I'm a political moderate here in the U.S. That means that I'm a democrat that votes the politician, not the party. I am more concerned with social issues than money, but I'm not stupid about it. I've read two different things today that highly irritated me, and I'm going to comment on them ( Read more... )

I got to watch an encore presentation of the concert from Sunday at the Capitol Mall. I was really impressed. I found my heart touched several times. My mom came out for the last bit. Both of us were favorable impressed by President Elect Obama's speech. Mom said that she was glad she got up to hear it. The closing song was "This Land is Your ( Read more... )

My new teaching job started last Tuesday. The usual chaos getting started. I'm working at one Santa Ana elementary school on Mondays and Wednesdays, and another on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I spent the 3 days this week mostly testing. We're supposed to start real lessons this week. Mostly I like the kids we have. No real terrors as far as I ( Read more... )

My inventory shift on Monday night ended at midnight, so getting mom to the eye doctor wasn't too bad. The doctor is very happy with her healing. She goes back in 2 weeks for another check up. By then her eyes should be healed enough for new glasses-if she needs them. I took her over to Target afterwards so she could get some ladylike ( Read more... )

Thomas Wolfe said "You can't go home again." Maybe, but you can visit your home town and get take out. In other words, I HAVE TOMALES! It is remarkable what will make me happy.

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a
Spiritual Extroverted Self-Knower

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My resolutions for 2008 were largely a continuation of 2007's. I broke even on how well I kept them. This year's list is mostly the same. A short list that I can look back on ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a safe and fun evening last night and will have a relaxing day today. Working Knotts' Praise Night was interesting after having attended it as a young adult and as a parent of same. A bit of coming full circle feeling. I worked Gallery, which was steady with periods of slow. We did have fireworks, though I'm still wondering ( Read more... )

I've done some year end stuff, but nothing has really expressed how I felt about the year. So here's another attempt ( Read more... )

A belated Happy Birthday to Malterre! I hope it was a lovely day for you, with decent weather, good food, and friends.