Gearing up for Thanksgiving

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cooking, family, postaday2012, pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving, turkey

Today I was busy, busy, busy. I was non stop until 6:00 this evening. Jack and I woke up at 7:00, I had my oatmeal and my pot of coffee while reading all of the publications that I receive on my e-mail and then I wrote a comment on Huffington Post regarding Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledges and the impact that has on negotiations in Washington D.C related to the “fiscal cliff” and I cross posted the comment to my political blog A Progressive’s Thoughts. I then answered a prompt from Plinkie and published it on WordPress. After finishing my writing for the day, I took Jack for his mile walk and emptied out the fireplace, reloaded the living room, the library and the garage with wood. The front yard needed some sprucing up so I trimmed back the wild grasses and the spent chrysanthemums. I took Jack back out for his second walk, prepared his dog food bowl for later and made the long list of groceries needed for the feast for tomorrow. I also made enough pastry dough for two pies and put it in the refrigerator to rest for later this afternoon.

This got me to 11:30 which meant that I was running almost late. I ate lunch fairly quickly because I wanted to leave before twelve, I had quite a bit of food shopping to do besides other errands and I wanted to have everything done before my doctor’s appointment at 2:30 this afternoon. My pumpkin pies were going to be baked this afternoon after my doctor’s visit so I didn’t want to dilly-dally after the doctor’s, I wanted to get home and bake. The house needed some good smells, especially the ones that start drifting out of the oven door; cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, ginger and pumpkin. It’s a mixture of fall, warmth, home and family; all the things that mean Thanksgiving.

Right now writing this, I am happy to report that the pies came out wonderfully. I got all of my errands done with more than enough time to be punctual for the dermatologist, who was on time himself. My visit lasted all of five minutes, he took a picture of a troublesome mole with the plan to revisit it in six months. I got home unloaded the groceries, fed Jack, walked him again, made the pies, stripped the beds, did the laundry and kept an eye on the pies and welcomed my hubby and the baby girl home. Like I said busy, busy, busy and tomorrow will be no different.

Cell phone here today, gone tomorrow

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cell phones, cell phones and driving, danger ous cell phones, postaday2012, texting

• You have three hundred words to justify the deletion from time, space and memory a person, place or thing. Failure to convince will result in it being infinitely cloned and paraded on a billboard in front of your home forevermore.

• Deletion
• Cell Phone

  I have an invention that needs deleting. I know that my idea will be vastly unpopular but here goes. The cell phone has become a drain on people’s financial resources, a drain on people’s time and a drain on people’s privacy. How often do I take the subway to find myself being forced to listen to someone else’s conversation because I have no where else to go since it is crowded. Moreover, even as I walk down the streets of wherever I am, at stop lights, people’s conversations are in my personal space or at the supermarket waiting in line at the checkout, I get to hear about this one and that one no matter how I try to tune it out, I am left hanging with what happens next? I don’t want to listen to drama if I don’t get the ending as well. Don’t even get me started on the restaurant scene, texting has replaced polite dinner conversation and it is precisely at the dinner table where conversations ought to take place, not the eerie scenes of today where scores of people in restaurants sitting at the same table are focused on their laps instead of each other.
  Cellphones are a danger to physical safety as well; the number of trips to the emrgency room has increased incredibly since the birth of the cell phone, people are trying to multi-task and walking and texting are not to be done in tandem according to most E.R doctors, it is far too dangerous. Let us not forget driving and cell phones, that still needs to be eradicated for all of our sakes. I am surprised that no one has come up with an underwater cell phone so people can speak in the shower. I don’t think that you can scuba dive and speak on a phone at the same time, at least there are still limits to something.
  I find cell phones give automatic permission to everyone to think that what they have on their mind is 100% important all the time and it takes good healthy boundaries away from people’s lives. I never want to be accessible 24/7, I am not that important and I can wait until you are ready.