GERIATRIC TRICK OR TREATING

...this is actually from 10.17.08, but I finally completed it and posted it today

"Everyone is the age of their heart." ~Guatemalan Proverb

Yesterday was our annual Chamber Business Showcase at the fabulous Blue Ridge Mall. This event provides our Chamber members with an opportunity to "showcase" their business to the public. Each business is given a space, a table, and two chairs. Some businesses decorate very minimally and only use the provided table and chairs. Other businesses, however, take "showcasing" to the next level with dramatic lights, sofa's, massive tri-fold display boards, interactive computer equipment the list goes on and on... Regardless of whether or not the space is simple or lavish there is always on thing you can count on from each business....the freebies! Plastic coffee mugs, pens, note pads, key chains, buttons, candy and many more miscellaneous items are set out for anyone to pick up and keep as a memento to remind them to use their business. I find it absolutely hysterical that our senior citizens, being the go-getters that they are, bring their own cloth tote bags to fill with these useless items. Geriatric Trick or Treating and they love it! Slowly moving from booth to booth closing looking over each space, maybe throwing in a question or two to throw the business off the scent of what their real motive is... Let's not forget the door prizes. To ease the stress on their joints, these trick-or-treaters bring the mailing labels, which they receive free in the mail from various non-profits, to place on a card for the opportunity to win a fabulous door prize! These trick-or-treaters come prepared!

QUOTES

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." ~Marlene Dietrich

Yes. I just started blogging today and I am already writing a second one. Good for me.

The quote I chose to use for this blog pretty much sums it all up. I enjoy quotes. For those times I cannot find the right words and for those times when I need reassurance and understanding from someone who has been there, thank you quotes.

Every morning (Monday-Friday, anyways) I check my email eager to open my Daily Inspiration email. Sometimes the quote for the day is just that, a simple quote. It doesn't always apply. It doesn't always offer something special. But on the days it does... I write it down, I put it on my desk in front of my keyboard, and there it is providing encouragement throughout the day. So, if you choose to read my blog I hope you enjoy my quotes!

Okay, so seriously... reading back through this blog I feel a little foolish writing about how much I enjoy quotes, but that is part of me. Quotes make me smile during the good, bad, and ugly, and I'm okay with smiling.

TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." ~Ray Bradbury

I have always toyed with the idea of blogging. I really enjoy reading my friend's blogs, on a daily basis I give in to my favorite celebrity blog (completely disregarding the fact that it is complete vulgar trash & should be working), and I have always been able to express my feelings better by writing them down than saying them aloud. So this afternoon, October 13th 2008, I finally decided to start a blog of my very own.

There are people that would NOT have painstakingly analyzed, over analyzed, hesitated, and then analyzed again about the decision to start a blog. They would simply started a blog. Period. I am NOT one of those people. For instance, I made the decision to start a blog around 5:30 today...it is now 9:00 and I am just now starting to write. Keeping consistent with my usual normal indecisive self I was unable to make a decision about the template, to include a picture or not include a picture, the title of my blog and so on it went for almost 4 hours. The ridiculous length of time it took me before all final decisions were made helped me come to another important decision regarding my blog. It is my blog. Mine, meinne, la mia. I am going to be honest, I am not going to exasperate over spelling and grammar and most importantly I am not going to worry what other people may think about my blogs! Oops! I've already broken that honesty thing...let me try again... I am going to be honest, I am not going to exasperate over spelling and grammar and most importantly I am going to TRY VERY HARD not to worry about what other people may think about my blogs! I am hoping one day it REALLY won't matter to me what someone else thinks and I will have the courage to throw self-doubt out the window. My boyfriend is probably the most "real" person I know. He is someone who truly does know himself and is not afraid to be who he is out loud. He is uncut, uncensored, and at times brutally honest. He is real. I hope my blogging with eventually lead to my own self discovery and one day allow me to be "real" too.

*Thank you Davis for always expecting nothing less than
the "real" Megan & for loving me always for who I
"really" am. I love you.*