Climbing out of the rabbit hole

[susandennis]

I fell into the internet this morning and am now clawing my way back out. While there I studied up on sewing pants for fat people, different sized rubber lids for coffee mugs and ad hoc street portraits in a Seattle neighborhood oh and scripts that don't work in Chrome (but do, apparently, in other browsers). Among other things...

I ended up at my brother's latest LJ entry where he said "My mother once told me that she did not want to be around for what she saw coming in my lifetime. I know how she felt. It it going to be a rough century, I'm afraid." This is kind of shocking to me. I would have guessed that she felt exactly the opposite. My parents had three children. I am the oldest. My sister is 18 months younger than I am and my brother is 4 years younger. We all three have very - sometimes vastly - different views of who our parents were. I think it's both interesting and strange.

My Project Fi cell phone signal is so far a winner. I tested it in the far corner of the gym this morning and had a fairly decent speed where I had had no signal before. Nice.

I used my abuterol inhaler this morning before I left for the pool and everything was much better. Of course, it might have been much better without it - I have no way of knowing. But, I think I'll continue with the inhaler for a few days before I try again without it.

My neighbor, Ann, apparently has an offer on her condo that she listed last week. I hope it was a good one. I wonder where she is going?

There's a big catering company down the street and they are having a garage sale today. I'm tempted but I don't need any catering anything so why??? Ikea just opened up their brand new store. It's about the same size as the old one and right next door to the old one. So, why? I need to go see for myself but hopefully not any time soon. I don't need more stuff. Really.

We have snow in the forecast for every day through Monday. Will there be any right here at my house? My money says NFW. It's just weatherman torture.

Clearly I have a major attention deficit this morning. Wonder if there's an inhaler for that? Ahhh, what does it matter? I have the time, I have the bandwidth, what's the harm?

I do think I'll go wash the breakfast bowl and get to the sewing room, though, just for a change of pace.

Comments

[meowmensteen]

Speaking of rabbit holes, I just barely got myself out of your Kingdome cam pages. Who knew how interesting those would be all this time later. They're like a piece of history now. Especially the part where you see the Kingdome there one day, and gone the next.

[susandennis]

hahaha! Now that really is a rabbit hole! It was really an amazing time and an amazing thing to be a part of.

Aw crap, you made me go look! Gosh I wish those pictures were better.

[lifeinroseland.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... They probably will come up w AD inhalers, eventually lol.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

My sister and brother have vastly different memories of our parents than I do. We've found that my mother would tell us each pretty much what we wanted to hear. She was very secretive. One of the issues between my sister and I has been her telling me what my memory of various situations should be, rather than accepting that each of our memories can be valid ... and different ... just different perspectives.

[susandennis]

That's wild. I thought it was only us.

[ljtourist.livejournal.com]

Let me know if the IKEA bug hits you. I'd love to visit too, but not nearly badly enough to fight the parking lot crowds that I assume are plaguing the place for the first little bit.

Also, we did have snow here at my place last night. For all of 60 seconds before it became rain again. I thought it was my eyes deceiving me, but I guess not.

[susandennis]

Oh, I will! It would be way more fun than doing on my own. Maybe we shoot for mid March-ish. I'll ping you for sure.

[susandennis]

I started to text you when we had 4 flakes here - if we had had 6, I would have :) We didn't even get decent hail.