Poem of the Day
FACES IN A FRAME
The faces encased within the frame
so long ago from another place
vacantly gaze into the past
ignoring the present who’s stolen their space.
Caught by the camera’s watchful eye
Once existed but now gone by
Held forever within a border
Alive no longer lives disassembled
observers study the fading faces
supplying details they’ll never discover
and the images in the frame stubbornly stare on
forever encased in their little border home.
Long, Long Time
It's been a long time since I blogged. So much has been going on I just couldn't find the time but today, is the day. So, sit back and enjoy.
December 19th I took my daughter to the airport. As usual, things happen to me and I couldn't just take her, oh no, I had to take her in a snow storm. I love snow, but driving is not one of my favorite things to do. Indy is about an hour from where we live so at 6:30, bright and early, we set out. I had called the highway patrolman to find out road conditions and they gave the all clear so on we went. Everything went ok and I'm to pick her up next week. But, guess what? After 2 weeks of above average temperatures, the day I pick her up it's supposed to snow. By the time I pick her up, I will have driven to that airport 3 times and all times will have been in some type of weather. In June I took my older daughter in a blinding rainstorm. In December I took the other in a blinding snowstorm and now it appears I will be picking her up in one. I think I may prefer Oklahoma's tornados. At least I can hide from them in a cellar!
The 20th we set out for Oklahoma. Our 17 year old son drove behind us. That's a headache in itself. He's made this trip driving 3 times already, but his driving certainly has not improved with all the experience he's had. Needless to say, you're on pins and needles the whole 650 miles watching him weave from one side of the road to the other.
We were supposed to go to my husband's parents when we first got back to have Christmas with them the 21st. His mom called though the day before we left and said she didn't feel well and thought she had the flu. She said she didn't want to cook or for us to get the flu so we went to my daughters instead. Come to find out, she didn't have the flu, she was cranky and hadn't even called the rest of the family to let them even know we were all supposed to meet the 21st! My husband ended up going for 2 days and then we all had to drive to Edmond to her other son's house for an impromptu dinner and get-together. It really irritated me when I found out she really wasn't ill. It threw all of us into having to hurry around and set things up just because she was cranky!
Then we come to my mom. Of course, I love her, but have you ever been around someone who sucks all the energy out of you both mentally and physically? My mom is such a person. Her first question to me is not how the trip went, but "When did you get in?" This is asked to see if I called her the moment I came in and no, I don't because she is so negative. I called her 12 hours after I came in because I need that much time to prepare myself mentally for all the questions and all the negativity. Grrrrr!
She threw her annual fit, this time over green salad and it went on for two days. We had all agreed she would cook the turkey and ham (and I told her I would cook them too) and my daughter and I would do the rest. She never mentioned cooking anything else and had in fact, said she didn't want to because it made her too tired.
Some time Christmas morning, she called and asked my daughter if she wanted a green salad. My daughter told her she didn't, but if she wanted one to fix it. Mom asked her again and again she said no. She asked again and that time, my daughter asked the rest of us if we wanted one. We all said no. My son and other daughter went to pick up the gravy she had made, but she had made a bunch of other stuff too. She said she'd be there later. We had all told Mom we'd be eating at noon and would go on if she weren't there (she's always late and we have waited 2 hrs. on her before.)
She never showed up! We waited and finally opened the packages. Around 2 or 3 hours later, I became concerned that she had fallen or something had happened to her because I had called her several times and she had not answered. I had even called everyone else I knew to see if she was at one of their houses. When I got there, she wouldn't answer the door and I had to pound on it. She finally came and said she just didn't feel like coming, that she wasn't going to eat with people who didn't appreciate her, that she had stayed up all night cooking 2 turkeys (why she cooked 2, I don't know) and cooked all this other stuff because she knew her grandchildren (my kids) liked her cooking because all I cooked was low fat (one of her jabs at me). Then she said I had been there 12 hours before I had called her and Blah, Blah, BLAH. I just walked out.
