So...Here we are...

It has been 7 years....7 years since NY and the country has been changed forever. I guess I took it very personally, since I just love that city more each time I visit it - I would give a lot to be able to go back there and live. It is the only place I have ever lived where I actually feel like I belong there, so it is very near and dear to me. I remember so much about that day...where I was (thankfully, I didn't have access to live footage, which I'm glad for because I had a chance to digest it just a little before watching TV), and what I was feeling. But the biggest thing I remember is the overwhelming feeling from so many people about how so many things, and issues, and just general CRAP just mattered so little. And then one year went by, and on that year anniversary, I, like so many others, relived that day over and over...and you just thought about it. Then year 2, and it wasn't in our mind as much..but still and important day. Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 came and went...and each year you thought about it less and less. I guess that is what grieving is all about...time eases the pain. Now, year 7..what did I do today? Well, I delivered my child to school and had to hastily haul my ass inside to scribble a note because my in laws were going to pick her up, then I left and tried to figure the best way to get from Pelham Rd to 123 (btw...there is no easy way, really), made it to Easley. Once there, I dealt with figuring out where I'm going to put an auditor from the SCDOR who is going through (ironically enough) 7 years of records - and did I mention that someone decided to get rid of years 2001 - 2004?? That is going to make for a very interesting story. Stressed over having to get some other invoices split correctly (boring accounting stuff), and rushed home to relieve my in laws, make dinner for the kids, yell at my daughter for being on the computer when she should be doing her homework and cleaning her room, and then get my oldest to her piano lesson. The funny part is I was thinking about doing a post about how I multi task so much better than my husband (and I still may do that..just not today) when I came accross an interesting blog. This particular post is written by a man who was in the midst of all of this, and the post is a repeat of what he wrote a couple of days afterwards so that he could capture all of his feelings. I hope you can take the time to read it, because after reading it, it truly gives you a reality check. At least, it humbled me a little, even for a short time. And it just angers me more about all the pettiness going on with the conservatives: "lipstick on a pig", sex education for kindergarteners, experience, no experience....ARRRGGHHH... ENOUGH!! http://arkangel3.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/memories-of-two-towers-struck-down/