Ayn's Multiple World

Working our way through the weekend

Good morning. This is me. I’m at work now and it is 8 am. I’ve been here for an hour … The first part of the day has been for settling in … We talked to Candice for about a half hour or so and then just been doing little organizing stuff the rest of the time. Sister sent back the plant I had left with her at Christmas … it is in much better shape. I should have remembered it before. I don’t know what’s wrong with me … seems I can only think of just a little bit of stuff at a time.

When I was looking for my water in my bag – hadn’t occurred to me it was already out on the desk – to water the plant, I found my breakfast yogurt. I had forgotten that I was supposed to eat breakfast. And, that reminded me that we had gotten coffee. I swear to God, I had no idea I passed a Dunkin Donut every morning this last mile or so to work right on Western Blvd Between 55th and 51rst. We’re on 49th. AND, I PROMISE you … I DIDN’T STOP FOR ANY SWEETS … PROMISE!!!

My coffee cups terrible. We had it with us on Sunday for our trip and it tasted like dishwasher soap. I don’t want to ever use it again – even if it is washed. But, I don’t know what the new thing will be on coffee. I do need a nice new cup … the one Rich got was terrible. He knew it so it is ok. Something bright and startling and easy to topple like a lime green. Hmm, think we went over that. Ok, moving on lots to cover little time.

Came in right at 7 am. Sister met us at the door because we beat in the regulars … She asked, “What are you working on today?” We didn’t know. We stared back blankly with a concerned look. Then we asked, “What do you mean?” Then she said we should focus on something. Then she said why don’t we focus on Qnotes today. That there was no reason to be so behind, but she said it in a soft way. We just said, oh, ok. So, now we got to do that. We told Candice that we would work on hers first so that if they asked us to choose clients at least some of hers would be caught up. I feel strongly of not letting her hang. I feel I have a responsibility to catch us up and then help her. It’s what I really have to do. I’ve fallen so terribly behind.

But, then on the other hand there is all this stuff that we did over the weekend that isn’t getting completed with the writing. I’m getting very paranoid … I unplugged the music because I am afraid someone will come in and see I’m not working directly. The music is still on just out loud … It’s a Monday so Candice has gone up front. Brandi or someone keeps opening that door. Maybe Candice? Man-o-live keep jumping.

Good just remembered that too. Just checked the appointment. Nutrition and wellness called last night and I thought I missed an appointment today, but it turns out that the arthritis appointment tomorrow is IN Nutrition and Wellness clinic and it IS indeed tomorrow at 1 pm as I had thought. Good good. Good to know too that they are calling two days in advance. I think too that if they don’t get a hold of someone they are calling the day in advance too. Cuz last time we got a night call and a day call from the heart people … good thinking. It’s just that my message thingy isn’t long enough to catch the message. Hmm, finished up breakfast too, but still spacey. Ok, stop there don’t even go there … just the way God made me!

Ok, think her. Gotta think … read up girl you can do it … we’re not going to lose it here… not on my shift!

Weekend that’s right … ok, now there was two parts, because there was two days. The two big marker events was that we did the zoo on Saturday and we went on our field trip on Sunday to a place but I don’t remember the name. We took about a 100 pictures though, but we left both the camera and the pictures at home, because we figured that we couldn’t be responsible with them yet. We needed time to figure out what we are going to do with Rich’s picture. It’s a hot picture … We caught him on camera going to the bathroom – WOOHOOOO!!!! Yeah that’s what I mean MY studly well yes, something like that has to get though about a lot!

But, then there is the other side … we don’t want that ever, ever getting in the wrong place … what happen if we went crazy mad at him 25 years from now … would we use that against him? I’m thinking that to protect our sweetie that as much fun as it is to have that picture that we don’t want to trust ourselves or anyone who might ever have access to our photography … so we’re thinking we’ll talk it over with him tonight or tomorrow morning, but thinking we should erase it from camera and computer. What do you think? Would be the smart and safe thing to do wouldn’t it? We’ve still got a whole lot of other shots, right?

