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February 24, 2001 - 3:39pm
Hi Gang!
It's been a wonderfully overcast day here in the south today! The sky reminds me of the divinity my mom used to cook for me when I was a kid ... except theres no nuts! *grin*
The kids and I went to our favorite nature place and took a long hike through the woods. It's so pretty this time of year with the trees just beginning to bud! We spent a great deal of time beside the pond watching the turtles fight for position on this log that was hardly bigger than my fist! What would make so many turtles want THAT log, I wondered? I mean, there were several other logs in the pond three TIMES the size of that one ... yet they all clammored for that ONE spot! I guess you have to be a turtle to understand.
Ah well ...
Take care of each other ...
Lynn
February 20, 2001 - 1:17pm
Hi Everyone!
I know ... I know. You're all in a stink because I've dropped the ball on this journal business. I appreciate all the mail but honestly, it's been so QUIET lately that there really hasn't been THAT much interesting news to report!
Things at school are about the same ... interesting, but the same. I'm in the middle of directing "The Choice" again (which jags me up like you wouldn't believe), an Easter production that brings in roughly 9,000 people every year! It's a BLAST and you've no idea the thrill I get when I'm working on this production!
Oh! And for pity's SAKE! George BUSH is our President and I'm so thrilled! He's the most amazing man ... he and Cheney are doing SO much to rebuild our military after an 8 year fiasco! I'm so happy that I even wrote them both a letter and just THANKED him for keeping our nation a strong power! I'm happy! I'm very VERY glad that I DIDN'T vote for Harry Brown now! I've so much pride in the fact that I voted Republican at this point ... what honest, moral men they are!
Anyway ... I've got to scram! My day is JUST getting cranked up nicely and I don't want to miss ANYTHING! Oh and get this ... my Brazillian dish today is a pork and mango salad! Ummmmm!
Hugs to all .... I'm BACK!
Lynn
November 26, 2000 - 10:18om
I vowed twenty days ago that until this thing with the election was over, I'd be a good American citizen and hold my tongue. Well, I did ... now that it's over, all I can say is GOOD GRIEF! What a mockery of our judicial system certain parties have made. I'm not going to start slinging mud, but I SWEAR, if a CERTAIN presidential candidate had actually won the election, it would have been really interesting to see him take the oath of office and SWEAR to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States" when all he's done is make a mockery of it.
That's all I'm going to say about that. Geez ... I feel like Forest Gump.
Anyway ... Thanksgiving was wonderful! We ate WAY too much turkey and had WAY too much fun! I enjoyed myself greatly! Now it's time to prepare for Christmas! I can't WAIT!
Lookie gang ... it's been a long week. I'm really tired and I'm heading off to bed. Please take care of each other.
As Ever ...
Lynn
SUPER TUESDAY, November 7, 2000 - 10:21pm
It's just after ten o'clock and I'm all in knots. The results from the election reminds me of a roller coaster ride. I haven't been this confused in AGES! Still, I'm hanging on for Bush. Right now, he's winning ... but Gore has ran a good race so far. It's any mans game still.
Alex is hanging out in the bedroom watching it with us tonight. He's as excited to see the results as we are!
I voted Republican on everything except a few state and local races. I feel actually GOOD about my vote. Harry Brown hasn't even knocked a DENT in the votes so far. Oh well ... his day will come. I know it.
Okay gang ... I'm too pensive to type much right now. I can't take my eyes off the tv for a SECOND, so I'd better close this one.
Take care of each other, and again ... may the BEST man win.
Lynn
Monday, November 6, 2000 - 9:43pm
Tomorrow is Election Day. You all would assume that being the staunch soap-box American that I am, I'd have this election business all figured out, wouldn't you. Bet you all think I'm going to march into the booth tomorrow and know EXACTLY how I'll vote, don't you?!
On the contrary. Actually, I'm pretty sure I'm voting for Bush and Cheney although my vote is a "fear" vote and not a "from the heart vote". My heart, and everything inside of me SCREAMS that I should be voting libertarian ... but my fears tell me that if I do that, then I automatically give Gore a better advantage.
