I'm back, or so I think

I have missed this blog, if only a bit. There have been at least a half dozen times that I wanted to write a post. Mostly they were rants, including some customer service issues, and a few were about life events. But when you are away from blogging for only a few weeks, how many things could you have missed about me? Not too many!

I had my kid's birthday party at the Animal Rescue League's Wildlife Center. I like a party where you can give back, which is what we did. The girls made cat toys and bird feeders, and I made a monetary donation as well as bought a bunch of needed supplies. Everyone seemed to have a great time (one mom told me the next week that her daughter said that was the best birthday party she had ever been to). And considering this was Jordan's first friend party and probably her last for quite some time, I am glad it went well, my over-planning and running out of time notwithstanding.
As you might have guessed, my kid had a birthday. She is nine. How can that be? Just yesterday, or so it seems, I was having contractions 12 days before my due date and was determined to work late to finish up an assignment just in case. Well, just in case was born the next day. My baby brings me so much joy and love (and frustration!).
We went to the aviary two weeks ago. We had not been there in several years, and it is quite different. My favorite is the penguins exhibit, particularly the tunnels that allow you to watch the penguins swim under water. I also like feeding the lories, and this year a bird ate a worm out of my hand.
My kid started fourth grade today. New school (merged with others), new people, but I am hopeful for a good year. I do my first lunch duty tomorrow. May the Lord be with me!
I enjoyed the Olympics this year, and was sad to see them over. But I get over things pretty quickly.
Did you watch Dallas 2012 on TNT this summer? Well, you should have. It was a great (not perfect) show. Every Monday I would be excited, thinking that Wednesday was only two days away. The only reason I am not looking forward to its return is because it comes in January, one of my least favorite months.
I was really hoping not to get back to this blog before the election, but I was pretty sure that was not going to happen. I don't have much to say about it other than the political ads seemed to have lessened over the past few weeks, and for that I am grateful.
I am mad at my favorite retail store, Kohl's, for not once, but twice, sending me the wrong size for a sweater. More on that later. Maybe.

Well, that sums up things pretty well. Hopefully I will write a more focused post in the next week. And hopefully now that I am back to blogging, the Pirates will get back on track. C'mon wild card!

What a year 2021 has been (Day 7)

I have almost no words for what happened yesterday at the Capitol. Protesting is one thing (though I truly think it is and has been time to move on). But to storm the Capitol? A friend on Facebook said, quite simply, " Almost 20 years ago a group of people on an airplane sacrificed themselves to protect the Capitol. How far we have fallen!" Indeed. And, yes, it IS storming the Capitol. I have seen numerous videos of people knocking down barricades/fences, pushing police officers, and breaking windows and climbing through them. That is beyond protesting. And even if a protestor did not do those things, if they followed those seditionists past those barricades and into the building, they are just as guilty. I did not support the violent protests this summer that resulted in damages to businesses and public property (I was in full support of the actual protests). But I also acknowledged as a white person, I cannot truly put myself in the position of a black person who is angry a...

Why do they stand up there and say that when they are just lying?

That extra-long title is courtesy of my nine-year-old and was something she uttered during "Say Yes to the Dress" on Friday evening. I watch very little reality TV, but I make an exception for this show because I like to look at the dresses. And sometimes, the stories are heart-warming. Typically at the end of the show, a snippet of a wedding is aired. In this particular show, a woman who was confined to a wheelchair was exchanging vows with her fiance. After the two of them finished, J made her comment. I asked her what she meant as I must have been on the computer while the TV was on, and she explained that because so many people just get divorced, why do they even say "as long as we both shall live"? That is tough one, kid. I tried with what I thought was a sound explanation: Most of the people who get married truly believe they will be together the rest of their lives, but sometimes it just doesn't work out. But if you don't think that you will be ...

Disenfranchised Republican

When I went to vote this a.m., I handed my ID to the guy, since my last name can be tricky. He looked for several minutes in the box with the cards. Then he asked if I was in the right place (there is another area in this room, for people in a different neighborhood, I presume). And I told him that this is where I have always voted. He then reviewed the bound paper list, found my name, but could not figure out why it was there, yet not in the box with the cards. Then he realized what was going on and rather exclaimed, "Oh, you are a Republican!" One of the ladies sitting next to him said, "Oh, one of those." I said I assumed they had not seen too many of "my kind" that morning, and she said I was the third. Then, being the open person I am, I eagerly said I was coming to rock the vote and vote for Ron Paul. One of the women commented that she liked some of the things he had stood for, perhaps to try to make me feel as if I was not voting for a terrible per...

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