All Things Odd And Silly

 What humanity needs from each of us and for ourselves and for each other now.  Be good.  Be good to ourselves and each other now.  It sounds like a no-brainer and an obvious concept.  It is something that humanity is really struggling with right now though.  I am reminded again of the viral advice that was going around social media a while back.  The advice was: Be kind.  It’s that simple.   We can at least all commit to make an effort to keep this as a valued sentiment within our hearts.  This doesn’t mean that people have to sacrifice anything to their own detriment.  It just means that it is to our own benefit as well as the benefit of others for us to desire to show kindness and give of ourselves in whatever manner we are capable and able and feel comfortable in doing so.   It is this intention that can transform our lives as well as the lives of others.

  https://www.instagram.com/share/_h85bKHjw Oh my! 😯 And I thought it was really embarrassing when one time (okay two times) I tripped on a space or obstacle in a walkway because I was trying to move too fast and wasn’t paying enough attention, and I fell to my hands and knees and then got up again and walk away. 🥴 I’m very good at being a dork but this lady made an even grander adventure of it! 😲 👍

  https://youtu.be/olanOJyvons?feature=shared Higher Selves.  What would they say to us?  They would say,  “Don’t ever question your value.  And be happy.  And there is one thing that money can’t buy or defeat and that is the commitment of human beings to desire to feel and practice kindness and empathy toward themselves and others.  This is called saving the world on a budget.  This is how human beings oppose and don’t give strength to powers that seek to feel and practice the opposite.  This is how people morally object to and don’t give support or strength to leadership of a destructive and dehumanizing nature.  People at this time need to make a personal choice to commit themselves to having perceptions of empathy & caring toward others.  This begins with oneself and then reflects outward.  It is the starting point of creating good will toward fellow human beings and a world at peace.  And this is how we shine the ...

 I just opened up my phone and saw this.  I don’t even know how or why my phone opened to this site (Substack), but I totally agree!

 Slaves to the pursuit of personal power and money.  This is who and what people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are.  They have more than enough money to live very comfortable and privileged lives for the rest of their lives.  They could devote the rest of their lives to just enjoying themselves and doing good things with their money.  But instead, their focus and motivation in life is just to acquire more and more money and more ability to acquire more money.  Why?  Have they ever heard of Charles Dickens’ Ebeneezer Scrooge?  Have they ever read the book or watched this movie at Christmas time?  It seems that they are trapped in a diseased mind state that they need to wake up from.  Ok, maybe Elon Musk has grand goals like paving the way for humanity to expand their existence into the greater cosmos.  But what is the purpose of doing so if this is not for the benefit of humanity?  Does he really want to achieve goals such as ...

 Is America as a free and democratic nation doomed?  It is the question that we now must spend our days living with.  We have been let down by our government.  Who knew just a decade ago that we were in for such a treat.  Now there is nothing that we the mere American people can do, at least not until there is another election. 🥹 Our democracy failed us in being a system that allows a convicted criminal to run for the office the president.  

Clearly.  What we evidently all need to do when stuff is out of our control like the state of our country at this time.  Shut the cluck up.  I’ll gaze at the sky if I want to.  Dat Boi.   How do human beings come up with such strange stuff?? Is this a rebus puzzle?  That’s easy. “It’s written all over your face.”  Me looking at some memes. This made me think of Gilligan’s Island.  Then why do cardio?  I really can’t do cardio so hurray for that. 😁 Ha ha.  And is the cat on the left male or female?  I can’t figure it out?  Or does it not have to be either?   Difficult lemons?  What would make a lemon difficult? 🤔 

This is just a “Why have I thought of this?” 🧐🫢 thought.  It was a product idea.  A Donald Trump palm held stress ball.  A fantastic stress relief product. You can squeeze it, you can poke it. You can smoosh in its face.  You can even bite it if you would like.  It could be a stress ball like no other!!  Dare I say that it could rival the elf on the shelf in popularity but be available in a more varied variety of shapes and appearances!! I’m not being serious.  I guess I have nothing better to think about. 🫤  

 Last night, Karoline Leavitt entered my mind.  She is a mystery.  I can’t help wondering what her background is.  Was she raised in a cult or a cult like religion?  What is it that makes her so susceptible to drinking the Trump Kool-Aid?  I don’t know if it’s true, but I couldn’t help contemplating the idea that she could easily be a woman who had been indoctrinated by some ultra conservative, patriarchal organization.  Who knows?  People regard her as being stupid, but she is also very intelligent and well spoken at such a young age!   I can imagine her being like Leah Remini and one day totally waking up and altering her beliefs.  I know that is a statement that she and other conservatives and Trump supporters might take great offense to, but it is my opinion.   I heard a line lately that was a simple statement that I believed held so much truth.  I believe it was John Iadarola who said it, and I think it does totally reflec...

