of  hiding , lol, unless we turn them off. When you wake up it goes off telling you someone wants to talk to you, or it beeps and there are messages , you might be tired and  just as you doze off , you guessed it, it rings , yikes , no getting away from them  , they go with you , and drive you mad if you have to work with them.

Get back home and yes..you guessed it more gadgets !! wow how many are there in our lives  ? We get in and 1st thing is put on the television , 1 more gadget,  wander off to get a drink out of the next gadget , this 1 has kept the drink cold ( we hope ) While we relax a little another of the gadgets is getting dinner ready …and no  I do not mean the wives , thank you very much. I mean the microwave you threw your dinner into to thaw or re – heat . Depending on how tired  you are as to which gadget  you use.

So there is our world these days , and yes  I have not covered them all but yikes that would take forever !!  We have these things in every stage of our lives and believe it or not there used to be a time when this was not the norm. * sigh * miss those day. I bet like me there are a lot of people who would  love to have less gadgets  and go back to a more peaceful time  ,it never seemed to be so fast paced then, seems the more gadgets we have the faster  life gets  , if only we could slow it down a touch. …
I changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.

 

A World Gone Mad

This as  sure as eggs are eggs  is a world gone mad, every day and in every way we see it more and more . It has become a world where impatience, selfishness ,greed,and much more have sadly become the norm. It is also a world where  people have forgotten how to think , to realise that…For every action ,there is an equal and opposite reaction …if only people would stop and work out just what that means.

It means that if a 19 year old  girl in the United States  had  stopped to think that  driving and texting were not what she was taught when she got her driving licence , she now would not be dead on her very first solo drive ……. It means that people  who are in such a hurry that they  can not wait a whole minute  or  , shock horror 30 seconds  more  , would not be getting hit by  buses, trucks,cars, etc,  and causing the drivers to have nightmares for the rest of their lives.

We now have so much technology , so many gadgets , to drown our senses that we have long ago let them take over the thinking for us. , we have smart phones, smart tablets  , smart everything it seems , so why bother to think for ourselves  . We can get our phones to remember everything  for us , so we only have to talk to them and  they look it up and dial the  number if so needed . So again why bother to think ourselves.

Problem with this is after a while we forget how to , if you read the papers and watch  TV  at all you would have seen reports , on the  way the children at school are no where near as smart as they used to be . Our ” intelligence level ”  of our younger ones coming through  is dropping rapidly , that’s proved by the  fact that  children competing  in  world quizzes are not getting them as right as they used to.

So we stop thinking , we stop working out the pros and cons of what we want to do , what would  have happened if  I had not taken the time to sit down and think of all possibilities before  I took my life in my hands and went half way round the world to meet a man I only knew from online ? I will tell you what would have happened  , I would not have met and married the  most caring, loving,considerate man  I have ever met if I hadn’t gone.I would have been a very lonely unhappy woman  and not the much loved 1 I am now.

So in this world gone mad  , is it time to stop, have a break , and start to use what passes for our brains ? Start to see how  much of a better person we could be  ? How we can be of benefit more to ourselves and the world ? Stop letting   the  money  hungry ones in charge convince us  that all is lost unless  we pay out more and more ,so they make more and more  , and we get poorer and poorer . We have let money talk in every level of our society now , doubt there is a level it does not control now .

There are just so many children out there now who can not do the simplest of things , unless they have a lap top or a pc , or a smart phone or a tablet to tell them how to do it. Wonder how many , if any of them could do maths in their heads the way we were taught to do . Or if they  can even write  and spell correctly , my guess is not many , all you have to do is ask and you will soon see . As for these ridiculous words that are not words that are creeping in , it is hard to even know what some of them are talking about , I mean and I hate even typing it  ” amazeballs ” how utterly ridiculous is that  ?? and it is even creeping into television  advertising. Tell you right now any company that uses that excuse for a word get nothing from me till they  learn to speak English .

My 1 hope is that someone somewhere finally gets through to people that they need to think for them selves, that everything they do effects others . Unless they live on an island all alone , then they always effect someone else by what they  do and say . We must if there is any hope for the world at all, stop being led by the masses and start to think for ourselves. We all have brains , we just get swept along by the tide and soon for get how to use them. We can do it if we try …I know we can …

Do not let this world gone mad get the better of you …start to think ….please  …you can do it if you try ………

I  changed my iPod’s name to Titanic. It’s syncing now.

Lest We Forget

We have just had Anzac Day here in Australia , a day of remembrance , not of celebration as some suppose .We take the time to remember the sacrifices  that our brave men and women made for us. Made that we can live in freedom , not under the thumb of some jumped up dictator.

Rosemary is for remembrance ,when you smell it then remember …..

