Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement

July 7, 2012 ~ JodiLea ~ 2 Comments

.In the time between “say cheese!” and pushing the button, she moved. She’s 2-years old and takes moving very seriously. I have a lot of pictures of furniture.

If my camera does catch her image, it’s always blurry because she is, of course, moving.

She is all cozy and tucked into bed, slumbering as if in a coma, and still moving. Check on her in an hour and her body has moved to the opposite side of the mattress. Sometimes an arm or a leg are hanging outside of the crib.

It exhausts me to watch her, but I can’t stop! I know that what happened to my daughter will also happen to her.

She will keep having those birthday parties and grow up on me way too quickly 😉

We, The People

July 4, 2012 ~ JodiLea

These 3 words, mean much more than just the start of the preamble to the Constitution. Which is probably why the Founding Fathers wrote them so prominently…

We, the People.
Note that it does NOT proclaim: “We, the Senate” or “We, the Congress” or “We, the Republicans” or “We, the Democrats”. Nor does it say: “We, the Wealthy” or “We, the Middle-class”. “We, the Founding Fathers” is not mentioned once.

Simply, People. Period. No buts.

Everyone of us has a stake in this country. We count. We matter. We get so mired in the politics and the warring “parties”, that we forget the beauty and simplicity of “We, the People”.

So, in case you haven’t read it lately…

We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

A long sentence, and grammar check wanted to correct it, but I couldn’t have written it better myself.

Happy Fourth of July! American Flag

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To read the entire text: Summary of Constitutional Rights, Powers and Duties

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Got Valium?

July 1, 2012 ~ JodiLea

Forget the milk.

I spent the past week trying to get through 954 emails that had piled up in my mail box at work, during the 2 weeks I was out. I scheduled a meeting with our department’s top management to formally give them my retirement date (July 19th). Only 13 more working days to go – and I can’t stop smiling!

At home there isn’t nearly as much smiling. So much to go through and weed out – still! Haven’t I been doing this for months? Not much sorting got accomplished last week – too busy interviewing moving company’s and trying to make up my mind how much packing we could reasonably do on our own to save money.

I put our old office furniture and the rolling cabinet for the microwave up for grabs on Craig’s List. So far not many queries. I probably did it wrong (this was my maiden voyage). I may have to find a charity that will pick up furniture.

To make the week more interesting, I got a call from my doctor’s office about test results that came back “positive” – which, unfortunately, is negative news. Now I must have a more invasive test that will put me out of commission for 1.5 days to overrule or confirm the earlier test. Like I have time for this …

Surprisingly, I am not freaking out. In fact, life has been so f#$%@!g crazy around here that I’m actually looking forward to it. I will be heavily medicated for the test, and that sounds soooo wonderful to me now….

Medications

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