HAPPY NEW YEAR

  Photo of the day: 

I had a goal to get this girl and I did!

So for today:

I am trying to make a strong determination as my New Years Goal, that is to have a much better year in 2024 than I had in '22 & '23.  I know you get tired of reading this depressed old man's gripe'ing and I will try to do better.  Sherry and I have been thru some rough times in our short 67+ years of marriage. My pay the first year we were married was around $700.  Not $7000 mind you, but $700 but it was THE GREAT YEAR OF MY LIFE. (WE have grandkids that earn more in a week than I did in a year!)

I look back and smile; our entertainment for each month was to split a choc/nut sundae and play a round of miniature golf.  My dad gave me a 'silver $' once and told me to hold onto it and we would never be broke. Well one month we could not afford our normal entertainment, so I paid for our miniature golf with that Silver $.  The owner of the little course was also the operator.  He could tell I hated to part with that $.

(Funny this below was during those close financial times and we enjoyed every minute of it!)

The next month we were doing better and when I started to pay for our golf the owner asked, "Would you like to buy that silver dollar back?"  I did. I still have that silver dollar somewhere.

It is remembering things like that which make you appreciate some very good folks in this world.

But financial troubles do not come close to Mental Stress. 

Stress comes when your baby get sick and you cannot get them to stop crying no matter what you try. Stress comes later when the same boys do something crazy like sneaking and trying drugs or when a son is out driving your car and does not back when they are supposed to be.

As you age there are many more stressful things in life.  Family things that can tear your heart out.  You know, divorces, drugs, and alcohol abuse.

I refuse to let the coming year be as bad on my mind as the last two.  So facing 2024 I plan to talk to myself and the Lord and see if I can actually place it in His Hands.

Anyway, I want to take this time after all that complaining to Wish YOU and OURSELVES, a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.  One we can enjoy and find peace in.

 

Nite Shipslog

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