Up our Lives Today

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:53 am

OK .....I'll try

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:59 am

I'll do something, Six, not sure what, it's too soon for me to donate blood

again!!

;)

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:03 pm

Is this a take off on "PAY IT FORWARD"? :-3

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:07 pm

Great idea, six. Even though I'll be surrounded by idiots and drunks tomorrow, I'll see what I can do. Keep the positive vibes flowing!

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:08 pm

sixyearsleft wrote: Whats that SOJOURNER?
You've never seen the movie "Pay it Forward"??? If not, go out NOW and rent it. Fabulous movie. Just the idea you've got going here.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:15 pm

sixyearsleft wrote: what year was the movie?
Came out in 2000. It is a MUST see, Six, you will love it.

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:18 pm

It stars Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt.

It's from a novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde.

http://payitforward.warnerbros.com/Pay_It_Forward/

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:23 pm

ArnoldLayne wrote: Smile at your lovely customers as they lurch, babble incoherently and make innapropriate comments, complain about the wrong change, spill their beer, leer at the womens cleavage, belch, laugh at their own jokes, put crap music on the juke box, put their cigarettes out on the floor, pee on the toilet floor, start a fight, demand another beer at last orders.......

Easy eh ?

Simple. Especially when all that happens within one hour of getting to work. Sometimes less. :yh_rotfl

I had to go over the bar the other night. Been a long time since I've had to hurdle the bar. Good to know I can still do it, not hit the lamps hanging over it, and land on my feet. But....I digress....

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:24 pm

Great idea!

I'm naturally that way all the time anyway!

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:30 pm

sixyearsleft wrote: Thanks, it sounds brilliant! i'll watch this tommorrow with a great sense of anticipation :-6
Great, Six, and come tell us what you think of it, okay? Oh, by the way....if you're even slightly sensitive, bring the tissue box with you.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:34 pm

six - im a hairdresser, every moment of my working day is spent making customers look & feel great, some days, some customers its a pleasure, some days, some customers its hard but every day i do it to the best of my ability & not only do they feel good & keep coming back, i feel good & keep going back

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:37 pm

buttercup wrote: six - im a hairdresser, every moment of my working day is spent making customers look & feel great, some days, some customers its a pleasure, some days, some customers its hard but every day i do it to the best of my ability & not only do they feel good & keep coming back, i feel good & keep going back

Aww, geeze Butter, I need a haircut SO bad....Could I fly you over here? Otherwise I'll just keep putting it off and putting it off...soon I'll be able to wear my hair as clothes.

Oh, and I tip outrageously!!!

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:46 pm

br - no tip required but you have to let me do what i do, all those years for training have to go for something

do you need my address for the flight ticket?

also i will require to be picked up at the airport, crash at your place & i like to be fed & watered

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:55 pm

buttercup wrote: br - no tip required but you have to let me do what i do, all those years for training have to go for something

do you need my address for the flight ticket?

also i will require to be picked up at the airport, crash at your place & i like to be fed & watered

You'll have a limo from the airport, your own room, and anything you wish to eat or drink. I can't drive you, I can't see through all this hair!!!! :yh_rotfl

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:59 pm

Tomorrow, I am finishing my current contract. This evening, I bought some cream goodies for my colleagues. They're in the fridge right now. (Fortunately, cream goodies make me ill which is why they're still in the fridge.:wah: )

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:25 pm

I did my good deed last nite, my volunteer project is a host person to victims of war crimes and cruelty who migrate here on refugee status. They are from Afghanastan (yes not a very popular country right now but it is not every citizens fault what is going on) they needed to go shopping so I took them last nite for groceries and clothing shipping. In return I was fed and they bought me an incredibly large bag of apples. It's not about what I get in return but it is about the fact they needed aid and I help them, actually I see them once a week. We are growing a nice little friendship considering only 2 of the 6 speak a "bit" of english and these 2 are a 15 and a 13 year olds. We laugh we learn and we manage.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:31 pm

BabyRider wrote: Simple. Especially when all that happens within one hour of getting to work. Sometimes less. :yh_rotfl

I had to go over the bar the other night. Been a long time since I've had to hurdle the bar. Good to know I can still do it, not hit the lamps hanging over it, and land on my feet. But....I digress....

Ms. Rider auditioning for the Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search...

:yh_whistl :yh_bigsmi

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:38 pm

valerie wrote: Ms. Rider auditioning for the Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search...

:yh_whistl :yh_bigsmi

Fortunately, in my bar it's not about being hot and knowing how to dance, (thank the powers that be for THAT one), but about getting over the bar quick enough to keep one drunk from smashing another over the head with a chair. I've mastered the move, thankfully.

