Things to remember!

• post my thoughts about the woman who was killed here in san antonio this past week — and what i heard her son wanted to do on behalf of the murderer…it was quite moving.
• post a blog about the new word i heard in a song lyric from mary chapin carpenter!
• adri asked me on sunday why i couldn’t open some sort of business that the family could help run…we had a very interesting conversation about big business versus small business, corporations versus family owned enterprises…he had so many great questions!  my desire to have a business of my own just won’t go away.  i’m getting too old to still be dreaming, aren’t i?  i remember alaina and i having the same questions and wanting the same thing.  we should listen … ‘out of the mouths of babes’ … daddy…how do i do it? 
• write a blog about the book I am currently reading:  Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes
• finish a conversation Adri and I were having about the book he is currently reading (something to do with greek mythology — which i adored as a child!)
• plan the camping trip for sometime this year — budget budget budget — this camping thing with the grandchildren is important!
• really want to have something special at my apartment for hannah and claire (emma and amory probably won’t be able to come)…but i hope someday they will know how much i wanted them to come
• write a blog about 84 Charing Cross Road (find out why there is no way to underline in this blog —book title must always be underlined for pete’s sake and for my own!)
• compile my book reading list
• enter all my poems in a poetry journal
• enter all my songs, lyrics in my music journal and including the lyrics i’ve collectged from other favorite artists
• scarpbooking…i must get back to scrapbooking—set a night soon to invite someone over to scrapbook with me,,,Sarah,,,who else?
• see if i can squeeze out enough gas money to see if mary will meet me for window shopping the next time i have a sunday off…maybe sarah will want to go…invite mandy?
• update my personal blog with some key postings
• don’t worry yet about oil change for the car…i bought 1 quart of oil tonight and the guy at auto zone (i love auto zone because they always offer to help you with whatever it is you are doing to your vehicle - within manageable reason.  The clerk put my oil in for me tonight so i wouldn’t have to buy a funnel…and I agree with his assessment that my oil still looks very clean and I probably don’t need to have an oil change just yet.  A few months ago I learned how to change my own air filter - thanks to the help of the auto zone clerk there in Indiana — Power!  Awesome!  Car dealer wanted to charge me $56 for a filter and installation — I paid $8.00 at auto zone and go to help install it — so simple!  I also change my own windshield wipers, add my own power steering fluid, transmission fluid…check the air pressure in my tires as well as the measure the tread depth on my tires.  There are so many things that can keep one busy.
• blog about mine and claire’s op this morning to sit and watch deer in the woods!
• playing in the backyard today with the children
• call Mira about the next get together at the retreat center in Bulverde…they’re reading The Shack which I’ve already finished — see if the library has a copy - i cant’ afford to buy one just yet…
• take the book Self to work with me on Tuesday so I can give the ISBN # to the customer who came in on Sunday…I promised!

back to my movie “84 Charing Cross Road” — the dialogue is really good!