June 3, 2004 Where’s the Vacation”

Well it is the third day of vacation and I am asking where is the vacation. I have been working every day at school. Took a morning off to run around Abbeville and see people you can not see during the school year. Then met Trey over at Bancker. I am ready for fun. But i still have too much to do. Did not think i could collect so much junk. What is bad is the stuff that is not junk, but I really can’t keep. I plan to give it to the new k teacher and I hope she appreciates it.
Hopefully tomorrow, I will be through with my room. I think I should, but it seems to never get finished.
Better leave now before i become depressing to myself.

June 20th Only Time

As you can tell, my choice of music when I am thinking or playing with hobbies is the same. Enya. I do miss her when I am away.
I can finally say I had a vacation. It was fun, but exhausting. Not because of the trip, but because of the company. I attended the trip with Steve’s big boss and wife. They are REPUBLICANS. Need I say more. My “keep your mouth shut” attitude did wear me out. Other than that, I thoroughly enjoyed the fringe benefits.
A beautfiul hotel down in the middle of Galvestion. The Trenton House. Luxury that surpasses any Holiday Inn or dare I say Hilton. It was a remodeled historical hotel. Of course, it had the touch of history, but it was not like Nottoway where you actually felt like it was a trip back in time. It was just pretty and a little yuppie.
The best thing about the trip was the ability to take pictures and visit the pyramids. Now that I know more about them, then I would love to go back and visit the ones we did not get to go to. We went to the Rainforest one. It was an actual rainforest inside a giant greenhouse. The concept was very educational. I would love to have brought some young students through it. They would have been overwhelmed I am afraid though. I will try to convince my own children to try to work it into their lives.
We did visit an IMAX theater. It was a 3d movie of the ocean. I was not sure if it was computer generated or not. It appeared to be very realistic in a way. It was interesting, but I think it was geared for the children. It was actually a lesson in disguise. (It also was an environmental show.) Surprises me that the wife was so gung ho it. As much as she condemns the liberals, she was very pro environment. Guess it was the teacher in her.
I also pulled my usual stunt of trying to do something I am getting too old to do or do not dress appropriately for doing. I was taking lots of pictures (in fact, as I write I am downloading them…30 minutes) While doing it I was trying to get down where I could actually be close to the animal I was trying to take. Of course, I lost balance and fell on my knees. No I did not fall on the animal…which my oldest son was afraid that I had. It was embarrassing enough..but I would have been mortified if I had hurt the animals in any way. Until another day. 😉

July 2, 2004 Listening in Silence

Today began quietly. The day became more exciting as it progressed. At 7:30am I took Fred out. As I was standing there on the patio, I spied a strange looking cloud. The weather was very calm where I was and this cloud though big did not appear at first to be much. It was southeast of us and I think it was still over the marsh area. After a while I could not believe what I was seeing. It was a funnel cloud that was forming before my eyes. I kept thinking to myself…you are being very stupid standing here, but it was not moving fast at all. Finally, I came to my senses and said “GRAB YOUR CAMERA”. So in I ran thinking it will probably disappear before you get back. Of course, it took forever to find the stupid camera because I was not thinking very clearly. With camera in hand and hurrying quite a bit, I finally was outside. Much to my surprise the cloud was still there. After several pictures, I realized it would be a good idea if I called Dina. I was aware it was not coming in our direction. Therefore, I ran in and called her. She was able to see it while I was talking to her and it was breaking up. She seemed to think it was closer to Angie, so I told her it would not hurt to call them also. By the time I returned it was breaking up, but it still was eerie looking. Dina had told me they sometimes they reform in that type of cloud. Finally, it began raining and the cloud lost it’s dangerous appearance.
Well, I could have stayed watching all morning, but I had planned to see Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azalcan (sp’). So at 11:30, Challi arrived and we were off. It was a great visit with her. We both enjoyed the movie. We even went to Barnes and Noble and I got her a special book. I sure hope we can get together again before school starts.
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: none, just silence

Where is Everybody”’

Since no one seems to be reading my board, I am thinking of just writing my journal on Wilbur’s website. If there is anyone out there that is reading please comment. Then I will write to you. hehehe :'(

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This is to all of you who have access to this forum. I hope that you will write and leave many insightful and wonderful thoughts. Oh well, in lieu of that, please just post to this site. 😀 I am smiling and hoping that I will get a friend. Carla where are you”’ Frances, I would love you to write also.