Inspirational

DON’T FORGET VALENTINE’S DAY ~ FEBRUARY 14

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY

Groundhog Day is a holiday (not official) celebrated on February 2 in the United States and Canada. 

Groundhogs are woodchucks, members of the squirrel family, marmots, sometimes called “whistle-pigs.” 

According to folklore,

if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon end.

If it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will continue for six more weeks.

The largest Groundhog Day celebration is held in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. ~ wikipedia

Full name of Punxsutawney Phil

~ ”Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages,

Prognosticator of Prognosticators and

Weather Prophet Extraordinaire.”

In Canada, it was 1956 before Wiarton Willie ( Canadian cousin to Punxsutawney Phil ) became a household name for his early February prognostications. Wiarton is a pretty town of 2,300 on the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.

In Scotland, the tradition may also derive from an English poem:

As the light grows longer
The cold grows stronger
If Candlemas be fair and bright
Winter will have another flight
If Candlemas be cloud and rain
Winter will be gone and not come again
A farmer should on Candlemas day
Have half his corn and half his hay
On Candlemas day if thorns hang a drop
You can be sure of a good pea crop

The Groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, is right about 40% of the time!

What day is today?

Over breakfast one morning, a woman said to her husband, “I’ll bet you don’t know what special day this is.”

“Of course I do,” he answered as if he was offended, and left for the office.

At 10:00 a.m., the doorbell rang and when the woman opened the door, she was handed a box of a dozen long stemmed red roses. At 1:00 p.m., a foil-wrapped, two-pound box of her favorite chocolates was delivered. Later, a boutique delivered a designer dress.

The woman couldn’t wait for her husband to come home.

“First the flowers, then the chocolates and then the dress!” she exclaimed. 

“I’ve never had a more wonderful Groundhog Day in my life!

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Best Super Bowl Ad Ever – Mean Joe Greene Returns

The Best Super Bowl ad of all time is making a comeback — with a little help from comedian Amy Sedaris and Downey Unstopables.

Mean Joe Greene, the former Pittsburgh Steeler star, recreated his 1979 Super Bowl ad for Coca-Cola in a spot for Downey Unstopables In-Wash Scent Booster.

Two Great Gifts For Valentine’s Day

For that Special Valentine in your life,

you might want to consider the following two GREAT GIFT IDEAS.

They are free

No tax

No special equipment needed,

No batteries or parts

Always arrive on time

Guaranteed to please

Extremely Personal

Shipping is free

and they are returnable

A MASSAGE

AND A HUG

Just open up your arms

And open up your hearts.

Research shows that our skin is teeming

with nerve fibres which spring into action when we are

cuddled, hugged, massaged or gently touched. 

They transmit the information back to the brain’s emotional hub,

creating feelings of pleasure.

Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone? ~ Shelly Long

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it’s from the heart. ~ Steve Irwin

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. ~ Bil Keane

But remember,

a hug without a squeeze

is like apple pie without cheese.

Humorous and Inspirational Quotes and Sayings About Valentine’s Day and Love

Please be my Valentine!

Valentine’s Day is a time when we search out romantic quotes and sayings about love for a Valentine’s Day card.

Many prefer a humorous love quote or a funny Valentine’s Day saying.

Here are just a few:

“I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.” ~Unknown

“Valentine’s Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.” ~Unknown

“I wanted to make it really special on Valentine’s Day, so I tied my boyfriend up. And for three solid hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV.” ~Tracy Smith

• “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” ~ Robert Frost

• “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert Heinlin

• “If you ever think of me out of the blue, just remember it’s all the kisses I’ve blown in the air finally catching up with you.” ~ Unknown

• “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” ~ Plato

• “Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” ~ Victor Hugo

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• “Love is grand. Divorce is a hundred grand.” ~ Unknown

• “I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.” ~ Mother Teresa

• “Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jone

• “Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.” ~ Lord Byron

• “When you’re in love with someone, it inspires you and gives you hope. You have faith that even if you can’t be with them on earth, that if God wills, you will be with them one day in heaven.” ~ Unknown

• “Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~ Henry Louis Mencken

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• “The hottest love has the coldest end.” ~ Socrates
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• “Immature love says, ‘ love you because I need you.’ Mature love says, ‘I need you because I love you.’” ~ Erich Fromm
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• “Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi
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• “You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ~ Henny Youngman
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• “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.” ~ Anais Nin
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• “A life without love is like a year without summer.” ~ Sweedish Proverb
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• “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller

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Funny Poster For Valentine’s Day ~ What is Love?

Next Great Life Changing Technology

Holograms, Dick Tracy Phones and the Future

Within the next ten years…. You heard it here first!

There will be a new Cell Phone/Computer, worn on the wrist that has a very advanced voice recognition system with the capability of projecting crystal clear three dimensional images (at least 10 feet by 10 feet). With Cloud Computing, it will have unlimited capabilities! It will be the the fastest selling product in the history of the World (until the next version comes out.)

Not sure if it will be called the iTracy or the iDick!

Until then,

we’ll just have to settle for the

iPhone5 watch

~ The iWatch

Can you imagine how many things this will make obsolete????

(TV’s, cable, keyboards, desktop and laptop computers, TV stands, iPads, writing – to name a few)

Wikipedia: On January 13, 1946 [2] , Gould changed Dick Tracy forever with the introduction of the 2-Way Wrist Radio, having drawn inspiration from a visit to inventor Al Gross. This seminal communications device, worn as a wristwatch by Tracy and members of the police force, became one of the strip’s most immediately recognizable icons, and can be thought of as a precursor to later technological developments, such as cellular phones.

Holography (from the Greek, hólos whole +graf? writing, drawing) is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that it appears as if the object is in the same position relative to the recording medium as it was when recorded. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear three dimensional.

Star Wars - Now!

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY MOM AND DAD

“A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend”

My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes. Michael Jordan

“The family is the school of duties – founded on love” ~ Felix Adler

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY FRIENDS

Valentine’s email forward for you!

I had an X-ray done today, and they found you in my heart. The Doctor said if they took you out, I would die, because I could not live without you as a friend, or e-mail buddy!!!

Give this heart to everyone you don’t want to lose in, including me if you care. Try to collect 12; it’s not easy!

TOMORROW IS NOT PROMISED.

SO, cherish your friends!

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