One of my FB friends just asked us to talk about a time when we had a moment of pure happiness. So I wrote this:
In the music building at college when a friend who was studying to be a conductor chose ME to be in the little group he was going to practice conducting on. Me. He gave us music we had never seen before and let us rip.
(so happy that he thought I was good enough to sight read anything.)
Why I still have one of the last iPhones that open with a touch button in stead of facial recognition.
The reason I don't want it is because there seem to be quite a few people in the USA and probably elsewhere with my same face.
When I worked part time in college on the third floor of a department building, people would always take a second look at me and insist that they had just seen me on the first floor of the building. So I went to find that person and discovered she was ugly. YIKES. Do I look like that?
Over and over again complete strangers would come up to me and start talking to me, then pause, then excuse themselves because they thought I was someone else.
I spent a lot of time playing with paper dolls while stuck in bed recovering from diseases that are no longer affecting (vaccinated) children.
As soon as various vaccines were available, my parents made sure that we got them, because they knew people who were affected or died from the 'childhood ' diseases. (I remember playing with my cousins while I had measles because the theory was if you could get your child a mild case of measles , they'd be protected against most of the worst outcomes. That vaccination because available for me to make sure my children got vaccinated.
Polio -- we were forbidden to gather in groups. Forbidden to go to the public swimming pool, all because those were areas where you could catch polio which is a horrible disease. death or life in a metal 'lung' machine and/ or deformity because it damaged bone growth, muscle growth, an lungs. As soon as that vaccine was available, my parents made sure we all got the vaccine.
We also still have the scar on our arm or leg where we were vaccinated against the deadly smallpox. Was horrified when the dr. wouldn't vaccinate my children for smallpox. That's when the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated in 1980.
(small portions of it are kept in various country's secret vaults, in case they want to use it as a weapon against another country.)
Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter:
(picture unavailable because GOOGLE wanted to access my Cookies and I thought that was weird because I'm not on Google, I'm on Blogger.) But you can check out my groundhog pictures if you scroll back to previous Februaries. Plus the new groundhog picture on my Facebook pate.
