Since my Christmas break I've been working to get caught up at work and I can officially say that now I have achieved my goal. Nice feeling. I don't know how long this euphoria will last but I'm going to enjoy it for now.
Sunday night Ron and used another of our free movie rental coupons and watched Public Enemies with Johnny Depp. It was definitely suspenseful and held my attention all the way to the end. Johnny Depp is good in anything but he really did a good job playing Dillinger. The only problem we had was the sound quality wasn't very good and we struggled to understand what they were saying. Maybe it isn't the movie's sound quality but the quality of our hearing that is the problem :) Now my compaint is why do we romanticize gangsters? They were cold blooded murdurers but the movies try to get us to feel sorry for them. I'm sure the families of the victims he murdered didn't have any love lost for him. Anyway.....
I recently went to the mall with a 14 year old and a 12 year old. This shouldn't have been a new experience for me but it was in this new technology age. Both girls had their cell phones with them and their eyes glued on them the entire time we were shopping. They were texting and receiving text messages faster than the speed of light. I don't think I saw their faces or their eyes the entire time. I don't want to sound like a cranky senior but what gives here? These kids don't know how to BE in the moment. They aren't engaged in their surroundings at all. I think about everything they are missing. I'm so glad I don't have to raise children in this new age. I wouldn't be a very popular mother because I'd have to set some major rules about cell phones. First of all who does a 12 year old need to talk to so urgently? Their employer? Are they expecting a text from their cardiologist? I hope not! Not to mention it is rude to have your head in the screen of your cell phone when you are supposed to be engaged in a social event or family get-together. Time and place for everything! Don't I sound like the bitter old maiden aunt?
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You sound like a normal human being with adequate social skills to me!
I am with you on this one. I'm more apalled at adults doing the same thing, who go through check-out lines and never make eye contact with the Person checking them out. RUDE
Cranky old woman here. Fortunately my nieces are too old for such nonsense. I do believe there should be a law.
I once posted about a girl I saw on a georgeous day, riding her horse. The reins hung slack for she was texting her heart out.
These kids are going to miss so much. They will get to the end of their lives and just go "Huh, how did I get here."
Exactly Patti!
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