There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His
Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost
his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first
day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few
weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails
hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to
hold
his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He
told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull
out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The
days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that
all
the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to
the fence.

He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the
fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in
anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a
man and draw it out.

It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still
there." A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are very
rare
jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed.


They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to
open their hearts to us."

It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care.

Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending
it back to the person who sent it to you. If it comes back to you, then
you'll know you have a circle of friends.


HAPPY FRIENDSHIP WEEK TO YOU!!!!!!

YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!


Now send this to every friend you have!! And to your family. This was
sent to me. Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole in your fence.

Laugh hard, live well, and love completely...

P.S. I have discovered that as we get older, we finally learn that the
only things that really matter are our family and our TRUE friends.
Everything else is transient.

Remind me never to pig out on food before I go to sleep. They say that eating before you sleep gives you weird dreams. Well they are 100% correct!

At my home, my mother has a fake but cute goose outside, I guess it's a fad in the midwest to have fake geese outside! My mom likes to dress her Emily (the goose's name) in various outfits. For halloween Emily is dressed in a pumpkin outfit with cool pumpkin eye glasses. Well last night I remember dreaming that Emily was slowly chasing me, walking like a goose does and honking her mouth. I escaped and closed the door to my house but when I looked down on the floor I saw an ugly duckling!

Weird!