When you are a retired disciplinarian

A retired police officer shot a guy in the movie theater who wouldn't stop texting when asked to. Yikes! I know the feeling. When you are a retired disciplinarian (like a librarian or a police officer) it is hard to stop telling people what to do in public spaces. I have to use the computer in libraries and I see quite a bit of misbehavior. The movies is another annoying place to be. But I don't think I would go so far as to SHOOT someone, mainly cause I don't have a gun. I would be more likely to get SHOT.

It was a real dismal rainy day today. Had NOTHING on the calendar so I read for an hour and then got back in bed to finish a book. I borrowed this book from the Gloucester City Library on the recommendation of someone. I found it quite irritating. Wings of glass, by Gina Holmes, is the story of a woman coming to the realization that her husband is an abusive, alcoholic jackass. OK, he is cute, but I got really tired of her rationalizations about his behavior. The good part of the book is her friendship with two women from church and work, who try to help her. One is from the Sudan. With these women, she learns to laugh and question. Having never been in an abusive relationship, I get real impatient that the woman can't just get up and go.

Had a good time perusing the recipes in Joel Fuhrman's book, Eat to live cookbook. But, can I actually EAT this way? I am a fast food junkie, masquarading as a vegetarian. First of all, I would need to get a blender or a juicer to even accomplish any of these recipes. The subtitle is "200 delicious nutrient-rich recipes for fast and sustained weight loss, reversing disease, and lifelong health". Come to think of it, I DO need to reverse a few diseases.

Where I live at, you can't trust NOBODY

Overheard, at Wawa.  I don't really WANT to trust anybody in my neighborhood.  Feel sort of bad about my glee thinking that the dog next door may have run away yesterday.  I saw her out the window with NO leash and NO people.  That night I walked around the outside of my house picking up trash since it was trash night and noticed a LOT of trash on the one side of my house.  Never have I had so much trash before those people moved in next door.  Also saw two big piles of dog shit in their yard.  They don't pick up after their dog.  Must remember to add that to the letter I probably won't have the nerve to send to their landlord, who is a LAWYER.

Not much on my calendar today.  After I get done using the computer, I am going to go home and STAY there.  I need to do that more, but I don't really want to.  Am much more comfortable running around the county doing errands of one sort or another.

A feel good story today about Charles Ramsey liberating the girls from their captivity in Cleveland.  A black man freeing white and hispanic girls being held by a Puerto Rican guy and his two brothers.  Charles said, "I knew sumpthin' was wrong, when a pretty little white girl ran straight into the arms of a black man!" (him)  Americans are so desparate for good news that they stand out in the street and CHEER when they hear some.  The three girls had been missing for ten years or more.

Tulip time!

I love it.  Went for a walk down the street and sat on a bench.  I needed a break from a day on the computer.  The breezes were wafting and the trees were rustling and there is not much traffic in Greenwich, New Jersey.  The weather is finally perfect enough to go with the constant sunshine.



Hanging out at a historical society today.  My guilty secret is that I am not even thinking about history.  Just being with a convivial group and using my laptop.
Actually I am thinking about Paris.  Taking notes from Fodor's Paris 2011 to remind myself what I want to do when I get there next.

Last week was a crazy week.  Personally, with the taxes undone, losing my passport, my neighbor chopping down a beautiful tree and then there was Boston and the Ricin and Texas.  Of course, then there was also the FINDING of the passport and getting to spend an entire day with an old friend, so it wasn't ALL bad.

I prefer to labor in obscurity

I guess Facebook is where it's at...and it is fun in it's own way.  Kind of interesting to find out what all my old boyfriends are doing.  But I prefer blogs.  You get MORE info from fewer people and I'm kind of scared to say anything on Facebook  And I don't really WANT my old boyfriends to know what I am doing or NOT doing nor do I want them to know what I look like.  Where in the world will my remarks be going?  At least now I know when I write my thoughts down in "my blog that no one reads".  I didn't check that out as a blog name, but I DID check out quite a few names and they were all taken, including ALL THE GOOD NAMES WERE ALREADY TAKEN.  I did decide to investigate Twitter yesterday, but when it came time to choose a name, I got stymied.  To listen to the news, you would think that everybody in the world EXCEPT for me is tweeting.  But, really, do I know ANYONE who tweets?  Don't think so.