To those vile creatures who posted awful things about the Anzacs , let me remind you, without what they did you would not only not be free to make those  despicable  statements , but more than likely you would not even have been born .They  saw our beautiful land and decided that they would have it ,so they attacked ,they had already started on the other side of the world , now it was our turn. We did NOT start the war it was forced on us, remember that when you think that Anzac Day  is just to glorify war. We use the day to honour those brave soldiers who made it possible for us to live free.To have the things we have now, and not be under socialism ,where no 1 is allowed to own anything themselves.Count too the number of men and women who did not return.

We went to a dawn service ,and it was so moving  so touching it made me start to think just how much those brave people  did for us .Also  how glad  I was that they did .

They made it possible for all the migrants fleeing other dictators , to come and live in freedom , and not fear. What did sadden me is that it seems that none of those migrants see fit to go and give thanks as we do. They too seem to have forgotten , or maybe have not been told , that without the Anzacs we would be in no better state than what they were fleeing.

The thing  that almost all people seem not to know in life is about ” knock on effects ” that what  people do will have an effect on others . There are so many things  that , thanks to those brave people  have been changed for us for the good  of us all .

We could not have  meetings, rallies, protests,  or any other thing , without having to get permission , and would any dictator give permission for them ?  I think not, as they are all about themselves and no one else. We could not have our concerts, sports meets, or anything else that has  crowds of  people we would have to do what we were told . So before you go and start  spouting such bile , do your research and find out just what would have happened  if we had not defended ourselves .Would you truly want the alternative? I know I sure wouldn’t , I for 1 love the freedom they fought so hard for , that they gave their lives for , so instead of bile you should be thanking them .

Would you have left your home,family,job,friends, and all  else to go and fight , knowing your  chances of making out alive and in 1 piece  were remote to say the least ? If you have so much anger  why not turn it into something useful and go and visit some of these people who came back with such terrible injuries ,and help them  ? Learn from them , learn about dictators ,about those that want to take control of your lives and tell you  what to do and how to do it , have a feeling you would hate that sort of life  .

At the going down of the sun , we will remember them.

They  shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old ,

Age shall not weary them , nor the years condemn ,

Lest We Forget ……..

 

Wrong Can Sometimes Be Right

Wrong can sometimes be right , maybe it seems at the time that all will never be right again , maybe there is so much wrong that to get anything right out of it  seems impossible. 

Let me tell you my story , I was born into a dysfunctional family, mother didn’t  seem to care, father was a drunk , and constantly beat me because  I was not a boy, and he wanted a son badly. Sometime during this period  I got taken to church and  I remember  as clear as if it was today ,as a little girl , giving my heart to Jesus , have never stopped loving him , and now as  I look back , hes never stopped loving me . Even  when I got pulled out of school and put to work in a factory , married at 16 to get away from an abusive  family , his hand was there, as when also a child ,1 I got pushed into a bonfire ,and almost died, then  later got pushed into the deep end of a swimming pool, again almost died. Through all this though I  made it , seemed someone was trying to get rid of me . ( LOL ) Sorry it did not work , am still here and fighting on. 

After 20+  years in a marriage that had problems that seemed to come only after I could no longer have children , he wanted heaps but  I could not physically do it , it ruined my insides. I have found out since he has a problem ,that had we  even known about it way back then that marriage could maybe have been saved. …Who knows ?

So ended up alone and working and doing ok , but things again intervened  to change my life dramatically. Found my self heading for Adelaide and  a new beginning , unfortunately it too was a case of , if I had only known , but we can not tell our  future so we have to live life as it comes, and keep faith that God knows best.

From there went to Brisbane and what I once again thought was going to be a permanent relationship , but again was all wrong so left it behind.

While  in Brisbane  found myself on the internet, and into chat rooms ( still in em too lol ) from there found myself over in Perth to get extra work to get more money to go to London ( remember my stalker Mario ? ) LOL  Well tickets having been so very kindly given to me , off to  London I went , and after a few  hicc ups  married my stalker lol , and finally came back home with him. We are now settled in a nice unit in Sydney and my stalker is working hard in a job he just loves, and I get to do pretty much what I want to , mmmm  nice huh ? 

So lets put it together , never wanted as a child , now that’s a wrong, pushed into a fire, a wrong, pushed into a pool , also a wrong, and unhappy marriage another wrong , then another 2 wrong connections both wrongs. So how can all or any of this be right ? 

Easy, number 1 none of the things that should have killed me did,2, none of the people that hurt me or tried to ruin my life succeeded   , 3, my family  as in sisters, brothers and children and grand children have always been there for me . Next and most important God has been there all this time , even in the darkest times and bought me through times that surely should have finished me , so there is how  Right can come from Wrong . We may not see it at the time but it is there , and anyway , if all this was not meant to be , why ? did a complete stranger give me ,out of the blue a 1st class return ticket to London  when  I needed it the most ?? 

