Reflections on Hopes and Dreams.... + Laughs!

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Hi Everyone!
I'm coming up on another time of year when I tend to reflect on things. My birthday. Honestly, I don't care much for my birthday. Okay, I made it another year. :w00t: :sarcasm:
I think it's because when I was a kid I'd always have these expectations, and they never quite panned out. :giggle: Oh well, in this same vein, I've been thinking about something, and a discussion with someone here on DA brought this up to me again. It's the importance of "Hopes & Dreams". It had ocured to me that you read on the web about these celebrities that do stupid stuff and get into trouble with dope, or the law in some way or another. Is it because they have everything, you know, the fame and the money, and they feel like they have attained their goals and there's nothing left? I really wonder. LadyAliceofOz and I have always had goals and dreams. First a house, then a business, then a child.... now, it's improving on the house, or just repairing the things that break. :giggle: Of course I've added the photography back into my life.

But I wonder if that's not where we go wrong sometimes. I see people here on DA that seem to have hit a dead end on their hopes and dreams. Maybe their dream didn't pan out, and they were so devoted to it that they have forgotten just where they were when they started. I don't know.

LadyAliceofOz and I had to re-invent ourselves. Transition from the "Parent Roll" to something else. I guess we're getting closer to 1980 when we bought this house by re-doing the bath again. :giggle: In that first incarnation at least Gertrude Ederle could quit swimming the English Channel! :rofl::rofl: This house had some ghastly wallpaper in the bathroom that was reprints of historic newspapers. The first thing that caught your eye as you sat on the :toilet: was GERTRUDE EDERLE SWIMS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL! Then of course the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was in the shower. :ohmygod: It was just aweful! :no: That wallpaper was the first thing to go!

But I digress... As I said before, I just wonder if our "Hopes & Dreams" are not what really keep us going. Or maybe, it's the lack of "Hopes & Dreams" that can become our ruinatiion. :shrug: For those of you who have read my previous journals, you know I've had a few things to work on around here, maybe, just maybe, the reason is that I need to look at these problems as reasons to maintian my "Hopes & Dreams".
Just a thought....

So, what do you want out of life? And Pleeese! Don't give me that Whirled Peas crap. Don't give me the "no more poverty" line either. Neither of those things will happen. As long as there are jerkwads on the planet those two things will exist. I'm talking realistic individual things. Have you looked at your hopes and dreams recently? Just curious...



This journal's features....
:giggle: If you've managed to stay awake this long.... here's some of the scavenging I've done going through the galleries of those who have :+fav:ed my stuff.


And... As always!
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Featured Art!



Then Came God by Enkphoto Sneaking To The Woods by eMBeeL:thumb187691150:

Twilight Pier by robert-kim-karen Pink Snow by kayaksailor Far From Town by AlexHawkPhotography

Szilva'sva'rad by RobertdeArtois One Man and His Horse by galloriaSTORM The Colors of Change ... by paulmentat

:thumb190871610: The Chickadee Collection by dove-51 Sunset on the Bay in Fall by JocelyneR

Floating Pathway by HA91 Sea or Sky by Sophia-Christina The Unity of Water by Corvidae65

Old Gas Pump by IndifferentSociety Every King Needs a Crown by DeniseSoden Wheat fairy by childofstar

study 01 by liviugherman:thumb194225209: Funny Face by kurios-kat




Just For Laughs!



Construction worker on the 5th floor of a building needed a handsaw. So he spots another worker on the ground floor and yells down to him, but he can't hear him. So the worker on the 5th floor tries sign language.

He pointed to his eye meaning "I", pointed to his knee meaning "need", then moved his hand back and forth in a hand saw motion. The man on the ground floor nods his head, pulls down his pants, whips it out and starts working it.

The worker on 5th floor gets so pissed off he runs down to the ground floor and says, "What the fuck is your problem!!! I said I needed a hand saw!".

The other guy says, "I knew that! I was just trying to tell you - I'm coming!"

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One day an "at home wife" is alone and the doorbell rings.

She opens it to a guy, "Hi, is Tony home?"

The wife replies, "No, he went to the store, but you can wait here if you want."

So they sit down and after a while of silence the friend says "You know Sara, you have the greatest breasts I have ever seen. I'd give you a hundred bucks just to see one."

Sara thinks about it for a second and figures, what the hell - a hundred bucks! She opens her robe and shows one to him for a few seconds. He promptly thanks her and throws a hundred bucks on the table. They sit there a while longer and guy then says "That was so amazing I've got to see both of them. I'll give you another 100 dollars if I could just see the both of them together."

