Ponder Pages

This morning while I was driving to work I was half listening to the news. They were saying something about bad weather some where, not sure where, they said that a woman had a tree fall on her house. This is what sounded weird, She said it sounded like a car or something fell on her house. Now around here it's more common for a tree to fall on a house then a car. The other thing they mentioned was about Britney Spears. In my opinion she needs mental help big time. The paparazzi needs to say away from her. All magazines and news shows should stop the demand of any kind for pictures of her. There should also be laws that if you want to take a picture of a celebrity you have to stay at least 50 feet away. And no cars are involved in anyway shape or form. After she gets the kind of mental help she needs, she needs to go somewhere away from all that she knows to a pla ce where she can get back to basics. Learn to like herself. She should be away for at least a year. She will then ...

It's cold outside!!!! Right now it's 6 below. I think most if not all schools in my area were closed. About 48 people called into work today. I'm not sure if any showed up later. This morning the only strip joint near here, burned down. To me, no great loss. I'm not sure how much business it got. Most people around here, hope that it will not be rebuilt. It was an old building that had been allot of different kind of bars. I had a little time today to think about my story idea. I've come up with a couple of different things to do with the story. When I get them worked out I'll post it. Now for the thought of the day: "He sees most clearly who stands and looks."

I was thinking about different people and things today that made me think about getting back to basics. What this means to me is maybe it's time that people started living a more basic life. We live lives that are molded around the latest tech things. Things that are suppose to make life easier for us are the things that are making us more handy capped. If something does happen in the future that disrupts normal day to day things would we really be able to survive? I don't think most people would. We're spoiled. Even if nothing earth ending ever happens I believe people should learn to live simply. For myself I would love to learn to live more simply. Have a big garden, raise my own meat, learn about finding editable things in the wild, cook on an old wood cook stove(Which I do have but it's not set up, yet) and make things, home made things. If I didn't have to work out I would either make a home like this or travel around. If I could travel around I would like to ...

What to ponder. How about the state of the Union speech that Bush will be giving tonight? I don't plan on watching it. Every time I see him on TV giving a speech, I can't explain what goes through my head. So to save myself frustration and allot of yelling I don't watch. One thing that always bugs me when a president gives a speech is how often people applaud. Why not wait till after the speech is over? Or do they do that to make sure they don't fall asleep listening to it. What I think would be funny is instead of applause all that could be heard would be crickets chirping. I know be serious. I now it is suppose to be important, but I can't get into listening to speeches like that. I like casual . I don't like being preached at. I'll hear enough about tomorrow on the news. I go to bed early, around nine or so. I guess I don't have allot to say so I'll do my thought for the day: "Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories."

I know it's been a few days since a wrote anything but the only excuse I have is nothing in my head wanted to be written down. I'm still not sure what to write. So I'll mention a few things I've learned over the last few days. Personally, I will a great aunt twice. A nephew on my husbands side is having another child. In my mind not a good thing. There are some people who I'd say that's nice. In his case not good. He is turning out to be a father like his father, a hands off father. Plus there is other dramas going on in his life I only hear could be happening. Ignorance is bliss in this case. Another thing that happen is my father-in-law was in the hospital again. I guess it was gull stones, I was told. But he is back home again. My mother-in-law has had him almost dead for the last at least seven years. He has a bad heart, one kidney and almost everything else. It's hard to say what is really wrong with him except old age. Every time I hear he'...

This morning when I was going to work the radio said it was 10 below. When I got to the north side of town one sign said it was 7 below. When I got to the other side of town that one said it was 20 below. Which one do you believe? Town is about two miles wide. So why the temp difference? Maybe it's location of their thermometer. That's my guess. Tonight it's going to be cold again with it getting down to about 16 below. By Friday it's suppose to be warming up to maybe 20 above with snow. I don't plan on going any where tonight. I will be nice and warm in the house with the wood stove keeping the house around 70 degrees. I love wood heat. This weekend it was so cold that some bottles of Lipton's green tea that I keep in the garage, because it's cold out there, were frozen solid. There was also some diet Lipton's green tea out there that for some reason was not frozen. I took it out of the carton and as soon as I did that it started freezing. It was so wei...

I'm sitting here trying to think about what to write. Blank. I did have some good conversations today about things like the planet. I saw a bit of a program called After People I think. The part I saw was what the oceans would be like 50, 100 and more years after there were no more people. There would be an abundance of everything in the oceans. The Seagull populations would decrease for awhile because there would not be all the wasted food we put in landfills for them to eat. After an amount of time their populations would come back to a better amount. After about 100 years the metals in bridges and things like the Eiffel Tower would erode so much they would fall down. I'm trying to remember how many years it would take for sky scrapers to fall. Eventually everything would fall and be covered with natural vegetation. It will be a very beautiful place to see. To bad there will be no people to see it. I also had conversations about the elections. Who will be a better presiden...