But of course, it didn't stop there. She called later that night and talked for 40 minutes without me saying not one word. She became so abusive I hung up. Then she called again and when she couldn't get me to agree I was a horrible daughter for not calling her the first rattle out of the box, hung up on me. The next day she started again when my daughter and I took her presents over and went on and on about "the salad" and told my daughter that she let others influence her (implying that my daughters husband would not let her have a green salad) and again Blah, Blah, BLAH.
Anyway, I saw some people I had not seen in a long time, mostly former students and they were so grown up! I taught these kids in 3rd and 4th grade and now they're seniors! I saw my childhood friend who I've kept in touch with all these years and was last year diagnosed as bi-polar. She wound up institutionalized for a time and now is on medication. The person I knew all those years is gone. It is as if her personality just disappeared. She used to be so bubbly with a twinkle in her eye and she just sat there and basically only answered questions. They think oxycontin addiction helped to trigger the episode (this was prescription and she did not abuse the amount).
All in all, it was a nice 7 days home and for the most part, I enjoyed it very much. During the drive home, we found out someone had stolen our credit card number and used it to the tune of $6,000. Things were charged in Florida to some Ta Kwon Do place. That was a bummer, but the credit card company took care of it.
New Years we went to a friend’s house and now, I'm ready for the kids to go back to school. My step-son is mad because we won't let him on the computer. The kid is addicted to it! He gets this intense look on his face when he is on and he HAS to touch the computer screen. He asks to check his email, but then he tries to chat. We've had to buy 2 computers because he has downloaded so much crap and viruses that the hardrives crashed. We're on our 3rd computer in 4 years and he has crashed this new one 3 times since September. Well, he'll just have to be mad because many important files were lost because of his addiction. He also won't stay away from pornographic sights no matter how much we tell him and him goes to sights we know causes problems with computers. He just does what he wants!
That's all I can think of for the moment. Have a good day.
FACES IN A FRAME
The faces encased within the frame
so long ago from another place
vacantly gaze into the past
ignoring the present who’s stolen their space.
Caught by the camera’s watchful eye
Once existed but now gone by
Held forever within a border
Alive no longer lives disassembled
observers study the fading faces
supplying details they’ll never discover
and the images in the frame stubbornly stare on
forever encased in their little border home.
Long, Long Time
It's been a long time since I blogged. So much has been going on I just couldn't find the time but today, is the day. So, sit back and enjoy.
December 19th I took my daughter to the airport. As usual, things happen to me and I couldn't just take her, oh no, I had to take her in a snow storm. I love snow, but driving is not one of my favorite things to do. Indy is about an hour from where we live so at 6:30, bright and early, we set out. I had called the highway patrolman to find out road conditions and they gave the all clear so on we went. Everything went ok and I'm to pick her up next week. But, guess what? After 2 weeks of above average temperatures, the day I pick her up it's supposed to snow. By the time I pick her up, I will have driven to that airport 3 times and all times will have been in some type of weather. In June I took my older daughter in a blinding rainstorm. In December I took the other in a blinding snowstorm and now it appears I will be picking her up in one. I think I may prefer Oklahoma's tornados. At least I can hide from them in a cellar!
The 20th we set out for Oklahoma. Our 17 year old son drove behind us. That's a headache in itself. He's made this trip driving 3 times already, but his driving certainly has not improved with all the experience he's had. Needless to say, you're on pins and needles the whole 650 miles watching him weave from one side of the road to the other.
We were supposed to go to my husband's parents when we first got back to have Christmas with them the 21st. His mom called though the day before we left and said she didn't feel well and thought she had the flu. She said she didn't want to cook or for us to get the flu so we went to my daughters instead. Come to find out, she didn't have the flu, she was cranky and hadn't even called the rest of the family to let them even know we were all supposed to meet the 21st! My husband ended up going for 2 days and then we all had to drive to Edmond to her other son's house for an impromptu dinner and get-together. It really irritated me when I found out she really wasn't ill. It threw all of us into having to hurry around and set things up just because she was cranky!
