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Project sidebed 85% done

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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I spent a good part of the day finishing what I had started yesterday, eradicating the Lily of the Valley and replanting the hyacinth, daffodil and tulip bulbs and the iris rhizomes. It was hard work, my hands hurt and I pulled a muscle in my buttocks but I feel really gratified that this section is 100% finished. The 15% left, is a small area that I am hoping, won’t but take a day to banish the Lilies and replant whatever is in that tainted area. As I was digging and pulling, I felt twinges of guilt about my other chores. I could easily spend hours doing really hard work outside in my garden while the thought of spending hours cleaning the house makes me sad. I know that it’s okay to hate housework, but I should at least try to put as much effort into it as I do with gardening. When I say that the thought of housework makes me sad, I’m being melodramatic, it just doesn’t excite me the way that gardening does. I suppose that the feeling of bien etre that happens after vacuuming or dusting dissipates so quickly and what work that was done is undone so quickly. After years of doing it in my parent’s house, my Tantine Cecile’s house and now twenty years at my house, housework has lost whatever sense of accomplishment it used to have. Whereas gardening hasn’t gotten stale and old, even after years of doing essentially the same things, I still love doing them.

The issue that dogs me from spring through the summer is I’d rather spend hours outside and by the time that I come inside, I don’t feel like doing much of anything else. It’s not as if I won’t work on this, I’ll get the balance between outside and inside work figured out. I’m feeling overly zealous for gardening because everything is coming up, the bloom is on everywhere you turn, it’s a little heady after a weird mild winter, but still winter nonetheless, grey and cold.

What have gotten excited about?

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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What was the last thing you got really excited about?

April 18, 2012

Wohoo!

Intercontinental Hotel

I get excited about my hubby coming home. I was really excited about the latest weekend getaway to Boston. These questions make me laugh at myself because for the life of me, I can’t specifically remember when we went on our weekend getaway, I know that we did go but I can’t tell you when. I also can’t remember if I did anything else that made me very excited. I know that I have looked forward to things recently but I can’t remember what. My memory is slipping away, I’m sure that if my family reads this, they’ll remind me.

Dog Wars Escalate: Barack Obama Ate Dog Meat

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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There is a big difference between a child sitting at the dinner table in Indonesia tasting what is given to him and a grown man who makes the decision in his rational mind to put the family pet in a crate with a windshield, strap it onto the car, drive on a highway for hours and only stopping because the family pet has diarrhea and the man has to hose down the dog and the car. The Romney campaign shows their desperation and their incompetence by reminding the public of how their adult candidate treats those who haven’t any power or choices, callously.
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The ‘Choice-vs.-Referendum’ False Dichotomy

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Chris you are not alone, someone from the Time’s Swampland wrote an article about the whole “choice versus referendum” debate the pundits were going to have from now until November. The decision to not make this a drinking game was a very responsible one, Chris, and I applaud you for it. What was interesting with the other guy was that he attached the notion of the election as a referendum to the congressional elections. I was wondering what you thought about it. The pundits speak about the base and about those illusive independents and now the most important segment of all, the women folk in regards to the President and Romney. If we singled out the women folk, would the choice between the President and Romney be a referendum on their respective positions on matters that concern women; i.e reproductive rights, childcare, education, SNAP and other women things? I know what I think and that is that a Romney presidency will not move our country into the 21st century as a country of opportunity and freedom. Our country will be further divided into the ultra wealthy and the rest of us with our infrastructure withering on the vine, our root systems corrupted by drilling and fracking and our foundation left to rot as our public educational system takes hit after hit. It won’t be pretty. Maybe a little over the top but that is the mood Romney puts me in.
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Mitt Romney: ‘Vast Left Wing Conspiracy’ Against Me In The Media

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

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In Romney’s case, he should be talking about conspiracies tongue in cheek because he is his own conspiracy. The whole “working mother” issue and who is one and who gets to choose to be one was settled by Romney himself when he said that poor mothers, if they were going to get any assistance, had to get the dignity of work outside the home regardless of how young their children were. Basically he is saying that virtue is tied to wealth so his wife being married to him a wealthy man is virtuous and doesn’t need additional dignity through work outside the home. Poor people being without virtue and dignity need to get both through work outside the home. Interesting belief system from a man of faith. He is punishing those who are poor and essentially saying that they are poor and it’s all their own fault. His policies that he has laid out and supported, such as the Ryan budget, clearly targets those who are poor and makes sure that they stay that way for good. His policies and the Ryan budget are strictly for the wealthy and the military, everyone else you are on your own.
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