Markets up, way up, but some things have come way down!

The Market went up nearly 900 points today, crazy!
Gas prices have been consistently going down at least for the last two weeks, weird!
So has the thermometer in Florida gone down for the last two nights, and tonight we will be in the 40's on the coastline, where we are, and in the thirties inland, unheard of for this time of the year, wacko!

The news was not good in all other areas.
Employers are laying off more and more people.

In southwest Florida, Fort Myers area, two old friends got into a political argument that actually escalated from emails into a gunfight at a set meeting location. Guess, which was the McCain supporter and which was the Obama supporter and who the victim was and who was the perpetrator of his hot headed gun of wrath?
Well, surprise, surprise the McCain supporter was the shooter, and fortunately his aim was bad enough to only have grazed the Barack Obama man’s head, but causing a bloody need for staples though. Is this lunacy or what?

Anger is a nasty thing and we have all had it at one time or another; most of the time it comes out of our frustration of not being heard or understood.
When we allow ourselves to let it get the best of us; be it by screaming or doing something as extreme as violence then that’s when it’s a control issue not just a benign emotion.
Decent, well brought up people who were once children should have been taught early on that certain behavior is not appropriate in any situation.
Sometimes this educational parental responsibility breaks down or goes unheard by its audience if one is screaming it at the time, like SHUT UP! (When I was a teen this was considered as bad as a curse word to say that, shut up.)
That one never works.
BEHAVE!
Nope no good either.
Example is how our offspring are supposed to learn.
But as a parent myself, and knowing I was growing up with my two sons, and having them in my twenties but still undisciplined with my own controlled behavior I must admit that I did yell, and now I’m so ashamed.
I think it is so cool that I can remember three of my uncles that actually had the power to quiet their children with a simple glaring stare, and poof they would stop in their tracks.
But being me, and slightly bratty as a child, an understatement; I felt they were afraid of their Dads; not being respectful. To this day I am not entirely sure I was not right.
I had one friend, when I was a young mother that used to bribe her normal healthy active three sons to behave in public and then they would get something special if they did.
It worked, so who’s wrong.
Teachers and specialist in the child rearing game say don’t do that.
Her boys grew up just fine and are well adjusted men today.

Some days I wonder if anything I did caused my sons to still be single, but both have had girlfriends, one was even married, the other was engaged, but both are single today.
I did think that the fact that their father and I have been married nearly 38 years was a positive. But now they are saying if you argue at all in front of your children that could cause them to sour on marriage… well we sure have done that!
But that’s one of our best communication lines, we get our points across and we always forgive later.
Oh well, kids are way too sensitive to not get that love is shown in all different ways.
I always think of that song from Fiddler On The Roof: Do you love me?
Find it, play it and then you will know where I am coming from, and maybe some of these youngins will know too.

We are all wound too tight, and we should remember that some people become hard of hearing and refuse to get hearing aids or can’t afford them, and then we have to yell; I LOVE YOU!

And on that silly note good night to all and to all calm down.