Then we come to my mom. Of course, I love her, but have you ever been around someone who sucks all the energy out of you both mentally and physically? My mom is such a person. Her first question to me is not how the trip went, but "When did you get in?" This is asked to see if I called her the moment I came in and no, I don't because she is so negative. I called her 12 hours after I came in because I need that much time to prepare myself mentally for all the questions and all the negativity. Grrrrr!
She threw her annual fit, this time over green salad and it went on for two days. We had all agreed she would cook the turkey and ham (and I told her I would cook them too) and my daughter and I would do the rest. She never mentioned cooking anything else and had in fact, said she didn't want to because it made her too tired.
Some time Christmas morning, she called and asked my daughter if she wanted a green salad. My daughter told her she didn't, but if she wanted one to fix it. Mom asked her again and again she said no. She asked again and that time, my daughter asked the rest of us if we wanted one. We all said no. My son and other daughter went to pick up the gravy she had made, but she had made a bunch of other stuff too. She said she'd be there later. We had all told Mom we'd be eating at noon and would go on if she weren't there (she's always late and we have waited 2 hrs. on her before.)
She never showed up! We waited and finally opened the packages. Around 2 or 3 hours later, I became concerned that she had fallen or something had happened to her because I had called her several times and she had not answered. I had even called everyone else I knew to see if she was at one of their houses. When I got there, she wouldn't answer the door and I had to pound on it. She finally came and said she just didn't feel like coming, that she wasn't going to eat with people who didn't appreciate her, that she had stayed up all night cooking 2 turkeys (why she cooked 2, I don't know) and cooked all this other stuff because she knew her grandchildren (my kids) liked her cooking because all I cooked was low fat (one of her jabs at me). Then she said I had been there 12 hours before I had called her and Blah, Blah, BLAH. I just walked out.
But of course, it didn't stop there. She called later that night and talked for 40 minutes without me saying not one word. She became so abusive I hung up. Then she called again and when she couldn't get me to agree I was a horrible daughter for not calling her the first rattle out of the box, hung up on me. The next day she started again when my daughter and I took her presents over and went on and on about "the salad" and told my daughter that she let others influence her (implying that my daughters husband would not let her have a green salad) and again Blah, Blah, BLAH.
Anyway, I saw some people I had not seen in a long time, mostly former students and they were so grown up! I taught these kids in 3rd and 4th grade and now they're seniors! I saw my childhood friend who I've kept in touch with all these years and was last year diagnosed as bi-polar. She wound up institutionalized for a time and now is on medication. The person I knew all those years is gone. It is as if her personality just disappeared. She used to be so bubbly with a twinkle in her eye and she just sat there and basically only answered questions. They think oxycontin addiction helped to trigger the episode (this was prescription and she did not abuse the amount).
All in all, it was a nice 7 days home and for the most part, I enjoyed it very much. During the drive home, we found out someone had stolen our credit card number and used it to the tune of $6,000. Things were charged in Florida to some Ta Kwon Do place. That was a bummer, but the credit card company took care of it.
New Years we went to a friend’s house and now, I'm ready for the kids to go back to school. My step-son is mad because we won't let him on the computer. The kid is addicted to it! He gets this intense look on his face when he is on and he HAS to touch the computer screen. He asks to check his email, but then he tries to chat. We've had to buy 2 computers because he has downloaded so much crap and viruses that the hardrives crashed. We're on our 3rd computer in 4 years and he has crashed this new one 3 times since September. Well, he'll just have to be mad because many important files were lost because of his addiction. He also won't stay away from pornographic sights no matter how much we tell him and him goes to sights we know causes problems with computers. He just does what he wants!
That's all I can think of for the moment. Have a good day.
posted by Mines Broken @ Friday, January 02, 2004
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