Going Green

    "Going green" has a lot of connotations to it.  Most people thing that "going green" means helping not to polute the environment using environmentally friendly products and cutting down on your "carbon footprint".  Today I noticed that I was "going green".  Le me explain, and it might not be the way you expected.
     I am making dinner tonight for a very special friend.  This required me to go to the grocery store to pick up a few of the main ingredients for what I am going to cook tonight.  When I got home and went in to the refridgerator to put things away, I discovered to my amazement that I didn't have any room. What is the problem and what is taking up so much space.
     When you live alone, it is hard to cook for one. The idea is to make enough for other meals from what you have cooked and when you don't want to cook you heat up the leftovers.  That is the ideal.  I want to be the first to let people know that that is not the case.  You get to a state of confusion after checking out the fridge and finding so many leftovers.  You freeze because the choices are so many and you can't make a decision.  You finally make the decision and you order Chinese take out, or pizza.  You can't finish that so into the fridge it goes only to add to later confusion.  Let's face it, life is complex.
     As I said, I am "going green".  Not by choice, but by circumstances and it is only my refridgerator. You should see it.  It has gone green--and black--and orange--and tan and also has grown hair in a couple of cases.  Phizer, the drug company called and wanted me to sent them a sample of what was in my fridge.  They wanted to develope a new strain of antibiotic penicillin from the mold in my fridge. I don't know what they wanted to do with the furry thing.
       

Freedom, The Simple Pleasures

     Today is a holiday here in the United States.  It is called President's Day, and we honor those who have served as leader of this country.  Two President's are the focus of this and they are George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  I could get very political and philosophical about freedom and what it means, but I am going to take a different direction here.  Don't get me wrong, I am proud to be an American and will celebrate the genius of these two men but that is not where I am going today.
     Yesterday, I experienced true freedom and in the most unusual way.  I did my laundry.  I have done my laundry many times since I moved into my apartment, but yesterday was different.  I did my laundry.  That is a very powerful realization, as there were a lot of things controlling my life.  It was my choice when to do my laundry as it is my choice to do whatever I want to or have to do.  I can also do things the way I want to, experiencing a learning curve. If what I do works, fantastic and if it doesn't work I won't do it that way again. That is a freeing experience.
     Which way do the clothes get hung on the hangar?  Is it to the left or to the right?  Does it matter?  It really doesn't and I don't care! I am truly FREE!!!!!!

I Need To Get To Work

     Yes, I know that I haven't posted in quite some time.  Let me be the first to apologize for that.  I enjoy writing my blogs and I hope that you enjoy reading them. Thank you for being so loyal in following me and reading what I have to say. I totally understand that at times it seems like drivel and the rantings of an unstable man, but that is half the fun.
    I am beginning to believe that it is all a matter of prioritization, a skill that I have never learned.  God and family come first, that is a given.  Where does filing tax receipts come in?  I know that Tuesday is the day that I go and "papou" with my grandkids because my daughter goes to class.  That is a priority.  What about going to the gym three times a week?  How about doing the crunches and stretches every morning?
     I have come to the realization that I am in fact a writer.  I am no longer a teacher that goes into to school every day and teaches sixth graders.  That life is over, and my new life is here.  That new life should be a priority and I need to get to work on it.  There are very important projects that need to get finished.  The only way to do that is to do them.  That is so simple.
     Excuse me now, I have work to do.

   

Being Papou (Grandpa)

     Tuesday is a very happy day for me every week.  My oldest daughter has class on Tuesday and it is the day that I must "watch" my two grandsons while she is at calss.  Am I watching them or are they watching me?  When I am there, it can be asked who is the bigger kid. We have a ball!
     There is something about crawling around on the floor with a one-year-old.  Wrestling with a four-year-old WWE style takes a lot out of a 58-year-old body.  I wouldn't miss a minute of any of this.  It is all so very special, and there was a time not very long ago when I would have missed all this.  Who needs the nap after all this...you decide.