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January 4, 2008 at 14:47:11

The '07 Calendar Was Too Short or My To-do List Was Too Long

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I have boxes stacked as high as an elephant's eye. I keep threatening to thin out the clutter. The decorations are perfectly good; someone could enjoy them.

For one reason or t'other, most of them haven't seen the light of day for
years, because it's always either I'll decorate tomorrow which never comes, or we buy absolute-must-have new stuff.

It's like the promise I always make to thin out my treasured collection of old, tattered, raggedy clothes that I use for painting and gardening.

You know, the ones that are so beloved they can't be parted with. The ones that have embarrassing holes in them that one wouldn't dare bend over with ones back to the street while planting the bulbs.

Fortunately, flowering bulbs don't spoil. Not like the carrots in the fridge that were meant for the homemade chicken tortellini soup I had a craving for and never got around to making. The tortellinis. Not wasted; they're in the freezer, which still needs cleaning out and rearranging.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

I wonder how long it's been since I really cleaned and rearranged the freezer. It seems like it was just yesterday.

I'm off to scrap and sweep up all the dried plaster workmen left on the patio last June, or I could attack the stack of newspapers and clip out all the articles I might need to reference. Then there's those emails I could still send to the mayor and my councilman.

But first...

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Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, 10-minute newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers in Burbank. She is currently a guest columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and contributor to ronkayela.com

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Midwesterner, veteran of VietNam era naval service, I still feel an obligation to defend the Constitution against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."
John Sanchez Jr.Midwesterner, veteran of VietNam era naval service, I still feel an obligation to defend the Constitution against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."

None of this should be a problem.

If it isn't support for a vital life function that was missed, you should simply claim sovereignty over your schedule and count the missed chore as a victory over materialism.

It's a liitle trick I learned from a heart attack I had a few years ago. My further advice is... don't wait for the heart attack to tell you.

by John Sanchez Jr. (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1168 comments) on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 3:36:34 PM

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Professor Emeritus Peter BagnoloProfessor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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Hey, girl, good piece. A guy named Thomas T. Jones, if memory serves wrote a book about the relativity of time to people of different cultures and different ages. My mom swore the older she got the faster time flew by. I can now agree with that. I gave it a DIGG.

Got to go back to party, just took a breather break. they are playing M. Murphy's Wildfire, great song!

by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1311 comments) on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 8:16:51 PM

Harpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.
PappyHarpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.

GIRLFRIEND!

Good stuff! Very funny!

I can so relate! I have tried to get rid of my to-do list, and for the most part, I am there. However, there are some things that have been sitting around for a bit longer than they should.

Take my latest article. I finished the rough draft a few days ago, and I haven't gone through it to proofread it, but I might take time out of my techno-orgy to at least write about it!

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments) on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 9:25:25 PM