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I got this from a friend

With the average cost for a nursing home reaching $188 per day for a semi private room, there is a better way when we get old and feeble. We have already

 

checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined

 

long-term stay discount and senior discount, it’s $49.23 per night. That leaves $138.77 a day for breakfast, lunch, dinner in any restaurant we want, or

 

room service. It also will leave enough for laundry, gratuities, and special TV movies. Plus, we get a swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge, and washer

 

and dryer. We’ll also get free

 

toothpaste, razors, shampoo and soap. And we’ll be treated like a customer, not a patient.

 

Five dollars worth of tips a day will have the entire staff scrambling.

 

There is a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.

 

The handicap bus will also pick us up if we fake a decent limp. Ride the church bus free on Sundays. For a change of scenery, take the airport

 

shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there. While you’re at the airport, fly somewhere.

 

Meanwhile, the cash keeps building up.

 

It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. On the other hand, Holiday Inn will take your reservation today. And you are not stuck in one place forever

 

– you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to

 

city.

 

Want to see Hawaii? They have a Holiday Inn there, too.

 

TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? No problem. They fix everything and apologize for the inconvenience.

 

The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks if you are OK. If not, they will call the undertaker or an ambulance. If you

 

fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip,

 

and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.

 

And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to visit you, and probably check in for a mini-vacation. The grandkids can use the pool.

 

What more can you ask for?

 

Here are even more benefits that Holiday Inn provides retirees. Most standard rooms have coffee makers, reclining chairs, and satellite TV — all you need

 

to

 

enjoy a cozy afternoon.

 

After a movie and a good nap, you can check on your children (free local phone calls), then take a stroll to the lounge or restaurant where you meet new

 

and exotic people every day.

 

Many Holiday Inns even feature live entertainment on the weekends.

 

Often they have special offers, too, like the Kids Eat Free program. You can invite your grandkids over after school to have a free dinner with you.

 

Just tell them not to bring more than three friends.

 

Pick a Holiday Inn where they allow pets, and your best friend can keep you company as well. If you want to travel, but are a bit skittish about unfamiliar

 

surroundings, you’ll always feel at home because wherever you go, the rooms all look the same. And if you’re getting a little

 

absent-minded in your old days, you never have to worry about not finding your room — your electronic key fits only one door and the

 

helpful bellman or desk clerk is on duty 24/7.

 

Being natural skeptics, we called a Holiday Inn to check out the feasibility of this plan. We’re happy to report that they were positively giddy at the

 

idea of folks checking in for a year or more. They even offered to negotiate the rate. We could have easily knocked them down to $40 a night!

 

So, when we reach the golden age we can face it with a grin.

 

Just forward all your emails to the Holiday Inn!

 

Does any one want to join us? Holiday Inn may even give group rates. We might get the price knocked down even more.

A visit to Bosnia

Today I had a chance to visit

with one of our staff who had just come back from Bosnia. Both of her parents come from Bosnia and she has many relatives there. They recently took a trip back to Bosnia and and took her with them. The part of the country that she visited was beautiful. Very European. She walked every where she went. She had become quite Americanized and this was the first time she visited. She was amazed at the diversity of people. She started to talk to an Oriental in the airport in English, and he replyed in perfect Bosnonian. She said she stumbled a bit and had to make her mind go to the native language.

I have a friend in that just survived a devastating fire. about two weeks ago she was in bed sleeping and her brother was cooking in the kitchen. Apparently some grease caught fire and started the whole place burning. Her brother ran down stairs for help  as her home is on the second floor. in the meantime her bedroom was filling with smoke and she couldn’t find her way out. The only way out is through a window in a bedroom she went to the window and cried out for help and four guys with a blanket appeared. She told me she didn’t remember a thing until she was on the blanket. In fact she could only find two of the guys that caught her to thank them. she suffered no damage at all, just a sore leg. she thinks that was her angels keeping watch over her.

 I found out today that she still has old pictures. She has an incredible attitude and is truly thanking God for her life.

As I re- think my thoughts on anger I feel compelled to do more study on it. Here’s two definition’s,

Emotional competence does not come from hiding or ignoring feelings.
Everyone has feelings. Healthy people experience a full range of feelings: joy, anger, sadness, relief, love. Competence comes in acknowledging these feelings for what they are-feelings-and realizing that they can be expressed in healthy ways rather than denied or used to manipulate, bully or control others.
Because many of us have learned myths about anger, we don’t consider anger as that “good friend” which stops by on occasion to warn us that we may need to make different choices, set boundaries, protect ourselves emotionally and physically, etc. • Feelings of powerlessness

What Is Anger?
Boiling Point the Workbook: Dealing With the Anger in Our Lives
by Jane Middelton-Moz, Ph.D.

Synonyms: annoy, irritate, bother, irk, vex, provoke, aggravate, peeve, rile
These verbs mean to disturb or trouble a person, evoking moderate anger. Annoy refers to mild disturbance caused by an act that tries one’s patience: The sound of the printer annoyed me. these came from the dictionary.

I had never thought of anger as being a ” good friend. So this is a whole new thought for me to grab ahold of. As I’ve thought more about anger I began to realize that it does create an upset in your body which affects your health, causing you to lose sleep and not be as healthy because you don’t take care of yourself.

How do you make anger a ” good friend”? I think you should see this as a tipoff to something going wrong in your mind. You’re feeling of powerlessness to your circumstances will overcome your good thinking mind. Your mind is very powerful so you will need to put something positive in it to overcome your anger. What’s your favorite hobby , what are you interested in, cars, boats, something you really enjoy.
Of course you are now handicapped so you’ll have to think about these things without getting mad.
If you’re like me this will take a great deal of effort, but in the long run it will enable you to begin to heal quicker.