A Day In My Life

I know at least one person who will simply not re-read a book. Once read, out it goes. I, on the other hand, have re-read many books multiple times. I originally read Gone With The Wind the summer I was fourteen, and I still enjoy the book. But I also enjoy buying new and used books. My husband and I have been known to spend a fair amount of money for half priced books, and we have to be careful not to go over budget. I haven’t bought any new books in a while now, but last summer I found a huge collection of paperbacks on Ebay that I did get. I’m still working my way through those.

I recently updated Firefox 3 when I was prompted to do so as I opened the browser. I forgot to backup my profile before I updated, so I’ve spent some time getting things in order. Normally, I use MozBackup, and I keep a copy of my bookmarks in a folder on my hard drive.

Since I learned to read, I have been fascinated with words. I quickly realized that, via words on a page, I could go anywhere and do anything I (or the books’ authors) could imagine, physical limitations notwithstanding. The world opened up further when I discovered I could write my own words.  Since then, I’ve never known a time I was not writing something, somewhere. Letters. Poems. Essays. Stories. Assignments for school/college. Personal musings. Lists. (I’m infamous with at least one of my friends for my To Do lists.)  Give me a pen and paper or a keyboard; I’m good to go.  Some people create art with paints, oils, or charcoal; I use words as my medium of choice, and I have long acknowledged the power of words.

Hurricane Ike is a few hours from making landfall along the Texas coast. We are under a severe weather alert for high winds through tomorrow.  Jay is out mowing the lawns today, and will move the car into the garage. Past that, we’ve done everything we can think of to prepare…just in case.  Parts of Galveston are already flooded, and people are being urged to evacuate…yet again.  It seems to me that since Katrina, people do take these storms a lot more seriously. This is the third or fourth hurricane to come ashore in or near Texas this season.

After a few weeks of being so frustrated I couldn’t even look at this blog, I decided to log in today when I was setting up a new online start page for Firefox.  I logged in, and…it just works. I even upgraded to the newest version of WordPress, and the sparkle is back in my day. I don’t like to be without my blog! And it’s so much better on my own domain.