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Saturday, January 04, 2003 ( 1/04/2003 11:22:00 PM ) Jeanne Lazy day at home. Just came off of a few hours doing the Chicago Tribune crossword and acrostic. Walked downtown for coffee with the whole gang today in the snow. Sofia made friends with one of the hip chicks who works at the clothes store next door. Micaela and I watched A Walk to Remember this afternoon. It stars Mandy Moore and is definitely a tear jerker; young good Christian girl and bad boy turned good fall in love, she's terminally ill, but in the end both of their lives are forever changed and enriched. You know the drill. Micaela ran to her room after the movie to write down Mandy Moore's name cause she liked the music. Its funny to see her developing her own tastes, so far so good. I wonder what the next "rebel" adolescent fad will be? As a former mohawk wearer I'm interested to see if my own experience with rebellion will be of any use to me in the teenage years. # Friday, January 03, 2003 ( 1/03/2003 04:28:00 PM ) Jeanne I've spent pretty much the whole day reading, an incredible and gripping book called The Divine Economy of Salvation. I bet I'll have a review of it up by tommorow on my book blog. Swimming up out of the book this afternoon I feel like I've been drugged for several hours. I was talking to a friend the other night on the phone about the scariness of impending war and the political apathy/passivity of so many US citizens. I have become completely disgusted by so-called liberals lately, especially after November's elections. So eager to please and so unwilling to tow a hard line when it comes to what they believe in for fear of offense, ugh. No one knows how to disagree anymore without things getting personal. I am convinced that a class in civic discourse should be required of all high school and college students. How can we have a democracy if people don't even know how to argue their point without things breaking down? Anyway, I have to recommend HIGHLY the headline article in Harper's December issue, "The Case for Liberalism: A defense of the future against the past" by George McGovern. It is one of the absolutely best things I have read in a long time. He does an excellent job explaining why the word liberal is not a dirty word, but really the absolute foundation of our democracy. From the dictionary "a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of man, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for protection of political and civil liberties." Who wouldn't claim this proudly? Gotta love the dictionary, why do we forget so often what words really mean? I'm guilty too, we want to think we know what words mean, but rarely check up on them ourselves. He also makes a very good, and I think ironic point, who ever heard of a "preventative" war? # Wednesday, January 01, 2003 ( 1/01/2003 07:14:00 PM ) Jeanne First day of the New Year. Lazy day. Juan and I took Sofia to our nearby city park to play on the playground despite below freezing temps. While there we witnessed an awful car accident some kids ran a red light and as a result an older woman ran right into them. Luckily no one was hurt. Juan ran over to see if the woman was ok; she pulled over and got out of her car and sat on the curb with her head in her hands, but he said she was pretty lucid and calm. Some asshole who was talking on his cellphone and walking his dog also ran over but never got off the phone with his friend to call anyone and stood there chatting the whole time. Luckily someone else with a cellphone was present and called the cops/ambulance. We also snooped around a gorgeous Victorian house that is for sale right on the park. We peeked in all the windows and oohed and ahhed over all the beautiful leaded stained glass, wood floors and iron fireplace/woodstove. At $285,000 it is well out of our range. I have such terrible house lust. I've never owned a home of my own and would really like to, despite the fact that maintenance would be more I want to live in an older house. New homes and their construction reminds me of so much cardboard. We have rented older houses/apartments for the last few years and they have so much more character. These are all pipe dreams right now though...there is no house buying for the near future. We don't even know where we'll be living two years from now! # Tuesday, December 31, 2002 ( 12/31/2002 01:22:00 PM ) Jeanne Thought I would come and write something before the new year. Last night I crawled into bed with the diary of another woman! My mom got it in a box lot at an auction. I also have this woman's baby book for her daughter and a framed sillouhette of her. It was spooky opening up her diary to the first page which was the first day of the new year Tuesday, January 1, 1924. Lucy was a senior in high school when she started the diary and it makes me feel so very small and insignificant to read the words of a young woman with the world yet to conquer knowing that she is most probably no longer even alive. It is also amazing to read about her social life which consisted of lots of movies, her mother being her main date, skating parties and tons of letters to be written and read. I find it paradoxical that I am now sharing her New Year's resolutions via technology that has basically wiped out the art of letter writing. Her resolutions were: 1. To buy no more candy in the lunchroom. 2. To make myself a lot of pretty underwear. 3. To have a good time in general. 4. To weigh a 125 pounds in the near future. I guess the whole weight thing is eternal:/ I don't have any resolutions myself. I'm just hoping for a happy new year and for peace. # Monday, December 30, 2002 ( 12/30/2002 09:31:00 AM ) Jeanne I think I've finally got this figured out, although I did put a very long post up last night that I somehow killed. Yesterday Micaela and I went to a Women's basketball game at the University of Illinois. Illinois played Auburn and they won. I bought tickets to three more games this season, all Sunday afternoon games. At $2.00 a ticket it is a much cheaper option than a movie. Basketball is pretty much the only sport I enjoy watching, even better if its college ball, probably because I played myself for a few years...very badly, but it means I actually know the rules. It was fun going with Micaela as she really got into it and I could actually answer her questions. This is countdown week. Sofia starts preschool full time beginning next week. I have been kind of nervous about it, not because I don't think she'll do fine, but because after three years at home with her it is a big change. This holiday break has actually made me think even more that she needs to go, she has major ants in her pants and is so social I think she'll love it. I've spent probably way too much time working on a homepage for myself this past weekend. We'll see if I actually keep this all up. # |
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