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Jul 04, 2012 05:23PM
That is pretty hot! A day at the beach sounds like fun!
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Did you have a nice 4th?
Oh, right, I forgot the 4th of July is the Independence day... NOW that poem competition makes sense! How was yours, Cheyenne?
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I had a nice Fourth watching fireworks from the house and also the PBS special from Washington DC. I'm glad yours went well, Cheyenne.
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Yes, PBS is the public broadcast station that is suppose to be commercial free. If you get shows like Sesame Street, Electric Company etc they originated on PBS.
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Can you watch any television without a cable, Cheyenne?
No, basically any stations that aren't Fox or sport channels that you get in the US, we don't get in Israel. Even Disney is "Disney Israel" which basically means we get everything a year late and not even everything. From the third season of WOWP we only got about ten episodes, and not even in the right order.
Though I have stopped following Disney for about two years now, so it could be a bit better now.
The world is so small in some ways with people seeing so many of the same shows everywhere. And then there is the internet where you can talk to people in Israel and California as well as anywhere online.
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By the way, happy birthday!!
Thank you, Cheyenne! I had three visitors today(and a few more if you can count those who stayed in the car).
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Hey, I didn't know it was your birthday! How did she know?Happy birthday.
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LOL I stopped following that thread ages ago, it kept notifying me when other things didn't. I don't think it helped, though.
Thank you, Pirl! I'm still celebrating my Birthday today. I put in for two days vacation some months ago because this is the busy season and we have to request early.
I mentioned about a week ago that I was very anxious about a blog post that I was doing. I posted a link under general but I wanted to post it here too. I don't know why I get so anxious. It makes me want to procrastinate. I know it is in part because I wanted to do such a good job as it has meant so much to me to follow this group this past year. They are very altruistic and have poetry workshops for youth and so much more. Well, I can never say everything that I want to say about a group due to space constraints but this is the final result although there may be more comments to follow below in the comments section.http://population-we.blogspot.com/201...
I don't sign onto my personal home computer every day and missed an important message from my best friend from grade school that her mom was very critical. By the time I saw the message, she had already made the trip from her current home in another state to our hometown. We messaged back in forth and she said the nurses were surprised her mom was still here. A little later, she wrote the news that her mom had passed away. My friend and I had lost contact for many years and I had wondered about her and her parents. We have been in contact again for a year thanks to online social media bringing us together. Starting last December, she went through a roller coaster of events with her mom and her health while her parents were visiting. We were amazed that she survived and was after being in hospital and nursing homes in her area was finally able to be transported by ambulance back to my city where her parents lived. I was not sure of her most recent update but was hopeful that maybe she would regain health. The hard part about social media is that I have only been online for over a year and some months and have already had friends lose their parents and I would not likely have known otherwise. I always feel so inadequate at such times. I do hope I can be of a comfort.
There have also been joys of engagements, weddings, and births. Then, there are the little events now and then that are happy.
I do feel more whole being in contact with so many from my past.
The mother of my friend was very important to me in my youth. She was an intelligent woman and in my estimation a talented painter. She was a stay at home mom, which was common among the people I knew at the time including my own mom. In my mind, I can see her sewing what was likely a new puffy skirt for my friend to wear Square Dancing. My friend's mother battled a lot of mental problems and was hospitalized through the years. But that struggle was not apparent to me on our visits. She welcomed me in her home. To me they were the family who went camping and even invited me to a hay back ride once. She was certainly a woman of strong faith. I hope she is resting in peace now. Although she may have known the depths of despair at times in this life, I hope there were plenty of compensating times when she knew life was worth living. And I do believe that was the case because my friend said that when she was stable that she was a joy to have in her life and she cherished her.
...I have read it. But I dunno what to say.
That's fine, Pirl. :)A lot has happened since I wrote this last and my friend, my family and I had the a very special visit in our yard that I think was important for all of us. I do believe it was a comfort to my friend at this time.
