I make and sometimes break New Years resolutions...so

Okay, moving right along here. Went out and bought yet another bathing suit today. I have several in increasing sizes in a bottom drawer so this isn't a new idea. What is new I just put the suit, a towel, the never worn years old thongs, and soap into a duffle bag. That's never happened before. Chatting with the delightful clerk about my yearly bathing suit purchase and how I never actually get to the pool she said something about it being hard sometimes to make the effort in winter driving conditions. I could have kept my big mouth shut but no, I admitted I live 2 blocks from the pool. She has a wonderful laugh :)

Where did that come from?

'kay. About four hours ago I walked into the downtown post office and the public area was about half the size it was when I was last there. I did a Laurel and Hardy 'whoa' move, successfully getting the attention of another woman in line and said 'wow, where'd that wall come from.' She filled me in on the time line and told me how much warmer it is now and so on. THEN she looked me straight in the eye and said, 'You should go on a computer and go to google. You can ask any questions and in seconds you get answers. You 'd really like it.' I'm not leaving anything out here. I didn't say for instance, 'I wonder what the average life span of a rhino is.' No. It was that out of the blue. I said, 'wow, you just became the subject of todays blog entry. Thanks.' Life just gets more fascinating.

Changes

Making changes. I do love making changes. The fascinating thing is how small they can and still be, somehow, significant. I've been paying close attention lately to the things that rattle around in my head. Things, often small things, that I feel I should get done. Often they become familiar and easy to ignore. I've been knocking them off lately and most of them don't take long to accomplish. But oh, what a good feeling to have it done with. 

Well, that's rude!

There was a phone-in show on radio (was that this morning) and the subject was rudeness. Are we getting ruder? If so, why? As so often happens, I was just thinking about rudeness. More in the context of what constitutes rudeness and is that changing. AND is rudeness a popular trend.

My neighbour is always chiming in from her side of the fence on conversations I'm having with visitors on my side of the fence. I consider that terribly rude. She, apparently, doesn't. In her case, I don't think it's a matter of following a trend. I take it to be just a general, old-fashioned if you will, way of participating that would once have been considered a quirk.

Last time I had a dinner party one of the guests felt it was appropriate to sneer about the menu in general and after having second helpings of everything pointed out that I certainly hadn't made much of an effort. He stated that he makes this stuff all the time so he knows how easy it is to 'throw together.' Well, it took me a lot of time and effort so I can't help but be happy for him that he finds it effortless but sheesh...I think that was rude. But again, just a personality quirk.

When it came to the phone-in there were many and varied suggestion as to what the heck is happening on a broader scale. There seemed a consensis that there's something more than quirkiness going on out there. Television was hit hard. I can really understand why. I watch television. I watch a lot of television. Once in a while I like to watch at least a few minutes of some programs that I know are popular but I haven't really acquainted myself with. Or I'll turn the TV on and watch whatever happens to be there. Such was the case one day when I stumbled upon an entertainment report thing. It had that Mulrooney boy on it and a couple of young women, (one was named Tanya I believe). They were sitting on a couch and talking about the way some tremendously accomplished actresses had been dressed at an awards show. Now you want to talk about rude. They were Rude. I kept expecting someone to step into the frame and stop them.

Then there's a show where a group of people in Britain go to each member of the groups home for dinner. The commentator is extremely rude and often the participants are almost as bad. (Maybe my dinner guest got his cues from that one.)

The point is, it's out there, and I think it is on the rise. It's hopefully not going to appeal to everyone but just like vandalizing and theivery and meyham in general there are people who are going to think, when they run into rudeness, 'oh, sweet, that's the way to be.' Well, I don't know about y'all but I'm going to do what I can to buck this trend. Lord knows I'll screw up from time to time and let forth with a rude comment but rest assured, if you're on the receiving end, you can feel free to set me straight in no uncertain terms. Please.