Sara amazed by the offer sits and thinks a bit about it and thinks, heck, why not? So she opens her robe and gives Chris a nice long chance to cop a look. After this Chris looks at his watch and explains he has an appointment that he hs to go to, and leaves.

A while later Tony arrives back home from the store. The wife goes up to him, "You know, your friend Chris came over."

Tony thinks about it for a second and says, "Well did he drop off the 200 bucks he owes me?"

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A little boy and his grandfather are raking leaves in the yard. The little boy sees an earthworm trying to get back into its hole. He says, "Grandpa, I bet I can put that worm back in that hole." The grandfather replies, "I'll bet you five dollars you can't. It's too wiggly and limp to put back in that little hole."

The little boy runs into the house and comes back out with a can of hair spray. He sprays the worm until it is straight and stiff as a board. The boy then proceeds to put the worm back into the hole. The grandfather hands the little boy five dollars, grabs the hair spray and runs into the house.

Thirty minutes later the grandfather comes back out and hands the boy another five dollars. The little boy says, "Grandpa, you already gave me five dollars." The grandfather replies, "I know. That's from your Grandma."

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A guy is driving out in the middle of nowhere, very lost. Finally he spots 2 houses so he goes up to the first house and looks in the door way. He sees an old lady yanking on her boobs and an old man jerking off. He is so freaked out that he goes to the next house and says "What's up with your neighbors?" and the owner of the house says "Oh that's the Robinson's, they're both deaf. She's telling him to go milk the cow and he's telling her to go fuck herself!"
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As a painless way to save money, a young couple arranged that every time they have sex the husband puts his pocket change into a china piggy bank on the bedside table. One night while being unusually athletic, he accidentally knocked the piggy bank onto the floor where it smashes.

To his surprise, among the masses of coins, there are handfuls of five and ten dollar bills. He asks his wife "What's up with all the notes?", to his wife which replies, "Well, not everyone is as cheap as you are."
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Here's one for my friends in Louisana...

Quibodeaux, Thibodeaux and Boudreaux were sitting in a boat on a very cloudy day fishing. They had been fishing a good while when the sky suddenly opened up just above them and a ray of light shined down directly on the front of the boat. It spooked them and they started to get nervous. All of a sudden, they heard a voice from up above. "This is the Lord." They all looked at one another and begin saying, "I didn't do nothing, I didn't do nothing, I didn't do nothing." The Lord said, "Don't get nervous. I'm not here to pass judgment on you, I only want to grant each of you one healing wish." They all calmed down and Quibodeaux stood up in the boat. "As you already know Lord, I've been having this crick in the back of my neck for the past ten years and if you were to grant me a healing wish, that would be it." The Lord waved his hand and Quibodeaux started moving his neck freely. "Mais, that feels good. Thank you Lord, thank you," and he sat down. Thibodeaux stood up next. "You know Lord, that bum leg I've been having for the past fifteen years, you know how bad I limp, if you were to grant me one wish, that would be it." The Lord waved his hand and Thibodeaux immediately felt the limp leave his leg. "Oh thank you Lord, oh thank you, thank you." Before Thibodeaux could sit down, there was a big splash behind the boat. Both Quibodeaux and Thibodeaux looked behind themselves and see Boudreaux swimming away from the boat as fast as he could. Thibodeaux shouted, "Boudreaux, where you going? The Lord is not here to pass judgment on you, he's here to grant you a healing wish. You know that bad back of yours, he can heal it for you right here and now." Boudreaux hollered back, not missing a swim stride, "No, no, I don't want the Lord to heal me, I'll lose my disability check.


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One time there was a British army camp in India that just received a new commander. During the new commanders first inspection everything checked out except one thing. There was a camel tied to a tree on the edge of the camp. The commander asked what it was for, one of the soldiers who had been stationed there for a while explained to him that the men sometimes get lonely since there where no woman there so they have the camel. The commander just let that go, but after a few weeks he was feeling very lonely so he ordered the men to bring the camel into his tent. The men did, and he went to work on it. After about an hour the commander came out zipped up his pants and said, "So is that how the other men do it?" One of the men responded, "No we usually just use the camel to ride into town."
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A deep-sea diver is twenty feet below sea level when he sees another guy with no scuba gear. He goes down another thirty feet, and the guy with no equipment stays with him. He takes out a waterproof chalkboard and writes, "How the hell can you stay down this deep without equipment?" The guy takes the chalkboard and writes, "You asshole, I'm drowning."

