What's a decent day?
For me, "a decent day" means that we were useful to whoever we could be useful to, that's all.

That list includes:

Hashem (by noticing Him, using Him, and caring about what He says),
ourselves (by staying sober and avoiding the tortures of lust, self-pity, resentment and other stupid but quite natural crapola),
our spouse (or spouses, if you are c"v Muslim or Mormon ;D),
our children (if you got 'em),
the people we work for (by doing our jobs to help them),
the people we work with (by respecting and spreading pleasantness),
the people we lust after, c"v (bay davening for them m'umka deliba),
the people who treat us like garbage (cuz they are sick in the head),
our families (by just being present and giving),
our friends,
the people in the shuls we daven in (like by davening on time, and politely, perhaps)
the cashiers (by not being a jerk)

Goodness gracious! There are a lot of ways we can live to be helpful...but the main things are to be be helpful and giving to Hashem, to ourselves, and to those we are beholden to most of the time. The entire Chovos Halevavos is about being giving and helpful to Hashem. It's called hakoras hatov. And that's why writing out gratitude lists are such a mainstay of sanity.

For me, staying sober is the bottom line requirement for being useful. Acting out always, always screws up my life. So I need His help to keep away from the curiosity and stupidity (lying) that would get me back into it c"v.

Sorry I went on and on...it's a nasty habit.  : :-*

dov wrote on 23 Mar 2010 16:36:


Well then keep up your nasty habits...
Vhu Rachem Yrchaper Uvon.... Hu???

Ok bards will narrow
It down

Be good and clean

Because if we indulge on self gratifying lustful behavoir

We will take out our guilt on the people we love the most

(As newton said every action has an equal and opposite re-action)

Rebbereber=DOV

Emes??

Yeah, yeah....

great call bards.

i always find myself being angrier and more hateful to those I love most right after a fall!

i'll have to think about the deeper reason why when its not so late ???

The pre-pesach stress,  in addition to my genraly mesed-up family matzav = YH FEILD DAY


And quick 'pick-me-ups' will be wholeheartedly welcome.   

There may always be time to sin, but I don;t have alot of time to spend on the net. Just another 15 minutes or so..... any chizuk is "we miss you" " "KUTGW" "KOT" or even a "K" will help (make it KP)

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KOT shmirat. How was yeshiva?

Hakol holeich achar hasof.....and the best part is that I didn't let the zman end!    I got chavrusahs and kept 2 sedarim a day during bein hazemanuim,  and I just got a realy good chavrusah to add an afternoon seder...


IF anyone knows the barney melody for this ..."  .....Trucking....Trucking....Everyone keeps on truckiing....everyone in his or her own way..... Oh we keep on Trucking....trucking.....everyone keeps on trucking..... everyone in his or her own way......."

Can someone make a sountrack to those lyrics, and the barney melody... and for the grand fanaly have a truck of woodford pull-ut onto the highway!

Thanks 4 the responses ... I'm doing alittle better now.

and remember.......DO NOT GO TO 6FLAGS (or is it HERSHEY PARK)

it is six flags

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for the addict gefilte fish is also a trigger

Obama: "For years I poshut couldn't even look at a gefilte fish!"

Chris Matthews (whoever he is, r"l): "Well, what changed it all for you, Mr President?"

Ob"m: "I prefer to go by "prez" - and with a lower case "p", if you can make that sound..."

Chrein Mattyas: "Ahnshuldig, chaver prez. But what about my shayloh?"

O: "Well, as soon as I converted the oval things floating in the bottle started looking tasty!"

Chrein: "Was it the t'vilah, the kaboloh, or the other part that did the trick?"

Oy: "And how does the little lady feel about the dietary changes you have undergone?"

Chrayonnaise: "Prez - I mean prez - that was my shayloh! You don't ask questions, you answerthem!"

First Resident of (section 8?) Government Housing: "Well, as soon as I converted I started asking tons of questions instead of giving answers at all....and what's wrong with that?"

Matyas: "Never mind, prez. So, is Michelle OK with making blintzes, or not?"

Echad ha'am: "Michelle? Who's that?"

Chris: "I feel like such a goy!"




Whatever! I'm cracking up from pesach cleaning and needed this little creative wacko break....thanks.

dov save a little woodford for after bedikas chamets

Hey! Glad to hear from you!

if your still there KOT! do not do IT go have some fun! ! We love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-):-) Sorry I am too tired to make any funny jokes.