5 things:
1. Twitter today offers this tweet from @Zerotothree: "...More than 2.5 million grandparents serve as primary caregivers for their grandkids." If you ride public transportation, this
is NOT news. Further, the photo accompanying the Tweet shows a serene (asleep?) white grandma and ONE chubby white infant. Haven't seen that combo yet. The grannies (and grandpas) I see in the bus or metro here in DC are Hispanic or black, and they are usually wrangling 3 & 4 lively kids, including one infant. That's a lot of kids.
So Twitter's stats are based on number of grandparents, not number of grandkids being cared for by a grandparent??
2. I got a package from Amazon yesterday, thanks to the good graces of my neighbor next door. The
coop has changed their mail delivery arrangement from inside the lobby to outside at a curbside mailbox station. The curbside station CAN receive packages in two larger boxes (big enough for, say, two cans of soup or a box of Wheaties), but can't handle anything larger. (I
was wondering how Amazon was going to deliver it--by drone, through one of my two windows or
the porch door??)
My neighbor saw the delivery guy outside puzzling over how to ring my doorbell and brought the package in. I think A should train its delivery people in the fine art of carrying a big box up one flight of stairs instead of handing it to a woman who was 80 when I moved in 3 years ago and letting her carry it. She of course is quite strong, as I am, but still.... I'm going to tell them this, too.
3. It's nice and cool here today--if you can call 73F with no rain and a nice breeze cool. I do. Love it.
4. But that brings up my haircut. Should I cut it very short (er than it is now)? Or is it too late
in the season? I remember my first very short cut and how CHILLY it was.
5. Having fun, full of love. xoxoxo
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Monday, September 8, 2014
Today
5 things:
1. There are bargains! The MARC train to Baltimore costs $3.50 one way for a person of my age!!
2. But remember that old joke about the price of food on the train? "Cheese sandwich, $2.00--with cheese, $4.00"? There are NO cheese sandwiches in the train station at Baltimore. But there are
egg salad sandwiches for $7.59! Ha. I brought my own cheese sandwich. With age comes wisdom.
3. Apparently I can hear better this year than I did last year. Tell that to my nearest and dearest.
4. 60 years ago today--September 8, 1954--I entered the convent.
5. I'm not there any more, and I am thanking God, or whomever, for favors received.
1. There are bargains! The MARC train to Baltimore costs $3.50 one way for a person of my age!!
2. But remember that old joke about the price of food on the train? "Cheese sandwich, $2.00--with cheese, $4.00"? There are NO cheese sandwiches in the train station at Baltimore. But there are
egg salad sandwiches for $7.59! Ha. I brought my own cheese sandwich. With age comes wisdom.
3. Apparently I can hear better this year than I did last year. Tell that to my nearest and dearest.
4. 60 years ago today--September 8, 1954--I entered the convent.
5. I'm not there any more, and I am thanking God, or whomever, for favors received.
Friday, August 29, 2014
Miscellany....
5 things:
1. I want to study history, but where to start? Maybe I'll make a map.
2. Or a dictionary. like, "Where was/is The Levantine." (noun? adjective??)
3. My list of things to acquire: hand-held blender, Shelving for more books. a file cabinet for
those pesky legal documents. (I.e., when did we get divorced? I have that paper
somewhere....), sturdy French jelly/water glasses--all the rest but one are broken.
4. I am reading The Black Swan and enjoying it a lot. It's about unexpected, catastrophic events.
5. I've been through a heap of those: polio, television, WWII events are just the first 3.....
1. I want to study history, but where to start? Maybe I'll make a map.
2. Or a dictionary. like, "Where was/is The Levantine." (noun? adjective??)
3. My list of things to acquire: hand-held blender, Shelving for more books. a file cabinet for
those pesky legal documents. (I.e., when did we get divorced? I have that paper
somewhere....), sturdy French jelly/water glasses--all the rest but one are broken.
4. I am reading The Black Swan and enjoying it a lot. It's about unexpected, catastrophic events.
5. I've been through a heap of those: polio, television, WWII events are just the first 3.....
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Great-grandson Jack wakes up at 4 a.m. these days.
5 things:
1. Grandson Sean's wife, Laura--mother of Jack aged about 18 months, started back to school (teaching special education, grades 1-3) this week, and Jack has taken to waking up at 4 a.m.! Laura is desperate for another hour or two of sleep that time of day before she has to face all those little kids. What to do?
2. I never had that problem. My kids all slept the night through--except Sally, who would bail herself out of her crib, scan the coffee table for any leftover snacks, then come stand beside our bed
with her potato-chip breath and bump the mattress. It was verra early, though there was light in the sky, and I'd just haul her into bed with us and she'd nap a little until the others woke up and requested breakfast.
3. Peggy woke up very early one morning, and she and Sally let themselves out of the house and
got into the horse barn, where one of the horse promptly kicked Peggy when she wafted into her stall
and gave her a light pat. Probably scared the heck out of the horse, and it wasn't a bad kick. just put a bruise into Peggy's thigh and sent both girls weeping back into the house. I got up, dressed everyone, and drove her into the ER to make sure there was nothing seriously the matter.
4. It was hard being deaf and not able to rely on my hearing to monitor the kids when I was sleeping.
5. The owner of the horse, whose name also was Margaret, explained to the girls that they should never go into the pen or the barn when the horses were there, and they should never give them a light pat. And so we got through that episode.
