Ninasusan

Happiness gently landed on my shoulders

February 2013

  • The Oprah generation

    I can plug my adult years into several categories…my categories may seem “simple minded” to some…your categories are your categories…it defines how you got to be where you are today..  If you are inclined to be defensive about labels, use a different word that will make it okay.   I think the pidgeon hole maturation… Read more

  • A friend of mine posted an article on Facebook…It really inspired me.  I hope not to have these regrets…Wasting no more time!!!! Here are the top five regrets of the dying, as witnessed by Ware: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of… Read more

  • Jenny gave him her bluetooth headset when we were in KC the last time.  Quite frankly, I was really surprised that he had talked to her about it because he usually waits until I whine and say I want something before he gets in the buying mood.  Once I saw how easy it was to… Read more

  • He and Dave got their mother situated at Careage of Newton yesterday.  Apparently it went fine.  Her most telling comment was something about her getting moved around a lot.  She may take to the nursing home quite well … as it is a permanent, soft place to fall and she loves to talk so she… Read more

  • I had 10,106 footprints from California yesterday.  I am in the thinking process of closing this account and going somewhere else.  I hate to do it…it will depend on the response from Xanga people.  Anyone else experience this? Read more

  • This kind of surprises me

    Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 7, 1943, during World War II, the government abruptly announced that rationing of shoes made with leather would go into effect in two days, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person per year. (Rationing was lifted in October 1945.) First…it surprises me that I had never heard of… Read more

  • So disappointed in The Front Page with Jack Lemon, Carol Burnett and Walter Matthau…Made it thru for Richer or Poorer with Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley…1 hour on the gazelle while watching Biggest Looser, Roomba and I vacuumed, brushed the cats, drank 3 glasses of H2O, did my physical therapy exercises..watched 3 episodes of Y… Read more

  • We watched the “The Iron Lady” tonight.  Meryl Streep was incredible and deserved the Academy Award for “being” Margaret Thatcher.    I watched the movie and took notes in my head about her history as the Iron Lady.  attn:  all you naysayers..I don’t know how closely the movie followed actual historical events; but, it was close… Read more