Sick of hearing about:
- Twitter
- Immigration
- Celebrities and their bad dress choices
- Marriage (especially GAY marriage)

It is almost a full time job listening to my music.  Playlist.com has a lot of problems.  Some days it does not save, some days it gets jammed up, sometimes the songs change and sometimes the links go bad. So then I move over to YouTube.  But YouTube has problems, too.  Now I am back to playlist because the Beyonce videos to two songs were stupid.  I like some gansta' rap songs and when I have to watch the videos, I realize how distasteful they really are!  I don't really want to watch Rihanna in black leather and chains.

An armed society is a polite society

Somewhat puzzling sign at a Guns across America rally recently.  Picturing the world boiled down to a war between the gun owners and the non-gun owners.  I guess I know who would win.

Have been down with something....a cold, I presume.  I am always so cocky and proud of my record as a person who never gets sick.  Well, now I am humbled.  Spent the entire day in bed yesterday listening to NPR.  So unimaginative of me.  But the path of least resistance.  Hard getting re-motivated.  My sister made me chicken soup and loaned me her wireless.

Was going to cancel my subscription to the local paper but I am reconsidering.  Yeah, it's an "old white man's" paper, but it's all we've got.  I think I would miss it if it went out of business, which it probably will do.  They had an article in the paper about how they laid off a bunch of people.  So, maybe I should just HANG on and help them out with my subscription.  They regionalized (hate it) and I say periodically that "I'm not INTERESTED in Salem or Gloucester counties".  But, then, I saw an article about someone I went to school with and saw an interesting program advertised.

Roofers, car mechanics, and dentists

No, these are not guys I have slept with but I have noticed a similarity amongst them. They all seem to criticize the LAST guy who did work for you.

How does McDonald's keep track of who is who when they have the two different ordering stations? I asked them. They TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR CAR.

The good things about retirement -
- I could go to a concert at 10:30 in the morning
- I could go to a birthday party for twin six year olds at 3 PM
- I could go out to breakfast and not worry about the time
- I can go volunteer for the Performing arts center and have breakfast AND lunch there
- Someone deposits checks into my bank account three times each month

What is wrong with Americans? We haven't finished investigating the crazed shooter in the mall when another crazed shooter hits the elementary school.

Strange but true:
- The Fringe festival has a fringe

Don't like this "voter ID law". Yes, it is a REAL PAIN for some people to get a photo ID. That is why I never applied for a handicapped parking sticker to drive my mom around in Pennsylvania. I needed a photo ID for HER. I also remember four years ago when we made sure we took her to vote for Obama. We wouldn't have been able to do that if the photo ID was required. The crazy thing about it all is that NO ONE IN AMERICA CARES about voting! What do we get, about 10% of the people to come out? And now we are making it more difficult?!?! I was brought up to vote, so I do it, but it is very lonely out there.

Worrisome anti-American craziness abroad. Yes, many Americans DO make some despicable films. But, get over it already. I'm sure someone must have made something really insulting to QUAKERS, or LIBRARIANS, but you don't see me out there rioting. Boy, those people have no sense of humor. Could this be the start of the end of the world? Maybe....

Guess I should get off of Playlist. I really am not much of a multitasker. It is hard to concentrate on writing when the music in your earphones is chanting, "Niggas they want war, but they ain't got money...". I do enjoy songs such as "I'm so paid" by Akon. I also have a thing for L'il Wayne. Yeah, it's embarrasing, but there you have it. In fact, I am SO into MY music that I am thinking about getting Sirius XM in the car again. I got a year's free trial when I bought my FIRST American car (a Chevy Malibu) and I LOVED it. But I cancelled it due to frugality reasons.

Things I love about Sirius XM:

- Decades channels
- Springsteen channel
- left wing channel
- audiobook channel
- comedy channels
- Broadway channel
- with the press of a button you can find out the name of the song and the name of the singer