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Independence Day
Jul. 4th, 2017 12:00 pmI was quite grateful to discover there were no puke piles anywhere in the house today. Yay!
I took a shower and put on my new outfit in honor of Independence Day. It was not patriotic in theme, though. The capri pants are bright pink, and the shirt is pale pink with bright pink flamingos on it. It was on sale really cheap in Woman Within, so I got it--even though it probably makes my ass look five miles wide.
I like bright pink.
It's such a cheerful color.
I had a nice chat with my sister Tammy on the phone. She was working on her basement, which is full of Sadie's toys and her deceased mother-in-law's stuff. She and Bert have rented a storage unit and are moving a lot of their stuff over there to get rid of clutter until they know whether or not they are selling their house and moving.
Bert is swinging like a pendulum on the moving issue--some days he is gung ho to move and others you'd swear he'd sunk roots to China to hold him there. It is a beautiful place. But pretty isolated, and Tammy needs to make more human connections to ease her loneliness. I have told her I would go take some art classes or college courses if I were her--there are lots of colleges within driving distance of her place. I wish there were something like that close to me. The nearest college is over an hour away. There are a couple of community colleges nearby, but I don't know if they'd offer anything I would be interested in. If they offered Spanish classes, I wouldn't mind taking a few more Spanish classes.
At about 1:30, I picked up my mother and took her to Owatonna where we picked up my sister Kim and got burgers at Wendy's. Then we went to Mineral Springs Park and had a little picnic. It is so beautiful there. We hung out with Kim till about 4 pm, then went back to Mom's where we watched two movies--Doris, starring Sally Field and Hidden Figures, about the black women mathematicians who worked for NASA in the 1960s. I was a little shocked that NASA was so backwards regarding women and race in those days--you would think they would have valued the mind above any other consideration.
Mom made popcorn for supper, and I headed back to my house a little after 9 pm. It was a quiet night. Except for the neighbor kid shooting off loud fire crackers. Stewie and Peaches are normally not freaked out by stuff like that, but those fire crackers made them very uneasy. Ultimately, they both hid under the bed until the middle of the night.
That's about it for the Fourth of July.
It would have been my Dad's birthday. He would have been 86. Hard to believe he's been gone so long already--and that in about a year and a half, I will be the age he was when he died. I am not ready to be dead yet--there are so many things I want to do.
He did have a lot of good adventures in his life--he went on lots of trips and even got to Hawaii. He never saw any part of Europe, but I don't know that he had any burning desire to go there, either.
I took a shower and put on my new outfit in honor of Independence Day. It was not patriotic in theme, though. The capri pants are bright pink, and the shirt is pale pink with bright pink flamingos on it. It was on sale really cheap in Woman Within, so I got it--even though it probably makes my ass look five miles wide.
I like bright pink.
It's such a cheerful color.
I had a nice chat with my sister Tammy on the phone. She was working on her basement, which is full of Sadie's toys and her deceased mother-in-law's stuff. She and Bert have rented a storage unit and are moving a lot of their stuff over there to get rid of clutter until they know whether or not they are selling their house and moving.
Bert is swinging like a pendulum on the moving issue--some days he is gung ho to move and others you'd swear he'd sunk roots to China to hold him there. It is a beautiful place. But pretty isolated, and Tammy needs to make more human connections to ease her loneliness. I have told her I would go take some art classes or college courses if I were her--there are lots of colleges within driving distance of her place. I wish there were something like that close to me. The nearest college is over an hour away. There are a couple of community colleges nearby, but I don't know if they'd offer anything I would be interested in. If they offered Spanish classes, I wouldn't mind taking a few more Spanish classes.
At about 1:30, I picked up my mother and took her to Owatonna where we picked up my sister Kim and got burgers at Wendy's. Then we went to Mineral Springs Park and had a little picnic. It is so beautiful there. We hung out with Kim till about 4 pm, then went back to Mom's where we watched two movies--Doris, starring Sally Field and Hidden Figures, about the black women mathematicians who worked for NASA in the 1960s. I was a little shocked that NASA was so backwards regarding women and race in those days--you would think they would have valued the mind above any other consideration.
Mom made popcorn for supper, and I headed back to my house a little after 9 pm. It was a quiet night. Except for the neighbor kid shooting off loud fire crackers. Stewie and Peaches are normally not freaked out by stuff like that, but those fire crackers made them very uneasy. Ultimately, they both hid under the bed until the middle of the night.
That's about it for the Fourth of July.
It would have been my Dad's birthday. He would have been 86. Hard to believe he's been gone so long already--and that in about a year and a half, I will be the age he was when he died. I am not ready to be dead yet--there are so many things I want to do.
He did have a lot of good adventures in his life--he went on lots of trips and even got to Hawaii. He never saw any part of Europe, but I don't know that he had any burning desire to go there, either.
