Midlife Memoirs

21 Years

If you are reading this on March 19th, then we are in Boston, celebrating our anniversary. (-:

Accidental Kindle

I never planned to get a Kindle. It was on Steve's list of things to get, not mine. When his showed up, I looked at it, played with it for a few minutes, then returned it to him. That should have been the end of things.

Last week, I snagged the Kindle from Steve when I stopped by his office, and took it with me on MUNI. Had a lot of fun.

That was the same day that Amazon had decided to replace Steve's Kindle 2 after it had frozen. By the time he was able to isolate the problem as a corrupted file, and not the Kindle itself, the replacement was already on the truck to us.

Solution: buy it...for me (-:

My Kindle 2 arrived yesterday. My favorite feature: adjustable font size.

Quiet?

The neighbors upstairs (often referred to as "the elephants") are moving today. The sad part - the movers are actually quieter than the neighbors!

Moving Along

Sometimes we make decisions to do things in life, other times decisions are made for us - by circumstance or opportunity.

I have noticed a few things recently. It seems that knitting/spinning/weaving are all things that are "open" to me. I have access to tools, training, social networking, and opportunities to grow and learn. It all seems natural.

I also have family who have begun to express interest in the database I have on our family history. This includes cousins who, for one reason or another, know absolutely nothing about our grandparents - even their full names. So I am trying to create something that they can see online. (Mac Family Tree...wonderful product so far.)

While I can't go out and take photos the way I would like to, because of limits on my mobility, I do have a backlog of old photos and negatives to scan.

On the other hand, some doors have been closing, opportunities have gone away. My job in ESL (and some of the frustration) went away at the end of the year. Trying to take French lessons was an experiment that failed, for now, because I was clearly placed in too advanced a class.

There are still lots of little things that need to get done before I can fully focus on all I would like to do, but I do have a path to follow, and life is moving along.