Carnations
May. 11th, 2014 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisWhen I was little, my parents dragged us to church every single freakin' Sunday. We went to a protestant church - Disciples of Christ. It was kind of a benign denomination more Presbyterian than anything else. None of the trappings of say Episcopalians but one or two traditions and Mother's Day brought out one that I honestly thought was creepy.
Every single person - young and old - got a carnation boutonniere. If your mother was alive you got red and if you mother was dead you got white. As a little girl, I was fascinated. During the ohhhh soooo long sermon, I mentally divided up the room. I'd move all the red - live - mothers on one side and the dead-ies on the other. I made mental judgement of each. It was hard to imagine the mothers of the really old people - especially really old people with red carnations. I had a pretty active imagination.
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I out schemed myself on my internet automation scheme. And so woke up this morning to no internet. I didn't even bother to figure out the problem. I fired up my phone's hot spot to get the radio going. Once I had coffee, I figured out what the deal was and got it all fixed.
I can add the wifi hotspot to my phone for $15 for a month. I added it earlier this month when I was having issues. So far I've totally gotten my $15 worth! The neat thing about my current plan is that I can add it on the fly for the month. If I don't need it, I don't add it and so save the $15. My current cellphone plan is prepaid with T-Mobile $30 ($45 with the hotspot). And I haven't seen any of the connection issues I had a year ago. It's a deal that is pretty nearly too good to be true. Probably won't last so I'm trying to double enjoy it now.
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I have one errand to run today. The baseball game is an afternoon game. Should be a fine day.
Every single person - young and old - got a carnation boutonniere. If your mother was alive you got red and if you mother was dead you got white. As a little girl, I was fascinated. During the ohhhh soooo long sermon, I mentally divided up the room. I'd move all the red - live - mothers on one side and the dead-ies on the other. I made mental judgement of each. It was hard to imagine the mothers of the really old people - especially really old people with red carnations. I had a pretty active imagination.
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I out schemed myself on my internet automation scheme. And so woke up this morning to no internet. I didn't even bother to figure out the problem. I fired up my phone's hot spot to get the radio going. Once I had coffee, I figured out what the deal was and got it all fixed.
I can add the wifi hotspot to my phone for $15 for a month. I added it earlier this month when I was having issues. So far I've totally gotten my $15 worth! The neat thing about my current plan is that I can add it on the fly for the month. If I don't need it, I don't add it and so save the $15. My current cellphone plan is prepaid with T-Mobile $30 ($45 with the hotspot). And I haven't seen any of the connection issues I had a year ago. It's a deal that is pretty nearly too good to be true. Probably won't last so I'm trying to double enjoy it now.
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I have one errand to run today. The baseball game is an afternoon game. Should be a fine day.
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Date: 2014-05-11 03:24 pm (UTC)My university had a tradition of carnation-wearing during final exams - white for most of them, then pink for your penultimate exam and red for the last one. It's kind of nice, as strangers in the street wish you 'good luck' and so on.
Anyway, because I have now conflated these two and have an inappropriate mind, I'm wondering if people with ill mothers were issued with pink carnations...
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Date: 2014-05-11 03:29 pm (UTC)Pink for on the way to dead... I like that. I wonder if that church still does the carnation thing. I wonder if that church is even still there....
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