That's gonna leave a mark.

Grrrrrr.......You know....it really makes me mad when I get emails that send blessings my way and ask me to continue the circle and not break it.....and then in little tiny font size at the end of the email, it adds that something bad, evil, not nice, or nasty will happen to me if I break the circle and I don't forward the email.
This really upsets me!!!!
Today I got this email...three times:
THIS IS PRETTY NEAT. 93 % won't forward
A small request. Just one line
Dear God, I pray for the cure of cancer. Amen
I thought that this was a nice little prayer and that anyone who has half a brain would agree with it; even if they are not a person who believes in the power of prayer.
After all how could anyone not want to hope, pray, ask or wish for an end to cancer?
But then I scroll down and I read this:
ALWAYS REMEMBER : "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND"
What the heck???!!!???!!!
Now, why on earth, would I want to send this out to any of my family, friends or anyone else for that matter? Why would anyone forward this on?
This is just rude.
Why would you send a curse to anyone?
What kind of person does this?
This is like saying God (or whomever or whatever it is that you believe in) will get you if you don't pass the prayer on.
It's like saying: "I really like you....
"but only if I am your only friend" or
"but only if you buy me presents and my friendship" or
"but only if you do what I want when I want" or
"but only if you are a Christian or a Jew or a Baptist or a Lutheran, or whatever" .
GRRRRRRRR!!!
I do not understand why people have to add that little curse at the end of a perfectly nice email request.
I got an email last week that had a beautiful poem with a wish for my happiness and contentment in my every day life. Nice graphics too! It was a lovely email.
But at the end, yep you guessed it, there was another warning about having something terrible happen if I didn't pass it on.
So, needless to say, I did pass it on....
after I had deleted the dire warnings of terrible consequences.
And something did happen to me that day.........
I won a gift certificate for a contest I had entered online.
So if you are reading this post please do me a favour.
Next time you get one of those emails, please delete the curse and warnings and then forward away! A nice poem, saying, blessing or special thought just might brighten someones day.
If you already do this...GOOD FOR YOU!!!!
You are my kind of person! :)
Oh and by the way, if you don't do what I've asked;
may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits.
Ewww.......that's gonna leave a mark!

Rules were made to be broken.....sometimes.

I am not a gardener. I love flowers and have lots of them in pots on my deck but when it comes to having flower beds to take care of....no way! They are way too much work and I don't have a green thumb. That's why my garden beds in the yard consists of flowering bushes only. It's really hard to kill bushes. I hack them down every few years and they always come back.....so far anyways.
I do however like to plant flowers in my deck planters and pots. They always look so pretty and bright. Last fall I took my last flowering geranium into the house thinking I would winter it over. I dug dirt out of the back garden mixed in some potting soil and put it along with the plant in one of my favourite pots.
It seems I was wrong to do this. Apparently there are certain steps you need to take if you want to overwinter any outside plant inside, with the hope that it will re-flower the following year. You have to have the right amount of light, coolness and water after you have cut the plant down to a specific size, with so much plant and leaves to be removed and blah...blah...blah.......
Of course with my knowledge of gardening, which would be a big fat zero!, I just stuck the potted plant in the front room and happily watered it during the winter and early spring season.
It died! There was no green left on that little sucker. It's stem was hard as a rock. It had no leaves but it did have wet soil. I think it died sometime in early January but I never got around to getting rid of it. I am a bad gardener. That poor little geranium didn't die from lack of water BUT because I didn't follow the gardening rules.
Oh well.....nothing ventured nothing gained, right?
Ah ha!! Not so!
This past May I finally got around to taking the pot with the dead plant in it and putting it out on the back deck with the thoughts of emptying the whole mess out. I had good intentions but I just never got around to actually doing it. With getting the deck set up for the summer the dead potted plant got moved around a few times. The final resting place for the pot ended up being behind some deck chairs. It wasn't bothering anyone and a green weed starting growing in the pot so I decided to just leave it until I cleaned out all the planters when we closed the back yard down for the winter. At least the weed gave a bit, and I do mean a little bit, of colour to that area of the deck.
Last week I looked out my patio door early one morning. I didn't have my glasses on so things looked a bit fuzzy. I saw a splash of colour and I thought a bathing suit had fallen off and in behind a chair.
Imagine my surprise when I went out to pick up the suit and instead found not one but two red geraniums making a beautiful late summer show.
Huh! So much for following rules.....sometimes they are made to be broken.