How rich i am is not how rich i feel....am i being greedy?

Check out this site,
it gives some perspective and context. And my personal philosophy is "Context is everything"

http://www.globalrichlist.com/

Although, some context is not all context.....

i never thought this could be a word

i'm lacking a bit of inspiration for blogging these days. so in this case, you get a word.....

thank-you-ma'am • \THANK-yoo-mam\ • noun : a bump or depression in a road; especially : a ridge or hollow made across a road on a hillside to cause water to run off

Example sentence:"That night on the way home, thinking of his pleasant visit, he was suddenly shaken out of his tranquility . . . when his touring car hit a 'thank-you-ma'am' in the unpaved road."
(Hugh Manchester, Centre Daily Times [State College, PA], August 22, 2000)

Did you know?"Thank-you-ma'am" might seem like an odd name for a bump in the road, but the expression makes a little more sense if you imagine the motion your head would make as you drove over such an obstacle. Most likely, the jarring would make you nod involuntarily. Now think of the nodding gesture you make when you're thanking someone or acknowledging a favor. The "thank-you-ma'am" road bump is believed to have received its name when someone noted the similarity of those two head bobbing motions. It's a colloquialism particular to American English, and its earliest printed use is found in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1849 prose piece, Kavanagh: "We went like the wind over the hollows in the snow;—the driver called them 'thank-you-ma'ams,' because they make every body bow."

found on http://www.m-w.com

Aaaahhhhhh vacation

Vacation......

i didn't have to
do the dishes, do the cooking,
do the laundry,
get up at 7.30 am,
put up with the drunkards that populate our neighborhood,
even think about if it was going to be nice out (every day was cloudless skies and perfect sun),
go grocery shopping,
clean the house,
go anywhere or do anything, check my e-mails or cellphone,
suffer watching portugeese tv (if it's originally in english they use subtitles! - and they love american tv series)......

i had to.....
remember the sunscreen and the parasol when we went to the beach,
put gobs of cream on -because i only got sunburned once thankfully,
consider how my suntan was coming along,
concentrate to try to understand portugeese (i've made considerable progress from two years ago),
ask J.D. to translate fifty million times,
decide if i wanted lemon or lime juice, or both, for my evening coctails,
cut the tags off lots of new summer clothes,
try out my new bronze nailpolish (which i have had on for a week because i didn't do any dishes :),
take ticks off of manteiga from time to time (j.d. 's family has a house in the country next to goat farmers - tics love goats apparently),
re-learn how to eat grilled sardines (it really is a whole procedure),
eat lots of really good food & cheat on my diet......