Thursday, November 11, 2004

Normal life

Hello again. This week I cleaned up my sister's house for her baby's birthday Saturday. She was appreciative and forgave my debt for wrapping paper I ordered from her fund raiser (she is a school librarian) and 2 6-packs of pop she bought on sale for me. And gave me the 20 bucks I requested. She said I cleaned for 3 hours, so I deserved it. It is an interesting experience cleaning with 2 cats following you around. We talked and tickled the baby. I told her about the new guy at a car rental who asked me to go out for drinks after work. I do not know his name yet. I distictly recall a prior consversation where he mentioned a wife and showed a photo of his daughter to me. I said, No thank you (hey I was polite). If he wishes to get to know me, he can at work. What is with married men? I had a customer once who was 2 years older than my father show me his military ID picture when he was 17. Then asked if he was a handsome man back then. Yeah, sure, my Dad was handsome too at 17 but I still think of him as an old man. I said, Oh, sure, Your car is in spot --, Have a nice day.
The theater production Chicago is coming to town. I wish I could see it, but I just paid 6 months of car insurance at once. I'm a little poor right now. I attempted to get a copy of my fairytale copied at a print shop. They could not get my files open on my disk so I had to copy it on my printer. I got a binder and thick beige paper. Tomorrow at work I get to use of 3-hole paper puncher. The book is an inch thick so few are eager to read it. Isn't it amazing how doing things yourself (greeting cards, clothing, and booklets) cost twice as much than just buying the finished project. I did go shopping at a mall while I thought they were printing my book. I saw Red Hat Society merchandise (club for women over 50). I emailed my Red Hat friend to tell her this. I hope she reads it. She hasn't touch her computer much lately. Right after her brother-in-law died of cancer, her husband is diagnosed with cancer and needs an operation.
My goodness. Then her manager actually condemned her for missing so much work from her brother-in-law visits. Well, she is going to be missing more. I try my best to cheer her up by talking about myself (she has kids my age). When she opens up, I shut up and listen. I noticed when a former friend in high school and I reconnected after this girl's father was murdered, she was more interested in my life than talking about hers. I can understand that.
I got my Oprah Magazine today. I reached a few paragraphs that me cry. It was about women and girls being raped by the hundreds in the Congo. Then I read about a girl in Columbia being a soldier in a war that's lasted forever. Do humans know what peace is anymore? Ancient people glorified war in tales and believed peace was just space between wars. Are we no more advanced than them? I just heard Arafat died and Bush saying peace will come now, or something like that. I would not be counting on that. There could be peace or the deep fires of hell could be unleashed from power hungry wolves fighting each other. Only time will tell.
My 2 new adventures is sealing plastic over a window and learning new games on my computer. I played solataire and had to refresh my memory how to play it. With Pinball I could not figure how to move the swingers with my mouse. I did figure out how to launch the ball. Chinese checkers was more difficult, I have no gift for strategy. At least the computer figured all the possibilities the marble could land. I only covered 1 window with plastic, it keeps warming up so I'm afraid to do all 3.
I am finally out of things to say. Post later. Good-bye.

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