I am trying to learn to be a fundraiser for charities, mostly health charities. I can't say I find this an easy thing to do. I don't have trouble talking to people. Actually it does make me nervous. I think it is meeting new people. I am not anti social but I don't think it gets easier as you get older. I don't like the other part as I am a captain of a group and you call the group and they don't pick up there kits. I think tomorrow I am going to deliver the remaining ones unless people aren't home. If know one is there I will leave a note for them to pick them up. I had hoped to get through it with as much efficiency as I could. I think some of the canvassers agree to do this and then find themselves very busy to follow through. Oh well, we just carry on regardless.
I am watching a show which I have seen before on the London Blitz. It is so unnerving to watch the footage and it does make you live through it. I think an uncle of mine was on the fire brigades in London during the war. My uncle had been a career soldier and had been discharged with diabetes. He got to fight the fires though.
It has been so grey that last few days. It is quite depressing. By afternoon it feels like it is the evening.
I think we are so used to cold but sunny days that this doesn't seem like winter. The west is supposed to be getting the severe cold and we are having a milder winter. There hasn't been much snow.
I keep having deja vu of my old dog Kurt and having to take him out at night for his last walk. I do miss him but not the walks.
I am making some plans for my birthday celebration later this year. I am hoping to visit my offspring and his partner. If it doesn't happen, then I will plan something simpler. I don't like parties for older people their is something false about them other than dinner with family and very close friends.
My birthday for me is a great escape. Last year it was up to cottage country and to my favourite Bay with a side trip to a spa. That was enjoyable. I was near the shoot that my partner was on and got to meet Burt Reynolds and LeAnn Rimes. I don't go on set very often so it was nice to be near them when the filming was going on. It is work and not a party atmosphere. It made for a memorable birthday even one I was enjoying on my own. I think I don't like being reminded that I am getting old
know one can blame you for that. I think some how it is the world today makes so much emphasis on youth and the youth culture. I can remember when I was a young person that older people had a lot of respect and at times some they didn't deserve. However it doesn't seem there is a lot for them today except in their own families if they are lucky. This is a sad reflection on the world.
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