Picture of the Day for 5/1/2012. I'm still attending that Incan shaman class on Tuesday nights. Don't judge me! It's very New Age-y and most of my friends would totally roll their eyes at the material presented, but there's always some practical advice I get out of it. Tonight's class focused on not letting the past, especially feelings associated with painful or distressing events from the past, infect your present and future.
I took this picture of the empty row of chairs directly in front of me since my friend Mary and I were wondering if we were inadvertently sending out hostile vibes because despite the full classroom, not one single person sat in those chairs.
Picture of the Day for 4/30/2012. So, for my non-Mormon readers of this blog (of which I suspect there are approximately two), there's a practice in the church called "home teaching." Each family in a Mormon congregation is assigned a set of home teachers to come visit once a month to deliver a brief spiritual message and to make sure the family is doing OK. My home teachers are Jay and Susan Williams, a married couple around my age who live just down the street from me. I always look forward to chatting with them each month as it's a thinly veiled excuse to inflict my space stories on them. They always seem interested in my stories which in my mind makes them EXCELLENT home teachers! That and the fact they are delightful people. I suspect they will need some spiritual uplifting after tonight's visit where I regaled them with tales of my recent visit to a strip club.
Picture of the Day for 4/29/2012. Since nothing really interesting happened today that would make a good subject for my picture of the day, I decided to continue my discussion of the Crestview Elementary School 50th anniversary celebration I attended last Tuesday. I looked up my sisters' class photos and nearly fell over when I saw this picture of my sister Robynne in 2nd grade. She's a dead ringer (at least in this photo) for our great-niece Hayley who is pictured below. It's interesting how family resemblances crop up in the most interesting ways. I never would have made the connection if I had not seen this particular photograph of Robynne as a young girl.
Picture of the Day for 4/28/2012. I saw the movie The Raven* tonight with my niece Renee. At the theater, I saw several posters for the movie The Avengers which is coming out in less than a week. Is it wrong/inappropriate/silly for a grown woman of 49 to be looking forward to seeing a superhero movie and to have a crush on a demi-god named Thor?
*The Raven is pretty good. I enjoyed it, but don't need to see it again.
Picture of the Day for 4/27/2012. It's been about 18 months since I've seen my nephew Rob's 1980s cover band Hot Regan perform so I was glad I was able to attend his concert tonight. I love all the songs they play/sing since they remind me of my high school and college days.*
*Initially, I was going to use the word "heyday" instead of "high school and college days," but decided that would be inaccurate since I'm having just as fabulous a time now as I ever did in the 1980s.
Picture of the Day for 4/26/2012. I attended an open house for the 50th anniversary of Crestview Elementary School- my alma mater. It was fun browsing through all the student albums filled with the class photos. I'm pictured above and below with my kindergarten class. I love how I look so deceptively demure- deceptive being the operative word. I recall doing something to anger my teacher who then pulled my hair in retaliation. I totally ratted her out to my mother who wrote a strongly worded letter informing my teacher she better never lay a hand on me again.
It's a good thing I didn't include my first grade class photo in this blog entry. Then I'd have to tell you how I once told my first grade teacher to shut up. She totally had it coming (I'm kidding, I'm kidding). She was playing a recording of someone reciting the story of Little Red Riding Hood. It was riveting stuff and Mrs. Wheelwright was talking over the recording which was intolerable to me. I wanted to hear the story so I made my displeasure over her continued discourse plainly known. She looked so wounded and told me that wasn't very nice. I'd like to think my manners have marginally improved in the intervening 40 years.(On a random side note- check out the pic of me in 1968 compared to the picture in the blog entry below taken just yesterday. I have my head cocked at exactly the same angle in both photographs. I guess some things never change.)
Picture of the Day for 4/25/2012. If you needed any proof that I'm a space geek (although really- if you've read my blog at all, the copious number of blog entries regarding my space-related activities would be evidence enough), here it is. I'm actually wearing a t-shirt I picked up at the Kennedy Space Center last week and I NEVER wear t-shirts with a logo.
