All Things Odd And Silly

Dude.  Wow!  I think you deserve the prize for the most demented Happy Easter message ever! 🫢😲 ✝️ 🌷 Sigh.  Truth be told Mr. Trump is a supporter and accomplice, along with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel, in a genocide being conducted against the 2.3 million people of Gaza.  This is a terrible failing of the United States of America because of one man and his ability to use money and a lack of morals to gain destructive power.  If there is any good in him, it is buried deep and lost beneath the power and corruption he has succeeded in achieving. 

 Why did I think of this book and have the thought “read me” enter my head?  For some reason, it is a part of my audible.com account library. 🤔🫤 It has not been a priority on my wish to do list. 😛

 Donald Trump is a 78 year-old man.  How many more years does he anticipate continuing to live?  He surely must have enough money without having a need of acquiring more.  You would think that if he had a desire to do something good with his life and feel good about having done something good with his life, he would want to be sharing what he has with people in need.  I think any gestures of this nature, no matter how late would be very good for his soul and lead him toward wanting to be a better person.  He needs someone to sprinkle him with a little empathy, fairy dust.   Well, these are the thoughts that I just found myself having tonight.  Sometimes I feel that I don’t choose my thoughts, but rather my thoughts choose me like they are a gift.  I like nice thought gifts! 💜 💜  Yikes, don’t tell me I could find myself wishing to have a greater understanding of Donald Trump.  That would be like blasphemy. 😬 😲  Well  I ...

 Why Americans should be happy.  That was the thought that came into my head.  I think Americans should be happy because negative thoughts and emotions should not become a new virus that spreads around.  This is not what America needs.  America needs the opposite.  This doesn’t mean that people should just complacently accept unacceptable things taking place.  It just means that all that is good about America and the real heart of the American people should not be dragged down by a time and circumstances of very bad leadership.  It means that the American people should make an extra effort instead to stand strong and be their own best selves and a reflection of the very best that America can and should be.  The way for Americans to mitigate the threat to our nation and way of life is to more than ever be a nation of people who listen to one another, accept each other and seek to show kindness and be helpful to others.  In other words to ...

 The next president of the United States is going to have a lot of repair work to do and I pray that person is not JD Vance.  Although if Mr. Trump did not finish his term of presidency for some reason 🙏🙏, JD Vance would at least be better than him.  The Republicans congressman and senators need to exercise their brain cells and do some soul-searching and grow some cojones.  How much crazy shit will they let take place and how far will they let President Trump go in destroying the country before they say enough is enough and do something about it?   They definitely outnumber Mr. Trump.  Why can’t they all just agree to support each other in standing up to him when he is clearly acting in such extreme and outrageous ways that are illegal and unconstitutional, not to mention immoral?  When did they lose their minds?

 A modernized Easter bunny.  “ I don’t have to wear a silly bunny suit if I don’t want to!”

 The whole of humanity includes dictators who murdered children.  That was just the thought or insight in my head tonight.  Well I’m sure that has an important meaning, but I don’t think I will peer into that box.  There’s enough going on in the world to think about already, and people who deserve to not have a genocide against them be allowed to continue.  And I never knew that America had some big thing with Israel.  And I know there have been many wars around the planet that I never paid attention to (with the exception of Kosovo) but for some reason, this one between Israel and Gaza has totally captured my attention.  And again I’m wondering, why is Israel so important that American presidents will continue to be an ally and grant Israel their support even when Israel is committing war crimes and intentionally targeting and destroying civilian infrastructure and people.  And a final thought is that when I watch the news stories and see videos ...

 It is a weird contrast to go out anywhere and find that life in the United States just goes on with surprising normality despite all the chaos going on politically.  Let’s just pray that it stays this way! 🙏  I need to get myself more motivated to do all the normal stuff that I need to do and would like to accomplish instead of wanting to turn on and hear all the news stories all the time.  I guess I don’t need to hear everything unless any big news takes place.  I guess I don’t need to write about everything bad either because there will just be more and more of it.  I am waiting though for the world to do something to intervene and help the people of Gaza.  What happened to Mr. Trump’s claim and plan of giving the people of Gaza a new good and safe place to live where their lives could be good again?  He is of course, supporting and enabling the country that is killing them.  I’ll bet at this point they would take the option of relocating...