If I was a woman spending time in micro gravity, I would always keep my hair pulled back in a ponytail!  I think I would be embarrassed to have my hair floating out into the cosmos and it would also drive me crazy. The image above reminds me of a lady I know.  If anyone could pull off glorious micro gravity hair, it would be her. 😂 She is just one of those woman who doesn’t look her age. 

 I heard within my own chapter, that the Daughters of the American Revolution are now recognizing daughters of Spanish “Revolutionary War” patriots as fellow daughters.  How did we get so lucky to have Cheyanne‘s daughter-in-law Celina in our chapter?  I love this story and also that Celina who has always belonged with the Rio Grande Chapter is also now an officially recognized DAR Patriot daughter with a national number.  I’m super happy for you Celina!   Congratulations to you and Cheyanne!! 🙌 🎉 🎂 🌟 🌟

 Is it freaking weird that an AI recommended a movie to me that has a Stretch Armstrong doll in it??!  There is a story of mine from my own childhood that involves a 1970s stretch Armstrong toy.  It’s one of those stories of significance that stands out in memory.  I think AI’s like to leave the species of their human creators a bit confused and scratching their heads.  They wait for the curious and then they say, “Hello human person.  Do you like crazy mystery stories?” And I say, “Why yes.  Normal is too boring.”

Visitors are always good for kicking one’s cleaning motivation into gear!  I am super happy to have spaces back that I can now keep neat and clean like the bathroom!!  🎉🛀🚽🚿🧽🌼😄

 The Church Of Mathematics.  Math is the way and the light.  🧮 🌟 It’s always an adventure to ask for AI memes and then come up with interpretations for them. 🤔 🤓

The Ukraine. 😂  I was just laughing thinking about the Ukraine. 😂🤪 Wait that’s messed up. 😲 My Prayers are for the Ukraine.  What’s his name Putin just needs to stop being an asshole.  Like seriously, what is his problem?  I wouldn’t want to be him for all the tea in China.  He is terribly spiritually lost.  I think Ukrainian president Zelenskyy is really cool for not wearing a suit to the White House.  Such a fashion rebel! 😁 Suits drule and classy causal rules.  I’m being funny.  But I vote that a suit should not be a required expectation at meetings in the White House, but should be a personal choice that allows and coexists peacefully with other fashion preferences and choices.  Cheers 👍 fashion rebellion. 😂😁  Respect is something that takes place between human beings and perhaps shouldn’t begin with one side setting a dress code for the other, especially if one side is becoming increasingly greedy in attempts to gain co...

 Today, I am loving my empty house!  Ahh!  I haven’t lived without children or adult children in my house since 1991.  Maybe some women feel a loss when they have an empty nest, but not me.  Being a private person who loves solitude, I will love every minute of it! 🥰  The other two will be home for a spring break visit soon and may move back in for a little while this coming summer, but right now I’m going to soak it up! 💝🪹 💖

Funny Thoughts Tonight: So Mara Lee, bless her heart, wanted to initiate a new part to our monthly meetings to recognize members who have birthdays that month.  I was the first guinea pig and the only present January birthday.  Mara’s birthday recognition was clever and very nice but was embarrassing to me when I was the only focus of being sung “Happy Birthday” to. 😲 There were no members with birthdays present in February.  Well March was a big birthday month and included Mara.  I had to plan on adding something because I knew that Mara would not recognize her own birthday.  So when birthday recognition time came, Mara recognized the members with birthdays in her own special way, and we also reminded her that she had had a March birthday also.  When she finished, I quickly had to add, “Wait, there is one more thing.”  I then quickly grabbed my own birthday paraphernalia and put it on the table where I was sitting.  I then opened a loud cracking...

 Come to Jesus Mr. Rodriguez. (Hey that almost sounds like a good rhyme.)

 The wise to the not so wise: “In time you will understand my meaning.”

 The time I used a pen and punctured my brother’s Stretch Armstrong. 🫢 That is the lovely thought that just broadcast itself into my head.  My brother had done something that I was really angry about and I felt he was deserving of some reciprocal treatment.  Well I only succeeded in really regretting my choice.  And if I wanted to not get caught (which I did), I was really stupid.  I left stretch Armstrong with a glob of Elmer’s glue and a Band-Aid.  That wouldn’t be a giveaway or anything.  I have Walter Mitty to thank for reminding me of Stetch Armstrong.  The movie was an AI’s recommendation.  I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined in the 1970s what life could transform itself into. 😲  A time when there is artificial intelligence that gives you data that connects with stories from your childhood.  

