Birthdays...

Even though I swear that my birthday is meaningless and I don't want to celebrate in any way, I always look for special things to happen.  Sometimes they do and lots of times they don't.  But yesterday was a pretty cool, special day, all in all, and because I was looking forward to a late afternoon/early evening gathering with friends at a venue I'd never visited, it seemed like my actual birthDAY.

The day was gorgeous, a real spring day, culminating in the low 60s.  A stop at Gracefull Heart, where I bought myself a new jade-bead bracelet.  Then on to Verizon where I treated myself to a new glass screensaver for my phone - holy shmoley what a difference!  From there to Ashcombes, where I purchased a jade plant and had it potted.  (It wasn't until later that I realized I bought myself both a jade bracelet and a jade plant.  Weird.)

Because I was searching through my stash of cards for a birthday card for Bonnie I discovered a treasure trove of really cool cards I'd bought (and never sent) through the years.  I pulled out FOUR and wrote letters to four special people.  It felt so good!  I haven't actually written in handwriting with pen and ink that much in forever!  Sally, Andrew, Fran, and Heather!  And that really made me happy.  I even mailed them on my way to the Hook & Flask where I met up with Lani, Sandy, Micah, Bonnie, Devera, and Pat for a Pear vodka drink (yum, slurp, guzzle....), chicken wings, and onion rings.  

Such a fun day!

And then the actual day.....family!  Dinner at Carrabbas.  Delicious and oh-so-fun!  Grinned my way through it.  Photo above.

Biden Wins! Harris Wins! America Wins!`

 I can't believe that PENNSYLVANIA has the last AND most important word!  I was watching MSNBC at about 11:27 when they called it, 3 1/2 long days after election day and four years after one of the biggest disappointments of my life!

Big Day

Today was a big day.  I quite my job at the library.  After 3 1/2 years of prepping and presenting programs, helping patrons, working weird and crazy hours including nights and weekends, and more recently videoing live programming, all four of the youth services department "quit" together.  We have been cleaning all surfaces in the very large youth services section hourly as well as any computer after each usage, but today we were asked to clean the public bathrooms, including toilets, every two hours. This was not acceptable to any of us, and as a team we left together. 

Tomorrow I'm meeting with the rest of my team to talk about ways we can go forward together, serving the youth and parents of our town when it comes to literacy and schooling in our community.  I'm actually quite excited, even though I'm not sure how I'm going to eat, lol~

Unwelcome Hiatus

I have a lot of catching up to do. My house was broken into and I've finally replaced my computer. I'm MAAAAAD. However, I've been helped by a host of wonderful Tucsonans - from the two police officers who took photos, fingerprints, and even DNA samples from the blood left on the broken window glass, to the great guys from Titan Restoration who installed my new window, leaving it looking twice as good as it did before the break-in, to the people at Best Buy who helped me replace my computer with a cheapo that works great and gave me all the information I needed about the new iPods, so that I could replace that as well. And I discovered the shocking information that two out of three people I've talked to have also had break-ins before. I only wish that someone had seen someone running down the street with a pink polka-dot pillowcase slung over his/her back!
So now I can get back to work!