Month: April 2011

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Too Much Drama

One of my cousins has been posting one or two lines from hit songs as her Facebook status. I never know if what she posted is what she is thinking or if it is just words from a song that she likes. Most of the time they are very dramatic, and could be taken as a sign that she is thinking of suicide or taking off and leaving. It is very upsetting when I first read it, then some of her friends make jokes and I realize that it is a song or something the kids just say these days.

I suppose if it is from a song that she likes she might see some relevance of the words to her life. But it is so confusing.

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Speaking Spanish

In school we had to take a foreign language for two years to be able to graduate with enough credits. So I took Spanish. But I honestly don’t remember much of it. I don’t speak it very well and don’t have the chance to speak it often. But there are a lot more people in the area who speak Spanish as their first language. There was a recent report in the newspaper that our population is now at least 10% Hispanic. That is a big jump since the last census.

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Baby Gates

My oldest daughter came by the house with my granddaughter for a visit last night. The baby is walking now and it surprises us how fast she can be. One minute she is in the room with you and the next minute everyone is looking around asking, where’s the baby? And then we find her somewhere inappropriate, like the bathroom. So I figure its time to invest in baby gates to keep that little critter corralled in my house. I don’t want to find her with her hands in toilet ever again.

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My Old Pickup Truck

I have been driving a pickup truck for most of my life, and I’ve had this old Ford F-150 for about 14 years now. The truck comes in so handy – I can always carry what I want in the back, make short runs to the dump and once in a while I have even slept in it. There have been so many people borrowing it to move their stuff from one house to the next, that I can’t even remember how many moves it has done.

The truck is starting to a look a little shabby by now and this morning the door handle broke off when I went to get in it for the commute to my store. It’s a bit of nuisance having to get in the truck from the passenger side. I just hope that door handle doesn’t break off, too. I don’t think I can fit my big behind through the sliding back window to get in it nowadays, even in an emergency.