Cartoon Tuesday on a Wednesday: searching for Mr. Right

Oh and in case you are wondering….I didn’t sign up for a dating site! I haven’t even tried it, but how about you? I am always curious about these things, so did you ever give it a go? Did it work for you? Answer if you want, or just ignore my nosy questions! :)

Suggestions anyone?!?!

My Mum is celebrating her 75th birthday next month.....hurrah! She is at that age where finding a special birthday gift is quite difficult because she has everything she needs or wants. I asked if she had any wishes but she could only come up with this: A washing machine! Not my idea of the perfect gift because a) she can easily afford to buy one herself and b) I don’t like to give household appliances as a birthday gift.

So at first I thought about throwing her a surprise party, but she isn’t in a party mood right now. She lost two of her closest friends over the last few months and I know she would miss them too much.

Next I thought about a moonlight diner cruise because she had been talking about those for months now. Earlier this week I even checked the dates and rates only to discover today that my Mum had already booked one of the moonlight cruises because she wants to celebrate her birthday there :( Well, that isn’t helping.

She doesn’t need or wants any perfume or beauty products because she can actually drown someone in all the stuff she has. She doesn’t want any jewellery because she can fill a cave like the one in “Pirates of the Caribbean 1” with the all bling-bling she has. She doesn’t want books, CD’s or hobby materials. So what’s left?

Suggestions anyone?!?!

How will people remember you?

Last week I was reading a Dutch book called Stormvleugels by Ciel van Sambeek. It’s a stunning story about love, losing a loved one, family, homosexuality, IVF, mourning, depression, starting a business and so much more. At one point in the book, the main character is reflecting on her life and decides it time to change things around after asking herself this question “How will people remember me?”

From the book:
“How will people remember me? That, of course, depends on who you would ask. One person will describe you this way, the next person probably different. But what if I wanted to be something I am not at the moment, would I still have enough time to change that? Can I learn the virtues I need for that?
In the end it is really simple. I want to be remembered as an amiable human being. Someone who could really listen. Someone who offered advice. A friend who was there in time of need. Someone who could comfort people and sympathize. And I would like to be missed, because when you are missed you actually were an essential part of people’s life. It’s like they say: You don’t know what you're missing, till it’s gone”

Of course this question made me wonder. How will they remember me once I’m gone? Will they just remember my name or my face, or just remember me as their neighbour, the weird blogger, the lady who read a lot of books, the person who thought she could take photos, a friend, an acquaintance? Or will they remember me for who I am and all the things I stood for? In my case, you could ask 10 people and you would probably get 10 different answers, but in the end the essence would be the same, or at least I hope it would be. So, I guess I am doing okay.

How about you? Have you ever thought about this? I believe this is a question we all should ask ourselves on occasion. Are you living how you should? Are people going to remember you the way you want?

Anywhere but here?

Earlier this year I came across this interesting question “If you could travel in time, would you rather go back in time or visit the future?” and it has been in the back of my mind ever since.

At first I thought it would be nice to travel back in time, travel back into my own personal history. It would give me the opportunity to relive all the fun things that happened when I was younger, mostly things I can’t remember because of the bad stuff that happened later. It would also mean a chance to see a lot of people again. On the other hand, what would happen if I changed something in the past by accident, that would probably mean a different future (or should I say: present), a different me and I like the me I am now. So later on I thought it would also be nice to travel through world history or visit something like the dark ages or the early 1900’s or some other time, just to see how life really was way back when. On the other hand, it wouldn’t be a time I would like to get stuck in.

Maybe the future is more my thing, I thought to myself. But how far would you travel? 50 years? Would the world be really that different in 50 years? Maybe the year 2277 would be more interesting? It would be great to see how things would evolve, but on the other hand it could turn out to be one big disappointment too. What if there would be even more wars, more poverty, everything we know today didn’t exist anymore. Or what if the world was one great, perfect happy paradise-type of world, wouldn’t it be hard to leave that behind when you travelled back to your loved ones in the year 2007.

In the end I think I would like to stay put, no time travelling for me. I’ll let the future surprise me, it’s like unwrapping a little gift everyday.

What would you do?

The day my Hard disk died!?

And that day seems to be today. He had not been feeling all that well lately, feeling a bit under the weather, you might say. You could actually say, he was coughing and sneezing a lot and sometimes he even shivered! Just recently I pampered him, gave him (and his other parts) a full check-up, changed some setting and everything seemed okay, but I think it was just a temporary remission. Today….*sigh*….. today, I guess he died!

Okay enough drama for now. Here is what happened. This afternoon I tried to boot my PC. Everything was working fine, XP was starting up nicely, but not as nicely as it normally would. After the first screen the whole process started up again. I discovered that the start-up screen said something different “S.M.A.R.T. capable but disabled” changed that in the BIOS into enabled but still no luck! Nothing has changed. Can someone enlighten me, is my master HD deceased?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Oh, and in case you are wondering how on earth I was able to post this……well, I still have a very, very old (almost prehistoric) pc hanging around as a backup :)

Interesting question!

If you came with a warning label, what would it say?

Today, mine would look like this: