Tag: changes

2012: The Year of Everything (at once)

~ JodiLea

2012-header

How many life-changing events did you have this year?
I’ll spare you the “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times” sentimental summary of 2012.  I already bitched posted about the details, as they occurred.

  • Preparing home of 24 years to sell
  • Death of my only sibling
  • Retiring from my day job
  • Diagnosed with a “leaky valve“. (What am I – a car?)
  • Moved from a city in the SF Bay Area, to a remote town in the lower Sierra mountains.

If you’re new to Not Pretending, the links above should satisfy any curiosity you may have. And a very hearty welcome from me, BTW  😉

All 5 events occurred between April and July. I don’t remember much of August at all. September-November were a blur. When I began to settle down into my life – the  Holidays showed up. Whee!  The last of our kids left yesterday. Now I need to gear up to “organization level” energy, but a head-cold is sucking it out of me.

It’s snowing every few days now.  This is my fault, as most of you already know. I’ve dreamed of a white Christmas all year, and I definitely got one. I love watching the snow fall.  I can’t imagine anyone getting tired of watching it. I can imagine getting tired of shoveling and driving in it, and I’m happy I don’t have to!

I bought a 20.6 pound turkey and 10 pounds of potatoes (sweet and russet), so we can live on Christmas dinner if we get trapped up here a few days. In fact, it is supposed to snow later today. ..

2013 will arrive in 2.5 days, and soon 2012 will only be memories. It seems like I just said that about 2011. Time really does speed up the older you get.

A happy & prosperous New Year to everyone!

If I Were President

~ JodiLea

American Flag

.

.

.

.

.

I believe American’s would be more content if I made certain changes:

  • Pass a law that incumbent President’s are forbidden to campaign. They already have the job and the best way to keep it is for them to concentrate on the job instead of running about the country smoozing voters.
  • Less power to political parties, insurance companies, and huge corporations. ‘We the People’ should have a bigger say than they do.
  • Stop taking common sense and putting it into law. We waste so many resources trying to force people to wear helmets, buckle seat belts and stay off the phone. And that’s only DMV laws.
  • Could someone tell me why our federal and state government gets involved with issues like same-sex marriage?  Will these kind of issues ever be solved? I think not.
  • Make the IRS less ridiculous. Fire the idiot that writes the booklets and hire someone who speaks (and writes) proper English. [If the idiot were computer software, he would fry the system with the infinite loops he writes. His twin brother probably writes the DMV’s written tests.]

There are many more things I would change, but I must get some sleep now.

Nighty Night  😉