{"id":885,"date":"2005-08-16T08:49:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2005-08-16T08:49:05","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T15:49:05","slug":"a-quick-little-journey-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"A quick little journey through&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick little journey through the blogscape this morning with my first<br \/>\ncuppa.<\/p>\n<p>It starts over at Halley&#8217;s place where she is just <a \nhref=\"http:\/\/halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/back-to-school.html\">getting<br \/>\nready for the start of school.<\/a>  She&#8217;s talking about the commercials<br \/>\nshowing how excited all the kids are about going back to school and how<br \/>\nit&#8217;s really the parents that should be getting new clothes and whooping<br \/>\nit up.  I&#8217;m not sure what kind of single parent world she&#8217;s in but in<br \/>\nmine back to school just means more stuff piled on top of an already<br \/>\nbusy schedule.  Getting kids ready for school before the ride comes at<br \/>\n6:35 am to get to school by 7:00am and then getting child number two<br \/>\nready so I can leave for work and still get there 20 minutes late.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the monthly PTA meetings and Academy meetings and fund<br \/>\nraisers and remembering the check for picture day and remembering to<br \/>\nmake lunches and remembering to pick them up after school and taking<br \/>\nthem to after school activities and, and, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And as most of the world is just getting started preparing for the<br \/>\nschool year we are already int our third week of school. <\/p>\n<p>I must say though that the girls really did seem excited about going<br \/>\nback to school.  Well, maybe they were just excited about buying new<br \/>\n&#8220;knee sock&#8221; and Hollister and Aeropostile and Pac Sun and Forever 21<br \/>\nand, and, and&#8230;  I still remember how much fun I had going through the<br \/>\nChandlers Stationary store in Highland Park.  There were all kinds of<br \/>\nreally cool stuff.  Composition books, assignment books, pencils, oh and<br \/>\nthe giant rainbows of color in the <a \nhref=\"http:\/\/www.dickblick.com\/zz200\/12\/\">cray-pas sets.<\/a>  You should<br \/>\nsee Chelsey going up and down the school supply aisles with her supply<br \/>\nlist looking for just the right set of colored pencils (even though I<br \/>\nhave two thousand color pencils at home from the previous 7 years of<br \/>\nschool supplies) and psychedelic pattern covered composition books.  I&#8217;m<br \/>\npretty sure Chelsey got that from me.<\/p>\n<p>Which takes to my next stop where Halley points me to <a \nhref=\"http:\/\/thisfish.com\/Archives\/001020.html\">This Fish Needs A<br \/>\nBicycle<\/a> <http:\/\/thisfish.com\/> who is talking about being a Girl.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll have to imagine <a \nhref=\"http:\/\/www.stevesbeatles.com\/songs\/girl.asp\">the Beatles song<\/a><br \/>\nplaying in the background unless of course you have the old Rubber Soul<br \/>\nalbum handy to throw on the turntable, as I can&#8217;t really bring myself to<br \/>\nplay the Britney Spears song, plus I don&#8217;t have the Britney Spear song<br \/>\nto listen to.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway now that the music is playing, the thing that hit a chord \ud83d\ude42 with<br \/>\nme about the Girl vs.Woman thing is a thought that I&#8217;ve mentioned before<br \/>\nabout looking in the mirror and seeing this 40 something man and felling<br \/>\nlike a teenager inside.  It is something I&#8217;ve been thinking about more<br \/>\nand more as I try to figure out what it means to be a widower\/single<br \/>\n&#8216;man&#8217; when I still feel like a &#8216;boy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And as the strains of <a \nhref=\"http:\/\/www.stevesbeatles.com\/songs\/good_day_sunshine.asp\">Good Day<br \/>\nSunshine<\/a> play in the headphones it&#8217;s time leave the blogosphere and<br \/>\nget on with the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick little journey through the blogscape this morning with my first cuppa. It starts over at Halley&#8217;s place where she is just getting ready for the start of school. 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