Day 150

Silk Sheets.

How do you make the most of a rainy Saturday?
How to fill an entire free day without overspending your daily allowance?

Working?
Sleeping?
Watching Lifetime Original Movies?

A combination of all three?
And more!

Day 149

Top Design.




















Sometimes we get so comfortable in our routines, our habits, even our wardrobe, that we can't see the rut we are trapped in.

Sometimes we need to step back and allow another person access to evaluate these chosen lifestyles.

It can be terrifying.
It can be nerve-wracking.

It can be liberating.

And then we may finally let go of the balloon pants we can't remember buying in the first place.

Day 148

My
Fair
Lady









Tonight I was embarrassed.

I secured tickets for my co-workers and myself to attend a local regional theater production. Planned several weeks in advance everyone showed great enthusiasm.

By the end of intermission, I was sitting alone.

Oh there were great excuses, don't get me wrong.
One after another.

But if I ever, and I mean EVER, hear one of my co-workers complain about the lack of a theatrical "community" I will hurt someone.

Tonight, I was hurt.

Day 147

Bailout.

If we are going to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the billionaires, who is going to bail me out when I am most in need?

Why should we help the wealthy maintain their lifestyle?

Because, without their fantastically absurd and unpractical life model, I wouldn't have anything to strive for!

Day 146

Eagle Eye.

Can our government really spy on us?
Listen to our phone calls?
Read our emails?

Probably.
But really, why?

Honestly, if they want to be that nosey, they can open my email ahead of me every day. Delete my spam. Save work-related messages. And keep all bill reminders in the inbox in hopes I might someday take care of them.

They can listen to every call I make. In fact, why don't they just call me and keep me awake on the road. Motivate me when I am feeling lazy. Make me laugh when I am down.

They can read this blog and see if there is any anti-American sentimentality to be aware of. Or they could write it for me.

Better still, our government could just leave us all alone with faith that there still are some decent people left i this world.

There just have to be.

Day 145

Art Walk.

Anticipation can be a great thing.
It can also be terrifying.

Anticipation of the unknown (hurricanes, terrorists, economic depression) has been driving our country and our world's media for a long time.
And its time to stop.
High time.

There is enough fear already in our world. We don't need the extra push to bring impending doom into the forefront each night on the news or each time we log on to our email.

Enough already.

Day 144

The Curiosity of Chance.

People come in and out of our lives.
Some form acquaintances.
Others become friends.
And a small few fill our heart and soul and grow to be part of our very being.

When life separates us from these particular persons, fate has a way of keep them part of us. Bringing them back in our lives.
Fate, and Facebook.

An old nursery rhyme sums it up better than I am able to at the moment:
"Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold."

No matter what jewel, they are precious and we should hold on to them with all our hearts.