Whew!

Mammo was good. What a relief. I'm good for 6 months.

Scared & Nervous

I am going for my mammogram in a few minutes. I am nervous. I am a little scared. I had an abnormal mammogram about a year ago. So now I am considered a high risk patient. Out of all the medical things I have had this scares me the most. But right now there is nothing I can do about it. The worry is there until I am told its ok to leave. So I can not imagine all the women who have been told otherwise. I pray for you. Here's to thinking Pink. Someone hold my hand please.                              

Pawn Shops, Pawn People & Pawning

Lately due to many circumstances we have needed fast cash. We went to pawn shops. This is interesting. One pawn shop looked liked a high end jewelry store with columns & bright lights. Another looked like a dark seedy alleyway pawn. The pawn people all have big guns holstered on their hips. That is strange to see guns out in open like that.The Pawn People are all as different as their shops. None of this looks like the T.V. shows about pawn shops. Mr. Well Spoken in the classy shop, Big Bubba in the alley shop.But the difference is in the money that's paid. The classy shop actually paid more than any of them.  But if you want to buy things their prices are ok. Hubby bought a soldering gun with everything for $12.99. I would have bought a pair of earrings but we were there to get money not spend money. So hopefully I'm done with pawn shops. I don't want to get into the habit of going to pawn shops!

Womens Strength

My uncle died last week & I started thinking about strong women. My aunt had taken care of him for a long time & now she was "unemployed". So I was thinking about how much women have to put up with emotionally & physically. Of course I can't lift a cinderblock but I can deal with almost anything. Men used to leave for war( now women do too) but women had to stay & deal with everything.I know this isn't anything new but I was just thinking about all the strong women I know.The women in my family are very strong women.My grandma, my aunts, my cousins, my nieces & sis-in-law are all very strong women. I am in awe when a woman does a" mans" job. Police, Fire, Military,Automotive were all traditionally a "mans" job.But it's also the quiet ones like my aunt who take care of men & continue to live on that I think of. Many women I have met online who have stories of strength to tell. My sis-in-law who lost her daughter last year, my grandma who is 98 yrs old, my other sis-in-law who's hubby has been out of work for over a year, & my aunt who just lost her hubby.These are strong women.Love to All.

Passwords!!!!!

I am soo annoyed with passwords! Everything I am trying to do on the computer needs passwords. I have forgotten every one I have so I try to make new passwords & am locking myself out of everything. Why can't I just get a coupon without joining a website & making a new password? A certain bookstore whose e reader I have is always wanting a password. What is so secret about what books I read? ARG! I want the same password for everything & anything. One secret code is all I want. Something easy that I can remember. Something like "Password", or "Secret". That would be easy. How about no passwords unless I want a password? My choice. I have to go & call a customer service # for a certain bookstore. The password is Barnes & Nobles!

100 yrs from now (or 50)

I was looking for new craft ideas the other day & it occurred to me that crafts are way different than 100 yrs ago. People always did some kind of crafts but now with the computer it's all online. What will our crafts look like? Blogs are journals.Scrapbooking is almost all digital. Atwork is also online. I was against e books at first. I like the fell & smell of books. I like holding a book. But I finally bought a Nook. What will become of books, paper? Like the Twilight Zone episode of the obsolete man, will libraries be obsolete? But is that a bad thing? There is so much knowledge on the computer. There are so many resources available but what will people think when they see our crafts in the future? I like the old pictures & reading old diaries. I like my Nook, I like computers, but I will always like books.

People I Know

I was thinking the other day about how many people a person knows.Not how many in a lifetime total, but just day to day living. I know the cashier at the grocery store, but do I know her?
I know my hubby's work people, but do I know them? It's strange how many people you meet but do you know them?What makes you really know a person? I know people on the computer, but I also know next door neighbors. The computer has expanded everyone's world. We know more and more people. Or we know of more people.In one day how many people do you meet? I say, Hi and then I say my name.Hopefully they do the same. Now I know one more person.
I guess in a lifetime one knows many people, but maybe one only really knows a few.