2/7/2004

I’ve given in to the fact that I’m easily distracted once I get online and start surfing.  It seems as though I start out with one thing in mind, one project or another, and as I surf along my interests take me here and there.  I never end up doing (in a timely manner) what I set out to do.  In fact, I rather like being easily distracted, in this sense.  More and more I find myself disenchanted with people who work with blinders on, only able to go in one direction.

I’ve had this idea that I’d like to make a sort of scrapbook like page for my ex mother-in-law, who is now living in a nursing home.  The picture I have in mind is wonderful, and along with it, maybe I’ll add a family quote, little thingys to fill up the page, name tags …. just stuff.  I suppose it’ll take me forever because of course the first and second and third times around will just be trials.  Sometimes I get bogged down by all the possibilities.  Maybe that’s where some “onedirection” would come in handy.  Oh well, I yam what I yam. 

Isn’t this picture great?  I wish I had something like this of my own parents.  The picture shows a happy elderly couple.  You look at them and you think . . .  this growing old together stuff looks so inviting.  Their marriage had it’s ups and downs as most any marriage does, but when I think of them, this is the picture I have in my mind. 

My hope is that before I leave this world for the next, I’ll be able to grow old with someone too.