For high school. Nothing to meet his needs here in old Louisiana. He’s attending a math and science academy in Georgia, while living with my sister. It was a little much to homeschool him and recover from Gustav and Ike. He’s doing well. Harder on me I think. He took the Psat 2 wks ago. Waiting on the results. I know this is the right thing for now. There’s an opportunity for early college this way.
Collector of junk and lots more Moving some time in the next millineum.
It isn’t that anything new didn’t happen in those 2 months. But at the time, I really didn’t feel that they were fulfilling. I tried to give blood but my iron was too low. My daughter turned 21 in August and while to most parents this is a milestone in their child’s and their lives, I dreaded it because she was no longer be my little girl. Well. things haven’t changed, she is still my child.
In September, granddaughter actually took her first unassisted steps at 10 months of age and now cruising is second nature. She still uses crawling as her primary mode of transportation but not for long.
My daughter’s car was totaled in September. While this could have been a tragedy, no one was seriouly hurt. Neither my daughter nor my granddaughter were in the car at the time. The solitary occupant crawled out of the wreckage on her own steam, mostly shaken. Although, she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, the airbags did what they were designed to do even after the vehicle turned over a couple times. I don’t know what really led up to the wreck that night, whether the girl was drunk or high or just joyriding. She is the first in her family to actually graduate from high school and attend college and has been doing very well in her studies. Obviously, God has a plan for her and I hope she learned something from this experience. I hope my daughter has, too.
smartstuff nano nano nano nano nano
Just to top it off
It’s been a busy month. In sumary, I think September’s “new and fufilling” was both (a) getting out more and (b) doing things on my own. Both of which were new and fufilling in themselves, and also contributed to my many other sucesses over the course of the month.
Thanks John Lee. This goal always challenges me to learn and grow. See you next quarter!
lovingeveryminute loves cleaning the house ♥ ♥ ♥
It is RIDICULOUS that September is over already! A hundred projects jabbing at me has made me feel overwhelmed, but there have been tons of New and Fulfilling experiences going on, too.
We’ve gone to and hosted several family gatherings this month that involved lots of relatives on all sides. None of those festivites were accompanied by a funeral, either, so that in itself is fulfilling.
I had the opportunity to have friends over here for fun activities. Usually I assume the role of teacher, as was the case for “craft day” on the 24th, but my Brazilian friend is teaching me Portuguese, although we both want to learn Spanish now because it is more useful in Arizona.
I’ve been to several baseball games. Unfortunately, that was not so fulfilling because I got to witness the Diamondbacks’ freefall from 1st place in the NL West to so far out of it that they don’t even get to play in the post-season. The games were still fun, though; Chase Field is a beautiful stadium.
The NEWest of my adventures this month was going to an Israeli Restaurant with my niece. I “chickened” out and stuck with what I knew, but I did have falafel for the first time. She even picked up the tab. THAT was really new! Next time I’m having the tzatziki. I’m all about the cucumbers!
Today, I started writing my own arrangement for a song I will play at a piano recital in December. I have been taking lessons for 8 months now.
Oh, and I am wearing size 10 pants. Woo Hooooo!
caiti awesomepants old enough to know better. too young to care.
I was going to let September slide and not even post anything to it. There was nothing happy or exciting about it for me, just sadness.
Then stopping to reflect, there were new things that happening, more personal things that I have never really dealt with correctly. September has been a month of personal growth and reflection. So how can personal growth not be fulfilling?!!
Dreamer~ celebrate, grow and give
Was great… I really enjoyed sitting at the Author Table. I was joined by my daughter, Mom and sister. I had great conversation and learned a few new things about the industry~
have been challenging times work wise. What with coworkers having problems that have been keeping them away from the job etc. The good thing is that slowly all the staff have been trickling back from their short and long term absences. We have 30 staff on out team and at one point 12 members were not at work. Of course there was a lot of overtime and even Saturdays we spent working. The rough times are now over and now we know that no matter what pops up we can face it head on and get the job done!
And on a “lighter” note…I have been keeping with my better eating habits and walking away my lunch hours at work and keeping up my yoga practice after my long days and nights at the office. As a result I got the best compliment last night from a friend of mine. “You have an amazing ass!” Sigh! All that hard work is definitely worth it!
~ John Lee ~ setting my sights lower so I can set them higher
My challenge to the team is to join the next goal in the series for the last bit of 2008 AND invite some people to join the team there.
DanT1999 is happily asserting imperfection
You really need a car to get around in LA. I usually tell people not familiar with LA that people here primarily use public transportation when either they’re too poor to afford a car or they don’t have a driver’s license. I use it at most a couple of times a year. Today I had to drop my car off at the dealer to have it worked on all day and therefore needed to use public transportation to get to work. I had to take a bus from the middle of the Valley to the subway terminal in North Hollywood and then two trains to end up in Koreatown where I had to take another bus to get to the office. The commute took about 20 minutes longer than if I had driven myself, but it was really not so bad although I’m not going to give up my car anytime soon.
What I found most interesting about my commute was observing the various different types of passengers. I was surprised by how crowded both the buses and trains were. No, it wasn’t Tokyo, Hong Kong or New York style crowded but crowded for LA. I mean, I had to stand up most of the time during my commute since all the seats were taken. I think since gas prices have been going up more people of all walks of life are making more use of public transportation. I didn’t see strictly poor people, kids and the elderly on the bus. What I saw kind of reminded me more of a city like New York where public transportation is the norm because I saw all sorts of people including professionals in business suits, kids with skateboards and backpacks, men in workboots, a guy with a comb stuck in his afro, people with tattoos all over their arms, men and women wearing nursing uniforms among many others.
Standing right across from me on the bus ride to the train station was a guy, a student at the community college maybe about twenty years old, wearing two layers of thick sweaters and carrying a brief case in one hand and holding a cell phone in the other and with a guitar case strapped across his back. I couldn’t figure out why anyone would need a single sweater, much less two, on a day when the temperature was supposed to be over 90 degrees. Go figure. I overheard one of his cell phone conversations where he was telling the other person on the line, whom I thought might be his mom or his girlfriend, that after school he had practice and probably wouldn’t be home till after 7 in the evening. Before hanging up, he said “I love you too”. I wonder why people feel compelled to say “I love you” when hanging up the phone. If you’re in the type of relationship where you say naturally “I love you” all the time like when talking on the phone, do the words really need to be said at all? It just seems like the words have more power when used less frequently and at particularly intense moments, but that’s just me…
The people were no less interesting on the train. I saw a woman breast feeding on the train in the morning leaving the Valley. She just whipped it out and while the baby started sucking madly she continued her conversation with another lady in Spanish. I didn’t have a problem with it at all; it was just kind of hard to not think about how unusual it is for someone to be so casual about doing it in public… It just seemed different…
On my afternoon bus ride back to the Valley to pick up my car, I saw a short, thin young man (early twenties I think) whom I had seen on my morning train ride into the city. I had thought he was probably Mexican, but he was having a conversation on his cell phone in a different language that sounded kind of like Russian or Armenian. I had the passing thought to ask him what language he had been speaking but didn’t because I assumed he probably didn’t know English and besides that I don’t usually start random conversations with strangers. Anyway, I saw him referring to what I believed to have been a Berlitz Russian to Hebrew phrase book. He had these really deep, intense, and dare I say, beautiful eyes… Is it strange to look strangers in the eyes? I do this sometimes like I did today on the bus and sometimes without even realizing that I’m doing it. One woman who was carrying what looked to be a textbook about contract law looked me in the eye back in a kind of thoughtful way…
It was an interesting ride, but I’m quite happy to have my car back!