This is a tough year for me. I've been reading and studying for almost two months now ... getting my ducks in a row ... finding out who's wanting what and how they plan to change things for my country. More than ANYTHING in the world I want to see Harry Brown walk away with this thing, but I know it's impossible this go around. So instead of helping Gore close the gap, I'm voting republican. I'm hanging my head as I type ... I feel almost ashamed of myself.
I don't MIND voting for Bush ... it's just that I want SO much to see our nation spring back to life again! I'm excited that Cheney has high hopes of rebuilding our military ... I'm tickled to DEATH that Bush wants to ease the tax crunch we're under ... and I'm SO confident that the Bush/Cheney team can turn our nation around and put morality back in the presidential seat again!
I wish Dad were here to tell me that it's okay to feel this way ... that it's better to make sure the opponent can't win than to be hopeful that your guy won't lose.
Anyway, I'm left asking myself this heart-cruncher of a question as I close my entry on the eve of election day ...
"If every citizen were just like me ... what kind of nation, would my country be?"
Take care of each other ... vote your hearts ... and pray for our nation. No matter which candidate you vote for, I wish you the very BEST of luck. We ALL need to vote our hearts and our consciences ... God bless you all!
May the best man win ...
Lynn
Sunday, November 5, 2000 - 6:02pm
The old week is over and a new one is well on it's way. It's been a quiet weekend ... something unusual for me. All weekend I've rather taken it sort of easy. I've baked cookies for the kids, shopped for a few school clothes, and searched high and low for the old Black Cow's and Marathon Bars. Remember those? I'm craving "bad" candy ... sticky, gooey caramel and creamy chocolate. Oh well ... didn't find any of them ... I assume they don't make those anymore.
I've been deep in thought today too. I've been thinking a lot about what it is that I really want to BE in life. I KNOW I want to be a mother and a wife ... I'm really GOOD at those two things and I KNOW I am. Being a mother is amazing! It's almost as if I'm living vicariously through the teachings of my OWN mother ... I sound like her, I sometimes even FEEL the same expressions on my face that SHE had at times. And a wife ... I know I'm good at that too ... I keep Eric guessing, wondering, and eager to hurry home to see what sort of "stunt" I've planned THIS time! I could improve in the tollerance department though ... there's a few things I know I could improve on.
But what I'm really talking about is what I want to be OTHER than these two things. A writer? I KNOW I could do this ... my book is coming along nicely and hopefully will be finished in a month or two. A counselor ... I have a heart for people who are hurting, but will I be able to separate myself from THEIR situations enough to really feel "helpful" instead of "helpless"? Travel agent ... I'd love to get back in THAT again! Teacher ... maybe. Producer/Director ... love it ... but too much time away from home.
I feel as if I'm at a cross roads almost and it's time to start thinking about what it is I really want to do with my life! When I die, what will my kids SAY that I was?!? Will they say that I was JUST a mom? A wife? A friend? Other than those things ... what do people THINK of me. What do they think I AM?
Anyway ... NOT that I have the answers to all of this tonight. I may NEVER know the answer to this MOST perplexing question ... but at least I ASKED it and gave it a little thought. Who knows ... my lot in life might very well be summed up on my tombstone someday, "Lynn ... wife, mother, friend, stunt-woman." *grin* Of course I'm kidding. But do you ever stop to consider that if your characters could be summed up and placed on a tombstone ... what would yours say?
I don't think I've done anything important enough to put on a tombstone yet. When I was in Brazil, I walked into a graveyard and there was a beautiful tombstone standing in the middle of this little church yard. I asked one of our guides what was written at the bottom of the stone and I'll NEVER forget it for as long as I live:
"She lived each day with wide eyed wonder and died with curious
eyes raised toward the infinate unknown she found within the moment."
Someone really knew how to sum it all up.
Take care of each other ...
Lynn
Friday, November 3, 2000 - 6:55pm
My day started off pretty crappy actually. Get this ... I head up to my favorite coffee shop to have a cup of coffee, read the paper, and sort of get the day rolling ... it's been a daily routine of mine for a little over a year I guess. ANYWAY, so I'm sitting there sort of lost in the news ... Bush's DUI for instance ... I was reading about that when one of the coffee-house regulars (a flaming liberal who thinks I'm a pitiful American because I don't want to give the majority of my money to what he calls "the less fortunate") goes, "The election is OVER! Bush is a scum bag and now everyone knows it! The election is over!"
