A Boo Box for your boo!

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Best Halloween Movies

 

Okay so there is a lot. I thought I would share my very brief Halloween movie picks.

Pick #1: All Bewitched Halloween episodes, especially Darrin as a werewolf now that I recently heard the behind the scenes story from Chris York, Dick York's son.

The Little Vampires

The Wizard of Oz

...and Young Frankenstein

Travel Journal by Gina Meyers

 

Thursday, October 17th, 2024

Waiting over 25 minutes for my luggage.

Waiting for one's luggage at the airport, especially an international flight is akin to waiting for the bride to walk down the aisle. The big attraction. I think most people feel you can't have a trip without your luggage. It's like the start of the trip when you pick up your suitcase.

I just said a small prayer to Saint Anthony. How could an entire flights luggage be delayed?

Did they not put it on the plane?

Did the bride change her mind?

the circus needs the clown. The wedding needs a bride and I need my luggage for this trip to start. 

Out of the ordinary movies that I love by Gina Meyers

 

Have you ever seen a really good movie that sticks with you long after you've watched it? Maybe one that is ingrained in your memory like a good coleslaw and mashed potatoes. Sticks to your ribs and on occasion you get the need to indulge in it again?

Well food analogies aside, here are my three top out of the ordinary or slightly off-wall movies that are truly are unique as the movie titles imply.

Peggy Sue Got Married

Crazy People

Defending Your Life

What About Bob?

Start your own list and for the holidays let one family member choose a unique movie that they enjoy and preview it before you suggest for the whole family.

One Favorite Read by Gina Meyers

 One Favorite Read

by Gina Meyers

As a writer, I love books that inspire and inform. As a cookbook author, I too enjoy this approach of finding books that are a treasure trove of great ideas and helpful information.

Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life is the how-to guide on our emotions and how these can be changed by our outlook and attitude. One thing I love about her books is that she says that every disease of our body we have manifested. This is a profound statement of wisdom.

Please check out my 3 Favorite Reads of 2023 and maybe you can get in a couple of reads before 2025 comes.

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A Saw The Light From a Cardboard Sign By Gina Meyers

 

A Saw The Light From a Cardboard Sign

By Gina Meyers

This evening, while driving home,  I took a turn off of the freeway and waited at the intersection light.

What I saw however was beyond ordinary.

What I saw this evening was life changing. And I don’t exaggerate that often. So, I really mean it when I say it, and I’ll say it again for full effect, “life changing.”

If I weren’t to exaggerate, I would say it  rather eye opening. 

I saw a disheveled looking homeless man, no big surprise there, we see many beggars at the street corners these days. It has become a normal yet grim reality of hard times.  

 But this man made me laugh. Not just a chuckle, he made me laugh out loud. A downright Jolly Santa belly laugh.

Why you may ask….???

Well,  before I get to the hook,  writers like to put the bait on the hook before we cast the fishing rod into the water.

So…..

The man looked to be in his mid-to late sixties, semi-stylish hairstyle akin to John Bon Jovi’s hair, long, wavy, but more gray. The man wore black sunglasses, a brownish colored tee-shirt, black shorts, flip flops and he was pacing back and forth in the medium. In the distance, I heard the train whistle and saw the rails go down on the train tracks, whistle blows louder and the lights were illuminating on those rail crossings as it was dusk. The man seemed to kind of shimmy  his body and attention to the oncoming train and this scared me slightly. 

But he repositioned himself quickly,  like a wound-up toy soldier and all of a sudden, we were his target market for his rather large sign made out of cardboard, worn on the edges, but the man was still able to hold and walk from car to car soliciting for money.

The sign itself was larger than the average signs I see the homeless holding. It looked to be about three feet tall, like three or so cardboard box pieces tapped together. 

The sign the man held  in my humble opinion was eye opening and also made me laugh.  

In handwritten BIG BOLD Letters it said:

EX WIFE HAD A BETTER ATTORNEY 

Yes it made me laugh so hard, and then I took a sip of sobering reality from that sign.

How often do we play the blame game? 

If only…. If only….

If only I were born into the Rockefeller Family, I would have wealth beyond measure. 

If only I would have said yes to the date from the computer geek in high school that turned into a  successful rocket scientist who won the nobel prize. I’d be married by now  with three brilliant children visiting the sunny coast of Tahiti on our summer breaks. If only I played the lottery and used the numbers my Great Aunt Louise said were the lucky albeit holy grail of all lotto numbers, I’d be a millionaire by now. If only I would have invested in Apple stock when I had the chance, I’d be financially fit. 

The list goes on and on. Not all blame games involve money, but this one sure did!

In the moments preceding seeing the sign,  it brought to my mind a flood stream of bad life experiences that I’ve had, that I’ve simply sterilized in my life. 

Isn’t flood stream oxymoronic? Yes, and so was the sign. 

Homeless man came too close for comfort to me while sitting in my car. 

Why is this lesson so important? It is because we can all relate. We’ve all had bad days where things didn’t go our way, we’ve all had unpleasant experiences,  and some of us like Pig-pen, the character in the Charles Schultz Charlie Brown Comic, we all starting living our lives under a perpetual dust cloud. . But I think we are missing the point, some of us mistake a bad day for a bad life. 

But how many of us throw daily pity parties? The late Dr. Wayne Dyer, motivational speaker, so eloquently stated: “ Stop  looking for occasions to be offended.”

If we live our lives in the relatable realm that my: EX HUSBAND or EX WIFE  HAD A BETTER ATTORNEY. Then we miss the point of why we were put on this planet to begin with.

PEACE, LOVE, KINDNESS, as Actor  Mike Myers says, “Yeah Baby!”

A relatable bum with a sense of humor. Afterall, I saw the light on a cardboard sign at dusk. 

So what does your cardboard sign say?

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