Hi, I am a widow and work for a not-for profit organization and have for over 16 years. I have two grown children one of them with special needs. I am active in the Red Hat Ladies, attend the Broadway shows that come to our city with my favorite Aunt and am on the prayer chain at my church. I try to make all my customers laugh everyday because you can get through almost anything with a sense of humor. I am a 52 year survivor of one of the first heaart surgeries in the country, had polio in the early 60's and a small stroke a few years ago. I am the eternal optomist according to my friends and recently recieved the "workers Pride Awaard" from my company at their annual banquet. I love life and since I have lived over 30 years longer then the doctors thought I would I cherish every day. I love people and I will continue working until I can't. No retirement for me! I have also written a humor column for a newspaper in a neighboring state for a few years and hope to compile the columns into a book in the near future. God Bless and remember laughter is the best medicine. And it is cheaper then Prozac!
Funnylady
Stimulus check poem Stimulus Check Poem
by
Funnylady
We waited for our Stimulus Checks,
But prices sored sky high!
We had planned to spend,
But in the end,
A Tank of gas was all we could buy!!
So the next time the goverment decides to give,
We better remember this day,
We'l always need food and shelter to live,
And in the end we will still have to pay!
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Humor in the worst of times.The Lord always seems to show me a little humor in the darkest of times and this is a prime example.
When my husband passed away a few years ago he was quite a large man and I had 8 Pall Bearers because I figured I needed the man power to lift the casket. When they were trying to get it out of the hearse it began to fall and my friend Doreen yelled out "Everyone pray for strength-litterally!!" Everyone laughed and miracuolusly the casket seemed to float onto the spot where it was supose to be!
My husband's best friend decided this was the time to play a joke on the other Pall Bearers (his timeing was always a little off) and he knocked on the bottom of the casket and another friend answered his knock at the other end. The other Pall Bearers almost dropped it again!
My Uncle then whispered to the person next to him that if they had time after the service he had some great antiques and collectables in his truck for sale. My ex-brother on the other side of me thought this was the time and place to meet nice Ladies and started handing out his phone number up and down the line of attendents!
If this wasn't bad enough, I locked my keys in my car and had to drive to the reception with my neice (but she had just bought a new Lexas so talk about making lemmonade out of lemmons-which described my old Station Waggon at the time to a tee!) And to top in all off the Priest forgot the Holy Water to sprinkle on the casket at the cemetary. He made do with bottled water!
I am relating all these events because I could see the humor in everything that day and I think my late husband was looking down laughing with the rest of us. He did not have much laughter in his life because of severe medical problems and I think the Lord was telling me that now he could laugh at last.
Lets all try to laugh a little more each day and see the humor in most everything that happens. Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and your mascara runs!
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 | Post by blue-eyed girl at 3:45 AM on 04/30/08
Funnylady, That was a great story...I had strange things happen at my Dad's funeral that I just know he was laughing at his kids, saying now let's see how you handle all this stuff..everytime I share the happening |
 | Post by Theresa at 7:13 PM on 04/29/08
That is a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing. My grandmother use to say "Funerals are for the living not for the dead" Talking to friends and family is a wonderful way to deal with the loss of a loved one. |
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