Man though that might be the Pulitzer Prize winner someday – Wow … it’s such a great picture!!!! My guys SO HOT!!!

Just don’t trust us … we want to do something – we’ll want to show someone … we’re … ok, ok enough of that … that’s why it has to be destroyed hmmm??? Enough of that for now.

Let’s move on.

Woo Hoo … just got caught up with Brandi … they are still in a process … she explained the next part … I have to give her and her husband a lot of credit they are very definitely going forward and I’ll be so proud of them and their child. I don’t really know Rosa or Imelda, or Margarita really anymore, and most likely I won’t know Brandi’s child – her home life is actually pretty private, but this is all pretty cool. And, I’d be proud of her. Damn this is the kind of stuff that brings tears. Go Brandi!

Ok, little thing now – the flag is half way on … we walked up for mail and we told Sr. Theresa it was partially disconnected … we keep seeing it out of the corner of our eyes. Hmm. Done handling that too except to refile the documents. Shoot should have made a copy. Sister should see she has the originals though they are blue pen. Wow. I had a copy too … Really not thinking here too clearly. We had to go through our caseload for 2007 to check who we lost. Only one client – and that one died of Leukemia. It’s kind of a sad over-hanging feeling to go through his file. I don’t want to get lost in this space though after all there is that flag to worry about. It had been fine earlier. It sits perfectly outside my view between our building and the next – beyond the courtyard.

Ok, moving on … oh one more housekeeping note. Sr. is at it again … she put out two containers of popcorn stuff. I took a cupful from the tin. It was like a light glaze that didn’t discolor the air popped corn. Oh man … good! Sweet. Hmm, maybe that’s … no we were stumbly before. Then I chased it down with a V8 … probably should be drinking the water … isn’t that what we’d tell the client? No. You would tell the client don’t eat the popcorn, it will mess with your numbers. We haven’t the faintest even where we put our little meter. Hmpf!

Let’s see if we can remember anything from Saturday or at least note that we lost it all from not writing on Sunday … really feeling a fine fret about that coming on. Ok, shhh … girls let’s not panic. Let’s take it slow. Well not too slow we gotta do some Qnotes today, remember? Time check … 9:50 am ok we’re going to think now – k? careful! Gears grinding.

Ok, what do we collectively remember? Morning anything about getting up? What did we do Friday? Did we post Fridays? Ok … that took a few minutes, but apparently we left Friday to go home to a sandwich left by Rich … but, instead of two games he only had one game so he came home. That would have been a good thing right? I know we didn’t have fights. We rarely do. Though we get scolded for stuff. Shhh, that’s not the same stuff … If you eat three nutrition bars then you need to get scolded, see? Grrrr. Shhh.

Ok, Friday, let’s concentrate hard … who has it? What did we do? Oh, I remember … that was the night we were falling asleep at the computer when Rich came in about 8-9 something like that. And, he thought we’d be sleepy – cuz something before … so, he picked up a movie we wouldn’t like – rough stuff and then he thought we should go to bed. After a few moments of protest we went to bed, cuz he wanted to eat his sandwich at our computer with the movie, with his sandwich, and with headphones. Because then he could go to bed too – because it was too early for him to sleep, but he knew we liked to wake up early. So, that was pretty much that … Heheheh hot date, hmm??

Ok, now Saturday. How, come we didn’t write? Wait … I think we did write we just didn’t post. We got as far as when Angel started talking maybe and I think we saved that. I don’t know what we talked about, but we were writing. Was Rich home? Yes, because we were doing laundry, remember – kept interrupting Angel. But, it was late, right? Why was that? Did he have an early game? No, I don’t think so, because didn’t he have a game he had to be at after the zoo? Yes, we had to be home at 3:30 pm so he could leave at 3:45 to be there at 4:30 pm. Remember – then I think he came home hmm, he was supposed to come home at 6 pm. Lets think another track for a second. Did Rich wake up late Naw … let’s not go there – because that will be the other entry. I think we wrote about maybe giving Angel’s people a place to stay. Any we’re going to talk about the zoo in a minute, but let’s try to outline first the rest of the night.

