If I want to mess with someone, I say, "One foot's in the grave, and the other's on a banana peel." If I want to be honest but not totally serious I say, "Better than some, worse than others." Most of the time I say, "Hanging in there."

I wish we could stop using "How are you?" as the automatic greeting it seems to have become. Not sure what to replace it with, though.

When someone says they'll pray for me, I just switch it around in my mind to mean they'll take a few moments to think of me. I'm not religious or spiritual at all, but I realize most other people are. If their way of exerting hope that my day will improve is to pray, I'm okay with that. At least they're saying they'll put forward a little extra effort. 😉