I am a woman of ritual.

I get up every morning at 5 a.m., get my coffee, light my candles, and (after I delete all my spam mail) - log onto news.yahoo.com to see what’s going on in the world. When I go to work, I make sure to scoop my paper out of the yard so I can read it during my lunch. After work & gym? It’s my private time with Wolf Blitzer and Katie Couric. Yup. I’m a news whore.

I used to have a newsletter that I sent out called “The Gospel According to Janet,” that held news articles that I found interesting. Most of the time it was religious-oriented, sometimes not, sometimes just stupid shit that made me giggle or cry or wonder about. I kinda miss sending that out, but I don’t miss the work that went into it.

Quite often I’ll run across something that I wish I could share with everyone, though, so I’ve set up another section on my blog called “News of Note”  - there it is, right there on the left. All those articles will be hand picked by me; it won’t be just a news feed, where it’s hit or miss whether the topic is relevant or interesting.  So if you’re bored with what I have to say, you can go read the news!

I have an unexpected day off today, so I am taking the time to do a bit of housecleaning and ironing. My daughter is graduating from F.S.U. tomorrow (praise Jesus) - so I am one proud, happy momma.

I hope everyone has a blessed weekend!