1. I wasn't too excited about the inauguration hoopla this week. Then I remembered that I was the age Lucas is now (21) when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated. I was working part-time in an office at the University of Missouri while going to college. The day of the inauguration, the five of us in that office crowded into a little storage room where we kept the TV/VCR cart and watched the ceremonies for about thirty minutes. I most clearly remember the American hostages in Iran being released immediately after Reagan became President. That inauguration remains clear in my memory and I came home to watch this one which will most likely be my kids' most memorable.
2. The Arizona Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl! The game last Sunday was a nail-biter and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Talking to my brother Alan later (who was a St. Louis football Cardinals season ticket-holder for many years), we both admitted how surprising it was to find ourselves talking about "our team". He said it was the combination of Kurt Warner and the former St. Louis team that makes them "our team." Go Cards!
3. I finished one leg warmer and am working on the other. Pictures of the finished pair to come!
4. No substitute teaching this week. I worked a day and a half at Terry's office doing payroll tax returns. I'm researching the requirements for teacher certification and praying seriously about going back to college for a year or so. I'm leaning toward Special Education because I've enjoyed subbing for Special Ed so much and because there is a shortage of Special Ed teachers.
5. Tuesday was Terry's birthday and friends invited us for dinner to celebrate. Abbie made a wonderful salad with field greens, blue cheese, dried cranberries, candied pecans and poppy seed dressing. She also made wonderful tilapia and a rasperry white-chocolate cheesecake, but the salad won the day for me.
6. I'm thoroughly enjoying the Hannah Coulter Book Club for Copy Cat discussions. I broke down and ordered the book from Amazon and today received notice that my Paperback Swap request for the book had been filled. So, I have two copies of Hannah Coulter on the way. If anyone would like a copy, please let me know and I will be happy to send it your way.
7. I've read the first 50 pages of Atlas Shrugged and it's already been fascinating. I see why the WSJ columnist thought it mirrored what is happening in America in economic, political and social terms. Must find more time to read. Would the floor that needs stripping, the closet that needs cleaning, the septic drain that needs opening, and all the other household chores please go on hold for about a week so I can do nothing but read? No, I didn't think so. Guess I'll just keep reading in little snippets whenever I can.
Happy Friday.
Sandy
1 comments:
Atlas Shrugged is on my list to read... I'd be interested to hear what you think of it after you've finished...
janet.
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