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QotD: 2010 - The Pressing Issues

Oh-Ten? Two-thousand and ten? Ten? What will you say when you have to say 2010 aloud?

I have been saying "twenty-ten" in my head as I read it.  I don't see myself being able to refer to this year as "Ten".  Doesn't sound right.  Could it come up in conversation that way in the future?  'Whoa when did that happen?'  'Oh, it was back in ten.'  Doesn't have the same ring to it as 'back in sixty-four' 

A full blue moon tonight!

A full blue moon tonight! Last one on New Year's Eve was 1990 and the next will be 2028.
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Look! I baked a cake and decorated it!
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Just landed in Oakland. Wish

Just landed in Oakland. Wish i could stay. Man, i miss California! But today i am headed onward and north-ward to Seattle

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At the drive in watching "This Is It"
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Mirror

Sometimes, when I watch my son, it's like looking into a mirror of my past.  He is very withdrawn at times, very solitary.  It make me sad to see it in him.  I don't want him to feel the way I did as a kid.  I thought we were doing things right, or at least differently than my parents.  When I was his age I was already on my third or fourth elementary school.  It's hard for a kid that young to have to make new friends every year.  But we still live in the same house, in the same neighborhood with the same kids as we did when he started kindergarten.  He is at a new school this year, but with a lot of the same kids he knows already.  So why does he seem so alone?  Why am I alone?

Maybe it wasn't all the moving, after all.  I had kind of blamed my attitude on switching schools so often and leaving friends behind.  But that wouldn't explain the way I feel now.  I'm an adult and don't have that problem anymore.  So, what's my problem?  What have I passed on to my son?  Is he just picking up on my behavior, or is it in us?  He is too sweet a boy to keep it all in.  I have to find a way to help him, before he ends up old and bitter like his mom.

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When?

When is the best time of your life?

I keep telling my kids that it is now: when they are in school.  No bills, no politics, no worries. 

But is that true?

When is the best time to be alive?

Because, it seems that, no time in my life so far has been the best time.

When should I be expecting it? 

Did it already pass, and I missed it?

Why on Earth, should I be so unhappy when an outsider would say "What should she be sad about?  Looks to me like she has everything she needs."

What is wrong with me? 

Mmmmmm

Dim sum and tapas all in one day. Mmmmmmmm
-Michelle-