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i swear to GOD i will post soon… i am just tired and still in my winter blahs.
why didn’t i buy that damned light i threaten to buy every year????!!!!
i’m sure on some level i knew today was martin luther king day (because everyone ELSE has a three day weekend, perhaps??) and who doesn’t know that tomorrow is the inauguration (and my brother’s birthday)…
as i was getting dressed for work, i was actually thinking how grateful i am to have had parents that did not raise me to be prejudiced. now, i say this with many caveats because, without digressing into social dissection, everyone from anywhere has prejudices and, being a white woman raised in america, well, i have been the recipient of cultural and societal advantages that, unfortunately, not every american receives. however, again, i was thinking how grateful i am to have had parents that did not express whatever negative and prejudicial thoughts and feelings about people different from my family, despite the way they might have been raised, or were they might have come from.
in the 3rd grade, my family moved to san francisco, after my mom remarried. i went to miraloma elementary school on the opposite side of mt. davidson, where we lived. when i think back on it now, i know that that school, more so than others i had attended, was the united colors of Benetton of schools. and i LOVED it. i was in a “gifted” program were we stayed after school and did all these special activities – we silk screened original stories and pictures into books that we “bound” and published for our families. we made a radio show (this predates the “grimply sand” production, FYI). we got to watch the electric company every morning IN SCHOOL!
and i remember vividly thinking at the time how much i loved that shcool because i thought it was just like sesame street, my then-to-fore only experience with a heavily integrated children’s environment.
THANK GOD I GOT TO GO TO THAT SCHOOL AND THANK YOU TO MY PARENTS AND FAMILY.
on this MLK day and eve of what i hope will be an auspicious as well as historic presidency, the great “i have a dream” speech brings real tears to my eyes…
walked in the door about 45 minutes ago. downloading, oh, about 46 new podcast episodes and weeding through junk mail before a much anticipated and deserved nap occurs in mere moments.
i have much to talk about and share.
for now let me say that if i thought mousefest put me over the top of the whole “i love you, man!!!!” deal, consider it topped.
- i finished the half. defintiely not at the pace i had begun training for at the beggining of the year, but much better than last year, i did my run 2 minutes, walk 1 for most of the course and have nary a blister. although i can no loinger flex at the hip joints. still.
- friends buy you a dole whip float. good friends sneak you in a side car. REALLY good friends bring you double fly swatter action to keep away rogue bees.
- i got more tidbits, treats, gifts and cards than a girl deserves. just looking over at them now makes me tear up.
- i had a WONDERFUL trip
thank you everyone – trace – i had NO IDEA you could surprise and delight me on every possible front and thanks fro being game for so much! Jonathan and amber, bryan and amy, steve and his wife, mike fess and his family, rae and eric and theirs, jeff W and the whole brood, wdw deb, of course lou mongello, beth – traces friend who is the sweetest woman you could ever meet, lori, heath, mississippi matt, chris, bill, stroller boy and allllllll the team voice peeps, michelle the TA who made the magic that is the contemporary happen for us, craig and kristin who are so nice and so much fun, and kate who did the goofy – helloo000???!!??? (did i mention my hip joints?) are fried!
i am blessed to have so many great people in my life in one way or another. THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS!!!
ok, who DOESN’T have mother issues? now imagine if mommy dearest was martha stewart… with me so far?? so, i happened across this show on the fine living channel and am now ADDICTED:
it’s called “whatever, martha” and is essentially her daughter, alexis, and her pal, jennifer, ragging on martha stewart living TV segments. genius. pure genius.
no, there is no title to this post. because i”d have called it “kill me now” and a) i may have used that title all ready and b) i already get plenty of weird google hits, no need to further encourage.
in the guise of trying to speed up my computer that is DRIVING ME TOTALLY INSANE, i believe – no, i now know that i deleted my entire MSN messenger/butterfly log on world, including all the stored email files that i accessed thru that program. i have probably 75% of my email addresses backed up elsewhere, and most of my passwords and things i know, but there was still a sufficient amount of data and links saved that i feel somewhat ill.
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!
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