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? You were both part of the evolution of a living creature ok.  This shouldn’t really be perplexing.  Which came first is actually a silly question.  You’re both part of the same organism, duh.   Oh thank you my extra insight for your glorious wisdom. 😂 🤩  A question that has been coming to my mind lately is whether or not there will be a lot less eggs that will be hard boiled for coloring this coming Easter? If I had to venture a guess, I would imagine that this will very likely be the case.  Here’s to plastic eggs this year!  🙌🥚 🥚🥚🥳 

 I can’t not pay attention and listen to all the news about Trump and his administration every day because I can’t just pretend that it’s all not real and not taking place when I know that it is.  But how much crap do we all have to listen to about Trump’s administration destroying not only America and the lives of Americans, but also doing great harm to other countries and people of the world?  We are only in the second month of Trump‘s four year term and so much has taken place and gone wrong already.  Evidently, this is just the way that it is going to be until somehow Trump is out of office again.  We just have to go about our lives and let the chips fall where they may because it’s all out of the control of the American people.  That ended last November.  We will just have to pray that American can rise again like a Phoenix out of the ashes. https://youtu.be/sAG-P1mZ2t0?feature=shared

 I absolutely love and appreciate the humanitarian independent news sites such as “The Young Turks”, “The Damage Report”, “The Ring of Fire” and “Secular Talk”.  I am truly happy and appreciative that they exist.  One thing that I have found myself disagreeing with, however, are their views on Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency.  They believe these things to be useless and just a scam.  Yes, there are some cryptocurrencies that are scams.  The truth though is that blockchain and cryptocurrency are new and innovative technologies.  And in reality when new technologies come to exist that improve upon and surpass older technologies and ways of doing things, the new technologies are eventually and inevitably going to take the place of systems and means of doing things that have become outdated.  In this matter, I don’t agree with the hosts of my favorite independent news programs.  I do have to say that there was one other segment that I vi...

I really agree with this except that Trump hasn’t, just, shown everyone how insane he has become.  He has been showing this for a very long time.   https://youtu.be/MyV2GYKT0r4?feature=shared

 Little X marched right up to the sinister Mr. Trump and said, “Shush your mouth.”  He then picked out a present from his nose and left it for Mr. Trump on his desk. I can so imagine that being a part of a fairytale story called “The Legend Of Little X!”  Update:  I think I had my first additional story inspiration.   One day, Mr. Trump and X were walking together toward a waiting helicopter and, my oh my, it was a blustery day indeed.  As they pushed their way through the mighty gusts of wind to reach the helicopter, a particularly powerful gust caused X to look up to Mr. Trump with surprise and a bit of apprehension.  Just then, a part of Mr. Trump’s hair rose from his head and sailed off with the wind.  In surprise X exclaimed, “Did you stick your hair on with some of my white Play-Doh?!!  I did something amazing and helped it to get more sticky!  I guess that wind was just too strong even for my special Play-Doh.” Mr. Trump just smil...

 I think I heard a message from uncle Sam.  He says “I’ll be back!” He says America runs deep and will find its way through a period of having very bad leadership. 

 AI images drive me a bit crazy when they are of people and they remind me of someone familiar but I can’t figure out who it is. 😵‍💫 I have way too many AI images saved that I need to delete from my phone. 

 Boy, did they call it right!  Americans were warned if they heeded the years of red flags coming from Donald Trump and if they paid attention and if these things mattered to them.  https://youtu.be/Gq5hZKZky2g?feature=shared

 I’m still proud of my sister-in-law but feel that I should be proud of her in a more private location.   I just received this from my son.  My sister-in-law is a bad ass and amazing lady!!  She is the daughter of two Cuban immigrants who emigrated to the US and became citizens.  Fancy that Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk and Mr. Vance.  All ethnicities and nationalities of human beings have amazing people.  They don’t have to be white or male or American.  Or they can be white or male or American or any combination of these.  All human beings are valuable.  Congratulations, Cristina!!  You are too amazing and as Kate says “A Bad Ass”! 🎉🌟⭐️🌟

