The first day of spring
The gift from London.My Blog friend sent me so many nice things. My other blog friend who has a dog just looks like Duke will visit us from Japan today.I will leave home soon to JFK for picking her and her son up. If I don't call /email back to you, because I have A. A. A. D. D . Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D .Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder This is how it manifests: I decide to water my lawn. As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first. I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only one cheque left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye - they need to be watered. I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the living room where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do. At the end of the day: the lawn isn't watered, the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,the flowers don't have enough water, there is still only one cheque in my cheque book, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, I don't remember what I did with the car keys, and my neighbor called to tell me he turned off the hose that was flooding the driveway. Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail. Do me a favour, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent. Laugh hard 'cuz if this isn't you yet, your day is coming! GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC. Notice the big print!!! (This is an email from my dear friend Deirdre.She always sends me funny mails.) So where is Spring, eh? ロンドンのみいしゃさんから小包が届きました。みいしゃさんは日本のコッカプーブログの元締め、親分です。私がDukeを飼う時 検索で一番上に出てきたコッカプーブログを持っていていつもお世話になっています。可愛いとら吉君に似たコッカプーを捜してDuchに巡り合えました。箱の中には英国の匂いが一杯!!有難うございます。ティータイムが楽しみ。そして、今日は Dukeのそっくりちゃん、クロちゃんの飼い主りんままさんと「お兄ちゃん」が此方に遊びに来ます。もう直ぐケネディー空港までお迎えに行ってきます。久しぶりの海外旅行で りんままさん緊張しているようです。成田からの直行便、迷子にはなりませんよね~~。今日は春分の日(アメリカでは祝日ではありません。)でもまだ寒いです~~。残り雪がカチカチ山になっています。(例年より寒いらしいです。)それでも 少しは暖かくなってくるのかな?上に友人からのジョークメールを掲載しました。10数年来の友人で いつも 面白いメールを送ってくれています。今回は「熟年注意力欠如障害」についてです。次から次と無関係な事に目に付いて肝心な事をするのを忘れて 一日を忙しく過ごす様子が書かれています。時間がある時、読んでみてください。繰り返しが多い文体で 難しい単語を使っていないので読みやすいと思います。 彼女は親がイギリスからカナダに移民しているので 英国とカナダの二重国籍の保持者です。 アメリカに20年ほど住んでいますが 英国式のスペルが混じっている事が多いです。この文章でも小切手を chequeと綴っていますが アメリカではcheckが普通に使われています。