COMPUTER CRASH

Reflecting:  Well, in today's computer age we all know about computers crashing.  However, back in the early 80's, not so much!  I can't tell you how many times we needed to get to Fed Ex at the airport by the end of the day.  They were just starting to get computers into the workplace.  Most of the managers brought their own computers from home -- that's how I learned and everyone else in the company at the time.  It worked great for me because I love learning.  Crashing computers was not a pretty sight, even back then.


COMPUTER CRASH

I worked and worked for weeks on end,
There were changes around every other bend.

You type, edit, then a hard copy is run,
Only to add and delete, which isn't much fun.

Hurry, rush for this ending game,
Fed Ex and counter-to-counter it's all the same.

Get the forms and AOG; I'll drive, you read,
Down the highway we would speed.

To deliver these packages by the next flight,
Which always arrives in the middle of the night.

Then one day as corrections were made,
A guy named "static", a long visit he paid.

He scrambled and jumbled, our disks he did crash,
Our hopes of Fed Ex were surely smashed.

When you use a computer's delight,
Always make sure "Mr. Static" is nowhere in sight.

So when you work and work for weeks on end,
You can take care of the changes coming around the bend.


Gloria Hildreth
"Reflections:  A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009

TIRED

Reflecting:  If you have a job but it feels like two jobs because you work 50 to 60 hour weeks, you are guaranteed to get tired.  You might be working long hours and going to school to get a degree.  That's what I did.  Exhausted doesn't begin to cover it.  I am glad I went back to school; it helped get me out into this great big world.  It satisfied my passion, which is life-long learning.  It was very, very tough.  But I wouldn't have changed that for the world.


TIRED

I'm so tired; what day is today,
I just wish everyone would go away.

The days are long, the nights are short,
Sometimes around me I need to build a fort.

Crisis after crisis is what each day brings,
It just keep unwinding like a ball of string.

The work load needs to be organized and relaxed,
Instead of feeling we are always taxed.

It's hurry up, we have to rush this out,
Only to change it again with more running about.

Morale is low, productivity down,
And most of us feel we are about to drown.

A few try to boost the others' spirits up,
We know it will come full circle, one day they will fill our cup.

Today I'm not really in the pink,
I'm so damned tired I can't even think.


Gloria Hildreth
"Reflections: A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009



COMING HOME

Reflecting: For the first time in my life I was living on my own.  I went from high school right into a marriage and had my first child four years later.  I made my home family friendly.  I didn't have a real sense of decorating style until I was on my own.  I loved decorating that home just for me.  I started to be called a girly-girl.  And surprise, surprise I really was.  I had always been a tomboy, now I was a girly-girl.  I really was becoming a new me.  Enjoy your home, wherever you make it.  Make it you, the new you.  You will enjoy it much more, especially if you love "little critters" who welcome you with open paws!


COMING HOME 

At the end of the day I leave my job,
To head into traffic and the rush hour mob.

Only a few minutes it does take,
From door-to-door a short trip it does make.

I come home to a welcome greeting,
My little charges waiting joyously for this meeting.

My home is my castle where I go for relaxing,
Away from the pressure of the day so taxing.

All neat and clean, a decorator's delight,
I wander from room to room surveying the sight.

This is who I am, where I retreat,
To make my home life so wonderfully complete.

How happy my new home makes me feel,
How lucky I am, sometimes it makes me reel.

I did this all my self, how proud I am of me,
To be able to retreat to just sit back and see.

So when at the end of the day I'm feeling mobbed,
Much peace travels through me heading home from the job.


Gloria Hildreth
"Reflections:  A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009

GRACIOUS SPLENDOR

Reflecting:  Enjoy whatever your "gracious splendor" is.  You will have more of those days, take advantage of them.  Relax, take pictures, write in a diary and enjoy your gracious splendor, so that you can look back one day to see how far you have come.

GRACIOUS SPLENDOR

I sit here in gracious splendor,
Total amazement causes me to wonder.

Why am I so lucky, I say?
As I look out my window at this lovely day.

It didn't come easy, this life of mine,
I paid a heavy price for this day so fine.

I wouldn't want to do it this way again,
I would choose a different way for my life to begin.

I learned who I was along this path,
I wish I could have avoided much of the wrath.

But to each lesson is hopefully learned,
As we trip and stumble and we get burned.

Because of the heavy price I had to pay,
I appreciate this beautiful sunny day.

While I've earned this gracious splendor along the way,
It still causes me amazement, I would surely say.


Gloria Hildreth
"Reflections:  A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009

HEIDE

Reflecting:  I love animals and made them a part of my new life.  Wherever I looked to live, I made sure I could have pets.  They listen to you when no one else will, they kissyou when you're all alone and they know when you are sad and when you are glad.  They are a great comfort and you are no longer alone.


HEIDE

Heide, black as coal,
She was my ultimate goal.

So tiny and sleek,
Always ready to greet.

You scold and then hug,
For the holes she's dug.

She barks, then whines,
When it's dinner time.

Each night we go for a walk,
Then sit down for a little talk.

She sprawls and cuddles,
 Oh no, not another puddle.

With each other we will continue to live,
So much love we have to give.

What a pleasure this little family of mine,
We're learning together, we are doing just fine.

She was my ultimate goal,
This little ball of fur, that's black as coal.


Gloria J Hildreth
"Reflections: A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009

ALONE

Reflecting:  You will learn so much if you look forward to your future instead of looking backwards to what might have been.  Envision what you always wanted to do and go after it.


MY YEARS ALONE

I have grown in my years alone,
I needed much help, I had to be shown.

I learned to work my way through,
All of my hatred I had for you.

I savored my strength as I regrouped,
I marched onward with my many troops.

I have found I am not really alone,

I have many strengths that I have to hone.

When you are happy and bright you have a glow,
Life seems easier, it just seems to flow.

I could not let you destroy me from within,

In the end I knew I would win.

Even though I had to be shown,
I have really grown in my years alone.


Gloria J Hildreth
"Reflections:  A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009