- Are you a good gift giver? I have family members and friends that are absolute wizards at giving gifts. I also have some that are terrible even though they try. I try very hard to be the former. But it does take some thought. For instance: What colors does the person favor? What types of jewelry does the person wear or not (never wears bracelets, for instance)? What type of decorations does the person prefer in their home? I really like gift cards but if you decide on this, make sure you find out where your person likes to shop and where they do not! If you buy clothes, make sure you know the size. Make sure you include a receipt on anything you give including gift cards. This is a must. I also like giving money but even if appreciated it is very impersonal. Anyway, I hope I have helped someone out there be a better gift giver.
- A friend had to have some relatively minor eye surgery followed by frequent applications of eye drops. He was talking to me about it and said that the drops gave him a bad “smell.” He didn’t understand it. I told him that was easy to explain. A person’s tear ducts drain right down into your nose. He said he didn’t know that. I told him that when a person cries and sheds tears that some of the tears roll down your cheeks but some also drain down into your nose. That is why your nose runs when you cry. Along the same lines, your mucus (and tears) from your nose drains down into your throat. So whether we like to think of it or not it is not so revolting to see a child eating excrement or mucus or whatever you want to call it (!) from their nose onto their finger and then into their mouth, and yes, I’m trying to be slightly funny here. But anyway, this is not really something we think about but is just a fact of nature.
- Does it drive you “nuts” that your significant other doesn’t remember anything you say to him/her? When a while later this person reads it in the paper or where ever and says, “Oh, did you know so and so?’ Makes you want to scream. Well, the problem is that this person is a “visual” learner not an auditory learner. Men, especially, are visual creatures. So, women of the world, if you have this problem, you might try writing the info. down and handing it to your mate.
- I don’t know about you, but I have a theory on “dreams.” There are many books about this and I am sure many people will disagree with me but here goes. I have vivid dreams every night and very seldom have any kind of “pleasant” dreams. My dreams are usually meaningless and benign but I am able to link my dreams (remotely) to some event that has happened to me the day before or something that I have been thinking about the day before. It is as if my brain is playing back some, frequently, totally insignificant event from the previous day. I will tell you, though that I have had some dreams that actually did “foretell” the future. The three that I had that were most telling and most disturbing were three dreams that foretold a sporting event that I was interested in. One happened years ago and foretold how a “Super Bowl” would turn out. I had told my son that I had dreamed the team that we were both pulling for would lose by one. He said you mean by one point? I told him I wasn’t sure if it was by one point or one touch down. This was pretty weird as our team was favored to win. Much to our dismay, it turned out as I had dreamed; they lost by one touch down. Another was for a “Major” tennis final. I was pulling so hard for a certain person to win but in my dream this person was crying and told me that she had lost and that there was nothing she could have done. I hoped and prayed that the dream would be wrong but it wasn’t. The last dream was for the winner of the Kentucky Derby a year or so ago. I really didn’t care that much but it was a bit disturbing to find out that my dream was correct. I do think we all have some psychic ability that we mostly ignore. The family members that I have told about these dreams and before the events are pretty freaked out when my dreams turn out to be correct. My son told me I should place bets. I just laughed as I wouldn’t even know how. Would love to know how other people feel about dreams and about psychic abilities.
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I love the one about husbands with bad memories . It is so typical of mine. Will have to remember that the next time I tell him something which will be soon. Maybe I won’t be so aggravated. Also my dreams are do far out that I am glad they don’t come true. Great blog Dixie!