Now I can hold my own in a political discussion. I'm good-to-go in just about any debate ... I can argue just FINE thank you very much ... but today, it just set me off. My Richter scale just ker-powied off the meter!
And no, it wasn't because Bush screwed up ... heaven only KNOWS the mistakes "I" happened to make when "I" was thirty. I don't hold this against Bush in any way at all. It's just that the SAME exact people who were so venomously defending our President as he so nonchalantly committed perjury while sitting on the highest seat in the nation, is now practically shoving their boots up the back side of a man who made an error thirty years ago and then ADMITTED to it! He didn't cover this up at all ... yet now, aaw, man ... don't EVEN get me going again!
Anyway, I calmly set my cup down, turned around and looked at this guy as if he had nickles pouring out his nostrils and shook my head ... then I left.
Maybe my favorite coffee shop is just starting to bug me or something. Anyway ... my morning felt ruined. I was in a rotton mood and it wasn't even nine o'clock yet. Besides ... you should NEVER involve yourself in a political discussion before at LEAST three cups of coffee. Any idiot know this.
So ... I jumped in the van and started driving. I considered Dunkin Donuts ... but then I realized what a horrible mistake three donuts would be ... so I kept driving up to this new coffee place I'd heard about through the grape vine. With very little excitement, I veered into a parking spot and there was an old friend of mine JUST pulling out! You've no idea how really HAPPY I was to see him when I was in such an irate state!
Anyway, we chit-chatted at the car a bit and then went inside, had our coffee and caught up on each others news! You know, there's something about an old friend that is just like good tonic ... suddenly we were talking and the whole morning just sort of fell back into place. It was as if the whole political fiasco just sort of melded into the background and I found myself laughing.
Now I'm torn. I LOVE my old coffee place. I do! I like the people that work there and the people, well MOST of the people who stop in! The coffee is good, the breakfast items are good ... it's a great place! I think that I just need a change in my routine ... I need to rearrange things a little ... spruce my morning up a little or something! Maybe it's sort of like a marriage ... the same old same old, gets too routine. You do the same thing over and over and over a million times and eventually you realize that something has changed. Unless you do something REALLY crazy, you'll lose it all together! In marrige, you go to Victorias Secret or cook something different for dinner ... you light candles or hang christmas lights around the bedroom! With THIS situation, I think I just need a change of venue.
I've thought about Dunkin Donuts ... even this new place might be nice. It's classy, the decor is to DIE for (it has finished tile and a FINISHED bathroom!) ... and although the coffee isn't quite as good as my OLD places, it IS coffee. And then the school is starting up a coffee bar. Who knows WHERE I might land! And I might even go BACK to the old place! Nevertheless, change is good! The adventure of making a change is always nice ... new people, new air ... new libertarians! *grin* Okay, I'm kidding. Well ... MAYBE I'm kidding.
The rest of the day was about as perfect as a day can get without being obnoxiously nice. I managed to get SO much done that I almost winced at the thought of not having anything to do on Monday! Nevertheless ... I enjoyed the day greatly!
The school library is coming along amazingly well! I'm so thrilled at the thought of having it all set up in a few months and kids can start checking out books and enjoying it!
Tonight, while the guys are at karate, Alli and I have been baking and cooking and playing like monkeys in the yard! We've really had a great time and I really appreciate the time I have with her ... just the two of us. I like time like this with Alex too though ... I have the best kids! *sigh*
Anyway ... I've got to scram! Theres this GREAT thing coming on the history station that I've missed twice! I REFUSE to let it slip by a third time without my audience!
Take care of each other ...
Lynn
Monday, October 16, 2000 - 4:34pm
Hi All!
Another week is over and here we are at the very start of another new one! Amazing how they just keep coming and coming, huh?
The started off great! Had a great session with a kid at school that I'm working with. He's coming SO far and I couldn't be prouder of him! He's a great kid and the more I'm around him, the more I'm drawn to the fact that I'd love to just bring him home with me and let him sleep on the couch!
After our session, I went to the grind a while. Things are SO screwey there .... George was in the wrong place. Anna was in the wrong place! Even BEAU was turned the wrong way! It's so funny. You get used to seeing people sitting in certain places and when they move, things just don't seem right! Oh well ...
