Day 21

AITING ON THE SNOW...

Freezing cold right now...and a light sleet is falling.  So now they say we may get 2 inches of snow...I hope not but I'd rather have that than ice...we had ice last week.  I am as prepared as I can be...there is only so much you can do about it.  

I have a fire burning to help keep me warm it's really uncomfortable in here...Unfortunately I did not get bird seed, it slipped my mind so I put out what I had it won't be enough...I thought I had more in the bins than what I had....hopefully it won't snow and I can go for some tomorrow.   They have enough to get them through the rest of this day and probably thru the morning, but then it's not gonna last all day.  I have some suet I can put out...and I will. 

Friday again...it seems like Monday, then Friday is like an event horizon and the rest of the week is a Black Hole...that swallows up time. 

On a completely different note...I just listened to a vlog and this lady said she was bullied when she was a child in school, and she felt she had been bullied in relationships.  
The way I was raised I had no choice but to take up for myself.  We had parents who not involved in our lives at all beyond providing survival items of a roof, some food, some clothing...and took care of us when we were sick to the best of their ability! They were poor...we were poor...my mom pulled us out of poverty by the time I had already left home.  But to be honest if anyone attempted to bully me, I just saw it as a threat I had handle...so I did.  I know bullying is real and it changes how people live. 

If anyone tried to take something from me, tired to physically do something to me, or take huge advantage of me, I just derailed it right from the beginning.  Push me in the ice cream line, you got your face slapped, pull my hair I'd turn around punch you in the nose, take something from me, you would end up with your fingers in a twist hold.  I was not violent, but I reacted in my own defense. 

The only time my parents intervened was this...

I began walking at 8 months old! So I played with bigger kids, this one little girl I played with would run in circles and I think it made me dizzy so I bit her on the arm one day...she ran crying and my dad told her this..."the next time she bites you, you bite her back if you don't I will spank you." So I think he put the fear of Jesus in that kid....and sure enough the next time I bit her I was 2 yrs old, she was 4, she had way more teeth, she BIT me hard!! I ran home crying and that was that!!

So I think that was what I needed to know...if you want someone to leave you alone, dish our more than they are willing to take.   Lesson Learned.