[CyberTOPS] Being thankful for life ....................

[Marie]

Good morning TOPS and KOPS friends:

I am really enjoying the correspondence with you girls and guys. Your e:mail 
messages, notes, the sharing of information, Thanks for the wonderful 
package on sleep, it is so full of good advice and I will share the program 
with you when I finish compiling info. ....   and such are keeping me 
motivated and focused. I just want to take a minute and thank you all.It is 
a wonderful thing to have such great support in each other. TOPS has brought 
us all together to fight the good fight and work our way toward being an 
honoured KOPS and then once we reach this awesome goal having to fight the 
biggest fight of all ..... Maintaining.

I suggest that today you get out your pen and paper   (or e:mail, lol)   and 
write a note to a TOPS or Kops pal that has encouraged you over the years, a 
smile or a cheer sometimes goes a long way so let them know. Now I am not 
fishing for mail here ..... so please don't send it off to me but someone 
else in your chapter who may be doing well or struggling or someone who has 
inspired and helped you.

For whoever posted the post on, The best day of my life letter again I want 
to thank you , it really is a good reminder to give thanks for our 
blessings. When you look at the world around you sometimes and see peoples 
tieals in life with losing family members through sensless acts of violence 
and disasters that kill thousands in one swoop and such  ...   you just have 
be thankful . There are days I feel I just can't take another bad thing 
happening and then I realize that I have NOTHING to complain about and have 
had a wonderful life  and my trials have been small in comparison. I guess 
it goes back to positive/negative attitude, is your cup half full or half 
empty? . This is harvest month and with it comes being thankful and 
thanksgiving. This year instead of just giving thanks for my dysfunctional 
family, lol .... just kidding, I will give thanks for the wonders of life 
and celebrate all I have been given.  For the month of October I find all 
the things I am thankful for, one a day at least. Today my friends I am 
thankful for each of you.
Well, I better go get the geese in the smoker before Diana and Lois show up 
to walk.
Have a good one and dont forget to plan ahead for your weekend,
big big hugs,
yours at TOPS,
Marie M.
joke below ..................

      A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students.

      "Human Beings are the only animals that stutter," she says.

      A little girl raises her hand.  "I had a kitty-cat who stuttered."

      The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, 
asked the girl to describe the incident.

      "Well", she began, "I was in the back yard with my kitty and the 
Rottweiler that lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, 
he jumped over the fence into our yard!"

      "That must've been scary," said the teacher.

      "It sure was," said the little girl.

      "My kitty raised his back, went Sssssh, Sssssh, Sssssh" and before he 
could say "Shit," the Rottweiler ate him!

      The teacher wet her pants laughing.

      I almost peed mine too, thanks for sharing Brenda, lol.