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A picture says a thousand words...but I may add a couple of hundred!

Surprise guys! I risked my ultimate fear of jury duty and registered to vote last month so that I would be eligible for when the time came. And I did it! My long time readers know that one of the top 5 worst experiences of my entire life was being called for jury duty at the ripe age of 18. Back then, I didn't know I was an Asper, so everything I had to deal with and my horrible experience has just grown into this massive monster in my head. It's been an internal struggle of mine for years, because I do follow politics and I do care, but the fear of that monster was just too great and it's kept me from registering to vote all these years. THIS time, however, I can't let it go. I will probably immediately get called up for jury duty, but that monster is for another day (or that's how I convinced myself, anyway, so we'll stick with that story for now). Voter registration and jury duty should NOT be tied together, but they are. The early voting lines have...

Sporadic, but still stitching

Well, I haven't stitched in a couple of weeks...life isn't being very nice. I left off here last time: And, I just started back this weekend, and made it here: Again, not a lot of progress, but I'm trying not to post unless I have something positive to talk about, and lately, positivity hasn't been part of my atmosphere. It's just how it is. I do have a "weird" story...so I keep getting these REALLY annoying emails from my high school graduating class leaders wanting my social media account information so that all my classmates can get in touch with me because "I'm missed" (their words, not mine). Where this is "weird" is because, when I was in high school, I was NOT popular, I did NOT have barely, if any friends, and it was part of the worst part of my life. I have never looked back. I don't go to reunions and I don't see the point in reconnecting with these people who didn't care about me then and, it's pre...