After the zoo, Rich left … and some stuff might have happened, like in between times, I am pretty sure we were getting caught up on our Brittney Spears news, because it was a big weekend for her … she ended up in a mental hospital for a couple of days, she lost temporarily visitation rights and she lost custody of the children. Man what a mess. I think the major part was going into the room finally, I wasn’t really a part of it though I hadn’t gone into full hiding yet. But, one of the people there … let me think of her name. Shoot, I can’t do it. But, she was nice. I won’t remember now much about her … I know she is having problems now with her gastric bypass … she’s not very computer literate. She’s about 30 miles from where my sister lives in WI and she had the gastric bypass 18 years ago. She’s really nice. She’s 53 or 54 and her husband is 10 years older and very heavy at 350. She’s worried about him. There’s going to be a lot more. We’ll have to watch for her. We saved her IM’s over on our home OneNote.

Anyway, I remember Rich coming home and we were saying … we got a new friend, we got a new friend! We like the older ones better than the younger ones.

What do we remember next? I think probably what? Did we watch a movie? Get sexed? Have dinner? Seems to be running a pattern? Think … when did he get home? Oh wait … was that the day he was in his underwear and we cuddled in his arms watching a movie and forgot to watch and he got cold toes? I think that’s what he said last night during pillow time. He said we fell asleep and had to wake up … damn gotta remember another movie. He sure in a movie guy. Hmm, we tried to remember it, but we can’t … maybe later. I remember that we kinda fell asleep, because when he said something we thought yah I forgot we wanted to see the ending so we sat up. But, I don’t remember. We can be pretty sure then he put us to sleep.

So, next day was the big trip, but before that there was the zoo.

As to the zoo – I don’t think there was any complaints directly about going. I think we got dressed and stuff – somewhere in here we’d been having trouble because he’d been pressuring us at the door so then we came up with a new system. He just has to tell us what time he wants us at the door and we would be there at the time, but we weren’t going for this drill sergeant rushing bit and we WOULD NOT accept boxes and bags and such at the doorway preventing us space to put on our coat or scarf and such. That all was making us cranky. We like to SWIRL our coat on HMPF!

I think there was a problem though closer to the zoo. Someone had found out there was an easier way to get into the zoo besides going up and down the big hills getting in. We wanted the shortcut – that you had to pay $2. Rich wasn’t going for that. It had been a treat he said. Man we were horrible. Pretty much up until the point we past the entrance, then it was like SWITCH! Then it was like it had never happened. I bet in this case Rich feels like the luckiest guy in the earth. We don’t do much for holding grudges. He’s too tickly for that. He kept repeating that he would take as many breaks as I needed and he did.

I’m afraid that we both are noticing that I’m taking more breaks than I used to. That’s not a good thing. Like am I getting a good 3 minutes in? I don’t know … he suggested and I agree that we have to go back to the timer. For what that helps. Shhh, we were being positive, remember … shhhh not a word you!

Ok, Anyway … he gave us the option of choosing where we wanted to go today. We were a little rushed for time … we had just over an hour to be at the zoo. Not sure exactly. I decided that since we had a choice that we should get over and visit the giraffes. We actually made a full tour of seeing only three animals. We saw the camels, the buffalos, and the giraffes. There were a few little things in the giraffe house, but they don’t really count, cuz we don’t remember them, cuz we just passed them, K? Shhh

We didn’t want to leave any of the animals that we were seeing. To be fair too – you should know that in-between times, Rich was getting us to walk as far as we could go, but not til after the giraffes when time was running short did he push us. So that was good – AND, that had shown on the scale, but that’s for another day. As to not wanting to leave animals … I don’t know which personalities were taking over at each location, but it seems like when we got to each that we were as much a part of their living domain as they were. I don’t know where that great melding occurs or why. I’m sure it happens to a lot of people as they reach in with their cameras to feel one with the objects of their attention. But, for us … it’s like we watch and watch – I guess pretty much it’s just that observer role we talk about so often.

