Brian just came out of his room, laughing his head off about a scene he just read in "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince". In the book, Ron was performing miserably at Quidditch, and the opposing team gleefully taunted him about it. Harry made Ron believe that he had spiked Ron's drink with some "felix felicis", a lucky potion that gave the imbiber 12 hours worth of good luck. Ron subsequently played a miraculous game of Quidditch, saving the day, making the great plays. It wasn't until later that he learned that he had taken a placebo and that he had actually made the winning moves all by himself.
Brian was cracking up thinking about how Ron was "tricked", and I pounced upon the "teachable moment" of the POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING. How easy it is to explain it to Brian. Easy to teach, harder to do.
Then I thought of Lisa's comment, that CAN is an affirming and positive moniker. It's a reminder that I carry my own felix felicis. I'll share though...any takers? :-)
And BTW, Sunny Spring...Let's definitely do that "girls night out"! I haven't seen the movie, Drop Dead Gorgeous, but it sounds like fun. More power of positive thinking!
One more thing...to Brown's Bridge Academy: Since you recommended a rednecky "Bama" blanket to my much superior, regal and sophisticated Tigers of LSU blanket, I'll take this opportunity to share the following:
Three college grads, one from Auburn, one from LSU, and one from BAMA, are all construction workers. They were sitting up on one of those high rafters that builders often eat lunch on. The Auburn grad opens his lunchbox and says, "Awww man! CHICKEN!!! I HATE CHICKEN!!! Every day its the same thing...Chicken, Chicken, Chicken!! If I get chicken one more time, I'm gonna jump off this beam." Then the LSU grad opens his lunchbox. "Awww man!!! HAM AND CHEESE!! I HATE HAM AND CHEESE!!! Every day is the same thing...HAM AND CHEESE, HAM AND CHEESE, HAM AND CHEESE!! If I get ham and cheese one more time, I'll jump off this beam with you." So then the BAMA grad opens his lunchbox. "Awww man!!! SPAM!!! I HATE SPAM!!!! Every day its the same thing...SPAM, SPAM, SPAM!! If I get SPAM one more time, I'll jump off this building with y'all." So the next day on lunch break, the three guys are sitting on their beam. The Auburn grad opens his lunch box. As fate would have it, it was chicken. "Well, it looks like I'm jumping." He looks at the LSU grad and says, "So what'd you get?" The LSU grad opens his box...ham and cheese. "Well, it looks like we're jumping together." They wait for the BAMA grad to open his box. "Sure nuff...SPAM." They jump. Since they all died at once, they held their funerals all at once. The three men's wives were standing around crying. The wife of the Auburn grad says, "I had no idea he hated chicken...If I had known that, I wouldn't have packed it for him." The wife of the LSU grad sobs, "I had no idea my husband hated ham and cheese...If I had known that, I wouldn't have packed it for him." The wife of the BAMA grad then says, "My husband made his own lunch."
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TOO funny! That joke was a great way to start the day :)
Although, in retrospect, the story makes the LSU grad look pretty dumb too. Maybe I should have replaced the "LSU Grad" with a "Maryland Terrapin" grad!?! (Am I getting into dangerous territory here?)
Not with me :) Perhaps it's cause I went to a school that DIDN'T have a football team and therefore DIDN'T get much into the "my school is better than yours" game. Although, we did, and still do, have one kick-ass chess team.
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