Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Annoying advertising emails that we don't request and other things

Anybody out there really want to get in touch with people that they have nothing in common with anymore?
We have been systematically putting those high school reunion ones in the spam file but for some strange reason they keep coming!
So tonight I gave mine a look and clicked on the unsubscribe again, which I have done many times before but maybe the last time was about a year ago and they did stop for a while but they are back with a vengeance,
I will be unsubscribing my husbands too.
I keep asking him if he wants to hear from anyone, after all this year was our fortieth anniversary of our graduations.
But for him it would mean more than mine since I only went to my high school that I graduated from for my last two years of school.
So I didn’t know those people from kindergarten like he did.
My first several years of school were spent in another town, and we moved there for my junior year.
So I’m not that sentimental with those people although they all were very nice to me.
But knowing people for two years forty years ago somewhat explains my lack of emotional attachment.
Now for what’s important to me; as I complete my reading of Barbara Walters book, Audition I feel somewhat a kinship with the woman and a deep liking and respect for her as a person.
She is so honest and real.
And yes, she has met so many incredible people and has gotten the best out of most in her interviews. She reminds me of my Dad in the fact that she seems to find some good in most people.
They all seem to warm to her and over the years this has allowed her to make many personal friends from quite a few acquaintances.
Her interviews section of her book towards the end of it reads like a version of that section of Reader’s Digest, The Most Interesting People That I’ve Met or something like that, but hers is not ordinary people that have only affected that particular writer’s life; hers just so happen to be famous or notorious people that everyone thinks they know, and after she gets done with their prime time interviews we all have a little better insight into them, and feel we really do know them all slightly better than ever before.

The book is entertaining and interesting in the fact of her giving you front row seats into the process of how people are selected, and why they are not.
Barbara Walters also lets you know the ones that got away, and delves into those reasons too.
It’s a reality check from straightening out the innuendo of rumors from her show The View and what a roller coaster ride it has been of the last few years compared to its calm beginnings. But now it has gotten back to its origins.
All in all it is one of the finest autobiographies I’ve read in a long time, thank you Ms. Walters!

Good night to all and to all pick out something to enjoy.

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