Tonight we were all feeling too lazy to cook, so we decided to cook up the DiGiorno’s frozen pizza we have had in the freezer for a couple of weeks. It was the rising crust three meat pizza. I had my doubts about whether or not I would like it, but I have to tell you that it was really very good. So good in fact that I’ve put it on the shopping list to buy more. And chances are pretty good that we’ll be eating that pizza a lot more in the future instead of going to the pizza restaurant that costs double the amount that the frozen pizza cost!
I’ve tried their thin crispy crust pizza and didn’t like it at all, so I’m really glad I like their rising crust pizza! It’s nice to know I can have a few of them in the freezer for future times we don’t feel like cooking anything complicated!
Today I went out to the store to buy some nice flowers to put on my grandfather’s grave. He is buried in a nearby cemetery; he was a veteran of the Korean war. He died in his early 50’s of cancer - a very misterious thing since he was a health nut that never smoked. We think now that his cancer was caused by his possible exposure to some dangerous chemicals while he was serving in the war. Be that as it may, I plan to go to the cemetery tomorrow with my grandmother to put some flowers on his grave. I hope the weather is nice!
I voted today, and I hope you did too. I’ve always felt that it was not only a right and a privilege to vote, but it is a duty to vote. I think of how many brave people have died for me to have the right to vote? A right that cannot be taken away as long as I am not convicted of breaking the law. I have always felt a deep obligation, in honor of the brave men and women who have been injured or killed in the line of duty for this country to vote in every Presidential election since I was old enough to vote. And I’ve always felt that if someone did not vote in the election, then he or she has no right to complain about how the President is doing his or her job.
I was reading on the Time.com website that there was a fatal shooting last night in South Carolina. A twelve year old boy was shot to death while trick or treating! The person who shot him used an assault rifle and shot thirty rounds! The assailant has been arrested and charged with murder and assault (he shot his brothers and father that were with him too!) The assailant claims he thought the trick-or-treaters were robbers. But the assailant was not even a resident of the house! That excuse sounds wacky to me; I suspect he was high on something! What a horrible tragedy.
This economy has “us” in quite a quandary, doesn’t it? We all want to support our local businesses, because if don’t support them they will close down and we will lose our jobs. Yet our local businesses don’t pay us a living wage, so we are forced to buy things for less money over the Internet! What a catch 22 that is! I hope that when the election is over that the new president reverses a few things so that the large corporations stop shipping our jobs overseas. We are already in deep financial trouble, and we need to work HERE on our shores!
