Is it the anticipation of seeing one's heart? The thrill of dreams coming to fruition...the essence of one's life...fulfilling all expectations...the rush of sweetness, the culmination of fantasies come to life?
ISLAND...and visit my family. I really miss my grandmother. She is 87. I wish she was able to fly up here but due to poor health she cannot.
When I used to visit on a more regular basis as a child I remember laughter and singing. My family was always busy. We always had things to do, people to visit. Cousins to play with. If I got bored with one I moved to another. 
I agree with Bill Talen. Will love to see this movie. The older I get the more I want to put my life and life in general into a semblance of normalcy.
Yes, you read this correctly. Decided to put it up. Some people will do it right after Thanksgiving. I usually waited until December 1st but this year said the hell with it....going up on the 25th...
I remember when mom would decorate the whole house with her decorations gathered through all the years of marriage. I miss that. She does not decorate any more. It tires her out. This year my sister has the honors of gathering everyone together at her house in Chicago and my parents will be riding with me...dad shotgun. With his health I do not think it wise for him to drive all that way from Indiana. My brother is flying in from Florida with his girlfriend and my car will be packed along with my parents 'Scottish Terrier, Lexy. Should prove to be a "fun" 5 hour drive.........
I am meeting with the fitness manager this coming Sunday to review the weights and the other anemities of the facility. I am glad they have showers (in case I work out and want to do something afterwards)....it is in a great location.
According to Ask.com:
As mentioned in a previous posting, being single in the 21st Century is none too easy...(like it ever was)...but it appears to me that men and women (at least here in the good ol' USA) have these high unrealistic expectations of the opposite gender. Whatever happened to compromise, or just simply enjoying being together with no hidden agendas. Is Hollywood to blame? The high divorce rate? The Economy? Why not blame it on Bush...hey he is the scapegoat for many things (rightly so in some cases)...might as well tack on another.
My mom bought me a crock pot for my 39th and I am planning to use it. My daughter is almost in tears now (though she is 19 and can cook if she wants also) because I rarely cook. I asked for kitchenware for Xmas. I will endeavour to become more motivated when it comes to cooking.
This one is close also. They have discounts on what I want to do so will encorporate it in my regime. Mid life crisis people........time to get into shape. :-p
How much do you know about the turkey? Take Aristotle's Turkey Trivia Quiz and find out! 
Part of my job with the National Archives is working with Archival records which date back 1945 and prior. (See my previous post regarding how NARA determines what records are determined archival).
Okay....it isn't until tomorrow but figured I would go ahead and say it today since the next few days I will not be posting. Uncle Sam always has the good graces to give federal workers a paid day off. :-)
Norman Mailer, who died Saturday morning, said it himself: In his younger days, "fiction was everything. The novel, the big novel, the driving force. We all wanted to be Hemingway ... I don't think the same thing can be said anymore." His generation is almost gone now. Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, James Jones, Joseph Heller, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut -- the young turks who came out of World War II to challenge Hemingway and Faulkner and Steinbeck -- are all dead. Of that generation of American literary titans, those figures whose new works used to inspire intense scrutiny, only John Updike, Philip Roth and J.D. Salinger -- with Updike and Roth a half-generation younger, and the long-silent Salinger preferring the smaller stage of the short story -- remain. It's no slight against E.L. Doctorow, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, John Irving, Toni Morrison and the other great elder statesmen and -women of today to feel that the literary world is diminished nowadays -- there are so many books, yet so little attention. And with the possible exception of Roth, with his trilogy of "American Pastoral," "I Married a Communist" and "The Human Stain," nobody's attempting the so-called Great American Novel. Few writers try anything so expansive anymore. (Among recent works, perhaps Michael Chabon's "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay" or Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" come closest.) Indeed, there is a bittersweet symbolism in the timing of Mailer's death. He was a member of the print generation, when the pages of newspapers and magazines were the arena for big ideas and raging arguments, and he died on a Saturday morning, assuring himself the front page of the that great novel-sized bargain, the Sunday New York Times. (He would have loved that.)'"I decided the only explanation is that God and the Devil are very attentive to people at the summit. I don't know if they stir much in the average man's daily stew, no great sport for spooks, I would suppose, in a ranch house, but do you expect God or the Devil left Lenin and Hitler and Churchill alone? No. They bidQuotes:
for favors and exact revenge. That's why men with power sometimes act so silly."' (from An American Dream, 1965)
Sometimes people think (I guess because of the way I look and what I accomplished in the past??????????????????????????????????) that I like to be at the center of attention (sometimes I do). To be honest most often I do not. I love working behind the scenes. I work on a team with the feds. I enjoy my autonomy and a sense of invisibility. Yeah, there are times I want that electrifying sensation of all eyes on me but not 24/7. Maybe if I had half of this narcissistic type of personality I would be more successful. I have often wondered at that. Me the dreamer...for I know that I am...if I had dreamt less and did more....my my my....what mountains I would have climbed and conquered.
It should be defined as an individual, his/her personification...the make up of elements which creates the nature of being. The deeply defined...the purity of one's life. The extraordinarily beautiful found in the heart...living life with a freedom which brings about a smile, laugh...enjoying the ultimate of our days and the passion of our nights...
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Of course we have to look at the other side and discover why they think that our planet is not suffering from this climatic change:
Climate change computer models that predict warming often rely on assumptions and simplifications that raise questions about their reliability. Example: one model effectively moved the Earth's orbit 2 million miles closer to the sun. There are shortcomings in the data. Example: temperature records over the last century may incorrectly suggest warming because many weather stations are close to growing cities.
In summary, I feel that as a society and as an individual, we should take responsibility over our own pollutants. We should strive for a better planet, reduce emissions and population overgrowth for many many reasons besides the global warming theory. I believe there is solid evidence out there regarding the warming of our planet. I believe that with the melting of the polar icecaps we human beings are partly responsible for the disappearance of this treasure. Everyone is, of course entitled to their opinion and I just like voicing mine.
(Still under constructive thought)
Websites:
http://www.planetsave.com/
http://www.sustainabletravelinternational.org/documents/op_carbonoffsets_about.html#q2
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA233.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/global-change.html
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/BG896.cfm
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/qthinice.asp
Well, after some careful thought and finding a place relatively close to my home I discovered this gym which offers the martial arts' classes I am searching for. I pray I don't get my a$$ kicked :
Canadian Muslimah Sumayyah Hussein explains: It's not the first time this has happened and it is certainly an issue that needs to be addressed.
(4092) 'Aisha said: Asthma', daughter of Abu Bakr, entered upon the
Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) wearing thin clothes. The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) turned his attention from her. He said: O Asthma', when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it does not suit her that she displays her parts of the body except this and this, and he pointed to her face and hands. (Note 3523).
My team is comprised mostly of retired veterans (Air Force, Navy and Army). We discussed how soldiers when deployed overseas the ratio of men to women in certain stations is very one-sided. Especially Korea. My teammate relayed a story of how this woman was deployed to Korea for a year (normal unaccompanied tour). Anyway, she met this man over there and fell in love. She went home on leave after being there for 8 months and demanded a divorce. LEFT her children and husband for this man.
Websites:
http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/assets/pdf/aaw_poetry_essay.pdf
http://topuertorico.org/culture/litera.shtml
http://www.witchvox.com/vn/po/uspr_po.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoets.html?id=179552
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_literature
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/churchmews/1216/Aguinaldo.htm
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