My Birthday is Today
Sep. 9th, 2011 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerCaroline made me a very nice card with the same misspelling I made when I was her age. I will treasure it always. Her drawing skill is improving by leaps and bounds.
Today Peter and I have a few things planned around Caroline going to school. My other birthday present is that Sunday we are going to a Mets game with our friends the Greenbergers.
Today I install the TV that my parents got me to replace the set in the living room which is dying a very slow death. Any time certain colors appear on the set we get some hellacious feedback, which is especially troublesome when we fire up the Xbox.
I did find the letter I wrote myself last year in the filing cabinet and replaced it with this year’s letter. I got a lot of positive feedback from people on it last year so I am again posting this year’s letter with some stuff that I don’t feel is appropriate for public consumption.
Dear Kathleen,
Another year has come and gone. Hard to believe that time seems to be moving that fast in your life. I can remember a time when it seemed to take forever to get to a Birthday or Christmas but now they seem to fly by.
There has been the usual up and downs. Some of the ups have been sky high and some of the downs have been almost to the center of the earth. But I’m still standing so that’s a start.
Caroline is growing by leaps and bounds both physically and mentally. She is in the 3rd grade now. She is taking her school work very seriously. She had a lot of fun this summer including a trip with her father to see a recording of an episode of Young Justice. She wants to learn so many things. We are working on focus but I am proud at how she is turning out.
Peter and our friends launched Crazy 8 Press this year in hopes of using social networking to promote each other’s work. He was first with the Camelot Papers which is being sold as an e-book and a trade paperback through all the major online book retailers. I hope this works for us. It’s rather nail-biting.
You did much better about exercising until the hurricane but I know you’ll get back into the swing of things starting next Monday.
5 Goals for this year
1. Don’t squander opportunities that you have to further your various careers. You kinda slipped up on that one this year big time. Let’s not have it happen again.
2. Planned better to get everything done and assume that something is going to come up and put a bit ol’ spanner in your plans which happened quite a bit this past year. You need to start stage managing yourself.
3.Get the dolls and puppets that didn’t sell up on Etsy or another site to sell. We’re running out of room here in the house to store your art work.
4. Take some personal time to unwind between big projects.
5. Teach Caroline how to sew on a sewing machine. Her legs are long enough to get the control pedal now.
We know what we need to do next to move things forward on various fronts, now we have to go out and do it.
Hugs Caroline for me. I wonder how tall she is now.
Love,
Kath
Today Peter and I have a few things planned around Caroline going to school. My other birthday present is that Sunday we are going to a Mets game with our friends the Greenbergers.
Today I install the TV that my parents got me to replace the set in the living room which is dying a very slow death. Any time certain colors appear on the set we get some hellacious feedback, which is especially troublesome when we fire up the Xbox.
I did find the letter I wrote myself last year in the filing cabinet and replaced it with this year’s letter. I got a lot of positive feedback from people on it last year so I am again posting this year’s letter with some stuff that I don’t feel is appropriate for public consumption.
Dear Kathleen,
Another year has come and gone. Hard to believe that time seems to be moving that fast in your life. I can remember a time when it seemed to take forever to get to a Birthday or Christmas but now they seem to fly by.
There has been the usual up and downs. Some of the ups have been sky high and some of the downs have been almost to the center of the earth. But I’m still standing so that’s a start.
Caroline is growing by leaps and bounds both physically and mentally. She is in the 3rd grade now. She is taking her school work very seriously. She had a lot of fun this summer including a trip with her father to see a recording of an episode of Young Justice. She wants to learn so many things. We are working on focus but I am proud at how she is turning out.
Peter and our friends launched Crazy 8 Press this year in hopes of using social networking to promote each other’s work. He was first with the Camelot Papers which is being sold as an e-book and a trade paperback through all the major online book retailers. I hope this works for us. It’s rather nail-biting.
You did much better about exercising until the hurricane but I know you’ll get back into the swing of things starting next Monday.
5 Goals for this year
1. Don’t squander opportunities that you have to further your various careers. You kinda slipped up on that one this year big time. Let’s not have it happen again.
2. Planned better to get everything done and assume that something is going to come up and put a bit ol’ spanner in your plans which happened quite a bit this past year. You need to start stage managing yourself.
3.Get the dolls and puppets that didn’t sell up on Etsy or another site to sell. We’re running out of room here in the house to store your art work.
4. Take some personal time to unwind between big projects.
5. Teach Caroline how to sew on a sewing machine. Her legs are long enough to get the control pedal now.
We know what we need to do next to move things forward on various fronts, now we have to go out and do it.
Hugs Caroline for me. I wonder how tall she is now.
Love,
Kath
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Date: 2011-09-09 01:27 pm (UTC)Maybe some year we'll make it back over to your side of the pond.
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Date: 2011-09-09 01:38 pm (UTC)I think that "letter to yourself of next year" is a wonderful idea!
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Date: 2011-09-09 07:02 pm (UTC)And yes, time seems to move so much faster now that I am younger.
I hope you get to celebrate today:)
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