The English Cae

The other day I was thinking about how weird it would be if I were to live in America on an English schedule, that way I would be able to talk to all of my English friends in their normal time, but how would I be able to make this work in America. So I calculated it out yesterday. I would follow my normal routine, but just back it up a couple hours. All of the timing for this portion will be in EST.

1:00am Wake up

7:00am Eat Lunch & go to work*

12:00pm Get home from work*

1:00pm Start dinner

5:00pm Go to bed

*The issue that I run into, going to work is the fact that we are in America, so I would have to go to work at noon and come home at 5 in EST.

Now to translate my schedule into GMT, and this is what you would get.

6:00am Wake up

12:00pm Eat lunch & go to work

5:00pm Get home from work

6:00pm Start Dinner

10:00pm Go to bed

Make this schedule can go with my December 32nd idea ;) Or maybe I could just move to London, I think the latter is the easier of the two.

Cae

The Benefits of Being A Parental Taxi

There are many, many times that I have to drive the kids here and there, primarily DD. Many times I get the joy of sitting in my car for hours. Sometimes, I read. Sometimes, I write. Occasionally, I ‘ve been known to take a nap. Today though, I got a rare treat. As I dropped DD at play rehearsal, I saw people gathered on the common and a sign for a free concert. Awesome, a true blessing to the end of my Sunday.

MASH

You know how you play MASH and all of your friends make horrible funny predictions about what will happen to you. Well, durring my way up to a Girl Scout camp with a troop and my friend, Audra, and I decided to play MASH. During my turn I got horrible things, but all we did at the end was laugh. We then did one for her mom. It was fun!z! While we were playing I learned that this game makes no sense . . . it was only a game that builds friendships and makes you laugh . . .Trust me. It accomplished that. We laughed forever and we are a little closer friends : )

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C


See - - -All things change and all things stay the same. I remember the very same game more than a few years. I was always thrilled to get a mansion, a ton of kids, a jaguar, and the love of my life and laugh when I ended up in a shack.

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Titanic Exhibit at the XL Center

Today I went to the Civic Center to see the Titanic Exhibition. The Titanic always has fascinated me and I love to learn more and more about it. Today, my mom and my grandfather went with me to see the exhibition on the Titanic. As we descended down the stairs (after we bought our tickets) to the exhibit I wait for my mom and grandfather to catch up with me. We bought the audio tour……which I was really happy that we got because it explained everything that we were seeing. When we started, we were given a boarding of an actual person who went on the Titanic. At the end of the exhibit, we got to see if our person survived.

As we walked around I was amazed to see how many artifacts they have brought up from the wreck. There were some playing cards; plates from 1st class, 2nd class, and 3rd class; there were the ropes and pulleys……there were a lot of artifacts that you would think would not survive. Right before the end, they recreated the iceberg and you could touch it to see how cold it was. Let me tell you it was COLD!!! Now I can see how so many people died from hypothermia. I felt like I could die right there and then if I held my hand there for a while. Just think of the people in the colder ocean.









Once we all made it to the end I looked for my person: Miss Kate Florence Phillips (aka Kate Marshall). . . .She was 19 in 2nd class (which in other ocean liners would be 1st class) and pregnant. She survived. My mom had Dr. Alice Leader age 49 in 1st class Cabin D-17 and she also survived. My grandfather had Colonel Archibald Gracie 4th in 1st class cabin C-51 and he also survived. I was amazing to see who lived and who died. So many Crew and 3rd class didn’t make it. It was amazing!!! I loved that exhibit and I can’t wait until they find more artifacts!

By C