 My life has too many ridiculous stories.  They aren’t bad stories.  They are just stories with ridiculous themes. I don’t know why so many true stories, that to me are significant and stand out in my memory, just seem to be ridiculous. 🥴

 A dictator bromance.  I wonder if dictators have some kind of special affection for other dictators.  I mean if they didn’t how could they desire to have happy alliances with each other?  Ok, that’s enough crazy thinking. 🤪

 Hakuna Matata.  I think I would like to make that my philosophy for living in this, year of our Lord 2025. 

 Forgetting.  It is our human specialty.  We sometimes experience insight and enlightenment and a connection to something greater than ourselves, but we cannot hold onto it. We forget.  We know it’s there, but we cannot always connect to it.  I guess our greater level of insight and connection to a greater consciousness is just not quite wired into our human existence.  Our human brains can sometimes access a greater awareness, but we cannot hold onto or truly believe in it at all times.  Maybe this is the goal of our spiritual development.  I guess this is a tough challenge for human beings.  I think we human beings can achieve whatever higher consciousness we set our minds to.  We just need time to follow our paths and live in the now or the present moment, as they say.

 I am wondering what will transpire at the meeting between Mr. Trump and Netanyahu.  Will ending the deliberate starvation of the people of Gaza be the discussion taking place, or will it be about how Gaza will be divvied up and shared between them and their countries once the people have been cleared and removed.  It is even worth hoping that Mr. Trump might: 1. care to engage with the truth  and 2.  care about the situation of the people of Gaza, and consider it to be unacceptable and consider there to be a need to end their deliberate starvation immediately.  That’s two steps. Or is it four?  I’m afraid it doesn’t really matter.  I have little faith that Mr. Trump would care about anything unless it was necessary to help him achieve his own ends.  I hope he proves me wrong.  I used to not pay that much attention to politics and international events.  Mr. Donald Trump put a stop to that for me.   Update:  Supposedly the ...

 When the cake hit the wall.  Oh dear, it’s a cake story.  It just came to my mind tonight.  There was a time when my sister in law was having a summer picnic and a little birthday celebration for Grandma Dirrigl.  Well, there was a little cake mishap.  My sister-in-law went to carry Grandma Dirrigl’s birthday cake outside when she somehow slipped and lost the cake which then hit the wall before falling to the floor.  I can laugh now.  Actually, it was really funny then. 😂🤣😂 And it was also disappointing that the cake couldn’t be part of the birthday celebration and a perfectly good cake was lost. 🎂  😞 My daughter and her cousin though made the best of it.  They stood and licked and ate the bits of cake and frosting that remained on the wall. 😂 Well, at least they made the mishap even more humorous and got to enjoy a little bit of the cake. 😂

 Joplin, Missouri.  That’s a thought in my head tonight.  I guess it’s because earlier today I watched that documentary on Netflix about the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri.  I’m trying to remember if my brother and sister-in-law went there.  There was quite a story on the documentary about a precocious 13-year-old weatherman and meteorology enthusiast who traveled along with his mother to visit Joplin, Missouri, placing them there at the time of the tornado.  They were having dinner in a café when the tornado struck Joplin and the café was in a location remained unaffected by the tornado along with the hotel that they were staying at across the street.   Yes, it turns out that my brother and sister-in-law did travel to Joplin to help with rebuilding efforts.  My brother is the one of my parents’ children who did stuff like that.  They volunteered for habitat for humanity also. 

Actually today is Friday. 😃  No, it’s not Monday.  It’s Friday.  It’s a good day because it’s today and today is a good day. 😄 No, it is Friday for heaven sakes. 🤦

 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.  Neither appeared first independent of the other.   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. 😲 🫢