Now watch, this weekend, something will break out, and I'll hurdle the bar, and fall flat on my face. :yh_rotfl

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:59 pm

I work with people with Alzheimer's I pay it forward each and every day, and enjoy doing it. I have been doing it for 16 years now, and each day I learn something from those with the disease and their families that are their caregivers. It is the little things we do that mean so much, when a family member graps my hand with tears in their eyes and says "Thank you, thank you and this organization for all the work you do in the community" gives me goose bumps every time. :-4

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:13 pm

Heck I have the Pizza guy, the UPS dude and the new DHL guy in my closet..

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:22 pm

CARLA wrote: I work with people with Alzheimer's I pay it forward each and every day, and enjoy doing it. I have been doing it for 16 years now, and each day I learn something from those with the disease and their families that are their caregivers. It is the little things we do that mean so much, when a family member graps my hand with tears in their eyes and says "Thank you, thank you and this organization for all the work you do in the community" gives me goose bumps every time. :-4
I'd have to say Carla is exempt from this homework assignment. You're an awesome lady, Carla and there is no way in HELL I could do what you do. You deserve applause. :yh_clap :yh_clap :yh_worshp

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:51 pm

Ah thanks BR it started out as a volunteer assignment and now i'm a full time employee it is a labor of love. It truly keeps things in prespective for me, I'm humbled daily. I'm just one of many all over this country that are helping families who lives have been affected by this awful disease..:-4

telaquapacky · Post by **telaquapacky** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:24 pm

Today I got pizza for my staff.

I also got paid forward for a good deed some years ago. When I first bought my optometry practice, I was not yet a Medi-Cal provider. Yet most of the patients are Medi-Cal. For the first few weeks I saw them anyway, even though I was not getting paid. Now they're coming back. The one I saw today had switched to a good-paying insurance, and her Dad did too, and got an exam and some nice glasses from us!

Doing Medi-Cal is somewhat a good deed anyway because it pays so little, a lot of docs don't take it, and the ones that do generally run their patients through like cattle. I don't. I take time with them and treat them the same as cash, or any insurance.

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:41 pm

When my sister was being a raging crazy B*$*&$ I reached over and gave her a hug and still told her how much I would miss her when I leave tomorrow...

By the way---Drop me an email I am headed to the city till NEXT Friday!! I will be BORED!!!!!!!!!!:(

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:55 am

Well, I got cream cakes for my work mates 'cos I'm leaving today (as already mentioned yesterday). But some of them left early and there were loads left over.

Rather than waste them, I took them next door. Turned out that they were all peckish and had nothing to peck on.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:06 pm

mominiowa wrote: When my sister was being a raging crazy B*$*&$ I reached over and gave her a hug and still told her how much I would miss her when I leave tomorrow...

By the way---Drop me an email I am headed to the city till NEXT Friday!! I will be BORED!!!!!!!!!!:(

Well here is my belated Hug.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:06 pm

OpenMind wrote: Well, I got cream cakes for my work mates 'cos I'm leaving today (as already mentioned yesterday). But some of them left early and there were loads left over.

Rather than waste them, I took them next door. Turned out that they were all peckish and had nothing to peck on.

that is nice of you

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:21 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: I suppose I could unlock the UPS guy from the closet.

Lucky...

I did 2 small things today. I made a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on

toasted sourdough, and cut in half to share with my husband.

And I just finished planting 5 whisky half barrels full of zinnias. They are

on a strip next to my driveway, and when I did it last year, I got so many

compliments from neighbors, I decided it would be a nice neighborhood

beautification thing to do again.

Carla, you ROCK!!

:-6

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:32 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: At the risk of sounding like a sanctimonious windbag, I try for a random act of kindness on daily basis. I think all of you are awesome people (Carla's my fave) but having a thread extolling this sort of behavior so you can post about it the next day sort of defeats the purpose.

I agree. Alms should be done in private, as the old saying goes. When you declare what you have done, then you get your 'pay off' in praise and the 'pay it on' cycle stops for you.

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:56 pm

we were asked so we shared.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:00 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: At the risk of sounding like a sanctimonious windbag, I try for a random act of kindness on daily basis. I think all of you are awesome people (Carla's my fave) but having a thread extolling this sort of behavior so you can post about it the next day sort of defeats the purpose.
Does this mean I don't have to be nice to the drunken idiots in my bar tonight!??!?!?! :yh_pray :yh_bigsmi