Things Have Changed As I have Gotten Older

[F, Calla & Luca]

I've noticed many changes in the way I do things as I get older, or maybe it's just since I've had dogs. Things expand to fit the free time you have. So just the ADL, Activities of Daily Living as they are known in the care trade, soon take most of the day. Any appointment before noon is a major hassle and 1pm is preferable. Especially if you are a night owl like me.

and there's WWF

 

Whoops, wrong WWF

 

So I've made a new rule that you can only plan one major, and major is very relative, thing a day and sometimes that is too much. If I go to my office for a few hours that's it. If I'm cooking for company, a rarity nowadays , I shop the day before. Mostly if I need to return invitations I take people out. So much more relaxing and the food is better : )

 

I no longer wear a watch but maybe that's partly because I always have a clock or cell phone nearby. I no longer balance checkbooks, which I did fanatically in years gone by, because who wants to waste however much time I have left on that. I once found a mistake the bank made for one penny, all the other mistakes were mine.

 

 

Some of the things I have begun to do and stopped doing will not be discussed in polite company. But one major change I've made is that I no longer stop myself much from expressing my opinion. So I find myself writing emails to CEOs, sometimes ranting and sometimes merely requesting things politely. Today I felt like writing to Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple so I did:

"Smiley for IPAD

Dear Mr. Cook,

I recently got an IPad mini and I love it. One thing that would make my life and the lives of all social media users, easier would be a smiley face that was accessible with one step like the apostrophe is when you slide on the ,! key. Surely this would be  easy for your programming gurus. The way I've been doing it takes a lot of effort.

Someday Flash would be lovely too.


Thanks for your consideration,"

F....... ............

One of my mottos in life is, "How can I make life easier for myself given who I am? " What have you done along these lines?

And now that I see how much easier life is with Google Chrome I may have to use it. I am writing this on Chrome since it is almost impossible for me to upload images to DK otherwise using Firefox since they disabled Java.  But first I'll have to write to Java to see when the security issues are really going to be fixed. And then I'll have to find out how to put the tabs under the taskbar. Ah, life is complicated : )

 

 

[F, Calla & Luca]

Any what? I do think we need to have an intervention for Laurie. Just not sure what kind.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

She was going to say any more, I bet. LOL about the intervention :)

[Camilla and Darwin]

Correct. Shock has caused me to make a typo

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Camilla, I can read your mind. Does that scare you? LOL

[Camilla and Darwin]

Yes, I am afraid you will do a revealing blog post about me... he he

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I don't know, Camilla. Everybody loves you on here and you have that whole "I am so young" thing working in your favor and it could really work against me :) Maybe I need to do a story about a young, cake making, picture taking, woman named Vamilla and her dog named Barwin and see if anyone catches on! LOL

[Sheila & Finnley]

F, just shake your head and give up Laurie for a lost cause. I think she is beyond helping. Maybe we should just pray, or take up some kind of collection for Vern, Fudge and John.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I will send you the address where to send the "collection." LOL

[F, Calla & Luca]

Geez, this train of thought had me thinking of other kinds of collection when I read the email.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I do see your point. But despite all I am found of her and hope she can be saved.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Thank you, F!! I am fond of you, too :)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Oh no!  This is just too funny.  Wrong in so many ways.....  I guess this means you spend time on the computer looking for pictures of......