All things being equal then , right has over come  wrong and  I am now happy living with my stalker , and he loves me to bits , have never been loved like this before and I just love it , every woman deserves a man like him ( forget it he is mine lol ) Moral of my story ?? Never ..ever .. give up no matter what life throws at you , God is always there to lean on  and wrong can definitely  be over come by right  .. The things  I have seen and the places  around the world I have been to , have just been wonderful ,and tough though it has been , would not have changed a thing as the outcome might have been far worse. It was all to prepare me for what is now ..so as far as  I am concerned God does know best and he has watched over and protected me ..

ENDLESS LOVE: Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles playing tennis….

Husbands …Yes or No ??

Husbands  yes or no ?? 

Now that is the burning question isn’t  it ? 

Not sure what to think sometimes about this subject , my 1st  Husband and father of the kids , was a good man , until I could no longer have any. Then he seemed to change,just see me as goods, something he owned ,got so demanding that even breathing almost  was not on unless he said so. So after 20 + years  I called it quits and left. Stayed away from them for quite some time , until circumstances led me to Adelaide . 

Enter husband number 2 who at the beginning hid the fact of just how much he drank. Did not find out how much till it was too late ,and of course the drinking  soon became an issue ,as to this day cannot understand how he could even walk right he drank so much. As you would expect in this situation the inevitable happened , he got cancer of the bowel , a very aggressive  one that took him in less than 5 months.

So gave men away for quite some time , did try again with 1 more but he too thought  all I was there for was to do what he said …exit stage left ….

After leaving him , some  drip ( my son )  lol .. got me onto the internet . Well almost all downhill from there huh ? 

Also he got me into chat  .. IRC  to those who don,t know that’s  Internet  Relay Chat , where there are  squillions of chat rooms , I still own 3 myself now. Back to the point , in 1 of these chat rooms a man with  the nick of  @Mario^  started chatting to me a lot , that was fine for a while , then he started to DM  ( direct message )  me. 

Well when I worked out what he was actually saying, what he really wanted  … me .. lol , I told him 4  things.

1 your too young 

2 your too fat 

3 your too bald …..having said that I added 4- your nothing like what I want in a man even if I wanted another 1 . Well did he listen ? did he stop ? Not a bloody hope of it  , he became even more persistent , lol if that was possible. to put it in his own words …

I stalked you until you panicked and gave in …lol how right that was , and he still is a  persistent  bugger  ..But…having said that  ,let me say this , he is the most loving caring man I have ever met . We would never even have made it together if it had not been for another chat friend  , who realised we just could not get enough money together to even get started , so sent me a return 1st class air ticket to  London …We still have not even met this man and we so would love to  he is 1 in a million. 

@Mario^ turned out to be the best thing that had happened to me in many a long year , so off to London  where I spent just oner 3 months there and us getting to know each other and see if it was a real love we had . Came back home to help a friend out , and also to get all my things sorted  to go back and live , but before  I left , we got engaged. Here the fun and games of getting a visa started , boy what fun that was  … not ..

Went back second time for  6 months as we set things up , only to find there had been a screw up in the paper work so had to return yet again to Australia , this time was only here weeks before I was able to go back. We lived there for 5 years ,then after many problems and drawbacks I bought him home with me ……ohhhhh look he followed me home  ..can I keep him ?? lol 

We also got married  just before we left London , so as  I had gone and  married him , thought  I better bring him home too, lol, besides  I needed a luggage trolley , that,s my story and  I am sticking to it  …giggles …Well there are times ,as with most husbands, I want to knock his block off. On the whole though , am so happy  I did bring him home , on the nights we actually sleep together lol and he,s not on night shift  when  we lay in each others arms and just relax. Also the times we sit and just  watch TV saying nothing because we are relaxed with each other .He may not look like a movie star  ( neither do I ) but he is a good man underneath and that is what matters, looks have never mattered. 

Now if  I could just get him to stop procrastinating , when there are things to be done, stop being a cheeky sod at times , and stop groping when I am trying to get things done …hmmmm  but if that all happens he won,t be the same man will he? Now we get to the question ..Husbands yes or no ??  * falls over laughing * I have no idea once a pest always a pest ..right  @Mario^? 

Husbands …you can,t live with them ..and the spoilsports won,t  let you shoot them ..

Cardboard Boxes ..

Cardboard Boxes …what would we do without them ?

Recently as regular readers know we finally moved into  a new unit in Sydney, and in moving there we had what you might call an attack of cardboard boxes, they were everywhere. We had them  to sort out things from, to  sort out things to. To send things over here with, to hold our stuff in till we get furniture.