We notice things that are similar or different. Like after standing with the camels long enough we realized that the lead camel – we referred to him as a him and the three background smaller camels as shes. But, I pointed it out to Rich. “Watch this, watch this.” He was like a sun dial gradual turning in a circle counterclockwise. He did it as if he were in a slow dance that had lasted through eternity. It was very spiritual. About once every 3-4 minutes he lifted slowly his left hoof and then in a gradual arcing movement he rotated it in the air until it firmly found the ground and then the rest of the body would shift to match – it was only a matter of a half to a foot’s distance, but the three women in back then would also readjust and move with him so that they in proportion would still stand directly in back of him all facing his direction. This isn’t the kind of thing you can see if you come to the zoo … take a shot and then race off to see the next animal. It was majorly cool!

Hehehe of course being us, we gave the camel a little moving music to go with it. This was cool though to Rich only to the degree no one was around, and sure enough our time came and he decided we better mosey rather quickly along.

Man-o-man we were like on drugs … BUT we unlike Britney DO NOT TAKE DRUGS and WERE NOT even floating on a MARGARITA! HA!

The next were the buffalo … I was so impressed with those ‘ol lugs that they would sit so close to the fence for us. I think this is truly their calling in life. After you’ve seen so many years, wouldn’t it be just the thing to study people by shape of good to eat or better? Oh yeah Rich said they were herbivores. We had noticed how gently everyone was chewing their food. We particularly took to the big guy directly in front of us. He was muzzling his front chin that seemed buried in tufted fur into the snow … you could hear his breathing like snorts. Oh man it was grand. I could feel his great strength in the manner of which he summoned air to fill his diaphragm. What a tremendous animal the buffalo. I was so impacted. It would be nice to see or know they could all be roaming a range, like the ones we’d seen passing several times through South Dakota, but then these animals and their purpose at the zoo were important too.

At one point, a young child, maybe even 6 or so had come up behind us and he said, “Oh wow, what is that is that a bull! He’s a big bull.” His dad softly corrected him. “No son, that’s a buffalo.” I thought. Hmm, there goes the whole American culture. Aren’t kids even told what buffalo’s are? Man?!? Then I put my sarcasm away. I know he’s just too young. Soon he will gain culture in school, or from watching cowboy and Indian shows, or after awhile they will have a time traveler going back to visit Indians and buffalo … one way or another the past won’t be forgotten right? Yes, It’s a good thing that at least 4-5 buffalo have to be citified just so kids can ask, “Dad, What’s that?” HA! That was the purpose of “The Wild West Show” with Buffalo Bill - I think they got that on DVD now J Didn’t Clint do that?

Ok, by then Rich was saying into my ear … ok dear it’s getting late. I was regretful leaving the buffalo … hold tight dear friend – I’LL BE BACK!!!

But, then we were off to see THE GIRAFFE!!! I could only walk half the distance, and then Rich pushed. I was very grateful for that lift. I do not like going through the exhibits walking … I’m unsure of my footing and I get off-balanced by the kids wheeling around pushing into people to get better looks into the exhibits. For the record, I do like that they are that excited about what is going on – Just manners, manners … oh dear … starting to sound old. L

Anyway … just inside the Giraffe house, we went through a couple of doors, but then our phone rang. It took Rich a couple of minutes to convince him that if somebody was actually calling me it was important, because usually it was only the hospital/clinics, him, or my kids. The other thing I think of is my grandmother dying. As it turned out it was Maury … he was asking about Joe pictures, because Alex was trying to hook him up with one of his friends. I don’t know how that turned out, but it was nice that Alex was considering Joe. I think he would know Joe’s type. Heheh, but for the record – think Joe has to be the one out looking! Poor Joe. I don’t remember the little animal we were looking at as we talked to Maury. But, after that we moved on. AND, Rich pointed out a little mountain goat up high! You could only see his head. Wow! That was cool!

