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My Middle Name is Grace


 IRS Audit/Growing Up in Rural Nebraska/Colonoscopy
 

The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office.
The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.
The auditor said, 'Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying that you win money gambling.
I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable.'
'I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it,' says Grandpa. 'How about a demonstration?'
The auditor thinks for a moment and said, 'Okay. Go ahead.'
Grandpa says, 'I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.'
The auditor thinks a moment and says, 'It's a bet.'
Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor's jaw drops.
Grandpa says, 'Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye..'
Now the auditor can tell that Grandpa isn't blind, so he takes the bet.
Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye.
The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand , with Grandpa's attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.
'Want to go double or nothing?' Grandpa asks 'I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.'
The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there's no way this old guy could possibly manage that stunt, so he agrees again.
Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants,but although he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor's desk.
The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win. But Grandpa's own attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.
'Are you okay?' the auditor asks.
'Not really,' says the attorney. 'This morning, when Grandpa told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and piss all over your desk and that you'd be happy about it!'

Don't Mess with Old People!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You grew up in rural Nebraska if.
You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.
You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between

the reception and wedding dance.
You know the difference between 'Green' and 'Red' farm machinery, and would
fight with your friends over which was
better!
You buy Christmas presents at Tractor Supply.
You spent more on beer & liquor than you did on food at your
wedding.
You or someone you know was a 'Dairy Princess' at the county
fair.
You know that 'combine' is a noun.
You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel
post in the middle of winter.
You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
You know that 'creek' rhymes with 'pick'..
Football schedules,hunting season and harvest are all taken into
consideration before wedding dates are set.
A Friday night date is getting a six-pack and taking your girlfriend shining
for deer.
There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk
cows in the morning... phew!
Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey-pokey and the
chicken dance.
Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
The local gas station sells live bait.
At least twice a year some part of your home doubles as a meat processing
plant.
You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.
Pop is the only name for soda.
You actually understand these jokes and will forward them to all your
Nebraska friends!!!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis . Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America 's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose, watery bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts; the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me. 'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.

On the subject of Colonoscopies...

Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite humorous..... A physician claimed that the following are actual comments made by his patients (predominately male) while he was performing their colonoscopies:

1. 'Take it easy, Doc. You're boldly going where no man has gone before!

2. 'Find Amelia Earhart yet?'

3. 'Can you hear me NOW?'

4. 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'

5. 'You know, in Arkansas , we're now legally married.'

6. 'Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?'

7. 'You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out...'

8. 'Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!'

9. 'If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit!

10. 'Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.'

11. 'You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?'

And the best one of all.

12. 'Could you write a note for my wife confirming that my head is not up there?'



Hope you all enjoy these as much as I did!!

~Bobeara~
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 Hold On!!!
 

A lady was telling her neighbor that she saw a man driving a pick-up truck down the interstate, and a dog was hanging onto the tail gate for dear life! She said if the pick-up truck driver hadn't been going so fast in the other direction, she would have tried to stop him.  

A few weeks later, her neighbor saw this truck at the Bass Pro Shop in Daphne, Alabama!

The pick-up truck driver is a local taxidermist with a great sense of humor!




Hope you all are having a great Friday!!!!

~Bobeara~
 
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 L.O.V.E
 

What Love means to a 4-8 year old....  

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?'

The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined.

See what you think:


 

'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.

So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'

Rebecca- age 8


 

'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.

You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'

Billy - age 4




 

'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'

Karl - age 5


 

'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'

Chrissy - age 6



 

'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'

Terri - age 4


 

'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'

Danny - age 7



 

'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.

My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss'

Emily - age 8


 

'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)


 

'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'

Nikka - age 6

(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)



 

'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.'

Noelle - age 7


 

'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'

Tommy - age 6



 

'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'

Cindy - age 8


 

'My mommy loves me more than anybody

You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'

Clare - age 6


 

'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'

Elaine-age 5


 

'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt.'

Chris - age 7


 

'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.'

Mary Ann - age 4



 

'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'

Lauren - age 4


 

'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)

Karen - age 7


 

'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.'

Mark - age 6


 

'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'

Jessica - age 8



 

And the final one

The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry'



 

When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Heavenly Father, please bless all my friends in whatever it is that You know they may be needing this day! And may their life be full of Your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with You. Amen.


~BoBeara~

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 The Spoiled Under-30 Crowd
 

THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were.
When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning Uphill...
barefoot...
BOTH ways
Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it And how easy they've got it!
But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy!
 I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the internet.
If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!!
We had to actually write Somebody a letter, with a pen!
 Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters!
 If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting!
If you Were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
 When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was!
It could be your school, Your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you Just didn't know!!!
You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
 We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video Games with high-resolution 3-D graphics!
We had the Atari 2600!
With games Like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'.
Your guy was a little square!
You Actually had to use your Imagination!!
And there were no multiple levels or Screens, it was just one screen Forever!
And you could never win.
The game just kept getting Harder and harder and Faster and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was On!
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing!
You had to get off Your ass and walk over to the TV to change the Channel and there was no Cartoon Network either!
You could only get cartoons On Saturday Morning.
Do you Hear what I'm saying!?!
We had to wait ALL WEEK For cartoons, you spoiled Little rat-bastards!
And getting a text message from your much more experienced friend to know what to say next to that boy or girl you like?
Unheard of!
We had to fend for ourselves!
We had to wait til in between classes and pass a handwritten note, and hope to God no one else saw it!
That's exactly what I'm talking about!
You kids Today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted Five minutes back in 1980!
Regards, The over 30 Crowd
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 I'm back!!!
 

It's almost a year-to the day-since my last post!! I hope all of you are doing well! I've missed visiting with you and stopping by your blogs. I've also missed blogging myself. So, to start off one of my New Year Resolutions....I take you back over 2008....in pictures. :O)

In January, my sister graduated from the Universal College of Healing Arts as a Licensed Massage Therapist.

In February, the whole family got pictures taken.

March 8, 2008 my baby sister got married!! I also quit my job at the nursing home I had worked at for 6 years, to start working at an orthopedic hospital in Omaha.

In April, I got to see Lynyrd Skynyrd perform. Very cool show!!!

My baby brother graduated from high school in May.

June brought camping, and then packing to move to my new apartment with my new room mate in Omaha.

Here I am with the girls at the annual Fourth of July party.

My dad turned 47 in August, and my brother left for college. :O(


My parents celebrated their 25th Wedding Anniversary on September 4th. They drove down to Galveston, Texas and boarded a cruise that took them to Cozumel and the Grand Caymen Islands. Unfortunately, while on their cruise Hurricane Ike flooded Galveston Island where their car was parked. The Nissan was under four feet of water and considered a total loss. They were flown in to New Orleans, then back to Omaha. It took about a month to figure everything out before they could buy a new car.

October brought fall, fun times, and Halloween. I also quit my part time job at Home Depot, to start working at a little place called It's Yours Pottery. People come in and paint already made pieces, and I tell them how to paint it. Very fun!!

Here is the Omaha skyline in November after the tree lighting ceremony in the Old Market.

This is my early Christmas present to myself. :O) The initials in the stars are my mom, dad, brother, and sister's.

Here I am with my brother and sister on Christmas. You can't see it in the picture, but I had a sling on my left arm. I partially dislocated my shoulder while at work on Christmas day. So not fun!
And my favorite picture of all year. This was taken in June outside of my parents house during a storm. I can't wait until spring/summer so I can try and snap more pictures of lightning. I hope you all enjoy my year in review! Be looking for me on your blogs!!!

~Bobeara~
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