Technical Difficulties

Yesterday my work computer was having seizures all day. It shut down every five minutes, right in the middle of whatever I was doing. So, I put in a ticket for IT and nobody came. Later I learned that my friend's computer died (the one who loaned me her laptop to use until we get mine repaired). I need to give it back now so I'm hoping the new power supply comes today. IT called back today but it's acting normal (of course). He's still going to take it for a couple of days to see if he can figure out what's going bad inside. It will be tough without either of my computers so I certainly hope to have the home PC up and running soon. How dependent we've become on these machines! I was happy to have a portable manual typewriter to take to college (thanks to my grandparents). We couldn't have even imagined what we're doing today with computers. Boy, does that make me sound old or what? "Back in my day...." So, all you young whippersnappers...

I'm trying to learn patience now and finding it agonizing. Unresolved issues cause great tension! Today, when I went for my walk at lunch, the temperature was in the 60s so I was actually able to cool off a bit. I needed it for sure. The last two days have been a bit rainy and cloudy - dreary days for anxious waiting.

Thoughts

"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over." ~ unknown

"If I never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you; if I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you . But I did, and I do, and I will." ~ unknown

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.” ~ unknown

“We came together underneath the stars above. What started out as liking soon developed into love. I sense a certain something that, in my heart, felt so true that I knew I waited all my life to fall in love with you.”

“It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp.”

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” ~ Washington Irving

“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.” ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly” ~Sam Keen

"Will we forget . . . no never. But we don't need to. We've loved. We've cared. We've cried. We've grown. And now it's time to smile again." ~unknown

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” ~Joseph Campbell

Thoughts on Kissing

Today was an exceptionally nice day. The weather was fantastic and life is good! I think I have a serious case of spring fever and my thoughts turned to kissing and being "kissable." Hope you had a good day too.

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"I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all, one must start somewhere." - Sacha Guitry
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"The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss. - unknown
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“I never thought it was worth it, you know waiting for your love, and then I felt your kiss, I could wait forever for this” ~ unknown
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"The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze." - unknown
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"There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." - Gretchen Kemp
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"Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down." -'Drew Barrymore
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"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." - Albert Einstein
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"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling." - Corey Haim
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"Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that." - Keanu Reeves
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"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt." -
William Shakespeare
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"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy." - Bob Hope

"Kissing is like drinking tea with a strainer; you can never get enough." - unknown
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Kissing Frogs (From Random Thoughts Blog by Lightfeather)

So sometimes you have to kiss
a lot of frogs
before you find a prince
and other times you
never find a prince
even then.

And then once in a
while someone just
happens in
when you least
expect it
and makes you laugh
like you have
never laughed before
and makes you feel
like you have never
felt before
and for that
time it becomes
magical.

And you are not worried
about how long it
will last
because maybe it will
not last more than
the next day
or maybe the next month
so you make no plans
on it
but for the time being
it is simply the way
it is supposed to be
and it just seems
like a little taste
of heaven.