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Thursday, November 16, 2006

Blogging, It's great!

Here's what I think about Blogs, I really like them. I have been viewing other Blogs and I'm having a lot of fun. Today I read a Blog written by a young woman in college who recently lost a class mate in a car accident. Check out her story at http://ten-six.blogspot.com/ .
Because I really like news and politics I went to http://kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com/ , Lawrence Kudlow had a great quote by Mitt Romney on today's page, titled Wit from Mitt, "We have two factions of media in Boston. On the one hand, we have the Hillary-loving, Ted Kennedy apologists. And on the other, we have the liberals." -Massachusetts Governor and probable 2008 presidential contender, Mitt Romney, in a speech in D.C. last night.
My sister was helping me get started Blogging and decided to create a Blog of her own: http://auntjennette.blogspot.com/ . She loves movies and so I viewed a new movie trailer for "Happyfeet". I am a dancer so I think I would love the tap dancing in the movie but I really don't like birds, so I'm not sure I can take the whole movie. These days animated movies are so real. As I was reading about the new Broadway remake of "Mary Poppins", I remember most the dancing and the animation. It was really incredible in it's debut. Still today it's one of the best musicals made into a motion picture.
I love NYC. I could live there, work there, eat there, well I just love the place. I have visited the city on several occasions. The best thing of course is Broadway. I would recommend it as one of the all time best things to do in your lifetime. Just for fun look at http://www.nyctrip.com/.
I think Blogs are so appealing because you can find such wildly varied Blog sites. It's fun to view and comment on a Blog of someone you know. I think everyone is dying to say something, to create something and this is a way to do it in your everyday ordinary life. Blogging can fill our need to be heard, and seen perhaps.
I have found that even though I am, as my children and siblings would say, "technology challenged" I found building a Blog to be fairly easy. I'm sure it took me twice as long as most, but I have enjoyed it. I didn't choose one subject to Blog about, I chose my life because I have so many interests and basically I have a hard time choosing. My Blog is my scrapbook. I haven't been a "scrapbook mom". Does this count? I think so.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

I'm a bit of a news junkie. Although I usually read the newspaper in hard copy and listen to the radio I thought I would like this site. See if you do too.
http://nytimes.com/

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Real Life

LIFE WOULD BE SIMPLER IF..
Money weren't an issue, if I had enough that I didn't have to stress about it.



WHAT SURPRISES ME ABOUT MY LIFE IS...
That I'm finishing my education and not only am I succeeding but I like it.



THE BIG DECISION I'M CURRENTLY WRESTLING WITH IS...
If my current choice of study is the right one for me.

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Friday, November 10, 2006


http://www.broadway.com/ This is the coolest site if you love Broadway. I could spend hours here. Try going to Broadway Buzz. I found this the most interesting. I love NYC!

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Iraq War

Today's New York Times front page article "When Soldiers Fall, Grief bingds a Unit's 2 Worlds" (http//nytimes.cojm/ Nov 10, 2006) talks about the grief of the unit and the family unit left at home. Having been a wife of a soldier and having been left at home, I was very moved. During the Gulf War my husband was an Officer in the Army. He was stationed in Korea, this was a one year unaccompanied tour, meaning his family would need to stay stateside. This was indeed one of the hardest years of our married life. We had three young boys, ages 9, 6 and 4. Anyway as I read about the soldiers and their families I get wrapped up in the sorrow of the wives and parents, siblings and children, but what about the men that they go to work with every day, their friends that see them die? This morning on NPR's Storycore a daughter was interviewing her father. She asked him about his coming home from the Vietnam War. He told her that when he came home he wasn't welcomed and that for a whole year he didn't shave or cut his hair. He went for a very long bike ride-a month or so long. Then one day sometime after getting home he was working cleaning the floors in a business at night when there was a movie playing about Vietnam and he just sat down and cried. He cried for all the friends that he had lost. So I say, "War, what is it good for?"

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

My First Post






Khali, Porter, Izzy and Mom and Dad
This is Izzy!



Here's my life: I'm kind of old. How I know this because; before a few weeks ago I didn't know what a Blog was. I am a student, and most of the students in my classes are the same age as my third child. I have grandchildren. I wake up at 5:30am. This is my only daughter, Amy. She keeps me up to date.

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