After a bit, Rich was saying that he didn’t think we were going to see any giraffe, but then we rounded a corner and I guess that’s about where we lost control of the ship because we were pointing like “there, there!” And, from that point, Rich couldn’t push any further, because there were 4-5 giraffe in front of us. The only thing I really remember about the giraffe were that they were accepting people very close and they didn’t have a whole lot of space. And, the word personality. I don’t remember why we were saying this, but we were very sure that of all the animals we were seeing they had personality. Maybe because they were looking directly at us as they were chewing away. And, they almost seemed as captivated with us as us they. Like they were watching people TV.

We had a sense that we were being torn away from the giraffes like we’d barely seen them. Maybe we really didn’t have a chance … I think we were saying something. I know later maybe on the car ride home or on the trip we were saying to Rich that he could just explain to people that we had mental retardation. He’s getting better with talking to us out of sync, but he’s still softly arguing with us on it. I don’t remember what exactly our part was saying … I think she’s mostly honest in her thoughts. I think she does a lot of wondering. Where we are analytical … she wonders. If this then that. Just she wonders about things that are more simple and more basic. She gets stuck on wondering why people are nice or mean or things happen the way they do. I think to some extent then we must be process orientated – maybe back to self-regulation

Or, maybe that’s where we are turning it now because we’ve been countered by Brandi. She came in and talked about the meeting I missed on Friday because of taking the Thinking Group. She says the Sister came down on people that were behind and that Holly stuck her foot in mouth by volunteering loudly how far behind it was (as if it were everyone’s fault that she was so busy and far behind) … I guess that didn’t sit well with sister. Brandi said something about sister going to collect the notes. She didn’t tell us that part, but we’re going to need to do something … really do something. But, we gotta finish this story and do Sunday! And it’s 11:30 pm. Pretty sure Rich is going to be gone tonight cuz he said he’s got games every night except Wednesday and he was trying to schedule that in with his daughter. Rough for us I think, but we can deal with it … we had a great time with Rich this weekend and we get to see him at the breaded sandwich ends. WooHOOO!!!

Anyway back to the zoo. We’re about at it’s end. There seems to a woman shadowing our mind toward the end. We hadn’t seen her but she had dark hair and was middle age and seems to have been hidden from our view on the bench in back of us and I think she quietly heard the whole conversation between Rich and one of our younger parts with the giraffes. I don’t remember how that conversation went, but they were pretty intent with them, and I know how their type conversations go. I think we saw her out of the corner of our eye and somehow Rich must have nodded to her or something on the way out. Just the sense of all that brought to mind again somewhere in the conversation loop, what are Riches kids going to think of us when we aren’t able to “control” one of our younger parts being out.

I know that our boys deal with it, but they’ve done it all our lives. I guess that would be one way is to have them transfer stuff to Rich’s family, but the chances of them getting together any time soon are very slim. I guess they will just have to see and ask questions of either us or Rich. I can’t help the way we are. We gotta keep out of the mind that we have to “fix us” or consider ourselves “bad.” I think Rich has in mind that the size does play an affect on his kids reactions toward me. He’s seeing too a year down the line or so – whatever the divorce takes and that it would be easier for him to introduce a skinnier me than a bigger one. I really don’t blame him. I think both of us are to some extent embarrassed of our body sizes. Ahh Simon and Garfunkel’s zoo song is on again!

Better finish zoo song. I mean zoo story. After the giraffe … Rich wheeled us as far as the bottom of the first hill going out. We had agreed with him that we would walk the last hill up because it would be good for me and hard for Rich to push. So, that was done and we got very quickly to the car to sit. Wallah! End of story!

I think we told the next part already – this is where we went on with the room, but before OH, there was one indulgence, in that we looked around for pictures to send Maury on Joes’ behalf. I found a few, but nothing worth looking at.

So. Clear the desk. 11:43. Time for Sunday … Half over. This one shouldn’t be as long. Sunday, we woke up at 4:15 am. I think we did washroom, coffee, and kitties, by 4:30 am. Took an efficient shower – AND finally moved electric tooth brush to shower – which we’ve been pondering for a while. Nice choice hehehe. After that we woke Rich up about 4:50 am … then he did shower, and we did our feet and got dressed. Then he got dressed and poured coffee, while we took care of gathering our electric battery being charged stuff and medicine, and then we both met for a couple sips of coffee. We took about ten minutes gathering our thoughts, but decided to keep on schedule and eat the yogurt in the car rather than slow the works up … Rich had said 5:30 am leave time and we were going to make sure that time was honored. WooHOOO Time travelers! I just had my white cloth bag, Rich took the freezer stuff, his computer, his fishing stuff and other. He’s such a fantastic travelor … I’m just so honored he was taking me with.

