boxes boxes everywhere

So, I went through 4 boxes of my parents' stuff tonight. Two boxes of fabric scraps - truly little tiny scraps and worn out pieces of fabric and old nylons and ohmygoodness what were they thinking?!?!? And a box of wrapping paper used and saved since we were small children, which also contained 3 open boxes of heavy duty aluminum foil - were they planning on aliens trying to invade? And a huge box containing other boxes including wands to long gone vacuum cleaners, warranties of anything they ever owned in their lives, checks from every checking account they ever had, the record player we had as small children...

But I still have half a garage full of boxes. I still can't get a car into the garage.

They are predicting snow by the end of the weekend and perhaps a significant snowfall before the election...
I have a paper due Monday which I am stuck in the process of writing. My kids need my attention and I promised them something fun this weekend. My mother is not doing well and was in tears earlier today because she feels the staff people aren't being nice to her. And the cars have to go in the garage before the snow flies.

But here I am blogging. My excuse is that I did a lot of work while everyone else was watching a movie tonight...

Heroes

I think I like Heroes because it is so totally unrelated to reality. Reality is too painful -- One wants to escape.
Anyway "Heroes" is intriguing and confusing and has so much potential. Although I have been disappointed before. Like "Lost" seemed to have that same potential and then it just got so convoluted and rather boring. So I know Heroes runs this risk. After all we had "Twin Peaks" which just imploded - at least in my mind. Good television is so hard to do!
I mean I watch lots of mediocre TV because it's vaguely entertaining and requires so little that I can work on other things while watching it. And most TV is really mediocre or sometimes just really bad. (the really bad stuff is the bulk of TV- duh).

But I hold out hope for "Heroes" - let's hope they don't let us down...

don't take it personally

mantra for the day:
DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY!

I am having one of those days where every thing goes wrong, and I have to keep repeating to myself, don't take it personally.