posted by Raquita at 9/01/2005 01:18:00 PM
check the about page on my blog http://blaquepen.com/wobl
1. Start an herb garden
2. Paint on canvas
3. Buy a digital SLR camera
4. Visit another country
5. Redesign blaquepen website or build photography website
6. Bike ride at least twice a week
7. Take an actual yoga class
8. Furnish our home
9. Start saving money for retirement again
10. Make a book i.e. hand bind my poetry
11. write letters to friends
12. get a passport
13. Make attending soulard market a part of my regular routine
14. Make a substantial dent in our family debt
15. Enter a photography contest
16. Write a short story (and complete it!)
17. Weight around 180 lbs
18. Eat at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.
19. Try 10 new restaurants
20. try a round of golf
21. Buy that original piece of art that I loved in Memphis if still avalible
22. Go camping
23. play poker in Vegas
24. Get plant for the house
25. go camping
26. Ride my bike to work for thirty days
27. purchase 25 CD’s or LP’s
28. buy a record player
29. Throw a theme party
30. Get the dog back into training
31. go to the movies 10 times
32. clean my credit,
33. go to the dentist
34. but a light kit for my photography
35. purchase lawn care equipment and use it
36. paint most of the house over
37. scrapbook 1 page a day for thirty days
38. have another baby
39. turn off t.v twice a week and spend all that time with Cammy
40. Get a bonsai tree
41. have a game night
42. write a new PERFORMANCE POEM AND PERFORM IT
43. work on a job I could enjoy
44. go to Hawaii
45. teach Cammy to ride a bike
46. stop biting my nails
47. Read three books I would have never picked up
48. organize the bookshelves in the dining room
49. Remove the wall paper from the bathroom walls
50. get the kitchen cabinets fixed
51. finish the back hallway painting
52. make five new local real life mom friends
53. make sure jerry has more time to write
54. become less of a techno geek
55. get a new computer
56. get a new TV
57. make a firm decision on house renovations
58. go horse back riding
59. be more patient
60. do a 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle
61. use the chocolate fountain at least three times
62. draft a legal will
63. take inventory for insurance purposes
64. Sort the mail as it arrives, rather than let it accumulate into a huge pile
65. Go on a dress-up date with Jerry
66. go paintball fight
67. water balloon fight
68. document Grandma Vorece’s memories
69. have a pool party at my house
70. do a newborn photo shoot
71. hang out all night like I’m still in college
72. make homemade ice cream
73. buy a black cocktail dress and heels
74. cook one recipe for each cook book in my house
75. go to the batting cages
76. make sushi at home
77. see someone who I would normally only see at a poetry reading outside of a poetry reading
78. meet 13 and the say it ain’t lucky in person
79. meet Gretchen (Sarah’s sister) in person
80. potty train Cammy
81. binky break Cammy
82. Get Cammy into New city school
83. Go to the new Stadium for a game
84. release my poetry CD
85. learn the words to Rock the Kasbah
86. take boxing/sparring lessons
87. make my bed everyday
88. pray for at least a half hour daily – longer if necessary
89. go to church at least twice a month
90. finish learning how to knit
91. get wireless headphones and ergonomic keyboard for work
92. build kitchen kit for culinary class
93. spend more time with my mom
94. spend more time with my dad
95. sit with my husband and talk more often
96. take dancing lessons with Jerry
97. take a rail America trip
98. have dinner at a Missouri winery
99. be happier
100. buy myself an outfit I wouldn’t normally wear
101. ride a roller coaster with Jerry
4 Comments:
I know exactly how you feel. I sat watched TV while crying and writing a post at the same time. That was my way of dealing with this...
Thanks for commenting at my place. My comments section is always open to anyone. I don't mind at all opinions that disagree with mine...in fact those are the comments I am most likely to respond to. I only get upset about those who come in and have nothing constructive to say beyond slinging insults or trying to push some buttons. So please, always feel free to come speak your mind anytime.
Race in this crisis is something I'm thinking about posting about...it's a touchy subject. I will say, briefly, that I think if this was Seattle you'd see white folks looting Starbucks. Take away authority and consequences,, and people go nuts. Race is mostly incidental.
I also think that the images coming out of NO will hurt the relief efforts. When it comes time for white America to pony up donations, seeing mobs of black looters will not encourage them to dig deep.
Of course, those issues go deeper, and I'll probably post something about this tonight or this weekend.
This is ridiculous! What's worse is that I'm not even all that surprised. The media has always had a way of tainting the evidence to perpetuate sterotypes, especially those that make us look like insensitive ingrates.
I'm so tired of being forced to look at the world through a lense of race. It's naive to think that we can ignore race, and really, we shouldn't. One's ethnic and cultural heritage play important roles in who they are. I'm trying to teach my own children as well as my 24 students (most of whom are white) how to embrace the differences as well as similiarities in those around them. It's hard to do when society at large and the media are telling them something else.
I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense. I'm kind of writing stream-of-consciousness. I do know that this disaster should be bringing us together instead of causing a greater rift. I still have hope that it can happen.
Thanks for visiting me, too. I've heard some explanations about that discrepancy...not sure if I buy it or not...but I've since noticed reports are trying harder not to sound so blatantly racist.
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