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Another beautiful day…

I’m such a fall person.  When I get those silly little emails from friends that have all those silly questions about likes and dislikes, etc.  I always sucker in and take the silly quizzes thinking I’m going to find out something new about myself.  The truth is that I do like the summer, I do enjoy the heat.  It’s not good to be in the sun but I love being outdoors in the sunshine.  I like the winter, wrapping up in warm clothes, breathing cold air, staying indoors and drinking hot chocolate.  Spring is always refreshing because the flowers bloom again, the birds are happy, new life is coming.  But Fall.  Fall is special.  The old is fading away.  The quiet of winter is coming.  The air is crisp.  The leaves are changing.  Transition.  I feel connected with life in the fall.  It’s a time of hope.  A time of reflection.  It’s peaceful. 

Ah, to be walking in the woods, listening to the quiet sounds of rustling leaves, water running over rock or musing at the sunbeams filtering through the branches of barren trees.  I can feel the energy surging through my veins at just the thought.

Thanksgiving Gone By…

Thanksgiving flew by this year.

I wonder why.

I don’t remember having a single moment

to write any lines.

Until…Sunday morning…when I heard 6 beautifully fit together phrases and I knew!

I knew I was supposed to get up

go out to the porch and write…

but..instead…

I fell back asleep in the quiet mistiness of the early morning hour

and I rested … instead.

sigh.

It’s almost Thanksgiving…

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  It’s always been.  I’m not sure why.  It might be because I love the fall.  The changing of seasons.  Transitioning from the harshness of the Texas heat to a milder time of year.  The colors of fall in Texas are perhaps to some not as notable as other areas of the country.  But, as everyone who knows me knows, the Texas Hill Country is dear to my heart and I love the colors of Thanksgiving in the hills and the smells of the air…and the sense of home that, for some reason, Thanksgiving always brings to me.

I noticed one time in my journalling that I might go for a long period of time w/out writing…but, somehow, I seem to have quite a few entries, religiously, always at Thanksgiving.  Some of my fondest memories of peaceful days, are ones of sitting alone somewhere on Thanksgiving day, usually afternoon, and reflecting on my life, my family and friends.

Some day, I hope to compile just a journal of all my Thanksgiving day writings.  They’re not all happy but what is joy, if not realized at times through adversity?

wifi again…

Okay…the techie sitting next to me at Mcd’s told me that I can go on the website and sign a 1 year contract for wifi for about $20/month —unlimited time!  There must be a catch…all wireless services run no less than $60/month…what’s up?????  I must figure this out.

WiFi cont’d

I’m stressing because I had to spend $3.19 tonight at McDonald’s because their WiFi is NOT free like I thought.  There really are restaurants who have free WiFi –I’ve been to some in other places — what’s up with San Antonio!!!  Of course, when I was here in 2006, the public library didn’t even have free connection (WiFi) but they do now…I guess time grinds slowly by on some select issues….sigh.

It’s not that I don’t want to pay for what I use…it’s just that I KNOW it’s out there for temporary purposes.  The other thing that gripes me is that it says right on the McDonald’s connection site that you can ask for a free coupon for first time trial — but, of course, considering the mentality of the average McD worker — quote/unquote when I asked for a coupon —”Ugh…gee…ugh…hmmm…ugh…I dunno.”

oh brother.  You know, if I EVER had that kind of work mentality, I would never have survived my life.  How come they get to get away with it!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Okay…gotta go…my precious $3.00 is being used up negatively…better get on task…I only have two hours to get a week’s worth of work done….

Wifi

Oh, I miss being on my blog!  I have so many things to write about!  My internet service contract just expired the end of October and I haven’t made any commitments to a new service yet.  So, I’ve become a slave to finding time to get to the library where there is free Wifi … I’m obviously so spoiled to just popping in and out on the computer when I want to…like late at night when I can’t sleep…that this having to be disciplined and get to the library on time to get any work done is killing me!

So…until I get the internet thingy settled again…I probably won’t get to be on here much!  Oh well, I’ll save all the stories for the cold months when I don’t want to or can’t get out to the library and maybe by then I’ll have resolved my connection issues and can stay home in my jammies and blog, blog, blog!

You better pray for me though…I’ll forget all my good story lines that I’ve been saving up!

Keep checking my blog…I’ll be on here with news but it will be sparse for a while!

Nanny Day Posts

Even though I’m already an official grandmother NINE times over (!!!), I’m now also an official NANNY!  WooHoo!  So, I thought I would create a series of blog to capture all the fun things of being a nanny and all the fun things I know the Walston kids will share!

I already have the first Nanny Day Posts entry ready except I need to add photos — YES!  I actually remembered to take my camera – Miracle of Miracles!

Anyway, hopefully, the next post you see will be NDP #! — Stay Tuned!

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