Life can change in a split second

I get the news feeds on facebook to the news station back in the town I moved from mostly to keep in touch with whatever is happening back there since I have a daughter that lives there.  Monday I saw a newsfeed about a horrible accident on the Interstate not far from there in which 3 people died.  The photo showed a few very mangled cars, which wouldn't even be able to make out as cars actually.  They were hit but a truck.

Whenever I see things like that I pray my daughter is not involved! Luckily she was not.  Last evening though I was looking around Facebook and spotted a new post to a  group devoted as a memorial for our high school for those in any graduating class that has passed away.  As I read the post it was someone that graduated in my class of 1975 grads.  Wow, a guy I knew was driving on the interstate Monday early afternoon with his wife by his side...and suddenly was dead.  Yes he was in that accident that I saw posted the day before. It is so sad but at the same time makes me stop and realize how quickly things can change, how quickly it can end. 

I won't go into that whole live life as if it was your last day speech because you can't do it anyway!  If I lived every day like it was my last I would not report to work, I'd eat my favorite most expensive foods and stay up until dawn...well if it was my last day I'd want it to last right?!   Then I'd get in trouble for not reporting to work and eventually lose my job, lose tons of sleep staying up until dawn and be bankrupt from spending too much money!

Wishful Wednesday

This morning I woke up a bit early and while I was still in bed I got to thinking how I pray every night my nightly prayer..."Now I lay me....

I decided maybe I should come up with a prayer to say in the morning...something like

As the sun slowly rises up in the sky, 

I wipe the sleep out of my eyes...

And wish for this day to be something great, 

instead of a day that I grow to hate...

Bring only great things and work I don't dread

don't make me wish I had just stayed in bed!

So here is to a wishful Wednesday!  It is bound to start out better than it did for my hubby, poor guy.  He took his new deodorant and had removed the cover and placed it next to his old one.He proceeded to wash his face, etc at the sink and reached for the deodorant to apply afterward. He picked up the wrong one with the plastic tab still on and scraped himself pretty badly.  He said what was worse was having to actually apply the deodorant after he scraped himself...like salt on an open wound.  Ouch! He wonders if he can talk Mennen into creating a idiot proof deodorant for dummies.