After the church services yesterday, we sang at a luncheon to honor a member of our church, Theressa Hoover, a very impressive woman. She grew up under segregation, spent her life working tirelessly for equal rights here and around the world, and then returned to her hometown after she retired, to spend twenty more years so far among her friends and family. She never married or had children, and has not by any means had a limited life because of that. We got to see pictures of her as a lovely young woman in the 1940s, and to hear streams of people talking about the effect she had on their lives, and she took my hands in her very soft hands and thanked me for the music, so I got the chance to experience her charm up close. Being charming was a big part of her success, I think, but her being bold and organized was what people spoke about. That and what a wonderful role model she was and is for all of us, and for women in particular.
I’ve proposed to the encyclopedia that they let me write an entry for her.
Among other things, we sang a hymn that was written in her honor, and we had the family crying, so that’s a good sign. When she was my age, she had already been instrumental int he fight against apartheid, so I doubt that I will deserve to have a hymn written in my honor when I am the age she now is, but wouldn’t it be cool? It’s quite a nice hymn, too.
With my house nice and tidy, I was then able to hang out with the family and do some more work on Erin’s bands.
I figured out Dreamweaver, more or less, and got some chili into the freezer. It is Foyer Week on the HGP. This is of course the time to dust the chandelier in the foyer and refresh the loose covers on the loveseats. However, I don’t have a foyer, so I use this week to clean out the coat closet by the four square feet of tile that constitutes my entry. You should also put another meal in the freezer, and a batch of holiday goodies of some description.
Last year, my sons ate all the cookies from the freezer before we got anywhere near Christmas, but I feel sure that they will have outgrown that by now.
Today I have people from Arkansas, New Mexico, and Australia to work for. I really hope to be able to work on my own website as well, though I recognize that this desire is unrealistic, not only because of the time factor (I have a rehearsal tonight, which puts an end point on my work today) but also because I’ve not yet heard back from The Computer Guy on a time for him to show me how to get into it. Lest this sound as though he’s dragging his feet, I should point out that I last heard from him on Friday night. The fact that I am able to say “I haven’t yet heard from him” under those circumstances shows that I have become a computer guy.
However, I am a computer guy with a tidy work space and cranberry bran muffins fresh out of the oven, so it could be worse.
Every day, as I’m reading your report of all the To-Dos you’ve checked briskly off your list, I feel guiltier and guiltier. Your house keeps getting cleaner and tidier and more orderly; mine keeps getting dirtier and untidier and more squalid. [And we won’t even mention my gardens and yards, which can now be accurately described as jungles and wastelands.] However, you are an awesome inspiration, all the same, and I enjoy the reading. It’s encouraging to me to know that progress is being made somewhere, even though it’s not chez moi.
@ozarque – Oh, I just don’t mention my jungles and wastelands. But you could do your foyer this week, and feel all satiasfied at crossing it off the list.
LOL…
LOVE the sweater. It’s gorgeous. The colours are amazing. I can really see you writing a knitting book one day.
I feel like I have watched Erin grow from infancy to adulthood – I can hardly wait to see her when she is finished. she is lovely. putting goodies in the freezer and hoping no one eats them is just wishful thinking in my house. I swear they just know when the stuff goes into the freezer it’s like radar.
You didn’t mention that you last heard from him, still hard at work, on his birthday. For all you know, he gathered a wild band of engineers together and partied all weekend.
Partying engineers. Pft.
@chanthaboune – In fact, I think that was exactly what was going on this weekend with The Computer Guy. And good for him, say I.
Congratulations on the house tidying. I keep resolving to do it, and keep doing some of it, but never quite finishing.
Erin is looking better and better. You are an inspiration to us all. When did you start on it?
I think I started blogging in 2004, and you were started on Erin then.
But you are an inspiration because you keep going back to it, and you will ultimately finish it.
I need to go through my UFOs and finish them.
@lostarts – I started Erin at Christmas 2005, which I think will make it the longest-running WIP ever.