Finding the Answers

A though provoking bit of writing on that card. I wonder if the generations which are coming and which have come in the last ten years feel more lost than those who have come before us? I feel like there were fewer options and more set ways when other generations were coming through, but now, as we move through our college years and the years scarcely a few years past we have so many more options, and thus it is so much more complicated than it used to be. 

I think a ton of people walk around waiting for the answers to drop on their heads. It doesn't tend to happen that way, but what if. If we had a family business, though we'd rebel and think we wanted other choices, most would inevitably end up working in the family business with the stress removed and their lives set out before them. But as family businesses fall to the major corporations, one now has to pick a job which he/she may or may not be qualified for and go for it. 

The worst part is trying to choose. It is hard to change careers these days because one career tends to take a ton of training. 

So yes, I think we take a ton of our lives trying to find the answers to our questions. We do not head straight into a line of work as many used to, and science is ever complicating our lives by breaking everything we knew down a step further into what we now have to re-learn.

The Generations after us will know more, be taught Pluto isn't a planet, and will be much more computer literate than we could ever hope to be in our lifetimes. I was taught typing on a typewriter in middle school for peat’s sake. I even had to take cotillion classes to learn how to ballroom dance. GAH! So, as we're emerging into the world and re-learning all the things which have changed since we were kids, we're constantly in a struggle to figure out who we are. 

Even in love we're complicated. It is hard to meet people these days once you're out of school. You are not introduced to social families anymore, and you are hardly ever invited to 'real' social engagements these days. So where does that leave many people? In the dusk of a time when things were much easier, and life was easier to live and get it over with.

okay, end mind boggling philosophical rant... 

Boy Pirates...

Took it out of my profile so I had to put it somewhere:

CadavreRiant83

i hate he is taken

though we will see if he even calls tomorrow

my luck he wont

Emily 

he sounds consistent

the ones with girlfriends always are

CadavreRiant83

lmao

great

Emily

yeah, seriously

we have to steal them.

CadavreRiant83

lol

Emily 

We have to be BOY pirates!

ARRRRR

CadavreRiant83

LMAO

Emily 

we'll take them captive

CadavreRiant83

I am totall there!

Emily 

and seduce them

and keep them!

25 inches of snow!

Well folks, I write you from the now frozen north. It was quite an adventure, and yes, I finally have power back after Friday, Saturday, and Sunday without power. That was not a fun adventure thank you very much. To follow, are a few pictures I took of the mess that this snow made. Figures I escape from the frozen south and end up frozen into the freaking north again!

Well, this is the road. Yes, the road complete with one very large tree down the center of it. 

I didn't get a picture of me standing near it, but it was a HUGE tree!

This is the front of the house, grandpa included. 

Check out the snow on the power lines from the house to the street!

I was so certain the trees all around us were going to fall all night. 

It was not fun to be sleeping upstairs around the falling branches.

In the top left you can see sky, that used to be a tree!

This is what the road looked like by our driveway. Check out the snow on the trees!

This snow was WET and Heavy and it was bringing branches down.

To walk around and take these pictures I had to listen constantly for the sound of limbs breaking.

So I could dodge out of the way if necessary.

The next day the snow just fell in huge icy chunks. 

Grandpa got nailed by a few before giving up on a dog walk and coming home!

This is what the driveway looked like.

You can see the small path I cut to the top of the driveway!

I cannot believe the snow we got!

Holy cow!

And, last but not least, this is the aforementioned front of the house with the huge table of snow.

Yes, the table measured about 23 inches, but we got a lot of wet slush before we got snow.

just wow.

In the background you can see that there are broken tree limbs everywhere!

So ends the picture show of the frozen north. I'm super glad we got power back and cannot wait to see how things keep going. We are at March 1 and the grandparents begin moving in 21 days!

~M

Updates from the snowy north!

Well folks, my attempts to flee from the frozen south to the warmer north have been thwarted, though, MD is supposed to get five + inches of snow and we're just getting sleet, so perhaps it balances out :-).

Regardless, things here have fallen into routine, or a bit of a routine so to speak. Spike lands on me at about 7, curls up and sleeps for another two hours (if I'm lucky) and then we get up and go outside between 8:30 and 9. My waking up and walking around normally wakes up Nana who then gets up and to the bathroom. I make her breakfast at about 9:30 and we go on with our day from there.

Today we will be adding in a few things, like sorting through old clothing to try and figure out what we want to do with some of the things before she moves, as she doesn't need to take all of it with her. We will see how this goes, as she seemingly has no intention of moving within the next four months. Little does she know (though she's been informed) that she will be moving next month. She has a little under a whole month to get with the program or we shall resort to drastic measures. :-)

Anyway -- off to get her up and dressed, time for some packing adventures to ensue!

Doing Silly Things... Like Dying

"We knew an appraiser once. He died. Why do people keep doing that silly thing?"
~Nana

My Grandmother has few friends who are still living. It seems that she and my grandfather have quite out lived most of the people they grew up with and met throughout their lives. It must be said that at least once a day someone who has passed crosses her mind and she sits in thought and then makes some comment or another about death and dying. Today it was "We all will die sometime." and she has said many other little bits here and there about things which she's thought of concerning dying.
Today is my third day here. Nana is doing quite well, and is even a little faster today than she has been in the preceding days. I'm pretty pleased that she really isn't arguing with me about the things which she has to do every day.

More later.

New York, New York

Yes, I made it! Excellent, except for the fact that the net really doesn't want to cooperate so I'll be operating mostly when I'm hiding out in the study. I guess it isn't too bad, as things are just going to go that way. I will figure something out. I won't be online constantly. Sorry for those of you who I told I would be. I had no idea that setting up wireless would suck so much. They don't really have a strong enough signal for the wireless to be supported. Such is life. I guess it will get all figured out eventually. Or, knowing my luck, a few days after I leave.

On the good news side of things, I got to see KATY today! She rescued me from lots of hauling things on my own and helped me get moved in. We got to chat and catch up...not that we don't talk online and over the phone, but somehow it just isn't the same.

We made dinner, which Nana ACTUALLY ATE! *GASP* I did not know that to be possible -- but none the less it was a good first day. Nana had not gotten up by the time I got here (going on 2 pm) but when she got up she had an egg and a biscuit and some lemon curd (ultimately fattening). So, anyway. that went well and we'll get her up to more of a normal schedule soon. Food shopping tomorrow to stock this house up with things to be eaten (not by me).

That is about the run down. Keep checking in for some up and coming book reviews -- I'm going to have a lot of time on my hands, so I'll be writing a lot.

Leo

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