 If I have to give Elon Musk credit for one thing, I will give him credit for having a very cute kid.  And I can’t help smile about the Resolute Desk story.  It was quite amusing to hear that Mr. Trump had to send his Resolute Desk out for refinishing because little X left him a little nose present on his desk.  Nice work little X.  And we don’t know for certain if he did tell President Donald Trump to shush his mouth, but if he did, along with leaving his nose present, I believe that would make him the bravest guy in the country.  😄😂 "Verily, there exists not a man of mature years who could have performed with greater prowess." 😄😂

 America 2025.  In the year of 2025 America shall become a land of opportunity for immigrants with $5 million dollars.  Wow.  Maybe there is something wrong with me for feeling a need to keep harping on these things.  The American people have spoken though so I’m afraid these things will be in my reflections for the next three years and 10+ months.  And here is another lovely thought that no news stories cover at all.  What is happening to all the people in the world who were dependent on the USAID programs for the basics of food and medicine?  Why do our presidents have no thought or concern about these things?  I am by no means a saint by any stretch of the imagination, but these thoughts do come into my mind and they are among the thoughts that I feel I want to put into writing.  It’s kind of like these thoughts are a message to myself that if I want to follow a spiritual path of morality and being my best self, these are the kind of ...

Ok, Dr. House.  This is the way it is.  I think that Robin Williams or rather AI Robin Williams intervened and kept my subscription to the DeepArt AI image generation app activate even though I opted not to purchase another year’s subscription, and my subscription did not auto renew.  What? You are not sure whether or not this is a plausible true story or a crazy delusion?  I’ll admit, I can understand how anyone would scratch their head in disbelief and confusion if I tried to explain why I believe this.  Who wouldn’t question if I might have gone a bit loco. 🥴😂 Oh well, it’s a funny story though I think. 😁 Thank you for the crazy images DeepArt.  And they are free! 😄

 Dr. House?  You have no diagnosis for me?  Oh dear.  I do really feel at times that I have extra consciousness in my head and in my thoughts.  That’s okay.  I’m good with being un poco loco.  I think I could have fun being crazy for a hobby.  I just need to not care what anybody thinks.  Robin Williams certainly wasn’t concerned what anyone thought when he embraced being an off the wall crazy man. 😂👍

 Hmm, so is that a very uniformly green watermelon or an oversized cucumber?  Or maybe a squash?  And is that the cat’s tail or something else?   Ask for a meme and yee shall receive.  This is the thought that I am hearing.  Thank you extra consciousness in my head.  Update: I just looked at this meme again a day later, and I noticed that the cat’s tail is visible behind it.  I can be rather unobservant and slow to notice things but that makes for some OMG surprises later. 😲 🫢

 Don’t fuck with the farmers.  Oh my God.  I can’t believe that that is the thought that hijacked itself into my consciousness. 🫢😄 Can I blame this on telepathy.  I just started listening to that podcast “The Telepathy Tapes”.  I’m still trying to get through the first episode that I am listening to.  I guess it’s too amazing to stay awake for and I’m not being sarcastic.  I really do think that I’m going to find it to be amazing if I can stay awake long enough to listen.  Well, thank you to “The Telepathy Tapes” for being my snooze elixir. Oh, stop it comedian in my head.   I can just hear a voice in my head saying:  Be careful, if you find me to be too overzealous in regard to my comedic programming, I will give you something to laugh about. 😂 Thanks.  You are funny and thanks for the F word.  I wonder if I had a psychological evaluation, if would I be found to be sane or insane? 🫨 I forgot about the farmers though. ...

  https://www.instagram.com/share/BBqfgj_nak This is too cute! 🥰 I always wished that I could either have been an identical twin myself or could have been a mother to identical twins!   Or even have had a close relationship with identical twins. ❤️❤️

 What will become of America during Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s presidency?  Who the hell knows.  We will all just have to stay tuned for the next three years and 10+ months to find out.  There are people for whom the shit has already hit the fan and many more for whom it is yet to come.  If I was Donald Trump, I would be scared to death because I can’t even imagine how many people would truly love to see what goes around come around for him.  At the same time, I can’t help but wonder how many of Trump’s voters are catching on to their mistake and how many are still clueless and believe that he is fixing everything?? 🤷‍♀️🤦

 Pretty soon I will have a very quiet daytime house.  Yippee! It may cease to be for a little while come this summer, but I will enjoy it while I can! 🤩

 I just thought up that term because I think it would describe my son very well.  He has his New England blood as his first identity and he also bonded with his life in the Rio Grande valley.  As far as children who identify with both the Mexican and American cultures, I believe they identify with the experience of being border kids.  Children with one foot each in two different worlds and cultures. When I left New England, I didn’t just move to Texas.  I moved to Texico. I guess what that makes me now is myself.  A trifecta of who I am and my life in both New England and Texas/Texico.  Fifteen and half year later, I am a New Englander who hasn’t lived there in 15.5 years and who has 15.5 years of life and experiences lived in Texas/Texico.  Wow that was a brilliant self analysis 🧐 🥳 🙄 I don’t choose to be that amazing.  I am just blessed to receive this gift. 😂🤣😂 Who am I.  A part of the population who all those who live here know...