I started to head to Norcross, but heard that traffic was so badly backed up, that I turned around and just came home. I'll head back tomorrow ... give it another try I suppose!
Then I came home and ERic and I just slummed around. He's great for just slumming around the house with! Neither of us could have hit a lick at a snake today if our lives depended on it. Anyway, he's going to work on the bathroom soon he says. I can't WAIT! I've waited six YEARS for this! He's great!
Okay gang ... it's nearly time for soccer practice for Alli!
Take care of each other!
Lynn
Saturday, October 14, 2000 - 1:43pm
What a nutty month! With two kids as active and busy as ours, it's a miracle I don't have a private secretary to keep our schedules straight! Aaah, but so much has happened and IS happening!
Took off to my favorite weiner joint, Nu Way (in Macon) a few days ago. (See my new link on my home page.) We all got hotdogs and malteds ... ummmm! It was so good ... even better than I ever remembered! SO many of you wrote me after I talked about Nu Way the first time I wrote about it ... but for those of you who've never been, Nu Way hotdogs on Cotton Avenue in Macon, Georgia, is the best "side trip" you'll ever take! NINE of you went after I wrote about it and wrote to tell me all about your trip .... here's a few of your comments:
Lynn, your Nu-Way place was just what you said it was. The chili is too weird to describe, but you were right. It was amazing. We went to the Cotton Avenue one like you suggested. Thanks. That was GREAT! -Hannah ?
Hi Lynn, your weiner joint was so good! We stopped by on the way to Florida and ended up stopping again on the way back through! I'm glad you mentioned it. I had never even heard of such a place! - Chuch C.
Lynn - Do I get a prize for eating the most red weiners? Between me and my three brothers, my mom and my dad, we ate sixteen total! That chili stuff is really funky. I got a cup of it to go! BTW, I got a hamburger too and it's almost as good as the hot dogs! - Davis R.
Dear Lynn, How did you find flakey ice? That was so good! We went to Nu Way last Saturday and I had never had ice like that before! It really does make the cokes taste better. - Amy L.
So, if I sound like a walking billboard for Nuway, that's good! I owe Spyros (the President of Nu Way) BIG time! I won't tell you what he did, but lets just say that right now I could be the Nu Way poster child!!! *grin* Love ya, Spyros!
Okay ... back to the world of NON food!
It's a beautiful day in Georgia! We're heading for Macon.
Take careof each other!
Lynn
Tuesday, September 19, 2000 - 2:02pm
Today has been just about as perfect as a day can get! I took my very first golf lesson this morning and I can't TELL you what a charge I get out of doing this! Randy, my teacher, is AMAZING to say the least! He's wonderful as getting me right on track, lining me up, and letting me RIP! I love it!
Ran into Mark (from the coffee shop) while I was there! The more I get to know him, the more I really like him! Anyway, he's really interesting and one of those people I could honestly talk with all day! Hopefully some day I'll be as good as he is at the game and can give him a run for his money .... we'll see. For now though, I just enjoy talking with him.
Everything else is just chugging right along! Today the kids and I are going down Jodeco Road (across 75) and grabbing an icecream at this place everyone has been telling me about lately!
Take care of each other!!!
Isn't life the BEST?!?!
Lynn
Monday, September 18, 2000 - 5:27pm
That song about rainy days in Mondays ... what on EARTH were they talking about ... getting her DOWN? Is she SERIOUS??? It's raining in Georgia and it couldn't be a prettier or more welcomed site! I can't describe the FEELING in the air! It's wonderfully cool, moist and yummy! Fall is in the air!
Anyway, what does Lynn do on a rainy day? This morning I got up, got the kids off to school and went by the Grind (my favorite coffee shop for all you newbies). I ordered coffee, ALMOST ordered coconut cake but decided to be a good girl and save it till tomorrow! Ummmm ... it's so wonderful though! ANYWAY, I read the paper, caught up on the news and put my feet up a while! I LOVE starting the week off like this ... what better way to get the day rolling? I sure can't think of a better way!
After that, I got some housework done, and took care of some things at the school and for the chamber.
THE CHAMBER! Egads! I forgot to tell you! I've been made a Henry County Ambassador! Alright alright ... sit down. No pushing. No shoving. No clammering for autographs ... *grin*. It's really pretty easy ... I go to ribbon cuttings and do the |