So today I got to class at 9:30 am only to figure out that I had my schedule all messed up and one of the classes that was cancelled for the week was my Monday morning class. So I decided to post a blog since I have a little bit of free time.
A few years back my grandmother gave me a very important book. It is a book that she made for me and it basically explains the history of my lineage with real photographs and stories. My grandmother has beautiful handwriting and she chose to write each page herself instead of printing text from the computer. I love this book. This book is one of the most important things that I own and everyday I grow a little more thankful that I am able to have something so special that can be passed on and on and on. I was looking through the book yesterday and I started thinking about history. I find it fascinating that objects can become more important based on the history attached to them. Meaning is enhanced by history and history is so important. Some common objects can be more than just material things. They can communicate ideas, symbolize values, and convey emotions Different things mean different things to different people, and those meanings change over time. This book allows me to understand where I came from. It allows me to understand the places my father lived and what his life was like. These are the things that are outside of our relationship but that I want to know. This information is priceless and thankfully I am much like my grandmother about recording my life. Hopefully someday I can add my own books to the collection to be passed on for many generations.
This past week I have enjoyed being able to leave the windows open in the bedroom while sketching some ideas for projects. Fall is such an awesome time of year and I can't wait until I have time to make pumpkin soup and wear scarves and drink coffee on the porch. This week Bryan and I grilled out for lunch. We didn't have hamburger buns so we made patty melts. They were delicious. Of course we also ate tomatoes and basil with mozzarella. This seems to remain one of our favorite easy and light dishes.
This week I finally mailed some belated birthday gifts. I found a shop on etsy that will customize necklaces. I had a necklace made for my mother with everyones name in our family. It is a circular charm that says, Linda, Woody, Jason, Staci. I also made one for my sister in law that has 3 charms with the names of her 3 children.
Right now I am stressed about money and I want to take a nap.
But before I do. I'll leave you with this. copied and pasted from wonkette.com
Well here is your updated Dow Jones thing, about which every “person on the Internet” today has been freaking. It went down like 350 points after a far greater initial plunge. This has baffled many, many people today, that this stock index fell triple-digits on a day when every remaining bank on Earth basically failed.
The growing trend among every blogger of every background is to preface a post with, “Now I’m not exactly an economics expert” or “This is a bit above my pay grade,” and then launch into a multi-paragraph armchair rant about credit-default swaps, mark-to-market accounting rules, the role of the derivatives, things like that (pretty much copy-pasted from a Wall Street Journal guest op-ed), and then to finally conclude “THE DOW IS IN FREE FALL AGHHHHH WAAHHHHH.”
This is not helpful.
1) A lot of banks made bad housing loans. A lot of financial people bought up these bad loans. A lot of people insured these bad loans. Add several more layers on a global scale.
2) Housing prices fell.
3) Much wealth was lost.
This actually happened, and it has a lot to do with why we’re digging into a deep global recession! On Wall Street, this means asset values… drop! They drop and drop and drop, because no one has much money or credit, and then everyone sells because they’re going to keep dropping dropping dropping. And then when the Dow has dropped 800 points, Wall Street says to itself, “Whoa, 800’s a lot, so now we buy shit?” So it only ends down 350 points — manageable! — and people pretend for another day that maybe our economy won’t contract during a recession, definitions and comeuppance be damned.
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