1. Grandson Sean's wife, Laura--mother of Jack aged about 18 months, started back to school (teaching special education, grades 1-3) this week, and Jack has taken to waking up at 4 a.m.! Laura is desperate for another hour or two of sleep that time of day before she has to face all those little kids. What to do?
2. I never had that problem. My kids all slept the night through--except Sally, who would bail herself out of her crib, scan the coffee table for any leftover snacks, then come stand beside our bed
with her potato-chip breath and bump the mattress. It was verra early, though there was light in the sky, and I'd just haul her into bed with us and she'd nap a little until the others woke up and requested breakfast.
3. Peggy woke up very early one morning, and she and Sally let themselves out of the house and
got into the horse barn, where one of the horse promptly kicked Peggy when she wafted into her stall
and gave her a light pat. Probably scared the heck out of the horse, and it wasn't a bad kick. just put a bruise into Peggy's thigh and sent both girls weeping back into the house. I got up, dressed everyone, and drove her into the ER to make sure there was nothing seriously the matter.
4. It was hard being deaf and not able to rely on my hearing to monitor the kids when I was sleeping.
5. The owner of the horse, whose name also was Margaret, explained to the girls that they should never go into the pen or the barn when the horses were there, and they should never give them a light pat. And so we got through that episode.
Monday, August 11, 2014
Lida Moser, August 17, 1920 -- August 11, 1920
5 things:
1. Back to Lida Moser, August 17, 1920 - August 11, 2014 for my post on Lida, who died yesterday afternoon.
2. So many of my great, wonderful friends are no longer on the planet. Where do they go?
3. And how lucky I was to have met them and share in their enormous light and love.
4. Lida has taught me not only about beauty and friendship, but also about frail humanity,
5. Which prevented me from seeing her for the last few years. How will I deal with that?
1. Back to Lida Moser, August 17, 1920 - August 11, 2014 for my post on Lida, who died yesterday afternoon.
2. So many of my great, wonderful friends are no longer on the planet. Where do they go?
3. And how lucky I was to have met them and share in their enormous light and love.
4. Lida has taught me not only about beauty and friendship, but also about frail humanity,
5. Which prevented me from seeing her for the last few years. How will I deal with that?
Sunday, August 10, 2014
What the news doesn't say much about
5 things:
1. My friend Jesse's mom died this past week.
2. Big storm rips into Hawaii, but Hattie's house is OK at least.
3. The Nixon "farewell address" on YouTube was excruciating. Who was the guy smoking a pipe?
4. My friend Lida is on palliative care. In the old days, that would have meant lots of aspirin??
5. My great-grandniece is two weeks old!
1. My friend Jesse's mom died this past week.
2. Big storm rips into Hawaii, but Hattie's house is OK at least.
3. The Nixon "farewell address" on YouTube was excruciating. Who was the guy smoking a pipe?
4. My friend Lida is on palliative care. In the old days, that would have meant lots of aspirin??
5. My great-grandniece is two weeks old!
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
You can do a lot in 5 minutes
5 things:
1. Challenge for the day: "Tidy up" your place in 5 minutes. Ha. You mean the parts I can see when I walk through the front door?
2. Start with the sofa: clearing off old mail, books, magazines -- 30 minutes. (Well, some of these
haven't been read yet!!)
3. Sew up the seam on one sofa pillow cover that has come apart. 20 minutes.
4. Take a photo of the huge books piled in front of the sofa. It's a functional arrangement, and if
I put them back on their respectives shelves (assuming they have been shelved before), I'll need to
recreate the arrangement and put it by the sofa, where I love to sit for 5 minutes occasionally and
look through these books. 20 minutes to take the photo: recharging the camera battery, finding a
memory card with some space left. separating the jpeg pix from the RAW pix. it's been about an
hour for this--many photos to enjoy and fiddle with.
5. Take a shower--the HVAC is frozen again, so that's off, and I'm sweating like a bullet, as my sister-in-law Trudy used to say. Do bullets sweat? Wash the towels used to mop up the melted ice--1 hour, including drying. The sofa looks really good. Maybe i'll go pick up the biggest, fattest book (Annie Leibovitz A Photographer's Life 1990 to 2005) and go through it all the way to the end. Must weigh 15 pounds. What a treasure!! 2 hours.
1. Challenge for the day: "Tidy up" your place in 5 minutes. Ha. You mean the parts I can see when I walk through the front door?
2. Start with the sofa: clearing off old mail, books, magazines -- 30 minutes. (Well, some of these
haven't been read yet!!)
3. Sew up the seam on one sofa pillow cover that has come apart. 20 minutes.
4. Take a photo of the huge books piled in front of the sofa. It's a functional arrangement, and if
I put them back on their respectives shelves (assuming they have been shelved before), I'll need to
recreate the arrangement and put it by the sofa, where I love to sit for 5 minutes occasionally and
look through these books. 20 minutes to take the photo: recharging the camera battery, finding a
memory card with some space left. separating the jpeg pix from the RAW pix. it's been about an
hour for this--many photos to enjoy and fiddle with.
5. Take a shower--the HVAC is frozen again, so that's off, and I'm sweating like a bullet, as my sister-in-law Trudy used to say. Do bullets sweat? Wash the towels used to mop up the melted ice--1 hour, including drying. The sofa looks really good. Maybe i'll go pick up the biggest, fattest book (Annie Leibovitz A Photographer's Life 1990 to 2005) and go through it all the way to the end. Must weigh 15 pounds. What a treasure!! 2 hours.
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