I know this is a bit more then I usually share with you, and I don’t even know if I will publish this post.
Pure. Terror.
That is what I feel right now. I feel it about Doug’s job. I feel it about our finances. I feel it about our house. I feel it about everything on my to do list. I feel it about my parenting skills. Most of all, I feel it about what may happen after the next election, and I have never felt this way about politics before.
The girls and I went on a little adventure yesterday afternoon.
Doug was working on reading to children with his public speaking class. They wanted a practice audience before some of them got to go over to the elementary school to read to a whole class full of little ones.
Many moons ago I was sitting in my first day of Make Up class at The Theater School at DePaul University, and met the boy sitting next to me, Mike. I was a first year costume designer and he was a second year actor. He didn’t seem to fit in so much with his classmates, I could relate. Of course, he was also gorgeous, so that helped, too!
As the year went on, we became friends. I was rather skilled at make up, so he tended to turn to me when he needed some help. I also worked in the costume storage rooms for my work study job. Occationally he would stop in when I was working and plop on down on a trunk to talk. He used to just open up about everything to me. He would tell me that he knew that he would always work after graduation, because of his looks, but that he didn’t know he had the talent to make him deserve that work. I knew he had the talent. I could look at Mike a see a good man with talent, but also
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So, today, this showed up.
I had some technical difficulties with my laptop just after my last post. Everything is working fine now, but I sure have a lot of reading to catch up on with all the blogs I love to read!
The girls and I have been taking lots of morning walks. We spend a long time walking through the park, and sometimes end with a while playing in the playground.