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One Fall day, Bill was out raking leaves when he noticed a hearse slowly drive by. Following the first hearse, was a second hearse which was followed by a man walking solemnly along, followed by a dog, and then about 200 men walking in single file. Intrigued, Bill went up to the man following the second hearse and asked him who was in the first hearse. "My wife," the man replied. "I'm sorry," said Bill. "What happened to her?" "My dog bit her and she died." Bill then asked the man who was in the second hearse. The man replied, "My mother-in-law. My dog bit her and she died as well." Bill thought about this for a while. He finally asked the man, "Can I borrow your dog?" To which the man replied, "Get in line."

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A 54 year old accountant leaves a letter for his wife one Friday evening that reads...

Dear Wife,
I am 54 and by the time you receive this letter I will be at the Grand
Hotel with my beautiful and sexy 18 year old secretary."

When he arrived at the hotel there was a letter waiting for him that read as follows...

Dear Husband,
I too am 54 and by the time you receive this letter I will be at the
Breakwater Hotel with my handsome and virile 18 year old boy toy. AND,
you, being an accountant, will appreciate that 18 goes into 54 many more times than 54 goes into 18."

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There was a guy riding through the desert on his camel. He had been traveling so long that he felt the need to have sex. Obviously there were no women in the desert so the man turned to his camel. He tried to position himself to have sex with his camel but the camel ran away. The man ran to catch up to the camel and got back on and started to ride again. Soon he was feeling the urge to have sex again so once again he turned to his camel. The camel refused by running away. So he caught up to it again and go at it again. Finally after riding the camel through the whole desert the man came to a road. There was a broken down car with three big chested beautiful blondes sitting in it. He went up to them and asked the women if they needed any help. The hottest girl said ,"If you fix our car we will do anything you want." The man luckily knew a thing or two about cars and fixed it in a flash. When he finished all three girls asked,"How could we ever repay you Mr." After thinking for a short while he replied,"Could you hold my camel?"



A Tiny Bit About Me...


Just in case anybody wants to know. I'm 54 years old. I have no illusions regarding photography as a career. I was a professional wedding and portrait shooter many many years ago. I was trained by a PPAA award winning Professional Photographer. I now shoot primarily for fun, and enjoy helping others as I can. To dispel any misunderstandings, I've never referred to myself as an "artist".
To me, that is a professional designation.
I am a shooter, that's what I am.

I am a professional craftsperson, and so is my wife. My wife and I have run our own business for the past 32 years, and we manage to keep our heads afloat. :nod: I also do not discuss what I do for a living on DA, as this is my pleasure, and I prefer not to mix my profession with my pleasure.

My wife is: LadyAliceofOz
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My daughter is Wyrdhaven
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She's doing some kickass artisan craft work there, check it out!

My son, (my daughter's husband) is FlipWardDragon :iconflipwarddragon:


A Note TO All!



Anyone who has :+fav:ed my works...
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By the way, if I'm watching you, and you're watching me, I probably won't thank you for any :+fav:'s.
I'll spend more time going through your gallery, or viewing your deviations, and talking with you via comments because I'm not spending time thanking for :+fav:'s! :giggle:

Also, I don't accept "tags".... If you want to know something about me, ask, if you need to know it I will tell you. :nod:
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Also, this is a Politics, Religion, and Hate free zone. I have friends from all walks of life, all religious denominations, sects, you name it.
In my journal features you're likely to find a Jew's deviation next to an Arabs, Black next to White and any combination in between.
One other note. I am a former Marine. It was an honor to serve my country.
I am proud of all service people around the world, who choose to serve their countries, past and present.
I have close friends who were Army Pathfinders, My Brother was Special Forces in Viet-Nam. My Mother was a WAVE (Navy WWII), My Father was also a Marine during WWII.
My son, (Wyrdhaven's husband) was Army Airborne during Desert Storm.
A particular deviant here that I watch is former Air Force, another is in the Navy. A close young friend of mine just joined the Coast Guard.
I entered the service in 1974 when the Navy & Marines no longer accepted would be young felons,and trouble makers and the Army no longer accepted losers and conscripts. Since that time in military history the services have learned that we're all pulling on the same rope. There's no room on my page for badmouthing any branch of the service. I refuse to engage in berating any branch of the United States Armed forces. We all served under the same flag :flagus:. If anyone chooses to berate any service, they will be blocked from my page. If you don't like what the U.S. Government does all the time.... tough!
At one point in history or another The United States and it's people have come to the aid in one fashion or another of your government, or peoples, don't bitch about mine, as I don't bitch about yours.

There's nothing we can really do about those who hate. So don't spread it around here please! :D



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liviugherman's avatar
thank you so much Bob :)

Liviu :wave: