Gravity works

I dropped something heavy

on my left thumb

and

on the big and second toes of my right foot.

No pictures, because my digits

are not photogenic.

Ouch, ouch and ouch.

A new creed

I gave up religion a few years ago.

Long, long story.

Also, I like American Chinese food.

And I like our little neighborhood take away,

and the people who own it.

The fortune cookies that they randomly

throw in with your order

aren't usually fortunes. They're more like

good thoughts. And some of them

might even improve your mind

and your life, if you let them.

This one, which I got the other day,

I give 20 stars out of 10.

It's that good.

So good in fact, that I'd like to

adopt it as a creed.

Something to try to live by.

It aligns with my liberal sense that

my time here is not just about me.

For me, it's about 'us'.

Community.

A lot of people don't see it that way.

I tried to take an artsy kind of photo

of this fortune cookie.

Sounds like a good creed to me.

Morning ain't broken

Just some pictures of our pretty morning here,

the small man-made lake,
taken from the little balcony of our apartment.

Cheers

It's a wonder

I love this photo. Yes, even as blurry as it is.

Taken with a phone camera, not that it matters, as it would have

come out blurry no matter which camera I was using.

I cannot hold still.

Anyway, we were trying out a pizza place during a short vacation

spent in Hot Springs with the guys, back in May 2009.

Rod's Pizza Cellar, if it matters.

They make awesome meatballs.

Blurry and all, this photo tickles me pink.

It makes me feel extremely and unashamedly proud.

Those two guys are the best things I've done in my life.

I have learned so much from them, far more than they have learned from me.

When they were little, I learned that being a parent

doesn't guarantee you will always treat another human being

with the dignity they deserve.

I have learned what many of my own personal flaws are.

Perhaps those were the most poignant and painful

things to learn.

But look at those faces!

I know you won't see them as I do, which is okay,

since it's just a photo of a couple of guys in a pizza parlor.

It all happened so slowly, them growing into men.

I've lost a lot of the memories that were supposedly

stored in my brain over the last thirty-four years.

Damn biology.

But I retain the gist of their lives, if not all the details.

Frankly, it's a wonder that they turned out so well.

Which is mostly down to them.

Of that I'm very sure.

Well done, men.

It is my privilege to know them.

Being their mother is an added bonus.

So on this Mother's Day, 2012,

"Happy Mother's Day to all mothers and their kids."

Happy Mother's Day.. to me.

:)

Frustrations of a computer 'user'

I don't know. Maybe its just me and my computer.

I use Internet Explorer.

I'm not a computer techy kind of person.

Oliver tried to teach me how to do HTML a few years ago.

I mostly failed.



Why is it that when I try to close some webpages

*before* they have loaded completely..

that webpage starts reopening itself up in multiple tabs!?

Loading.. loading.. loading.. loading!

I had one open up about ten tabs one day!

I couldn't Ctrl-Alt-Del fast enough!

I know, you can click that red X to stop a page.

But.. that doesn't always work!

So what is up with *that*?!?

I'm not a stalker! I don't open up multiple pages on purpose!

Grrrr. Poo.

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(Not yet the) End of the Line

I've come sort of late to a lot of good music.

I found out about the Wilburys just last year.

This song and their video put my head in a good place.

Glad these dudes came together.

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Cheers

Never a dull moment

So...

Wes took me to the doctor's office as soon as we

got back to Little Rock.

Didn't get to see our regular doctor, but was seen

by one of his associates.

A short exam and he says he thinks my rash and puffy edema

are caused by poison ivy.

Well, that's a mystery in itself, as I have no idea

how I could have come into contact with it.

I was given a corticosteroid injection and a prescription

for a ten day course of prednisone, and was told

that I can take over the counter anti-histamines.

While we were still visiting with Oliver and David,

David had the sweet and brilliant idea to

get me a couple of gel masks that you can cool in the freezer.

It really did help to relieve the burning and itching.

Thank you, David!

He took this picture of me using the mask yesterday morning.

Life.

Never a dull moment.