- for mute buttons. Now why can't somebody make one that shuts people up?
- for the overflowing attendance at yesterday's noon meeting
- that my experience of AA at Lambda Center is probably as close to the Utopia I always wanted to find
- for the fascinating stuff the human mind can conjure up (ending with a preposition?)
- for dancing shadows on the fence outside my back door
- for sweet notes from Sarah K and Carol W
Saturday, August 13, 2005
08.13.05
Today I am grateful...
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This post was really above and beyond.
A preposition is an okay thing to end a sentence with.
In fact I think I'm going to.
You can of course delete all that I have written above.
I really don't know how this is all coming across.
Seriously, I enjoyed this post very much, all the way through.
I totally agree w/the mute button issue. I have been looking for that button for my kids and hubby for years now, believe me, it doesn't exist if I haven't found it yet!
Today I am grateful that I did answer the phone last night when my self-centered husband called and apologized. I still can't understand why some ppl have such trouble saying they are sorry. It's just 3 little words.
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I'm grateful for your gratitude lists, Scott. The mute button is a nice idea -- and it does exist in other forms! I used it this morning when I set the phone down as my boyfriend was talking. I just left it lying there on my leg for a while, calmed down a bit, and then picked the phone up. He was still talking. It worked so well!
I built a mute button for meetings at Lambda. Wanna buy one?
I used to end all sentences with a proposition.
Winston Churchill, I think it was, said of the rule about prepositions: "It is a pedantry up with which I will not put."
Churchill is also said to have been seated next to a woman at a dinner party who said to him, "Sir, if you were my husband I would give you poison." Churchill replied, "Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it."
Can't think of a thing to add to these comments except I am guilty of ending many of my sentences with a prepositon. I knew it wasn't proper but leave it to you, my English teacher, to let me know what I'm doing wrong! Your (you are) so smart.
No, the contraction for 'you are' is you're, not your.
I knew a pregnant woman who had contractions; they weren't you'res.
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