Send in the clown

I woke up with a wet pillow knowing I had cried. I have been dreaming of being with you. I don’t recall ever crying in my slumber beyond waking to a little girls nightmare.

I am compelled to share this dream.

~~The house lights are off in the auditorium, you are the only one there. All I see is your face as I stand on stage with brilliant, bright lights illuminating upon a sad face…Should I still bow and accept your silent bravo because the epiphany finished with “Send in the Clowns”? Although I protested portraying myself as a ventriloquist, wearing costumes and heavy makeup, I had no cast members, no supporting role but a Tony award defiantly guaranteed. Bowing gracefully as usual, the curtain falls so I continue to walk to stage left as always, having no more feelings beyond a grateful kiss of the hand into the air for the experience.~~

I hate that you truly don’t know me, that your opinion differs greatly upon what I know for what I stand for and what I am. My life completely was compensated in you…hence the lights of the stage, I was someone else and not me. Your eyes constantly on me, trying to change me far too fast and judging me if I failed.

Teresa.

Thanks Murphy

Just now I'm sitting in my squeaky grungy fabric office chair eating Dulse and sipping cold green tea and I realize! This recent hurtfull blow to the heart is just my luck. I never get anything good in my life but I can always count on Murphy's Law. It's the only thing constant and Murphy never disappoints me.

Picture this for me...A warehouse filled to the rafters in beautifully wrapped Christmas presents and pretty bows in all various sizes and textures. Knowing that I could pick one and only one to keep for my very own self while being told that there was only one empty box in the whole warehouse of wonders , what joy I would have! I would run with a quickening childlike heart sliding under a Christmas tree in an impetuous frenzy. Everything is grand indeed. Guess which box I would retrieve? Yup! the one full of air that probably had the flatulent elf that wrapped it let one rip into it. Well, I'll just look at the bright side of three conclusions.

A: I could recycle the packaging and save money.
B: The box really wasn't empty at all, it smells like byo-d-elf-graded hot chocolate with marshmellows and a cookie of course!
C: Bringing a thought of happiness to my heart knowing I brought temporary joy to an Elf for I will write a letter to Santa.

Christmas is only 9 months away! Well, so are babies but I won't get one of those but just my luck, even with no more copulating, I'll get one anyway.

Thanks Murphy
Teresa.

Spring forward, fall back...

It's ingrained in our consciousness almost as much as the A-B-Cs or our spelling reminder of "i before e...." And it's a regular event, though perhaps a bit less regular than the swallows coming back to Capistrano. Yet in those four words is a whole collection of trivia, facts and common sense about Daylight Saving Time. In 2005 and 2006, Daylight Saving Time began for most of the northern hemisphere at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April.

Time reverts to standard time at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time is extended one month and begins for most of North America at 2 a.m. on the Second Sunday in March to 2 a.m. on the First Sunday of November. The new starts and stop dates were set in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Daylight Savings Time - for North America and its territories - is NOT observed in Saskatchewan, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and by most of Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona). "Other parts of the world observe Daylight Saving Time as well. While European nations have been taking advantage of the time change for decades, in 1996 the European Union (EU) standardized a EU-wide "summertime period." The EU version of Daylight Saving Time runs from the last Sunday in March through the last Sunday in October. During the summer, Russia's clocks are two hours ahead of standard time. During the winter, all 11 of the Russian time zones are an hour ahead of standard time. During the summer months, Russian clocks are advanced another hour ahead. With their high latitude, the two hours of Daylight Saving Time really helps to save daylight. In the southern hemisphere where summer comes in December, Daylight Saving Time is observed from October to March. Equatorial and tropical countries (lower latitudes) don't observe Daylight Saving Time since the daylight hours are similar during every season, so there's no advantage to moving clocks forward during the summer."

Daylight Saving Time is a change in the standard time of each time zone. Time zones were first used by the railroads in 1883 to standardize their schedules. According to The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Canada's "[Sir Sandford] Fleming also played a key role in the development of a worldwide system of keeping time. Trains had made obsolete the old system where major cities and regions set clocks according to local astronomical conditions. Fleming advocated the adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from that according to established time zones. He was instrumental in convening an International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington in 1884 at which the system of international standard time -- still in use today -- was adopted."

I guess you can call me a smart cookie, but hey, now you know that the date has changed for Daylight Savings Time, you have no excuise for being late for work. I'm on to you.
Teresa.

Italian woman finds live grenade in potato bag

I couldn't believe this story! Ahhhh the remnants of war.

Grenade was harvested in French field, officials explain.
Feb 28, 2007 12:03 PM
Reuters

NAPLES, Italy – A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.
"I found a bomb in the potatoes," Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters."I went to the market to buy some potatoes and that’s where the bomb was. But this bomb was covered in dirt, and I put it in water and got all dirt off. And then I realised ‘It’s a bomb’!"
Police said the pine cone-shaped grenade, which had no pin and was still active, was the same type used by U.S. soldiers in Europe in World War Two. Authorities believe the mix-up happened at a farm in France, where the grenade was plucked from the ground along with potatoes.

To the woman’s relief, police and explosives experts in the small town of San Giorgio a Cremano, near Naples, recovered the grenade and safely detonated it on Wednesday. But Mauriello was still shaking off her close brush with death. It didn’t look like a potato and it was heavier than one. But what if she had cooked it?

"If I hadn’t felt its weight, I wouldn’t even have realised that it was a bomb," she said.
Source: The Toronto Star