tiggerprr’s scratching post

Good lord, it took me from when I got home this evening until just now to get all the photos organized, uploaded and captioned! I hope you enjoy them. I found that due to early onset Alzheimer’s, I have forgotten what some of the pictures were…Sorry.

Click “The Waving Girl” to see all of our trip photos in full size!

If you ever get the chance to visit Savannah, you should go!

One guess… more to follow soon!

It was 30 years ago when the FCC ruled that you could in fact, NOT say George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Words. Now it seems that the US Supreme Court Court will again hear a case to determine what is and isn’t acceptable.

Looking over the magic list, some of them don’t have the shock value that the others do anymore. Mind you, I’m no prude, either. But, does that mean that we need to loosen what we consider to be “decent” or acceptable to air on prime time. I understand this case is more about those impromptu blurtings that celebrities and various award winning folk are wont to do. But… my concern is that as we as a society become desensitized to profanity whether it be profane speech or profane subject matter, if we continuously lower our standards to reflect it, we’ll wind up in a bad state. We could conceivably end up with “Skinamax” (or worse) movies in prime time. Think that’s unrealistic? Picture primetime when we were kids (for me, that was the mid-to-late 1970s). Flash forward to today… Family Guy, on Primetime…with more than a subtle reference to a sex act I don’t want to explain to my child…ever.

I wonder where the last line that separates decency from indecency is drawn.

It’s a new TV show on ABC…it’s really good. You should watch it.

I’m really enjoying American Idol this year. I really wish that Kristy Lee Cook girl would have gone home for her crime against “8 Days a Week”.

Life keeps going by so fast and I seriously doubt any of you would be interested in what I have to say. Oddly, that’s where I was before I started to blog back in 2006…so maybe you WOULD be interested.

Ashlyn got accepted to the college of her choice. She’ll be staying at home, at least for the first year, since it’s just down the street a few miles. I hope she sticks with it and finishes her degree. Now we just await the end of her Senior year. She goes to her senior trip next month, 4 days at Disneyworld in Orlando. Lucky her, I didn’t choose to be a chaperone. LOL

Insomnia is still a part of my daily life. I am going to have a sleep study done next Friday. Of course, that begs the question…how can they do a sleep study on me, if I don’t really sleep? Hmmmm…

In case you were wondering where Canadians go for vacation…it’s Myrtle Beach. I’ve been trying to think of sneaky ways to get them to say “aboot”…but so far, I’ve not been successful.

Our adventure has been well…eventful for the last few months.

First, Ashlyn turned 18 on October 2. She informed me she was going to “ride that ass!” then she giggled as I picked my heart & jaw up off the floor. She was of course, referring to the donkey at the Fiesta del Burro Loco. Ai yi yi.

Then on October 5, she wrecked our Cadillac…

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“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view.” Obi-Wan Kenobi

I’ve actually been planning to write this post for a long time. I just haven’t been able to find the time to mentally sit still long enough to write it. I think that’s why I haven’t really been posting a lot lately. I have a ton of things on my mind, and it’s hard to sort a whirlwind out.

The above quote (yes, it’s from a Star Wars movie, suck it up) really is meaningful and poignant. I am surrounded by people and find them and myself in positions where each person’s “truth” is totally different than the other’s. Perception is reality. So if you believe that someone has wronged you, even if they haven’t, they really might as well have. But perhaps they didn’t, and you’ve not bothered to step inside their shoes for a moment to try to see their “truth” about the situation.

Maybe the next time we’re angry at someone because we believe they did something bad or wrong, we should try to take a step back and think first. The world might be a better place if we all did that from time to time.