His first tux…
At his school, just before his first chorus concert.
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Fill in the blanks, dang it! Or… how the iPhone has ruined my ability to think
I didn’t feel well last night or this morning, so I called in sick. I’m spending my day in my jammies writing my birthday holiday story for my friend, Mika.
I keep getting annoyed that the word processing program isn’t finishing my words for me or fixing the words to what I mean them to be. I actually just realized that Word has never done that. It’s the iPhone text system that does that for me… anticipates the words I use a lot and enters them at the right time.
My phone has a relationship with me. Knows me, knows the names of people I text about a lot. I’m sure this says something about me, but I don’t know what. I’m sure if it’s important, my phone will ding to tell me.
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An overwhelming lull…
It seems like there’s lots going on and nothing really I have so many things I need to be doing…
- making jewelry
- reading my insurance text book
- writing the Christmas story for Mika’s birthday
- finishing a blanket for Hannah
- reading my insurance text book.
What I’m doing instead…
- watching “Chuck”
- thinking that it’s weird that Eliza put a red fuzzy teddy bear on my shoulder
- wishing it was already after Thanksgiving so I could make some of my famous holiday butter mints or a couple of cheese balls
- anxiously awaiting Friday night and my big date night with Mike… and for Saturday when we’ll get fresh, fabulous Harry and David pears
- thinking about how I’m going to cook those pears
- wishing Eliza would go to bed.
It seems like there’s lots going on, nothing much moving forward.
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I haven’t been here this week… I’ve been making jewelry and making blankets and making pretty much anything that saves me from having to really study that darned insurance book that now has a real deadline looming.
If I can finish it, I’ll be ready to have some holiday fun.
Filed under Most Everything | Permalink | Comment (0)All a tingle… that’s me. I voted.
I’m not really all that political. I tend to approach politics the way I approach religion. You do your thing. I’ll do mine. Let’s agree to disagree if necessary. There’s no need to argue.
I have on a rare occasion put a political sign in my yard. Rare in the sense that I’ve done that once. I’m registered for one particular party, but I never vote a straight ticket. I vote based upon issues and feelings and reasonably rational opinions. Although, I do admit that today I did vote for someone I have no knowledge of at all… except that this gentleman wasn’t the man he was running against. Sometimes that’s enough, you know?
But this morning, as I stood in line at 6:30 in the morning waiting for the polls to open at 7, it was pretty exciting. I know that sounds kinda dorky, but it was the neatest thing. I know that this is the most important presidential election of my lifetime thus far. And we all stood together, united in our belief that each of our votes count.
And it was a really wonderful thing. Now, sure, several of us most likely canceled out one another’s votes. And sure, the electoral college is a weird and wonky thing, and maybe my vote doesn’t count.
But for a few moments this morning… or 45 of them to be exact… as I stood in the chill of the early morning reading my local newspaper and chatting with the people in line with me, I was thrilled with the process. This … THIS … is why the American democratic process is wonderful. This is each of us thinking and choosing and acting on our beliefs.
Regardless of who wins tonight, that is a really amazing thing.
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