Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
What a Week! (no, yeah! I do mean to count the week as an item, just not certain if it counts as an item of grateful or a hypo-grateful item.)
2) the above photo is of my forehead and Phyllis’ Mini Cooper. As a last attempt to have some weather-enjoyment from this otherwise disappointing Summer, we took a drive through Wakefield (yes, the Wakefield), with the top down.
3) which do you think I should do first? the grateful or the hypo-grateful?…. well, since clarks are all optimists (sort of like the cinema delusion of Julia Roberts as a ‘successful prostitute’ ) lets go with the hypo-grateful first. I will, however, cite SR* 7.3;2 {if a writer encounters a gratitude item that presents with a dual, but opposing quality, i.e. hyper and hypo-grateful; ( much like those stupid ‘good news/bad news’ jokes that seem to have such incredible popularity with the teenage boys, once they have matured past the wit of bodily function noises), [then] each shall constitute a separate item, provided that at least two examples of the jokes are presented.}
Lawyer: ‘I have some good news and some bad news.’
Client: ‘Well, give me the bad news first.’
Lawyer: ‘ The bad news is that the DNA tests showed that is was your blood all over the crime scene.’
Client: ‘oh no! I’m ruined! What’s the good news?’
Lawyer: ‘The good news is that your cholesterol is down to 130!’
( source: www hereinreality com)Doctor: Well, I have some bad news and some really bad news.
Guy: Well, give me the really bad news first.
Doctor: You have cancer, and only 6 months to live.
Guy: And the bad news?
Doctor: You have Alzheimer’s disease.
Guy: Thank God. I was afraid I had cancer!
( source: www myworkbreak com)
4) (hypo-grateful) the font of this blog has been subtly changing over the last couple of weeks, nothing I could put a finger on, but the ever-observant zoe, back on the 9th, reported italicization showing up in odd places. I did what any normal clark would do, I thought about it, sketched a plan (in my mind) of what to do if it got really bad and continued about the business of the 30DC. Yesterday I started the day’s post, but when I went to ‘Preview’, the draft, the font was ….way messed up, all boldy and italiced and such. My stomach did that stomach thing when something happens that is very bad but does not force you to sit on the floor. I did what any ‘normal’ clark would do, I kept typing, included the ‘fact’ of the messed up font in the Post and hit Publish. However I did one other thing: I found the blog consulting company that I used to place the ‘Trademark’ mark on the Doctrine. In fact, I found my last email to them, and hit Reply with the message, ‘ I need some ’emergency’ work done on my WordPress website (hosted at blue host) My font is going a bit crazy. Please let me know how we can get this fixed asap”
5) (Grateful) Later in the day, there was a Comment from Christine, suggesting that, perhaps my concerns about the presentation of the Wakefield Doctrine were no longer grounded in reality and that a reassessment of my emotions might be beneficial, her exact words were: ” YAY WEEKEND!! Party on! :)” And she was totally correct. Well, at least about the no-longer-grounded-in-reality. I have not yet initiated the Party!.. but all was well in Doctrine-ville.
6) Grateful item/plug for a company that did good: Content Robot Karen and Dana are very good lifeforms. You should visit their site. If you find yourself in need of help with WordPress blogs or design or what have you. (Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya)
7) The Wakefield Doctrine 30 Day Month Challenge continues! (who but a clark, confronting a waning of interest and enthusiasm in writing Posts for a niche blog would decide that a ‘Post-a-Day Challenge’ would be the best way to deal with the ennui…. and then do it alone. what? wait a few weeks for the NonoIWonWrite Challenge or a little longer for the ‘1 though 9 Challenge’ (motto: “well, because 10 is, like, a repeat of the numbers that came before!“) What the hell is it with clarks? oh, wait, I remember the old saying about my people: ‘clarks! they make the hard things easy and the easy things hard.’
8) no, don’t worry! while it was only Phyllis and me in the car last night, I will take Una for a walk later in the weekend. She, (Una, not Phyllis), (well…Phyllis too but I was talking about Una), had a busy week. For the past 4days we’ve had a Landscape design crew here, re-doing the front yard. Will try for a ‘before and after’ photo thing, maybe later next week when they’ve finished. (Company motto: ‘only god can make a tree, but lets see how he does raking loam’)
9) As always I am grateful to L. for her near-psychotic levels of self-less giving to others, (kind of interesting, to a clark anyway)… I first ‘met’ Lizzi when she was writing grat lists as reg’lar Posts in her blog…. Considerings… so it seems obvious to build a bloghop around the idea. But the success of this blog hop is a clear example of how much personal investment in a project is critical. I am totally grateful that she has done this thing.
