I'm confined to my room

 They're laying new carpet in the hallways this week. Started on the first floor yesterday and this morning I got off the elevator and had to duck under some yellow tape to get to my car. Coming home, I had to make a detour to the stairs and climb on up.  Oh my!  Of course I had a 12-pk of pop in one bag. Ha!  I made it with a lot of huffing and puffing. I thought the staircase was closer to my apt but once I got up on the second floor, I was disoriented and wondered where the hell I was!  Then I had to walk down two long hallways to get to my apartment. Was so happy to get in and get things put away and I've accepted the fact that I'm not going anywhere the rest of the day or tomorrow. Maybe not Friday either.  I'm too delicate for staircases.  haha

It's okay, though. I bought some mini A&W rootbeer and something I seldom buy but had a yen for --Hostess orange cupcakes.  Oh, and baloney. I know it's not good for you but I've always liked baloney sandwiches.  Also picked up a loaf of bread and a pkg of onion bagels --- so I'm good.  I filled up the car with gas (going to Port Angeles Saturday morning), had a tire checked for air at Les Schwab, and bought my lotto ticket.

I'll probably do today what I did yesterday: work on my jigsaw puzzle and sew crumb quilt pieces together. I'll also waste time playing solitaire and bingo online and I'm determined to get started on a book. Even though I have two in process now.  

I wrote my weekly story for the Story Worth gift I received for Christmas and the topic today was "Notable people I might be related to". That was kind of fun to do. It's not that long so maybe I'll cut and paste it here to try and perk up this blog a bit.

The Notable people I might be related to

When I first signed up for ancestry.com over twenty years ago now, I discovered one of the sources they featured was to give you a list of who you might be distantly related to. This appeared once you started putting in your own data. What a fascinating read that was!

I looked up my mother’s side of the family first (Blanchards and Nisbets) and that list was very impressive. It named Julia Child, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Walt Disney, and Henry David Thoreau, among others.  Since my mother was adopted, I intended to look up her biological family to perhaps get a more accurate list. I haven’t done that yet, though.

Next, I looked up my dad’s mother’s family, the Holts. They were also related to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with Gerald Ford, the Bushes, Humphrey Bogart, Amelia Earhart, Judy Garland, Shirley Temple, Edgar Allan Poe, O Henry, Jimmy Carter, Marlon Brando, Butch Cassidy, Gregory Peck, and Bob Hope.

I giggled at both lists because really when you think about, we’re all related if you go back far enough. When I did the Blankenship line, Jimmy Carter’s name came up again as did Butch Cassidy, and Gerald Ford.  Others that caught my eye included Davy Crockett, James Stewart, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Cary Grant, Doc Holliday, John Steinbeck, Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner, Clyde Barrow, Booker T. Washington, and Freddie Prinze. What a collection, especially since Prinze was Puerto Rican and Booker T. was black.

Genealogy has long been an interest of mine. When Alex Haley published ‘Roots’ and I saw the mini series on TV, I was hooked from then on to investigate and find out more about my mother’s family. I eventually succeeded and was able to mail her pictures of both her mother and father when she was in her 60’s.