Thursday, October 5, 2017

Today, I Just Want to Believe




And for all the years you borrowed
And for all the tears you cried
And for all the fears you had to keep inside

I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark
I hear your screams
Don't turn away
Just take my hand
And when you make your final stand
I'll be right there
I'll never leave
All I ask of you
Believe








Wednesday, October 4, 2017

All Dogs Go To Heaven & I Hope These People Did Too.


Today’s thought is that I don’t like what I am thinking.


Too much bad juju lately. It is happening to people I know and to people I do not know. There has been too much sadness and death in the last week.

It started with Moose Saturday - not sudden, but unexpected on Saturday. We will miss you Moose.


Then the shooting in Las Vegas - sudden and unexpected. We mourn for all of you.


Next was Tom Petty - sudden and unexpected. We will miss you Tom.


Now, Peeby Doos, my daughter’s dog - sudden and unexpected. We will miss you Peebs.


I am going to have to add another name to another Halloween gravestone in my office.

This has to stop….



Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Tom Petty

I decorate my office for Halloween every year. It is fun and people get a kick out of it. They honestly believe Halloween is my favorite holiday - but it isn't. Christmas is. 


I never dreamed I would add a name to one of my grave markers. I never have before. But this year is different.




"You belong among the wildflowers
You belong somewhere close to me
Far away from your trouble and worries
You belong somewhere you feel free"


I am not going to lie, this one hurts. I love his music. He was great in concert.


I hope he is resting in peace. I hope he is free. Thanks for the music. You will be missed.

Monday, October 2, 2017

School, AARP, & Midterms

Today I have a midterm. Quantitative Statistics. God help me.


I slipped the AARP in the title because as I was logging in on my phone to use my universities (also my employer) Wi-Fi this morning I noted a strange new addition. "TU-AARP." Now we have TU-Guest, TU-Student, TU-Secure, & TU Faculty, but this AARP version was new. Must be for the 'older learners' like me I surmised. Not so said IT! But I think they were just being nice.


Wish me luck!

Saturday, September 30, 2017

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, & The Travel

The Good – my daughter and son-in-law are moving into their very first home as homeowners! Good bye rent! Congratulations!

The Bad - It is my husband’s weekend off and poor Moose (the elderly dog of the elderly woman we work for) has decided that this is the day he is going call it quits. He is done and his poor old body has decided it is not going to let him get up. So my husband has to go help the guy that is working this weekend to help pick Moose up, take him to the vet, and have him put to sleep. Maybe it is more sad than bad.

The Ugly - When our dogs found out that poor Moose was leaving for good, they decided it was a great idea to roll their grief away in some mud. Thanks ladies.

The Travel – My sister is travelling home and her son & new daughter-in-law are travelling too. But they are going much farther than my sister. My sister – 8 hours on the road. Her kids – 8 months on the road. Safe travels everyone.

Thought for the day: That is A LOT of things happening in one day.


Friday, September 29, 2017

A Bed is a Bed

I was given a magazine today by a friend. For those young individuals out there, consider a magazine an old school reading app made out of paper. In this magazine it showed a picture of a bed. Pretty, simple, and perfect.

However, it also included an 8 step, picture tutorial, about how to recreate the look of the bed. 

Now, it was a bed, with a bottom sheet, a top sheet, a blanket, pillows, and a fancy blanket folded and draped at the end of the bed. Didn’t seem overly hard to me to recreate. But they had EIGHT helpful steps.

So my thought for today is:

“If I cannot make a bed look similar to a picture in a magazine simply by using my ‘common sense street smarts’ that were garnered while growing up actually making a bed; and I have to resort to following multiple instructions that a paper old school app is giving me on how to do it – I don’t need that bed. And neither does anyone else.”

It is a bed. Who am I trying to impress in my own home with my bed making skills?


And as a total sidebar - who perpetuated the thought that 10,000 pillows on a bed was pretty and a good idea?! Pillow manufacturers - that is who. Not real people who sleep in their beds.

Just sayin'...

Thursday, September 28, 2017

New Style

It occurred to me as I thinking about how this blog is always on my mind, but I never seem to post anymore. The reason I do not post as often as I think I will, might be that I am busy - always busy - and the thinking, and planning, and writing, and trying to be funny, and revising just seemed to become another chore rather than a fun outlet to express my thoughts.


But I want to express something. Even if it just for me. Something I can look back on in later years and think, "Oh yes! That is how I was feeling on Thursday, September 28, 2017." Notice the selfishness of how "I" was feeling. Like no one else matters. Even though they do.


That should sway me somehow not to focus solely on myself, but I am sticking to my self-serving plan for now.


This is what I plan to do. Each day (lets see how long I actually make that commitment) I am going to try to post a word or a short sentence to explain my day. Short, sweet, and to the point, but maybe understandable by anyone else who reads this.


Feel free to post how your day is/was as a comment too!


Today:


Life has not turned out like I thought it was going to be. Not even close.


See you tomorrow!