We only had one thing that was squabble like and it was the first five minutes of the ride. We had disagreements on the windshield quality. He’s used to it getting real dirty before he cleans it and I was horrified that I couldn’t see the road. He didn’t want to get into using up windshield fluid often and I was like let’s start at least every 20 minutes. He said fine we’ll do it in 20 minutes and I said NO NOW!!! Man … It was terrible. We learned to compromise a little … and I watched how he was doing his set-up so when his hands were preoccupied on the phone, I took over as window washer person when necessary. It was a good compromise. I really do need a clear window. That just makes sense! *Sigh* Ok, good that’s over. Man – what … $3 Use all the wiper fluid you need I say! That’s the one thing extra beside chair and blanket that I will carry. Can’t go wrong there.

Other than that it was smooth sailing the rest of the day. I know that we can’t spend all day here so we’re going to cut short a lot of the conversation in the car until we can take our time with it … but for the record it was 4 hours down there and 4 hours back. We stopped at a rest stop each way I think or washrooms I don’t know maybe it will come up later. We realized early on that my coffee tasted like YEEKS TERRIBLE It’ was plastic and the top is two parts and it had collected the taste of the dishwasher soap … I couldn’t drink from it. Lucky Rich had some licorice candies with him which blunted out the bad taste and the coffee was thrown … the cup will be too. Maybe I can find an aluminum I’ll be happy with, but from now on the top will be hand washed.

Yeeks Theresa and Candice … 11:57 am – they can only be here a moment … I like my quiet area. They are just checking on something. Are they gone? Almost Ok, let’s go on.

Anyway, I remember stopping at a gas station little store Rich trusted for coffee – tall cup. I think we hit a bathroom closer to it, but after we’d gotten there we had to go to the bathroom again … nother story … let’s clear things first are we good to go?

I think we just skipped over 4 hours … God I’d feel terrible if we couldn’t remember at least a few things from that ride! One thing I wanted to say up front as a cover … Is that we brought our camera and even though we didn’t take too many pictures away from the lake there were a few and the first pictures were taken when Rich picked up the coffee. In all 100 pictures were taken – hmm, think I said that part, but in general there are a lot of pictures of Rich and there are quite a few scenery pictures. We didn’t go very far so the pictures are of the same place, but the place was excellent for pictures – many things to capture … It was thrilling to be there. And, for the most part – they do chronicle well the visit while we’d actually stopped so Rich could be doing the fishing. It was a very, very nice day … the only change I’d make was for it to be a little less windy and more fishy! Hehehe

Rich just caught one fish, but there were more bites. He said that it was hard to tell because of the wind. I think it was hard to admit one fish so it became a couple … I can buy that story – because I saw where his worm bit off hehehe Ahh my dear Fishyman!

My camera was acting up toward the end and we lost some of the end pictures, but we still set them up from the camera – which was great after we’d gotten home. Rich was kinda really tired and was hinting at getting his poor rock climbing legs rubbed AND maybe other things, but we wanted to show him the pictures. He said half and half jokingly, why? He’d just seen those things, and we responded – yah, but you didn’t see what WE saw! He couldn’t disagree with that. It took us a few moments, but we finally had the pictures ready for a slide show … it was wonderful! We switched nicely between scenery, other boats, birds, and a lot of Rich, rich, rich in-between! He was an excellent model even though we get a lot of his behind. We told him that he could tell his buddy Bob that its not that he’s got a girl with him, but that he’s got a personal photographer. AHA! Betcha that make him envious!

