Miscellaneous Things.

• I did manage to get some art stuff done this morning. I started going through the different kinds of paper I have and got some of it sorted out. This is good because I had them all piled up higgledy-piggledy in the corner. Actually, what surprised me the most was that I had some unfinished work I couldn’t really remember even starting, and some of it was not at all bad.
• {I am noticing how difficult it is to say I think something I have done is good!}
• I now have almost everything from Barbara Hambly ‘s earlier books that have been Kindlized. I even broke down and got her vampire books, although on the whole, I really don’t like vampire books.
• Going back to getting stuff done, I really don’t enjoy days when I get nothing done. But when I DO get stuff done, I prefer it to be things I want to get done rather than things like cleaning that have to be done. Although I have to say I do appreciate my little Eureka steam floor cleaner. It is cute and easy to push around  and does a good job!
• When I am finished here, I must go out and fill up both bird feeders. I will be pleased when the grackles move on. I have taken to waving my arms in my room when I see them. They fly off in response to something suddenly moving! Oh, and I think the pooping robin has given up landing on my car since I went out the other day when I saw him and slammed the door and yelled at him. I think I traumatized him and it doesn’t worry me one bit!
• I have just finished watching "The King’s Speech." It was very good. Since I was a stutterer in my teen years, I was fascinated to see him doing all the things that I was encouraged to do in my elocution lessons. For example, he was told to sing what he wanted to say and when I did that, I realized that since I could sing smoothly, I could learn to speak smoothly, too. I remember quite clearly what a huge feeling of relief this gave me. The movie ended when the King made his "we are at war with Germany" speech. I was familiar with that speech but I am not sure why since I was only five when he gave it. I don’t remember hearing it at the time it was given, but I was familiar with it.  I was fascinated to see a picture of the king just as I remembered him and a recording of him giving the speech. I liked George VI and I remember crying when he died because he was "my king," the one who had encouraged us to be brave and deal with all the chaos and shortages of WW2. I know we always listened to his speeches on the radio and that we always felt he was talking to us, not just making a speech. Churchill had that same gift, the gift of talking to individuals… Apparently Churchill had a speech impediment too, although I had never heard that before. He was "tongue-tied" and according to the movie, that is why his speech was so slow and deliberate. Oddly enough, I was told as a child that I also had to have the piece of skin under my tongue cut when I was very young. I don’t remember this at all but my parents were told I was "tongue-tied." Anyway, I highly recommend this movie.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people

to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the

roads weren’t paved.

Will Rogers

"I yam what I yam."

Popeye