Thursday, March 31, 2011
kindle...
I might be getting a Kindle sometime this year for our 50th wedding anniversary in May!! I am so excited... I am getting a jump-start, however, in the Kindle experience...I have been able to use my Blackberry to be a mini-kindle!! It works great, even though small and you have to click space bar a million times to get through a book! Small screen, ya know.. Actually, Amazon has made it possible to even use your PC a a Kindle. Not as handy as a real one, but you can read on your laptop or home computer. Also, if you are reading a book on the Blackberry, and then go to the PC, it keeps your place and you can continue reading back and forth, as you need to!! Pretty cool. They call it seamless reading, or something like that. Amazon, you owe me for this Kindle ad!!!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Looking forward to 50 year wedding anniversary!
Yes, I said 50! Five-oh! Fifty! Half a century! I could have done with out that last one, though.
Seems like only yesterday that I met my sweetheart and fell in love. Fifty years is but a drop of honey in the honey jar, when you have committed to forever and always, no matter what.
Never a smooth sailing, living and loving each other as we have done has presented, I hope, a bright and shining example to our five children, giving them hope for what can be, looking forward, no matter what...the past is behind you ...don't go there...it is what it was and the future holds promise.
Needless to say, if we are celebrating 50 years together, so also is my fiftieth high school reunion showing itself on the horizon in 2012. Something is being planned, I hear, but no news yet.
Russ (dad, grandpa) and I have been wrestling with what to do on this memorable event and have yet to come up with a valid choice. A few years ago, before the economy went south, we would have gone on a cruise, anywhere, just to make it unforgettable. The way things are now, however, we will be lucky to get to Branson,which was not high on our list of options, really.
One idea we had been floating recently was taking a flight over to Japan, where we spent the first three years of our married life. That was before the recent disaster befell that beautiful island country. Now we probably should not go there, given the state of affairs there. We could opt for Kyotoa, or Nara, or Osaka, where all the northern folks are heading to, but we are not sure that with our luck, another earthquake would not strike, as it very well could.
Better, perhaps, to take a chance on California and go back to where it all really began, my hometown of Fortuna, California, way up in the redwood country of Humboldt County. My mom would be happy to see us.
Of course, we will for sure have a family celebration at home, most likely. I guess I should plan it, since I don't think anyone else is! We will miss Russell and Colleen, numbers 1 and 3 of our children. They are in Mesa, Arizona and Lehi, Utah, a far stretch to travel. They will be in our hearts though...
Enough lamenting for now...see ya on the go 'round.....
Seems like only yesterday that I met my sweetheart and fell in love. Fifty years is but a drop of honey in the honey jar, when you have committed to forever and always, no matter what.
Never a smooth sailing, living and loving each other as we have done has presented, I hope, a bright and shining example to our five children, giving them hope for what can be, looking forward, no matter what...the past is behind you ...don't go there...it is what it was and the future holds promise.
Needless to say, if we are celebrating 50 years together, so also is my fiftieth high school reunion showing itself on the horizon in 2012. Something is being planned, I hear, but no news yet.
Russ (dad, grandpa) and I have been wrestling with what to do on this memorable event and have yet to come up with a valid choice. A few years ago, before the economy went south, we would have gone on a cruise, anywhere, just to make it unforgettable. The way things are now, however, we will be lucky to get to Branson,which was not high on our list of options, really.
One idea we had been floating recently was taking a flight over to Japan, where we spent the first three years of our married life. That was before the recent disaster befell that beautiful island country. Now we probably should not go there, given the state of affairs there. We could opt for Kyotoa, or Nara, or Osaka, where all the northern folks are heading to, but we are not sure that with our luck, another earthquake would not strike, as it very well could.
Better, perhaps, to take a chance on California and go back to where it all really began, my hometown of Fortuna, California, way up in the redwood country of Humboldt County. My mom would be happy to see us.
Of course, we will for sure have a family celebration at home, most likely. I guess I should plan it, since I don't think anyone else is! We will miss Russell and Colleen, numbers 1 and 3 of our children. They are in Mesa, Arizona and Lehi, Utah, a far stretch to travel. They will be in our hearts though...
Enough lamenting for now...see ya on the go 'round.....
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