I'll get around to it

I am always telling myself that I will get "around to it".  Whatever it is I am thinking about at a given moment in time.

 My mother in law had a circle cut out of red construction paper that simply said "round tuit".  I don't know where it went, but I can see it clearly on the kitchen cupboard- the side facing the kitchen table and the family room.

I decided to Google the term "round tuit" not expecting to find anything.  Boy was I wrong!   There are hundreds of images of circles with just those words.  I even found a red one.  Not exactly the same as the one I referred to, but close enough:

 

 

Pretty neat isn't it.

What got me thinking about this is the fact that I am almost always procrastinating.   I have so many things/ projects I want to work on.  To finish or at least to start.  And yet, here I am writing in my blog!

I actually bought a pattern and fabric to make a dress for my daughter.  I had it all cut out and ready to sew.   I took it to Maine with me last year knowing that my son has a sewing machine I can use.   I didn't even touch it.

I am annoyed at myself.  I am frustrated.  And I am baffled.  Why do I do this?  I know that we all do things like this.  But why?

I have also got a whole set up for scrap-booking.   I want to make a scrapbook for each of the kids.  And I suppose I should start one for my grandchild, Galileo.  

Maybe I am too hard on myself.  Maybe not.   I don't know.   When I complete a project, whatever it is, I feel so pleased with myself.  I need to remember that when  think of all that I have not done.  Yet.

These are some of the albums/ scrapbooks that I have completed.  Actually I have done a lot.   I just think I should do more.

In life I guess you are never finished until you just are.  And then, what does it matter?  But somehow it does.

Making things- sewing, scrapbooking, sorting through closets and storage rooms and boxes in the garage.  They are all things that will get done one way or another.   I just don't want my children to inherit the burden of sorting and tossing and wondering what in the world it is that their parents- Nick & I ever had these things for.

Well, I guess one day I will get "round tuit"  Or not!
 

 

Dale Alan Thompsen April 9, 1950- June 15, 2001

 

June 15, 2025

We went to a "No King" demonstration at the courthouse in Leesburg, Virginia.

The reasons are many, but the gist of it is that Trump is acting like he thinks he is king.  He and his people are lying about things that we know are not true.  For example, a Senator, Senator Padilla of California was taken to the ground and handcuffed after trying to ask a question at a press conference.   This is so UN-American.   Immigrants are chased down and taken away,  It's just become a scary place and so against what American is all about.

Anyway, this was a demonstration that was held all over the US.   

This evening there is going to be a huge and expensive military parade in Washington, DC.    This is the 250th anniversary of the US Army.  The Army was planning a celebration on the Mall in DC .

Trump latched onto the idea, and since it is also his 79th birthday he escalated it to ridiculous dimensions.  From NBC:  

The cost to repair Washington, D.C., streets after the upcoming military parade celebrating the Army’s 250th anniversary could cost as much as $16 million, according to U.S. military officials.

That’s part of an estimated $45 million total cost for the June 14 military parade, which coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday. The cost estimates have fluctuated as planning continues.