- It’s finally beginning to feel like fall here. No leaves turning yet, but the temperature outside when I took Jesse to school this morning was 58. Hurray!
- I decided I needed a nap this morning. At 9:40. I had been nodding off at the computer, then when I went to get some Tums for a touch of indigestion, I accidentally opened a packet of Lact-aid instead. I realized I had the wrong thing, then got the bottle of ibuprofen. Realized I had the wrong thing again and finally reached for the Tums. Then took a nap.
- I came back to the computer, still feeling a little brain foggy. So I played a game of Scrabble against the computer
to waste timefor intellectual stimulation. The computer usually lets me win (maybe because I have my online opponent set as an amateur). I feel like I am cheating when I use the hint feature. But then I tell myself that it is a way to learn. I learned today, for instance, that an ai is a three-toed sloth and that peridia (which uses all seven letters! And earns bonus points for doing so! And flashes “BINGO” in fireworks across the top of the screen! And which my spell-checker doesn’t recognize.) is the plural of peridium, ” the covering of the spore-bearing organ in many fungi.” And I got my highest total score ever! So, see, I had a profitable morning after all.
- Even though we are several weeks into the school year, I still don’t feel like I am in school year mode. I tend to stay up too late, partly because that comes naturally, and partly because after my youngest goes to bed I like to stay up a while and unwind. But as he gets older he stays up later. So I stay up later, but I am getting up earlier to get him off to school. And I don’t feel like I am really awake until late in the morning. Or after lunch. I probably should do something about that. Either go to bed earlier. Or continue taking morning naps.
- I have been musing about memes. Not the occasional ones that go around — love most of those. But the regular weekly ones. There is one out there for every day of the week — there are 2 or 3 for some days. I enjoy them, but I don’t want my blog to be all or mostly memes. Even though you can get to know others through those, I kind of feel like my voice is lost when I am just doing memes. But it is nice to get the feedback…when I am just writing my own thoughts and no one responds, I feel all alone. 🙂 Each one has its own “crowd” that I enjoy visiting with on the given day. Some, like the Thursday Thirteen and Wordless Wednesday, have gotten way too big to visit a great deal of the participants. I do those if I have something to share but I don’t ponder and search for something for those like I used to. I like the Time Travel Tuesday and Friday’s Feast, but whether I participate depends on the questions for the day and whether I think I have an interesting answer ad how much time I have. I’m a avid reader and love the questions of Booking Through Thursday, but my tastes are different from most of the others there and it doesn’t seem as interactive as some of the others. I love the motivation of Tackle It Tuesday and the satisfaction of seeing a completed task. But though I am always tackling something I don’t always post to that — I don’t always have the time to visit around to the other participants, and these things are supposed to encourage some degree of that. Love Works for Me Wednesday and like to look through the list of tip topics even if I don’t have any for the day. The two that I make a point of doing each week when I can are the Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt — I just love the creativity and seeing what different people come up with for the theme — and Kelli’s Show and Tell Friday — I’ve enjoyed the ladies I’ve met there and really seem to mesh well with them. So — these weekly memes are fun in themselves and a way to get out there in the blogosphere and meet others and find other blogs you like — and yes, to maybe attract other readers to your blog — but, like everything else, they have to be balanced in the context of the time and responsibilities.
- Speaking of time and responsibilities…I do need to employ the former to fulfill the latter. At some point this morning some items for a to-do list were floating around in my mind. Laundry was one. I’d better go have lunch and see what the others were and try to salvage the rest of this day. 🙂
Stray Thoughts 
Hi, I was over Cindy Swanson’s and read your comments on the emmy’s and had to come over here and tell you “wow” that was good!! I left a comment on hers that said Barbara H said it all!!! You did!! I didn’t watch this years because it has got so ……….. I don’t know what to call it!!
bad, yucky, horrible
I like your post today….. I just started blogging in June and doing the meme in July or so and my 20 year old grand daughter says Grams when are you going to write stuff!!!
So Monday and Tuesdays and Sundays I try to post!! Grams
I have been doing the Encylopedia of Me meme
its quite good as you can make it as personal and unquie as we all are
I love the motivation of Tackle It Tuesday too
have a good rest of the day 🙂
I think the memes are fine if there is nothing else you want to post.I don’t like thinking I have to do any of them all the time. Tell me about the Time Travel Tuesday. My babies have been gone from the nest for 14 years so I have kind of forgotten about the school thing. I had them early on and there were only the 2 natural plus the fosters. I would have loved to have raised daughter #2. I would have had children at home 10 years longer perhaps.
Mama Bear
I read all of your posts, Barbara, but I must say that I love today’s. Especially the scrabble post! How funny! *smile* And I do believe that we need to be careful about scolding ourselves for “wasting” time doing things like that. Scrabble or Collapse or Text Twist help to keep us balanced! (Isn’t that a GREAT excuse? *grin*) I used to do some of the organized memes but I just wasn’t able to be faithful to do them every week, so I just post whatever is in my heart, brain or whatever. I loved today’s post!
Just wanted to say HELLO to you, Barbara!