10) SR 1.3
*SR stands for ‘Secret Book of Rules’ (aka) ‘Book of Secret Rules’
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HEHE I like the term Hypo grateful!
seems only reasonable that if gratitude is recognized, the opposite should be easy to refer to!
I have to wonder….do any of us really ever mature past the wit of bodily function noises? This could be related to the amount of time I spend in a middle school, but still I wonder.
Just came off of nearly fifteen years in a high school classroom…still funny there.
since you put it that way,
I look forward to the before and after photos. So, did Una supervise the landscape crew, or did she help come up with the design?
Kristi
she was quite diligent, watching out the window all day (which meant she totally fell asleep as soon as we got home in the evening).
#7 man. Wtf is with that?! No clark on the planet does not experience that shit. Drives me nuts. See? Right there. I just gave you a topic to include in your 30DC.
Funny post today.
yeah, huh?
I love those good news, bad news jokes. I was at a viewing yesterday and I a story about antique heirloom missing rosary beads. Good news they were found, bad news they were buried with the deceased. Not so funny. Have a good week. Write about that landscape project. I’d love to see it.
Val
I will try to keep better records… terrible for taking photos of the house prior to the project… (the current project is the result of finding ourselves with a totally different front yard after we had a number of large trees removed. Will dig up any old photos.
“Clarks make the hard things easy and the easy things hard”? That was incredibly helpful.
I’m hypo grateful for the doctrine too. Been applying it recently! And oh my, the theories are true. Will discuss later!
yeah… slowly, now that the non-Summer is over, getting back to Friday Nights vidchats… tend to be earlier and shorter than when we started but still a lot of fun
Very interested in what you did to your front yard, since we’re doing ours later this year or early next year :-)
Stephanie
the project was part what-to-do-since-we-cut-done-and-then-lost-the-trees-in-front-of-the-house and need for additional parking and wanting to have a simple and nice lawn. I don’t have deliberate before-and-after photos but will dig up some old pitchas to do the comparison as we finish (the work will be done this coming week, the lawn should be established by the end of month)
Merci beaucoup, and a hat-tip for the kind nod. I am now fascinated to know whether or not you wrote this BEFORE you did your hop-around, and read my current post, or AFTER. The former would indicate an interesting level of synchronicity (and perhaps your assessment of ‘near’ will have its ante ‘upped’ when you come over) and the latter a generous show of support for said ‘near; level :)
That ‘not so bad you need to sit down on the floor’ …yes. That’s an interesting concept. Why are we so comfortable on floors, do you think? Is there a personality relationship to the place a person would sit (or stand) in a given room, when presented with a variety of seats. I’m guessing scotts would be near the door, or in a position where they could SEE the door (if there wasn’t a bar), the clark would be at floor level, with their back to the door, and the rogers would be in the chairs, because chairs.
no, I believe it was before I came over to Considerings (to link up the finished Post)… you have that quality of selflessness that is shared by clarks, combined with your fairly remarkable energy levels…
your position thoughts are interesting. (Question where do you position yourself in a room full of people? (assume no laying down) I ask because my secondary scottian aspect has me in a position to see most of the room and all of the entrance/exit… my predominant clark has me near said exit for escape purposes. I always determine my exit strategy upon entering a room or gathering of people). I suspect that scotts share this strategic thinking, but escape is at the top of the list (the potential, the assurance of the possibility of escape, that is).
Yes….to a point. It depends on the roomful (i.e. the people therein) – if they are friends, then I’m less bothered. If they’re unknowns, then yes – so I can see the exit, and with my back firmly to a wall, so no-one can get behind me. In fact, in most situations where I’m uncomfortable I’ll get myself to where I have my back to a wall.
And thank you! I am then mightily impressed with how well we matched up this week, quite inadvertently, with your shout and my doing :) Thank you :)
I think clarks go with ground level because of the humility.
I am so not into the bodily functions humor.. I do like and am responsible for some pretty dark , sick, medical humor… but I draw the line at flatulence. Glad things are back to normal (at least the font is) around here.
what kind of top is on the mini for convertable?
the classic black canvas type, fold back into the trunk…’except a lot more automated than the old convertibles.