1. My old college roommate and fellow exchange student to Brighton College of Education, while we were both girls, does not own a computer. Or a cell phone. Sigh. And she lives in Chicago, or near Chicago, near Glen Ellyn. I haven't seen her for a number of years and we mostly just exchange Christmas and birthday cards. But, once upon a time we rode the Orient Express together. She taught me, a small town girl, how to park at malls. (At each mall have a particular store and area where you park, that way you can find your car.) We endured one semester at university during which the students above us played Hummingbird Don't Fly Away, Fly Away.....endlessly, loudly, and I can not hear that song without feeling slightly nauseous and slightly reminiscent for those college days.
But, recently, I contacted her work email and she responded. I hope to get up to see her sometime soon. But, maybe not during the winter months whilst she is enduring an average of 9 more inches of snow than we are here in the south.
2. Upon the recommendation of several bloggers I recently began to watch Downton Abbey. I love it. When the above old roommate and I were in England, I lived in an upstairs, downstairs type of residence that had been a seaside hotel, but before that, had been a residence for an upper crust family. Imagine high ceilings and molding and all that. And the kitchens in the basement were like the downstairs quarters in those British historical shows. Not quite Downton Abbey, but the same time period.
3. I have been working out of my usual comfort zone at blogging lately. Often I have dozens of posts scheduled ahead. This allows me to leisurely edit and shuffle posts and thoughts. I like to blog that way. Lately, I haven't had as many ideas. I sit and stare at the screen. Perhaps I have said everything I need to here. I am not sure. I am pretty persistent once I begin a thing. I am not sure I will know when it is time to quit.
4. Hubby and went to The Iron Lady on Sunday. Very well acted, but a very poorly told story in my opinion. In fact, I am not sure exactly what the story was. It should have had the subtitle--As Taken from the Headlines, because that is what it felt like. I didn't know any thing more about Margaret Thatcher at the end than I knew at the beginning. Except, I didn't know that she was still alive. I found that out when I came home and looked it up online.
5. We went out to eat with friends on Sunday evening after the movie. We went to a local Italian restaurant. They had a 9 dollar list of specials on Sunday evening. So we chose $9 steaks and catfish and such. It was all very good. We stayed and talked with our friends for over an hour after the food was gone.
6. For the second week in a row at Mass I heard in the announcements that people we knew had died and already had been buried within the past week. These people were not close friends, but people whose wakes we would have attended, had we only known. I came to the realization that I have reached that age when people my own age will commence dieing. Perhaps I need to start reading the obituaries. Sigh.
7. Between the prayer group, spiritual direction, and my women's group reading about the Mass I feel very tired from all the going and very overloaded with thoughts to process. Looking ahead March seems as though it will be very busy. People were getting out their calendars and writing in things for March already.
1 beautiful thought{s}:
i don't think one ever really runs out of things to say on a blog if one blogs about life. life is kind of helpful that way. (i'm on year 12 of blogging.)
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