After walking and Weight Watchers yesterday, had a low-key, but pleasant day. Went to Tucker Tom's for tomatoes, eggs, broccoli, and so on, then did wash and puttered around. Got a message from Mike saying he had arranged with his brother and new SIL to meet for dinner on Wednesday. I was so pleased that he said Paula will also be in Tokyo next week, so they'll have a foursome. This is great news--Mike said he still remembers some Japanese (he and Paula had lived there for several years), but I think Paula's may be better. Can't wait to hear about Natsue and see pictures.
Talked to Amy, my co-chair for the Tricky Tray, and I'll pick her up at 11:15 today. We'll go to Macy's to buy door prizes, then have lunch. Made a flyer for the Tricky Tray which I'll insert in The Communique, the newsletter put out by one of our residents.
Must pick up Susan now. Will add more after, including my "take" on the speech of the criminal-in-chief.
Okay, I'm back: I didn't watch El Creepo, our prez, last night, but read his "speech" in its entirety. Hey, I could have written it! It was enlarded with so many cliches, asinine slogans, and tired, trite, untrue "ideas," it was transparent to a third-grader. Ooh, he's withdrawing some troops from Iraq! Gee, that's great, it must mean things are doing well. We must be in sight of victory! Uh...wait a minute. I forgot, "victory" is no longer the buzz word. Now it's "progress," which is "evolving." To what? From what? When will the "progress" "evolve" into--um, whatever?
And wait a minute; he's withdrawing some troops--but didn't he just send over more troops in January? And weren't some of them, by law, scheduled to be withdrawn after a certain amount of combat time?
Anybody on the planet who still believes a single word uttered by this billionaire, practically illiterate, smug, self-satisfied mass murderer needs to be shipped off to the funny farm. The whole thing was based on lies, for heaven's sake! First we were "defending ourselves" from a madman who had weapons of mass destruction. NOT! Then we were going to bring democracy to Iraq (whether the ungrateful bastards wanted to be democratized or not). DOUBLE NOT! Now we're going to be there for awhile--oh, say, 600 years--to "help" them deal with the Civil War we unleashed. DOUBLEPLUS NOT!
The true objective? To stay in the Middle East long enough to kill every last one of their children before they get old enough to pick up a gun. Then, you see, we get the oil.