There’s so many things that are right about the following story: 'Thank you for the roses', by Barbara Boxer. I love the fact that Senator Boxer has a diary over at dailyKos. I love the simple concept behind the campaign, conceived by Stacy Davies of Claremont, that resulted in all the roses. I love what happened to the flowers after the photos were taken. And I love the fact that I’m proud of my state Senator for the work that she has done, and continues to do, in Washington.
I spent most of the afternoon puttering around at home as part of my Valentine’s Day apartment cleaning and general re-organization, all in preparation for a surprise I was working on. S had brought a TV back with her a few weeks ago and set it on the kitchen table. She mentioned that it would be nice to have cable available on that television for when one of us is working in the kitchen. And that was it - the TV sat there for quite a while. Today I bought the splitter and extra cable and routed the line through the wall that divides the living room and kitchen. When S. got home from class this evening she was happily surprised.
I’ve been ambivalent about the whole second television in the kitchen. My family didn’t have a TV for the first part of my childhood. Around the time I was eight my grandfather donated us an old television set because he felt we were deprived. It took another twenty years before my parents bought their second TV, which they put in the bedroom. A television in the kitchen just doesn’t feel right to me. It’s an alien concept.
I’m quickly becoming a convert, however. I just discovered that I can see the television perfectly from the toilet.
