Old Letters

Mom uncovered another batch of letters from Africa. Letters she wrote to her family in the States. So tonight I'm sorting them by date in order to put them into a new scrapbook.

Weight Gain

Drawing on my iPad

Experiment in re-connection number three

Experiment in Reconnection #2

Experiment in Reconnection

Travel Funnies

I'm traveling this week and I love to watch the world go by. Inevitably there are things or people who amuse me.

On this trip I traveled to New Orleans via Houston. The Houston airport was where I saw some funnies.

Now, when traveling through Texas you just have to expect to see "important" guys in hats and boots and I saw several of them, seeming traveling together, in the Houston airport. They all had their boots, straw hats, and prize belt buckles on. That wasn't the funny part since, being from Colorado, that's not particularly unusual. What was funny wasn't even the fact that they were wearing jeans with their suit jackets. We do that in Colorado, too.

What was funny was the crisply press jeans. Jeans weren't made to be pressed. Even funnier were the fade lines from the pressing. Yes, they've had those jeans press (and starched?) so many times that the crease was faded.

Gotta laugh.

Pillow Hog

Some Days

Shall I just slit my wrist so you can watch me bleed?

It's been one of those days. I work for a company where I believe in what we do and what our product is, sooooo very much. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop people from being obscenely human, wanting to slit you open just to see you bleed. Then act as if it's my job to let them do it.

Yes, it's been a really bad day and I've got a bad attitude about it.

The thing that really sucks is that I'm trapped. Even if I wanted to leave, I can't. I can't move because my husband doesn't want to and because very little money or time has been spent on keeping up our house and it would need significant work to sell it. And he doesn't have a job, so I can't just change jobs unless I make at least as much as I do now, preferably a little more. Since we can't seem to cut some of the perks we're accustomed to there's no extra cushion for anything. No savings either. That would make too much sense.

I can't get a job I love because I don't have the credentials to get one let alone be able to move to another state if I did get one. It seems all the jobs that sound like something I could enjoy are out of state. Anyone want to hire me to work remotely?

Then there's that glass ceiling that's never going to break open until there are no men left to promote. Go millennials! I guess the millennial guys are ditching the corporate scene and leaving it to the girls who have been told that's what they should want by women too busy trying to crack the glass ceiling to see that it sucks up there. I'm wondering what the guys are doing. Starting small businesses, sitting on the couch letting their girlfriend pay the bills? Who knows.

Anyway, the only way I'm going to get out of this job is if my boss falls dead and I get her job or.........I'm not going to go there.

I'm reading a book about a map thief. I guess when he was in high school he created false identities for fun and then realized he could use them to get free money by getting loans and credit cards with them. He did get caught for that, but I was intrigued by the idea of creating a false identity and just disappearing.

I guess you go find the name of someone who was born around the same time as yourself and died as a baby. You get a copy of their birth certificate and start building a life around it. There's got to be limitations to that. Do they check for a death certificate if you apply for a passport? Just to make sure you're not an identity theif? If not, that would be sweet. You could get a passport, get out of the country, create a new identity in your new location and start a completely new life. Talk about anonymous.

Yeah, it's just crazy talk. I'm too responsible and not brave enough to even try.

So I guess I'm back where I started. Is it Friday yet?

Feather Fiend