Tarot Box Contest #2

[Elven]

Hello all - I feel about as creative as a house brick right now LOL!! Sorry!

Blessings
Elven x

[OliviaRose]

1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
10. You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down, and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet, instead of McDonald's leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You take naps sometimes between noon and 6 PM.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. If you're female, you go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good stuff."
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to drink that much again."
23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list, looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry OLD butt.
BONUS:
26. When you find out your friend is pregnant, you congratulate her, instead of asking, "Oh, ****! What Happened?"

[gregory]

I have just made gingerbread men with my grandson (5) - very nice too

[sprite23]

"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't."

Francis Bacon

[huredriel]

Oooh another 12 hours is up so I get to post again ....... yipee ....... this could be THE post ......... oh pretty little box

Feel as stuffed as a pig ....... made a huge chocolate trifle for friends ..... and stuffed face so badly it hurts to move ........ put so much extra chocolate in it that I couldn't eat another mouthful cos it was too sickly!!!

[hannahma]

Two tree sloths mug a snail and steal her wallet.
The police are interviewing the snail. They ask her to describe the assailants.
"Gosh...." says the snail. "I don't really remember.... it all happened so fast!"

[Sunburst]

Originally Posted by OliviaRose

25. You read this entire list, looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry OLD butt.

Yep!!!

Sunburst

[Briar Rose]

Here's my most passionate post:


When I was a puppy I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered throw pillows, I became your best friend. When ever I was "bad" you'd shake your finger at me and ask, "How could you?" -but then you'd relent and roll me over for a belly rub.

My housetraining took a little longer then expected, because you were terribly busy, but we worked on that together. I remember those nights of nuzzling you in bed, listening to your confidences and secret dreams, and I believed that life could not be any more perfect. We went for long walks and runs in the park, car rides, stops for ice cream ( I only got the cone because you said that ice cream was bad for dogs. ) and I took long naps in the sun waiting for you to come home at the end of the day.

Gradually, you began spending more time at work and on your career, and more time searching for a human mate. I waited for you patiently, comforted you through heartbreaks and disappointments, never childed you about bad dicisions, and romped with glee at your homecomings, and when you fell in love.

She, now your wife, is not a "dog person" - still I welcomed her into our home, tried to show her affection, and obeyed her. I was happy because you were happy. Then the human babies came along and I shared your excitement. I was fascinated by their pinkness, how they smelled, and I wanted to mother them, too. Only she and you worried I might hurt them, and I spent most of my time banished to another room, or to a dog crate. Oh, how I wanted to love them, but I became a "prisoner of love."

As they began to grow, I became their friend. They clung to my fur and pulled themselves up on wobbly legs, poked fingers in my eyes, investigated my ears and gave me kisses on my nose. I loved everything about them and their touch- because your touch was now so infrequent- and I would have defended them with my life if need be.

I would sneak into their beds and listen to their worries and secret dreams. Together we waited for the sound of your car in the driveway. There had been a time, when others asked you if you had a dog, that you produced a photo of me from your wallet and told them stories about me. These past few years, you just answered "yes" and changed the subject. I had gone frome being "your dog" to "just a dog" and your resented every expenditure on my behalf.

Now you have a new career opportunity in another city, and you and they will be moving to an apartment that does not allow pets. You've made the right decision for your "family," but there was a time when I was your only family.

I was excited about the car ride until we arrived at the animal shelter. It smelled of dogs and cats, fear, of hopelessness. You filled out the paperwork and said, "I know you will find a good home for her." They shrugged and gave you a pained look. They understand the realilties facing a middle-aged dog or cat, even one with "papers." You had to pry your son's fingers loose from my collar, as he screamed, "No daddy, please don't let them take my dog!" And I worried for him, and what lessons you had just taught him about friendship and loyalty, and about love and responsibility, and about respect for all life. You have me a goodbye pat on the head, avoided my eyes, and politiely refused to take my collar and leash with you. You had a deadline to meet and now I have one, too.

After you left, the two nice ladies said you probably knew about your upcoming move months ago and made no attempt to find me another good home. They shook their heads and asked, "How could you?"

They are as attentive to us here in the shelter as their busy schedules allow. They feed us, of course, but I lost my appetitie days ago. At first, whenever anyone pased my pen, I rushed to the front hoping it was you- that you changed your mind-that this was all a bad dream..or that I hoped it would be at least someone who cared, anyone for attention of happy puppies, oblivious to their own fate, I retreated to a far corner and waited.

I heard her footsteps as she came for me at the end of the day and I padded along the aisle after her to a separate room. A blissful quiet room. She placed me on the table, rubbed my ears and told me not to worry. My heart pounded in anticipation of what was to come, but there was also a sense of relief. The prisoner of love had run out of days. As is my nature, I was more concerned about her. The burden, which she bears, weighs heavily on her and I know, the same way I knew your every mood.

She gently placed a tourniquet around my foreleg as tears ran down her cheek. I licked her hand in the same way I used to comfort you so many years ago. She expertly slid a hypodermic needle into my vien. As I felt the sting and the cool liquid through my body, I lay down sleepily, looked into her kind eyes and murmered, "How could you?"

Perhaps because she understood my dogspeak, she said, "I am so sorry." She hugged me and hurrily explained it was her job to make sure I went to a better place, where I wouldn't be ignored or abused or abandoned, or have to fend for myself- a place of love and light so very differently than this earthly place. With my last bit of energy, I tried to convey to her with a thump of my tail that my "How could you?" was not meant for her. It was you, My beloved Master, I was thinking of. I will think of you and wait for you forever.

May everyone in your life continue to show you so much loyality.

[rash212]

The true way to love in continuous flow with the angels is to adopt the "gratitude attitude." When we are grateful to be alive the world no longer seems like a place of doom; it becomes a beautiful, unfolding landscape of Heaven.

[catlin]

Hi guys,
How are you? Everything fine?