Very much the same way, I think I studied the camel, the buffalo, and the giraffes, we studied Rich. I don’t think we will ever tire of studying the man. I think matter of fact we could become a professional Rich studier. Rich said we would have to hire a special boat to get his front view. *giggle* If he would do it for us … we’d be game. We could make a whole room of it! I’d take up photography and we’d get a bunch of different frames. Maybe the inner court would be our exercise room AHA! Wouldn’t that be the deal. He’d gone as far the other day as offering to match up my 5 minutes to his 5 minutes. We were like no way! I wonder if Rich’s son could help somehow. Maybe we’ll just have to save some pictures.

You know what else Rich said? After the camera started acting up? He said that maybe we could invest in a better camera. I was like I couldn’t even listen to him it was so hard for me to believe. It was like no that money was for a boat and a bathroom. We couldn’t have enough money to spend yet. Rich was saying maybe we could do something. I was like melting into a million pieces inside … I knew as sure as he was talking if he’d walk into a camera store, I’d be right at his side. I hadn’t been thinking of a better camera, but there was something inside of me that had already started complaining that the pictures we’d been taking weren’t sharp enough. Isn’t that terrible! Man I didn’t know I was ever going to be so terrible. I know that camera’s cost a lot of money – a lot. We’ve got two experts in the family between Lauren and Chris. Both have taken photography in college. Maybe when it truly gets to that time we could ask each for a round-a-bout price what they would recommend. Then we could ask each what they thought of the other, then we could go look – asking of course the sales person and definitely our gut level.

One thing I was very sure of was that I had been following all day this group of birds in front of Rich, but later he gave me a small binoculars that I could look through and when I saw those birds it was like – wow! Look at that … they are feeding like crazy! It was beautiful and I was missing it all by normal site. Hey there was something else too – not due to lens, but my slowness I’m just remembering now. Yesterday, while we were driving – 3 entire deers jumped in front of us. They were at a good visual distance, but not a hitting distance, but man were they beautiful~! Would have loved a shot, but they were so gone, by the time we got to their part of the woods. One of the next sights we saw were two deer hunters trying to put together their crossbows. Shit. Don’t say that regular. But, it doesn’t get more real than that. I know I come from a family of deer hunters. But, I’ll go down in history as a Bambi Advocate!!! Not as far as shoot the hunters and yes I know crowded woods and food and all, but those wonderful deer … there just so gosh darn perfect! Man!...

Wow … you know I didn’t really think about it before. But, you know … I guess I could actually say amongst everything else that I’d be like an animal conservationalist. Hmm, but they probably don’t believe in zoo’s … I better check that out first. I think its important to get the animals to the people because the majority of the people can’t get out to the homelands of the animals. Zoos play their part. Just gotta be working on building animal habitats that are as natural and large as possible. Need funding folks! Ok, ok … quit the commercial girls … yup that be a conservationalist … one minute in business and were already on a soapbox sheesh!

Hmm, lost some time there 12:46 pm. Used the washroom. Had a small talk chat with Stephanie. Ran into the Leadership group they were all driving their vehicles (chairs) down the common street (aisle) from the mall. So we just gave her something we’d looked at this morning with a car pile-up that had involved 100 cars and a couple of deaths in Madison, WI. It’s stayed with us … as something so easily involving anyone we could know. Especially, since we’d been out on a trip. We told Rich that it was supposed to be foggy, and we had had a long conversation on it. I remember Rich telling us something about dew point or dew line as the point above ground where the precipitation hung like a cloud. Well at least something like that. I think he intends the audience to ooh and awe over it to be the younger set – and he would be right. I think to a lot of us Rich is a genius. There are none of us expert in science that knows anything really about Earth Wetness. Good Rich!

Man – we’re so unfocused … we’ll have to reread to figure out where we are. Hmm, maybe coming off the idea of getting a new camera. I suppose it would make sense to get something where we play with light and shadows and such, but I’m like just want to take pictures. With this camera the whole time we just take pictures with the general setting only messing with the focus bringing it in nearer or farther … the only reason we do that is that it is nearer or closer to the take picture switch. It have to be a real easy camera that be specified to both kids.

posted by Ann Marie @ 1/08/2008 08:24:00 AM Comments: 0