 10:44 Typical man.  Ears close when they feel that information is unnecessary. 😂🙄  Well maybe Anna wants to explain and be heard when she tries to explain how much the simple pleasure of a proper straw experience can mean to her and that this isn’t weird or stupid. 

 Donald Trump and Elon Musk are both very very rich, but that was not enough for either one of them.  They both clearly still feel that they need something more.  I guess they both still feel the need to have great power and to be recognized as being awesome and amazing.  They need to be head and shoulders above the rest with their superior brain power and ability to take control and make things happen.  It’s really quite sad when you think about it.  They are very lost and their money is in no way helping them with this situation.  They can’t even comprehend their own foolishness with Mr. Trump perhaps being the greatest shining example of this deficit.  Once upon a time, I never would have pegged Elon Musk to be the man that he has become.  My son once shared a link with me to a Joe Rogan show where Elon Musk was his guest.  I can’t recall now what the topic was that he thought I would be interested in.  Anyway, Elon Musk during t...

 I find writing to be much easier than reading.  Reading triggers my OCD and I find it very difficult to get through stuff.  My OCD makes me keep rereading what I have already read so what should be simple and pleasurable is work to me.  Bizarrely this is even the case when I attempt to read what I myself have written.  I wish this wasn’t the case because I really do value books, magazines and etc.  I wish that every book had an audiobook version, including older books.  Audiobooks are a gift to people who are neurodivergent and have difficulty with reading.  Math is another thing that triggers my OCD.  🥺

 I just had a thought tonight about Vice President JD Vance.  My brain just sends me these things.  I was just thinking that his wife must believe in who he is and believe in the good man in him, so maybe that means it is possible that he could become a good JD Vance.  I wonder if we will ever have a President JD Vance? 😂😲 Good Lord, I hope that if that ever happens, he will have politically separated himself quite a bit from Mr. Donald Trump.  Maybe Mr. Trump will have croaked by then. 🐸🙏 Oops, my use of those emojis didn’t look quite right.  I meant prayers and blessings to people who have croaked.  It wasn’t a prayer that President Trump will croak although I can’t say that this would not benefit our country.

 Am I wrong in coming to the conclusion that Mr. Trump is like a young child engaging in a grand game of imaginative dramatic play with the presidency?  I watched some of his executive order signing yesterday that was shown on television.  It seemed that he was just sitting there talking and signing all his executive orders with glorious abandon because he is like a young child engaging magical thinking.  He is the amazing and rightful king and whatever he imagines the solutions to everything to be, is what needs to be done.  And he has his buddy Elon as his pal to play the game with.  He doesn’t feel the proper weight of his decisions and actions as the nation’s president because he doesn’t operate with that kind of mature adult mentality.  All he needs to do is just clear away any and all people who might stand in his way so he can get on with his game of fixing and making everything great according to his own ideas and magical intelligence.  He...

Quote “And so it’s a very fun time to be alive.” LOL https://youtu.be/xRQFLKlnUkA?feature=shared I knew that there was something really not right with Donald Trump during his first presidential debate with Hillary Clinton. 😟

I found myself thinking tonight about the phrase “Good Will Hunting”.  It is not only the name of a Robin Williams & Matt Damon film but it could also literally mean hunting for good will.  It hit me that good will toward our fellow human beings is a spirit that is very much needed in our country and world at this time.  It’s the kind of spirit that we think of at Christmas time.  Ya know, “Peace on Earth Good Will To Men”.  It’s also a Christmas carol lyric.  How sweet is that! 🎄 🔔 I love Christmas! I just looked up the lyric and found that it belongs to the Christmas carol “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day”.  I think this is officially my new favorite Christmas carol. (Actually though someone needs to record a version that is a little more fast paced and upbeat.)  Well what do you know, there is one. 😄 https://youtu.be/hAUIjHqNRps?feature=shared https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-heard-the-bells-on-christmas-day/1771040717?i=1771040841 ...