Thursday Thirteen

Welcome to Thursday Thirteen, a fun meme to play.

Today I'm listing some quotes that speak to me in my current situation.

1.  Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

Dave Mustaine

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3.  Recovery begins from the darkest moment. 

John Major 

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5. Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Khalil Gibran

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7.  I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

 Ellen DeGeneres

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9.  History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, 

need not be lived again.

 Maya Angelou

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11.  There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. 

Malcolm X

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13.  People do stupid things... words are important. 

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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In Honor of my 50th

Fifty.  A half a century.  I'm coming to terms with it, but I'm not there yet.  In honor of this milestone, I present some quotes.

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”

— Brian Rathbone, Regent

I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades.
”

— Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They’re Over.

Turning 50 means it's only a matter of time before you're regaling your grandkids with tales of your first colonoscopy.
- Greg Tamblyn

Fifty is a weird age. I can clearly remember my childhood, but I can’t remember where I put my keys.
- Melanie White

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- Will Rogers

Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.
- Joan Rivers

You know you’re 50 when a kid you once babysat is now your lawyer” Anon

Old age is like underwear... it creeps up on you” Anon

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed” Charles Schulz

You know you’re 50 when you’re in an elevator when your favorite song comes on” Anon

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Bible Verses

Two Bible verses to think about today.

1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (Matthew 7:1-2. NIV)

19 Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. (Romans 12:19. NIV)

Monday Movie Meme

Molly at The Bumbles Blog hosts a weekly movie meme. Won't you join in?

Feature Presentation: Repeat After Me, or Highly Quotable Movies
Share lines from the movie(s) you most like to quote.

Madagascar (2005)

Skipper the Penguin says, "You didn't see anything." (This must be accompanied by the proper hand gestures in order to hypnotize your subject so they won't remember what they didn't see!)

Melman the Giraffe says, "Augh! Nature! It's all over me! Get it off!"

King Julian says, "Who wipes?" This is said in the movie after Alex the Lion says, "You mean like, uh, the "live in a mud hut, wipe yourself with a leaf" type wild?" This provokes fits of laughter in our family, especially if it's repeated when we are buying toilet paper.

King Julian says, "Welcome giant pansies. Please feel free to bask in my glow."

Julian says, "Where are you giants from?"
Alex the Lion says, "We're from New York."
Julian says, "All hail the New York Giants!"

King Julian says, "Can you not see you have insulted the freak?"

Marty the Zebra says, "This place is crackalacking!"

And my husband's all-time favorite Madagascar line:
King Julian says, "When the New York giants wake up, we must make sure they wake up in paradise. Now, who'd like a cookie?" (that last part!)

I hope you enjoyed our favorite lines from our frequently quoted movie.

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A Fool and His Money...

Heads or Tails - Today’s Topic: Heads - Fool! In honor of April fool’s day.

“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
--Thomas Tusser, English farmer and writer, 1524-1580
There are so many excellent quotes about fools and foolishness, but this one is most appropriate for me right now. My husband and I have been having a tiff about money for over a week now that all started with this incident.

Hubby recently lost his personal debit card. Actually, he didn’t lose it; he let his daughters use it, one who can’t keep up with her driver’s license, and another who loses gift cards all the time and can’t remember to get her lunch out of the refrigerator in the morning, neither daughter extremely responsible, and guess what? They lost it.

He (in his foolishness), parted with his money (to the daughters) in the form of a debit card, now lost. The problem for me? He’s also parted with MY money! Since his card has been lost, all of his little charges keep adding up on OUR account (we keep an "ours" account and our separate personal accounts). He acrues several debits per day, making it impossible for me to keep an accurate balance, causing me to look like the bad guy when I question whether he’s paid back the expenses which are clearly designated to be paid from our personal accounts so that we will be able cover the general budget issues (such as house note, insurance, electricity) with our account, the way it’s supposed to be. It's just aggravating!

Update: The card was replaced, and he has no charges to pay in regards to that one. But I'm still dealing with figuring out our situation since he used our joint account while his card was lost. And he gets angry at me for questioning his debits.
Here’s hoping no one plays any April fool’s day jokes on you!

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