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When I tell you what you think is an outrageous idea and you don’t know what to say to me, read this:
I got in a rare argument with my mom last night. I threw out the wild and crazy idea that our family could get together and have a reunion every year for a week. She said that it was ok to want that but not to expect that to happen. I said that I thought [...]
Hoarding
Laura over at Pick Me! posted about hoarding today. I started to respond but it got so long that I decided to make it a post instead of a comment. * I grew up with a hoarder and I couldn’t stand it! I was always embarrassed to have my friends over. I wasn’t allowed to [...]
I’m still at the party
I’m listening to an interview on NPR with the late William Maxwell. When asked about growing older, he said that he’s mostly a story teller not a philosopher, but he has had fleeting impressions about age, a few of which he still remembers. Once he thought suddenly, “I don’t want to leave the party.” That [...]
“A job well left” or “Sometimes it helps to see it in print”
Last week I went for some bookstore therapy with a gift card in my wallet. I got some great books including “Finding Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Chik-SENT-me-high-ee.) I find it to be a very encouraging book and it’s motivated me to get off my butookus and get some exercise the last few days. ChiksSENTmehighee also reassured me this morning [...]
Day 4
I want to be a Galavanting Monkey and marry someone with deep goodness in his family roots. Pretty much, that is the main thing I want to create in this life: a clan with deep goodness at it’s roots. LOTS of love. Hmmm…. Maybe I should change this site to “Also a Gallavanting Monkey” “Gallavanting [...]
Here’s somethin for ye lads and lasses
A: It made me want to visit Scotland again B. It made me tear up My Granddad was raised in Scotland til he was 5. We visited his cousin George there and I couldna’ understand a word he was sayin’. He and my Granddad got drunk and sang songs. I’ve never seen my Granddad drunk [...]
Rate your life and my advice on getting up to a 6.4!
This Is My Life, Rated Life: 6.4 Mind: 7.2 Body: 8.2 Spirit: 8.2 Friends/Family: 4.3 Love: 2.1 Finance: 6.3 Take the Rate My Life Quiz Wow, I can’t believe my life rated well enough to give advice! I’m up from a year ago. After taking the quiz, they said my rating was above average and [...]
SILLY THINGS by Dan Kennedy
ME: Did you like having our silly time today? Did you like our walk? HIM: I saw … walky … and … (Starts giggling.) ME: You saw a walky? HIM: I will crush you. Ohh… very good. Go read the rest of it! Found via Dooce. Related posts You’re killing me here (0) What is [...]
Alaska trip, day two: BC in the house!
British Columbia rocks. On the first day of our trip, we landed in adless Vancouver, as previously noted and then, following some crazy plan of my mother’s, we spent the next 6 plus hours in transit. We took three bus rides and a ferry to our hotel on Vancouver Island where we immediately fell asleep. [...]
“Hey, how’s Braidwood’s trip going?”
“I don’t know, Alaska!” Hey, don’t blame me, I’ve been with my Granddad for days now. :) He has Alzheimer’s, but he is still jovial and likes to joke around. We’ve been having a lot of fun. The other day we were going out to site see. We were going down to deck 7 on [...]
