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Texting While Driving – Almost

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A year or so ago I made a pledge not to text and drive. It wasn’t a problem because at that time my texting was limited to my children. Now most of my friends use the text method to get in touch. I, who had protested learning to text, love to hear from my friends.  We keep in touch more often. It might be a line or two or a word throughout the day but it is enough to keep us in the loop.

I get why some people have a problem remembering to not text and drive. That thought was brought home to me yesterday.

I was driving home from another community when I heard the ding go off on my cell phone alerting me that I had a text message. I glanced over to the phone and saw my husband’s name on the id. I started to pick up the phone to read it while I was driving down the freeway. It was a non- thought about gesture. Your phone dings, you pick it up to see who has something to say.

Immediately my pledge and my rantings at my children came to mind. I almost broke my pledge without thinking. It was so easy. I found a place where it was legal to pull over my vehicle. I then picked up my phone to read the message and text back. I could have waited until I reached my destination but I knew for my husband to send me a text it was an important item. He never texts me.

I pulled away and back onto the road. Many thoughts zoomed through my mind. It had been so easy to pick up that phone and ignore the road. It was a reflex action. It was easy to convince myself that I would not be in any danger or put anyone else in any danger by my actions. It wouldn’t distract me enough.

Had I not taken Oprah’s Pledge and remembered it I might have ignored safety for convenience.

Would the outcome of my answering my text message been the same?

Another Clumsy Cook In The House!

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Water is often used to cook foods such as noodles.

Water is often used to cook foods such as noodles. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am so happy I am giggling with glee. I am not the only clumsy cook in my house. Bible Study is tonight at my home. Usually we start with a potluck meal. I did some scrubbing and polishing to make our guests think I cleaned the house. The floor was shining, after all I wasn’t cooking. My husband is the chef for tonight and usually he is the clean cook in the house. He harasses me all the time about my messy droppings while I am cooking and the burnt vegetables.

I am at my desk working and I hear a loud bang. All of a sudden I hear a help hollered out. I run into the kitchen and there is a large glass of water spattered on the floor. When I say spattered I don’t mean in a small puddle I mean spattered into the dining room, almost to the bathroom and all over the kitchen. I guess I could have waited to mop the floor until after the meal was made.

I grabbed a towel and started wiping. As I started wiping I noticed the dried noodles all over the floor. We are having a spaghetti hot dish. I commented on the debris on the floor. Husband claims I didn’t get it when I swept. When was the last time we used spaghetti? I gently wiped up the dried spaghetti crumbs. I finished wiping the water in the dining room and noticed some onion peels. I started laughing. I am not the only messy cook in the household.

For some reason that fact brought joy to my heart. It must mean that we both get so excited about cooking that we like to spread our joy around in the form of food. Ha.

I Am Whining Again.

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English: The former two-dimensional version of the logo for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Designed by Paul Rand, this logo was used from 1962 until replaced by a three-dimensional equivalent in 2007. The 2-D logo now functions as a secondary logo, currently used only in print advertisements. This vector image is based on :Image:American Broadcasting Company Logo.png. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I just checked the tv schedule for tonight. It is rainy, dreary and a good night to settle down in front of the television with a good book. Yes, I do multitask  when I sit in front of the television.

I flicked through my favorite channels which happen to be the networks ABC, CBS and NBC. It absolutely is a guy’s night. I know there are women that are absolute fanatics about sports but I am not one of them!

Here are my choices tonight on those channels. They are football, racing and wrestling. They are catering to the men tonight. I think they should have gotten together and put one wow show on one channel  for us women that are not sports enthusiasts.

You might argue that there are many channels to watch on my cable network. All of the channels except for a few seem to think no one watches television at this time of year. They are all repeats or reruns. Can’t we be a little creative during August on a Saturday night? There are those of us that are tv junkies, especially on a rainy evening.

I know whine, whine, whine. I said I wasn’t going to do that any more. Well, I lied. At least I have my Kindle and tons of books to read. At least Bookbub and  Inspired Reads realize that new books are important and let me download some free ones every day. They need to nudge the networks and let them know what we women like.

Wouldn’t it be cool if our cable channel and the networks put out enough programs that they could send us a menu like BookBub and Inspired Reads? It would give us a choice of watching something new if we didn’t like what was programmed to be on their channel that night. We would push a button and CBS, instead of NFL Football,  would give us choice of three new episodes of three different programs. I told you I was a dreamer.

After all my searching I found a program to watch tonight that I might like. It is called “Cat From Hell.” A guy who is somewhat a cat whisperer helps people fix problems with their cats. It is on the Animal Channel. At least the Animal Channel entices us with one new program hoping we will watch the same channel the rest of the night. I’ll have to check to see if “Bad Dog” follows the “Cat From Hell” I love those naughty puppies as long as they are not mine.

Enough whining. I wish the sports fans well tonight. I hope they enjoy their games and their races and their wrestling. Those remotes are going to be busy flicking from one program to the other. That might be more than any remote can survive.