On thinking about it how many uses do we put them to ? lol  We get shoes in them, we get food in them, we get clothes in them , we use them to  take things from 1 place to another ,and  I am sure you can think of many other things they are used for . They are always great for storing things in as they last for ages and ages , some people have boxes they have had stuff in for years . I know we did before our big move ,and we still do now  for lack of other places to put things.

What I want to know is why we don,t use them more? They last  a long time ,and when they finally do pack it in ,so to speak, they are easily disposed of in an environmentally  friendly way .Why have we become a society who just grabs whatever plastic bags we can find , and there are always millions of them  instead of the friendlier boxes ? The cardboard boxes have been around way longer than  the plastic bags anyway , so why did we move away from using them ?

Yes guess  I am sticking up for the humble cardboard box  but  , I really think they need a some free advertising , lol, I know before you say it , yes I am nuts , but we do need to think more about what we do , for everyone,s  sake . The boxes at least can be  recycled and the plastic bags cannot be ,they stay viable for  many years  polluting  the earth.  I have had many fun times with  boxes as well , specially when the one you want cannot be found, you can bet on it that the very last box you look in is the one you needed. So we should start from that  one first , lol, but we don,t.  My feeling is that they know which one you want and sort it out between themselves so  you can,t find the right one till last. It is about time someone  said this , having personally had this problem way too many times, I think it is high time someone said it out loud. I guess  that is the main reason people turn to plastic , to thwart  the boxes , lol, my story and  I,m sticking to it .

Then there is the fun and games our pets ( no I don’t mean hubby )   have in them , playing  with them , in them under them , bouncing all over and in and out . Had many a giggle at the antics of animals playing with boxes ,being cardboard they can not hurt them  so they can play safely . Then there are all the times the kids  of all ages use them as forts , play hide and seek in them ,and the list goes on. So next time you  need to store , carry , or use something generally , then don,t turn to the plastic , get a cardboard box ,much more better  …trust me ..   Here  are some ways we use em , lol , see? easy as  …

Why does a ship carry cargo, and a car carry shipments? ?

Slow on the Uptake

Slow on the Uptake  , called it this for a reason as you will soon see, but first let me say ,this blog is not for everyone. Why not ? let me tell you , this is about the love and care of the real God , not 1 of these made up ones who  get you to pray to statues , or  threaten you with death if you do not follow  the gods they made up.

This is about the 1 true  God who gave his only Son for us , and listens when we call on him , now let me tell you why I write this.

As most of you know  I have been living in the  UK for a few years , then we made the decision to come here , me to home and hubby  for the first time. Well , it was as if I had opened some sort of door as 1 after another things went wrong, we got robbed, we had trouble with a so called friend, we just could not for love or money sell anything to help pay for the trip/visa/wedding/etc. So we thought ok , for now we will just get a transfer  out of this place, and get away from the neighbour from hell.

Well as you can imagine these things take time , but it was getting very stressful, and at times like these in deep despair I called upon  God. I then  saw ,while truly awake  , as though looking at a picture  a flat, and  I just shook my head , there is nothing like this in the  UK , so I went on and yet again as I prayed ( it happened several times  ) the very same picture came to me, this is where being slow on the uptake comes in .

We finally got here , though it was 1 of the hardest  times we have ever been through ,and its still hard right now , but we are slowly making progress, what more could we ask  ? Well 1 day I went out on the balcony , and just happened to be in the exact same spot I was in when I had those mind pictures ,and it all came together with a huge jolt !! This was what God was showing me in the  UK !!!  I was standing in the exact same spot !! Even went downstairs and stood in the spot there and yes !! A mirror  image of what I had seen all those months earlier !! It was the exact same picture and I saw it then as clear as  I saw it before , I was dumbfounded , went weak at the knees , how could  I have been so slow  ??

All the times  I cried to God , he was listening , and showing me what was waiting for us , and  I was too slow to see , if I had seen it sooner the stress would have been at least 10 times less.

i know  that this was real , some of you will say I am mad  , some of you will just dismiss it , but let me say now it was very, very real , and just like in The  Bible  it was a vision , something that has never , ever happened to me before . The shock of realising what I was looking at was so real, as to be physical  , actually felt weak .

The other reason I write this , is for other Christians  who are having a hard time  , do not ever stop praying, or believing , God  does hear , and he does answer , sometimes you do not see it, but sometimes like me he has to hit you over the head before you actually see what he is doing or has done. He knows what we need and when we need it  , so do not be Slow on the Uptake as I was , trust in him to know  your needs …..

“Coming soon to a theatre  near you”….. how do they know where I live?  

These  are the 2 views I had , and it  was when  I stood in that exact spot 1 day that it all came to me and made sense, that and the realisation  that we were the only ones who turned up for the viewing  .