I was formulating thoughts about how I have liked different men along the way but so far have not found the one that we liked each other on a mutual basis at the same time. I even recall a man who I liked at one point and he said he wanted to get to know me better, which surprised me. Yet, he never asked me out. When he started to date someone who I respected and consider a friend, I kind of made myself scarce because I didn't want him having any possible foolish feelings about me to interfere. He was in medical school at the time and she was in pharmacy school. There were men that I liked that found others who suited them better and in at least one case I believed it would be me and hoped it would be me. I do hope they are very happy. I guess I am the supporting female role in the movies who doesn't get the guy lol.
You just need to remember... as far as we know, we're not in the movies.
I've had the same feelings Barbara. Watch The Holiday. There's one scene that really speaks about this. The main girl is talking to this old guy and he had such great insight!!
Pirl, your comment made me laugh and I needed that! Nicola, I want to check that out.
Finally rain! It was starting to seem like the desert here. Last night we had the thunder and lightning but no rain that we could discern although some claimed there was some. No mistaking the rain tonight!
Summer shouldn't have rain. That's just wrong.Here, it rains when it's cold and it doesn't when it's hot.
I didn't know that about your region, Pirl. Interesting. I do live in an area that raises a lot of corn. The fame of the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the University of Nebraska of Lincoln may have even reached you in Israel lol! It is serious when we don't get rain in due season for our crops here. My paternal grandfather was a farmer. When he retired, he said he did not need to gamble as he did so all his life as a farmer.
When I was in my 20's, I was able to see more of my cousin's children who are out of town as well as some of the local ones. I enjoyed them when they were little and had some fun times with them playing board games or singing songs with them etc. The years go by and it is so sad that they became strangers to me. Then, I was able to sign up for social media and connect. For some of them, it is just minimal. But it's something. I can at least get some sense of what they enjoy and such. One of the younger ones is at the age where it is pretty easy to connect and she is so outgoing. The ones that are now college age seem to be doing well. I am so glad.
I try to keep a balance assuming that they probably don't want to really be that close to me as they hardly know me. I would have loved to call them through the years, but what would I say? It's not like I am their aunt or that was my place.
I don't want to lecture. Of course, there are a great many things I hope they do not do that can cause them heartache. But it's not my place to say.
I hope in some way I can be an example as I studied hard in school and work hard at my job and have some good attributes.
At the very least, I hope none of them have to go to therapy because of me. I don't want to mess anybody up. I hope that is true for my friends on the blogs here. If I say something stupid or do something wrong, it surely was NOT intentional.
I do feel blessed to have the youth in my life. Family is very important to me. I also am grateful to be in contact with my sister-in-law's nieces. There are other youth that I am grateful to have some contact with as well. Through the years, my best friend who married the first man that I ever dated has blessed me with getting to know her children. I have never babysat for them, but it was so good to see them when we were together. Her daughters are so different in some ways and six years apart. And I wouldn't change them. They are like nieces to me.
I have my own little nieces now, my step niece who is grown and her children. Yet, I feel I have enough love to go around for all of them and then some and love for the other youth in my life!
Barbara wrote: "I didn't know that about your region, Pirl. Interesting. I do live in an area that raises a lot of corn. The fame of the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the University of Nebraska of Lincoln may have even ..."It's the whole Meditaranian thing.(Sorry I can't spell. Here: ים התיכון) It's all around this sea, which again, I cannot spell. But then, in Israel we have a desert, ski mountains, the lowest place on earth, a few beaches, plains, and where I live - near Jerusalem.
You seem to spell well in the script that appears to be Arabic as far as I can tell. :) That looks a lot harder if you ask me! I had a friend who studied Arabic in the military. If I recall correctly, she needed a little tutoring and the man she would later marry did the tutoring.
By the way, I am invited to events where I could interact with family but often am not able to attend. I hate to let my family down by not going. And yet, I am grateful that they invite me in the first place.
Barbara wrote: "You seem to spell well in the script that appears to be Arabic as far as I can tell. :) That looks a lot harder if you ask me! I had a friend who studied Arabic in the military. If I recall correct..."It's Hebrew, and I speak it on everyday basis, even insert it into my English at times, so... not harder. Arabic I'm studying, but I don't have it in my computer, so.
