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bluegreen17) wrote2003-01-06 06:54 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-01-06 06:54 pm
where's my umbrella?/flying
geez,i walked 5 miles in a blizzard to go visit my mother,and she'd gone out to the movies! well,okay,i really drove 30 miles in a snowstorm but not quite a blizzard (the wind factor is the difference) but she really did go out to the movies! well,good for her. i should have called first,but it's a long distance call and i try to be frugal. but next time...i think i will. i try to go see her every other monday but it's probably just as well she doesn't expect me in case i can't make it,which basically would be due to weather driving conditions that scare me (today made me a little nervous,but not nervous enough not to go...but ice,and/or low or no visibility is another matter!). anyway,i was glad she was out carousing on a nursing home field trip. i had a nice chat with a woman who may have been the head nurse, and she told me an alternate route to get there,which might be longer,but more pleasant. as in: you don't have to drive so fast. i don't like driving fast.
anyway,i did go on the highway today. god,i hate merging. well,it the scenery was gorgeous,especially through 'my' scotland...an area with a farm with a really steep rocky hill,another really steep hill next to it that used to be used for skiing,and a big hilly area that is used for sledding in the winter (well,duh,not in the summer.)
on the way home, i stopped at the library in a neighboring town where i can use my library card...they always have an amazing selection of new non-fiction.i borrowed a book about rave culture,which i hardly understand,so maybe this will enlighten me a little.i also borrowed cds by beck-sea change (i've never heard anything but 'i'm a loser' and i know people looove him),laurie anderson-life on string,patsy cline-12 greatest hits,and the best of all,the soundtrack from mary poppins. my favorite tune from that is 'let's go fly a kite'. i had a 45 of that years ago,along about the time i had one of 'it's a small world'. small world was from the world's fair held in new york in 1965. my older sister got to go,but i at age 7 and sister michele at age 2 stayed at home with my grandparents. at least i think so. i can hardly imagine them taking care of a 2-year-old,though michele is the most even-tempered
of the five of us,so i guess they were lucky! i think she got left behind (not in an apocalyptic way,though) in '67 when we went to the expo in montreal but i got to go to that one (and came down with the measles the second week we were there...i'm glad i got to see some things the first week,because i really loved it. the usa pavilion was inside a buckminster fuller dome (though i didn't know a thing about him then of course) and i loved that...they had one of the space capsule's on display and that was pretty impressive. we also called home using the new featured technology where you could call home DIRECT rather than having to go through an operator. that was pretty impressive at the time. also,the montreal metro (subway) was brand new. the montreal drivers were insane and i didn't like driving underneath the st. lawrence seaway. i don't like going in the tunnel under the charles river to get to logan airport in boston either,though now there's an airport in manchester,new hampshire which avoids the hellish boston traffic so i'm not likely to go there again soon. though i've only flown in a plane twice in my life,back and forth to rochester new york way back in 78 i think.whatever great lake we flew over disoriented me because it's so huge it looks like the ocean.
well,anyway...gotta get the laundry out of the dryer before it wrinkles since i'm sure as hell not going to iron anything.
anyway,i did go on the highway today. god,i hate merging. well,it the scenery was gorgeous,especially through 'my' scotland...an area with a farm with a really steep rocky hill,another really steep hill next to it that used to be used for skiing,and a big hilly area that is used for sledding in the winter (well,duh,not in the summer.)
on the way home, i stopped at the library in a neighboring town where i can use my library card...they always have an amazing selection of new non-fiction.i borrowed a book about rave culture,which i hardly understand,so maybe this will enlighten me a little.i also borrowed cds by beck-sea change (i've never heard anything but 'i'm a loser' and i know people looove him),laurie anderson-life on string,patsy cline-12 greatest hits,and the best of all,the soundtrack from mary poppins. my favorite tune from that is 'let's go fly a kite'. i had a 45 of that years ago,along about the time i had one of 'it's a small world'. small world was from the world's fair held in new york in 1965. my older sister got to go,but i at age 7 and sister michele at age 2 stayed at home with my grandparents. at least i think so. i can hardly imagine them taking care of a 2-year-old,though michele is the most even-tempered
of the five of us,so i guess they were lucky! i think she got left behind (not in an apocalyptic way,though) in '67 when we went to the expo in montreal but i got to go to that one (and came down with the measles the second week we were there...i'm glad i got to see some things the first week,because i really loved it. the usa pavilion was inside a buckminster fuller dome (though i didn't know a thing about him then of course) and i loved that...they had one of the space capsule's on display and that was pretty impressive. we also called home using the new featured technology where you could call home DIRECT rather than having to go through an operator. that was pretty impressive at the time. also,the montreal metro (subway) was brand new. the montreal drivers were insane and i didn't like driving underneath the st. lawrence seaway. i don't like going in the tunnel under the charles river to get to logan airport in boston either,though now there's an airport in manchester,new hampshire which avoids the hellish boston traffic so i'm not likely to go there again soon. though i've only flown in a plane twice in my life,back and forth to rochester new york way back in 78 i think.whatever great lake we flew over disoriented me because it's so huge it looks like the ocean.
well,anyway...gotta get the laundry out of the dryer before it wrinkles since i'm sure as hell not going to iron anything.