G- Grandmas and Gigabytes

Grandmas - The image I have when you say Grandmas is the one of my own grandmother. My mom was what is referred to as a Menopause baby, my grandmother was in her mid-forties when my mom was born so she was always old to us. She was plump, wore the nice cotton dresses, made the best pies from scratch and had white hair and glasses. She looked a lot like the “Mama” character that Vicki Lawrence played. Now that I am a grandmother I need a whole paradigm shift of what a grandmother looks and acts like. Whenever I think of my grandmother the first memory that comes up is her using a chamber pot at night. Lord, let me not fit that picture.

Gigabytes – is a computer memory unit. Today we all walk around talking about how many gigs we have. Too bad we don’t use all the memory we do have, there is an urban myth that we use only about 10%, but according to Dr Eric H Chudler we use 100% or our brain. We use it to live, to love and to learn, are you using your 100%.

Memory Lane Detour

So as I last posted about how I am on the ANTI-Clutter campaign and it starts with me I can be the worst offender. Last night I dug into a box of stuff that I hadn’t touched since we moved last which was 4 years ago. What an amazing find that was some of the stuff was from back in high school. Here’s a partial list:
- A news paper clipping where I was Honorable mention for the year in the High School Basketball
- One of my sports letters from High School
- My collage ID card with me in a full on Afro and Bib Overalls
- My High School and College Diplomas.
- The medals I won ski racing
- An article I had published in a College Text Book
- An article I had published in a magazine – totally forgot about that.
- The note from a friend that came with the Bible she me the day after I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior – didn’t remember it.
- Some pressed lilacs that were sent to my 18 years ago after I had moved to Washington

What a trip. It was fun to share some of that stuff with Kyle for the first time and just to reflect. I have many disappointments, failures and heartaches in my past, but it is the little things like these that I keep stored up that make it all worth living.