Getting To Know Me II

I like to wear pajamas. I like to wear them all day. If I didn't have to put real clothes on I wouldn't. Yesterday I washed clothes. Put them all away folded neatly. Last night I put on my blue tropical theme pj's. They are soft cotton and look like baggy shorts and t-shirt. They are my favorite pair for summer time. I haven't taken them off yet -1pm. I worked in the back yard pulling my weeds of shame and spraying round-up, in my pj's! Sometimes I know Steven wonders if I actually put on clothes all week. When he leaves at 4:30am and comes back at 7:00pm he often has left me in pj's and come home to me showered and back in pj's. I am an ametuer historian. I love research. I love unfolding the details of people's lives from times past. I love the smell of old courthouse records and really old books in the library. I am working on my certification as a bonafide genealogist. I have one year in which to accomplish this. In a perfect world I would have a PhD in History. I am the family historian and hardly anyone is interested in the things I discover. I often get ignored if I start a conversation on the subject. Steven supports me in every way and in everything I do. He even said I could go back to school and earn that PhD if that is REALLY what I want. I can't see myself doing that in the next year or two but someday maybe I will. James Madison is the most famous person of my ancestors. He wasn't that great of a president so I do not tell people. Where I live he is some kind of a hero. I think they give him too much credit. I love gardening but not pulling weeds. My back area near the porch and around the grill house is my area of shame. I have pulled weeds there until I am sick of them. I cheat and use roundup. I couldn't think of a product of the week last week for Blackbird's Show and Tell but this week I have one. It is Roundup. I read all the journals on my reading list everyday. I do not always comment. Sometimes I have nothing to say. Sometimes I have to think about it and come back later and leave a comment. Those of you who do not update daily drive me insane! Get to cracking and post something. Otherwise I have no excuse not to be out pulling those infernal weeds. I prefer natural methods of healing and formal western medicine only when neccesary. I currently have three favorite pieces of music: O Mio Babbino Caro from Puchini's "Gianni Schicchi"; Beethoven's Fur Elise; Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2. My new favorite artist is Jack Vettriano. I was introduced to him by my friend Hope. I will be purchasing 2 lithographs to be hung over my bed in the near future. My husband agrees with my choice. I find his work to be sensual, some pieces intimately romantic and a reflection of how I feel the image of a marriage should be. The underlying romance and intimacy that cries of passionate love and loving suits my taste perfectly. I believe Alberto Vargas painted the most beautiful pin-up girls of the 40's and 50's. I am a fan and find nothing vulgar in his work. I have been to the Netherlands. I think if you travel outside of the US for longer than a week or two you aquire a new respect for the world and our country. It changed me. It opened my eyes to new cultures and new ideas. It some ways I was shocked morally. I wish we Americans could embrace the complete romance of the way Europeans live on a day to day basis. I have been in a palace as a guest for a concert -which bored me and I fell asleep. *blush* I did not embrace that moment. I am filled with good intentions. I also know those good intentions can be the road to hell.