A Man’s Wish

A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed
home. He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed, “Dear Lord,
I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wife merely stays at
home. I want her to know what I go through, so please create a trade in
our bodies.”

God, in his infinite wisdom, granted the man’s wish.

The next morning, sure enough, the man awoke as a woman. He arose, cooked
breakfast for his mate, awakened the kids, set out their school clothes,
fed them breakfast, packed their lunches, drove them to school, came home
and picked up the dry cleaning and took it to the dry cleaners. He
stopped at the bank to draw out money to go grocery shopping and then came
home and put away the groceries. He cleaned the cat’s litter box and
bathed the dog. Then it was already 1pm and he hurried to make the beds,
do the laundry, vacuum, dust, sweep and mop the kitchen floor. He ran to
school to pick up the kids and settled an argument with them on the way
home. He set out cookies and milk and got the kids organized to do their
homework, then set up the ironing board and watched TV while he did the
ironing.

At 4:30 he began peeling potatoes and washing lettuce for salad. He
breaded the pork chops and snapped fresh beans for supper. After supper
he cleaned the kitchen, ran the dishwasher, folded laundry, bathed the
kids, and put them to bed. At 9pm he was exhausted and, though his daily
chores weren’t finished, he went to bed where he was expected to make
love–which he managed to get through without complaint.

The next morning he awoke and immediately knelt by the bed and said,
“Lord, I don’t know what I was thinking. I was so wrong to envy my
wife’s being able to stay home all day. Please, oh please, let us trade
back!” The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, replied, “My son, I feel you
have learned your lesson and I will be happy to change things back to the
way they were. You’ll have to wait 9 months, though. You got pregnant
last night.

I  found this poem somewhere on a website a couple years ago. Loved the text and thought it was a poem really fit for me. Since I do not know the author I can not credit it. The original place where I found this poem did not displayed an author either. Apologies for that.

I CAN

Can’t is a word that is foe to ambition;
An enemy ambush to shatter your will.
It’s prey forever to a man with a mission;
And bows only to courage, and patience, and skill.

So hate it with hatred that’s deep and undying,
For once it is welcomed twill break any man.
And whatever the goal you are seeking, Keep trying!
And answer this demon by saying, “I Can!”

Author Unknown

Today 01-02-2013 I did a search once again on this poem and I got a match that lead me here: http://sofinesjoyfulmoments.com/quotes/cant.htm

This poem above here was not a poem on its own it is two verses of a much larger poem. Since I like to keep it complete, I will post the complete poem with of course the authors name 🙂 Enjoy 🙂

Can't
Edgar Guest - 1916 - A Heap o' Livin'

Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander and lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning
And robs us of courage we need through the day;
It rings in our ears like a timely sent warning
And laughs when we falter and fall by the way.

Can't is the father of feeble endeavor,
The parent of terror and halfhearted work;
It weakens the efforts of artisans clever,
And makes of the toiler an indolent shirk.
It poisons the soul of the man with a vision,
It stifles in infancy many a plan;
It greets honest toiling with open derision
And mocks at the hopes and the dreams of a man.

Can't is a word none should speak without blushing;
To utter it should be a symbol of shame;
Ambition and courage it daily is crushing;
It blights a man's purpose and shortens his aim.
Despise it with all of your hatred of error;
Refuse it the lodgement it seeks in your brain;
Arm against it as a creature of terror,
And all that you dream of you someday shall gain.

Can't is the word that is foe to ambition
An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;
Its prey is forever the man with a mission
And bows but to courage and patience and skill.
Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,
For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;
Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep trying
And answer this demon by saying: "I can."

We are still trying to get a backup but I have little to no hope that we will be able to retrieve one. I feel sad, all my posts are gone.. Posts about certain days that are special to me, like the day when I meet Antonio the first time irl, birthdays en lets not forget, my wedding day and what went on before the happy day. All those posts are gone.. I can rebuild a large part of the blog, but those posts I never get back and yes I can write down the info again but the feelings and emotions  of that moment when I first wrote it.. I cant put those back in the text.

Little by little I will rebuild my blog although at the moment I don’t no where to start.. As you can see if you look arround, Antonio allready made a start with it and put a few things back. The easiest part is putting those things back that I have a back up of somehow, like my tutorials, it was very time consuming to restore those a couple weeks ago and altho I’m not looking forward to it, I will restore them again. Also a couple of posts that came from my old blog on a  different adress.. I can bring back I hope. I have not checked yet but I most certainly hope and think  that these are still there. The lyrics and my poems ofcourse I can put back up too. The informational posts I made for the getting back in shape category and the household tips I can bring back too although be it most likely not excactly the same. I dont have a back up of any the posts that I wrote directly into this blog first time.

Ofcourse rebuilding my blog will take time allong with bringing back some old posts I will also ofcourse continu with posting new ones. I will most likely put some of the happenigns that you could of read about on my blog bring back in a  different shape.. Right now I’m thinking about the story of me and Antonio and how we meet. I’m planning to bring that back in some sort of a mini serie where I will tell the story in little parts with a few little stories about events that happened in that context inbetween. I will put that in a different category because I think that deserves its own  special place 🙂 after all its A special story. Ofcourse if any of you readers want toadd somethign to my blog or have a story that you want to share with my visitors then by all means dont hesitate and contact me through the contactform or leave me a message in the shout box at the left side on this page 🙂

Artist: Enrique Iglesias
Album: Insomniac (2007)
Song: Dimelo

Lyrics:

Dímelo
Tú dímelo
Dímelo

Dímelo por que estas fuera de mi?
Y al mismo tiempo estas muy dentro
Dímelo sin hablar y hazme sentir todo lo que yo ya siento

Después yo te veo y tú me miras
Y Vamos a comernos nuestra vida
Yo no voy a conformarme inventándote
Siempre ha sido así
Por que yo no puedo despegarme de ti
Cuanto más quiero escaparme más me quedo
Mirándote a los ojos sin respirar
Esperando un solo gesto para empezar

Dímelo por que estas fuera de mí?
Y al mismo tiempo estas muy dentro
Dímelo sin hablar y hazme sentir todo lo que yo ya siento

Dímelo suave
Dímelo fuerte
Dímelo fuerte
Dímelo suave
Dímelo por fin de una vez

Me gusta de ti lo mucho que me gustas
Y que poco me perdono dentro de mí
No tenemos nada que perder
Y tenemos demasiado que vivir

Dímelo

Si yo no quiero o lo quiero dímelo y después olvídate de todo

Quiero

Las buenas nuevas siempre son así
Y las malas que se alejen de mi

Dímelo por que estas fuera de mí?
Y al mismo tiempo estas muy dentro
Dímelo sin hablar y hazme sentir todo lo que yo ya siento

Se repite coro

Dimelo, Dimelo, Dimelo

Se repite coro 2 veces

Dime que siii, Dime que siii, Dime que siii

Dimelo, Dimelo, Dimelo
Dimelo, Dimelo, Dimelo

Hello,

As you can see all the posts are gone from the site. The database crashed for some reason and all the data was lost. Unfortunately, we don’t have a backup of the database. So, we have to start from 0. All I can do is make sure this don’t happen again and I gonna make sure of that. Keep checking the site because its gonna be back to normal soon.

Kind regards,

Admin