Barbara wrote: "By the way, I am invited to events where I could interact with family but often am not able to attend. I hate to let my family down by not going. And yet, I am grateful that they invite me in the f..."If you do go- have fun.
I wish I knew Hebrew. Do you speak Yiddish too?Thanks for your well-wishes. My parents went and reported it was a wonderful time. I loved hearing about it although I was not able to go. As my cousin's daughter is part Mexican, they have a tradition of having a very elaborate 16th Birthday party. There was even a dance and a comedian. The had the event in a reception hall.
Nope. Almost nobody does. Just cuz I speak Hebrew doesn't mean I speak Yiddish. Plus it isn't even that big! There were tons of other HE-related languages.
I think in America more people might speak Yiddish. I think we borrow some words into English. I will try to find some examples.
As some people are aware of my painful struggles in life, they seem to have felt I was approachable. While I don't think I should be associated solely with those troubles and I certainly don't have a monopoly on troubles as many have had worse, I do like to be approachable. I like to be able to help others. Thankfully, I still have struggles but do not feel like I am in the same pain that I was then. Nor do I ever want to return to that pain. I don't take things for granted as my struggles have limited a lot of what I can do and where I can go. But yet, my life is pretty full in a lot of ways. I know I am vague. And even with those who know more details, I try not to over-generalize my situation into theirs. Yet, it is our experiences that help us to be more aware of others if we channel them the right way.
Yiddish is for people who DON'T speak Hebrew.
Pirl, I don't think that is true for all Yiddish speakers from what I have heard. I realize that may be true where you live. But I could be wrong. I just speak English. I took Spanish in school, but have forgotten much of it. I was never fluent in Spanish.
It is true where I live. And I take Arabic. I hope to be fluent in it as well, it is such a wonderful - not to mention useful - language.
I've been thinking of my Spanish class in College. I had taken two years in high school, so it was basically a repeat although College goes so fast and we covered a verb tense we hadn't in the two years that I took in high school. It was the most close knit class that I took in College. As it was my first semester even of college, some of the older students took me under their wing. We had a lot of nontraditional and older students. One man went to another school and decided being a pharmacist wasn't for him before switching to our school to major in business. He was taking the class credit no credit and I think it filled his humanity credit. He would calculate exactly what he needed in attendance to pass the class as so much was docked for missing. He was so cool and we would walk across campus together a lot of the time with him often stopping to greet people he knew and sometimes talk to them. A lot of people on campus would look downward to avoid eye contact so he was so refreshing and funny. He was very serious with his Business major. He was a happily married man.
Another friend was in the Air Force prior to taking the class. She is the one I previously mentioned who took Arabic in the service. She was frustrated that she was only getting a B in the class and was bringing goodies to sort of "bribe" our professor.
One man in the class had gone to the same Jesuit High School that my brother did and was open about being an atheist. He said he was going to make a lot of money as a psychiatrist to rich people. He did feel that there were people in humanity that really impacted him and influenced him with their example.
There was a lady in the class who was a poet. This was long before I started the hobby on my own. People in the class thought she was strange and standoffish until we started getting closer to her as a class. She ended up being pretty interesting and also fun. She did get offended when our professor told her what a direct object was although she was fully aware of what it was given her major of poetry. She dropped the class and we felt our loss. She told me once that she could get any job as she was smooth in the interview department but keeping the job was a different story.
My professor used to sing light Opera to us on the way out of class. We had very little immersion into Spanish as we mainly spoke in English. As he was a single man, he often would eat where students worked, but he preferred that they not wait on him. He did believe that one should tip. He said that if you can't afford to eat out that you can't afford the meal. When professors of different departments played trivia together, he won much to the surprise of the others according to him. Later, my brother had him and I think enjoyed him too. He also became close to his classmates. With many classes at a large University, you meet in a large lecture room. With this class, we met in a smaller setting and also met for five credit hours while a lot of classes only meet for three credit hours. Also, there was a nice area to sit in the hallway prior to class so we could arrive early and visit with each other.
I wish we could have a Spanish reunion. Fiesta!
