Going ROUGE

Our grandmothers were friends, I think. My Great Grandma used to say that you could tell a lady by looking at her hands ... Guess I'm not a lady! What my hands (or my mom's or, for that matter, Sarah Palin's or Michelle Obama's) looked like would not qualify by my my Great Grandma Emmaline's standards, but just stop and think what those collective hands have done. Yes, they've all nursed and rocked miles in a rocker in the middle of the night, but they've also cooked, cleaned, helped the less fortunate, volunteered in the food bank, at church, done volunteer legal work for the disadvantaged, wiped away tears as they listened, took ceramics classes, cooked, folded laundry, ironed a husband's shirt at the last minute, baked a last minute batch of cookies when a child remembered at bedtime that she needed them by tomorrow morning .... I realize that I'm largely overlooking these womens' professional accolades. That's deliberate, because also vital to these women, in addition to their professional accomplishments are their families, community, and sense of self worth and obligation to better the lives of others. Comfy stretch jeans and changing mores may bother my generation, but the bottom line is that they remain "window dressing" and we must not become side-tracked or hung up on what's different, while ignoring what is good about both Obama and Palin. I can gasp and disagree, but must not obsess about every social more or we'd still be referring to our bras as "bust confiners" as my Great Grandma did.


Kathy
sharpeimom

I think that's a bit nitpicky. When you're that popular sometimes you do have to set limits with very large crowds. She's only a human being. Give her a break.

hmmm...not sure about this, viking.
i mean, what could palin have done if it was borders who was running the event?
if anything, borders could have kept it going but it was they who closed at 9pm.
i'm just not convinced palin had anything to do with this...

leslie

And if the crowd had been 10,000 should she have signed books until they were all gone too?

Seriously - you have to set limits or you'd never get out of the book store.

As I linked - the folks knew ahead of time what the time limits were and that there were no guarantees. And, Sarah apologized and said she would look into a solution for those who didn't get their books signed.

I'm a bit cranky about what Tweety rightly called "nit-picky" folks.

One of my co-workers (I'm complained about this one before) created a mess this week twice - one kinda big and one minor.

We have two candlelight services in December every year, at the same churches every year. One on Friday night in one small community and one on Sunday night in the other larger community. It is put on by our hospice team along with help from the community. It is a tradition for folks to come and light a candle for a loved one who has died. We sing a few songs, we have a speaker, we light candles. Anyway, this year we had it all arranged and this co-worker came in last week and complained that the Friday night one needed to be moved because she is in school now and can't come on Friday. Well, my thought is you can come on Monday and why change something for the whole community when it only effects YOU? Kinda selfish.

The other minor thing - we arranged for a luncheon for our volunteers and bought little gifts for them. This co-worker didn't want to give a gift to one of the volunteers because she hadn't volunteered this last year. Well, she was invited to the luncheon and how would it make her feel if we passed out gifts and she didn't get one? Plus, does anyone know why she hasn't been able to volunteer this last year? Any home situation that made it hard for her? Plus, why judge? So finally the co-worker begrudgingly backed down. Then at lunch, which was all pre-ordered at a local restaurant (with a gourmet chef btw) . .. . she got upset because instead of the choice of two wonderful soups, she wanted a salad. Ok - this place was busy, we preordered to make it easier for them - it just seemed nit picky to whine about it but the owner very nicely made her a salad anyway.

Book signings must have time limits - therefore the bookstore needs to gauge the timing with the amount of wristbands they give out so the author has time to sign them.

The people who whined afterwards . . . were nitpicky.

And going after Sarah for something like this . .. would fit in perfectly with my co-worker's mindset.

Rant over . ... .

steph

I was a bit hard on ex-Gov Palin and for that I apologize.

Soooo ... when is a victiim card not a victim card?

Answer: when you hear the whole story (aka context).

My thought as well - and thanks Viking.

steph

Of course, there's context and then there's context, yes? The concept does not just apply to those I agree with ...