Daily Whine & Shine - June 27, 2008

Daily Whine & Shine - June 27, 2008

by Marilyn Mackenzie 

Whether you agree with the concept or not, everyone needs to be able to vent from time to time. That's especially true if you're one of the many who suffer from an invisible illness. We have whines and rants about pains, medical professionals and prescriptions, just to name a few. Perhaps our families listen; perhaps they don't. Even if they do, they get tired of our complaining, even if they claim to understand our constant struggles. Or if they don't get tired of our "negative energy" we think they do or will.

First.....let's celebrate!!!!!!!!

Today is National Columnists Day and Sunglasses Day and Decide to Be Married Day

Tomorrow is Insurance Awareness Day (huh?) and Great American Backyard Campout (okay...everyone sleep in your backyard tonight!).  It's also Marble Day.  Hmmm.

June 29 is Camera Day and Waffle Iron Day and Special Recognition for the Disabled Day

June 30 is Meteor Day and Please Take My Children To Work Day (stay-at-home mom talking to dad, maybe?)

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So, are you ready to rant about something?  This is the place to tell all. 

It's also the place to tell all about the happy events in your life. 

What's happening in your world today?  Are you grumpy about something?  Or so angry that you could spit?  Tell it here.  Here at the Daily Whine & Shine, it's acceptable to rant, vent, complain, stomp your feet, throw a tantrum and shout, "Oh shuckie darn!"

Wait! Don't go away. Do you have some good news to share? Great. This is the place for that as well. If you're celebrating, dancing, and yelling, "Yippee skippy!" please share. Sometimes knowing about someone else's happiness gives us a bit of hope for ourselves.

Whether you're shouting, "Oh shuckie darn!" or yelling, "Yippee skippy!" - this is the place to be.

Food for thought:

How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?  ~  François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.  ~  Erma Bombeck

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.  Never excuse yourself.  ~  Henry Ward Beecher

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.  ~  John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.  ~ Author Unknown

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.  You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.  You realize that you control your own destiny.  ~  Albert Ellis

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood.  However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.  ~  Ken Keyes, Jr.