Learning and Laughing

            


I have a birthday coming up and I have to admit sometimes I get a bit depressed about getting older...my back hurts and I swear I hear my bones creek sometimes. 

However, in my head and in my heart I am young.  

The following videos show the secret of not so much staying young...but living life with the a youthful joy. Everyday there is opportunity to experience new things and to love this moment right now this second!....
One, is always learning new things...as displayed by this 60-year-old MOM dancing with her son!!!!!
                        

                       
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It doesn't have to be physical, learning new things, like sign language or joining a new group in the library or traveling and checking out new places or trying new foods ...learning, learning always learning will help your mind stay young

All of my blogger buddies not only practise this, but help others to learn and to experience different things and for that I am soooo grateful



The next secret is laughter....yes laughter. I think all doctors should prescribe a good belly laugh every day for overall health and longevity.
If you know Elmo from Sesame street
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then this video will have you in hysterics. The driver does a spot-on imitation



                      Please Enjoy "Elmo" ordering at the Taco Bell drive-thru
                          
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Hope this post made you smile and laugh!!!!


Now go on and have yourself an awesome day!



                                          Blessings, Joanne

REAL Camping

Very soon the family and I are going camping again.

I have written posts about our yearly summer camping trips.

We always stay in a little cottage
                                     
                      

It has a bathroom


It has a small kitchen


It has airconditioning.


The Hubster hates it when I call it camping.


Soon we are off on another little camping trip



There will be no
                     



we'll sleep in a
                  


The bathrooms are far far away from the campsite



And if I have to go at night I will risk my kidneys and bladder exploding rather than running into a bear in the pitch blackness.
                                  
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We will have to cook everything outdoors
                                    
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There will be bugs...lots and lots of bugs. And this realization makes me yell out into the universe...


                        "WHO THE HECK THOUGHT OF THIS STUPID IDEA???"





and the universe yells back...



                              "IT WAS YOUR IDEA,  YA MORON!!!!"




And the universe would be right.




It was my idea.



My son ( who has a face like an angel) has wanted to go "real" camping for a long long time.


How could I say no to an angel face?

So, very soon we will go camping

and the worst part of it all.....

                                            It'll be on my birthday weekend.


 I am doing this to make my son happy


So, if it's true that what goes around comes around and good deeds are rewarded


Then that means that I should be winning the lottery any day now.

                
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                                         ...Just sayin'

Artsy Fartsy Friday~~Tilt Shift Disney

Soooooo, after four phones calls

               One lady that kept interrupting me

                      One dropped call (I want to think it was dropped and not that they hung up on me)


The mystery of the missing forty dollars was solved, and the money was credited to my account


All was well in the world until later today when a cashier at Kmart neglected to place a ten dollar item ( that was already paid for) in my bag. UGH!!!!!



Anyhoo, You are not here today to read about my financial misadventures

You are here to see some art.


OK, If you know me then you know that I am a Disney freak!

My favorite place in the whole wide world is Disney World and I get totally into it. Yep, I buy into the fantasy. I believe that the teenager with the blonde up-do is really Cinderella, and I giggle with delight when Mickey comes around to sign autographs.



I also love Tilt shift videos.

        If you don't know what that is ...It's when a photographer adds a special lens to his camera that makes the objects of the video or photo look like miniatures. In fact the first time I saw a tilt shift video I could have sworn it was a  stop motion film about miniatures!



So now I give you......

A Model Day at Magic Kingdom (Disney World)

                    "The exclusive video first featured on The Disney Parks Blog was created from a series of photos snapped inside the Magic Kingdom Park. Its a sunrise-to-sunset story told without words." ~You Tube Description            
                  
                                             Uploaded by:  DisneyParks



Wasn't that the cutest thing? Didn't it look like miniatures?

           Have a magical weekend everyone!!!
                            Blessings, Joanne

Looking Ugly at the Bank

Anyways......


            So I go to the drive-thru ATM at my bank and of course the machine is out of order...It's always out of order.


I drive around to the front and try to use the ATM just inside the bank.


I punch in my pin number


      politely ask for 40.00


           The ATM says "Sure Sweetie" (not really, but wouldn't it be cool if it did?)


               I prepare for it to hand over forty dollars


                            I wait


                            And wait


Then it tells me "Transaction complete, thank you for stopping by and see ya later"


Whoa!



Wheres the doe ray me?

                The moola?

                   El Dinero?


OK, time to go Old school and actually enter the bank and stand on line


Now I have to write that I was not looking my normal cute self
                           
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I looked more like this
                         
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It was the first day of school for the kids. I had made sure the kids looked great but I in turn looked like disheveled mess. It was supposed to be a quick errand...to get my money and go... I had no intentions of interacting with ...people...




Well dressed, perky, young people
                
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I waited on line and The teller confirmed my fears "Yes, Mam (Ugh when did I become a Mam?) The computer shows that $40 was indeed taken out of your account."


"But where is it?" I ask


"It says you took it out." she answers


"But I don't have it." I insist


"The computer does say that you took out the money."
                                  She's looking at me like I'm
                                               
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"Tell the computer it's a big fat honking liar!" I say. OK, I am paraphrasing here but you get the gist.


Yada Yada Yada she states again what the computer displays and YadaYada Yada "You'll have to wait to speak to another person."



So I sit.


Opposite me is a lady dressed in a business outfit looking like she was on her way to a very important job.
               
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Then on the other side of me there was a couple that seemed like they were newly married...so new that she probably still shaves her legs often and wears cute nighties to bed 
                     
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Then there was me
                
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                     Pitiful, disheveled ME





Again, when I was able to explain to the Representative my plight ...he looked at me as if I may have been lying


We both walked over to the ATM machine and of course the machine did indeed behave.


Which made him look at me incredulously, like I was
                                                  
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So now I have to wait until Thursday to see if there is a discrepancy when they do the ATM count.


Which leads me to think that had I looked a bit more "put together" perhaps they would have helped a bit more; and in turn I would have had the $40 credited right then and there.




All I know Is that the next time I go to the bank I will be more prepared
                                                    
                                                                             
                                          



                                   Wha? too much?

Strange Vibe

There was a strange vibe today.

          I noticed all the Moms in church were....smiling
                                                
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                  Dare I write ...giddy?....Yes GIDDY.



There were a few that were skipping
                                              
                                               
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and others did a bit of a happy dance


                                     
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In fact there were hugs all around
        
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Why pray tell? and just as I was about to ask... the answer came in a flash





School begins on Tuesday.




Other than December 26th...the first day of school has to rank as one of Mom's favorite days of the year.

              This commercial still cracks me up                        
           
       

P.S. As weird as it might seem...I hate the first day of school! I actually miss these stinkers! But if you tell anyone that, I will deny it!