Today’s Business: 2010-07-25
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE.
- Do all loads of colored laundry.
- Fill Mom’s med trays for the next three weeks. DONE.
Log
08:45 AM: I’m up.
10:20 AM: Filled a three-week supply of Mom’s med trays and called in orders for refills for two of her meds. They should be ready for pick-up by tomorrow afternoon.
12:30 PM: Facebooked and iPodded, and am thinking that for some of my favorite songs, I’ll make a post for each one that briefly describes each of the key memories and meanings associated with each song. I’m not sure how many I’ll be able to do because, since music has been a mainstay in my life, there are thousands of songs that mean at least a little of something to me. So I’ll attempt to zero in on the most emotionally poignant pieces to describe. The memories of music represent yet another means for me to get at the key events in my life that, if not for the songs, I’d have surely forgotten long ago.
05:30 PM: Prepared supper. Tonight’s meal: Scrambled eggs, mushrooms, green peppers, and onions, seasoned with garlic salt and Parmesan cheese.
06:15 PM: After supper, I went with [Emmy] out to the south porch to listen to the locusts, crickets, and birds buzzing, chirping, and singing.
07:20 PM: Just awoke from a small nap, and pretty excited to resume the reading of the Frankenstein book. But [Emmy] does not share my enthusiasm. She frowns at the story; complaining incessantly that, “it’s boring.” But I shouldn’t judge her for this because I felt the same way about it my first time reading it. I’ve tried to impress on [Emmy] however, that the initial exposition is often confusing and boring, but that the second reading can be much more understandable and thus, enjoyable. I’ve found initial boredom to be commonplace when reading classic works of literature the first time. In fact, the boredom may be a necessary part of the process of learning the material. So I tell [Emmy] that if she can just get through these unpleasant beginnings, that a joy of reading is certainly in store for her. But she’s not convinced though; griping that she’s not learning a darn thing from boring prose. Ah well. Hopefully someday, she’ll discover differently.
01:00 AM: Read more of the Frankenstein book; now finished with chapter 11.
01:30 AM: Bed time. More tomorrow. Good night.
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What a wonderful Philadelphia memory that was.