Family Time

One thing I'm learning as I age:  It's difficult to transition into things outside my normal routine!

I have family here visiting for five days:  My daughter, her husband, three teenage girls, and their dog, Zoey.   

Teenage girls love to stay up late and sleep til noon. 
I go to bed early and am up before daybreak!

Meal times have become so scattered!  I usually eat meals at 8am, 11am, and 4:30pm.  Which means I've had both breakfast and lunch before the girls are awake!   hahaha  It's amusing, but it's also difficult because I wasn't able to have the same days off.  I had to get up and work both Monday and Tuesday.  That puts us all on an odd schedule.

But besides sleeping and eating patterns, there are other things as well.  Showers have become difficult.  My small house has a 20 gallon hot water heater.  For six people??  That does't cut it!  We've adjusted to spacing them out, but ... last one in gets a cold shower!

Another trouble is having two dogs in the house.  Zoey is a large dog, and can be a bit aggressive -- and very protective if there's food around!  Sadie is a happy go lucky pug most of the time.  But she's very protective of "our safe haven" -- which is on top of my bed.  When Zoey attempted to jump onto the bed, Sadie became a growling beast!  But if there's food and Sadie comes sniffing around, Zoey is snapping her jaws at Sadie!  It made coming home from work on Monday rather interesting.  I couldn't eat my dinner unless I was standing up.  The dogs wouldn't leave me in peace!  We ended up sitting in the backyard --- they could roam around and I just kept on the move as well.

There's nothing like family time to make us all feel closer to each other --- we just all have to learn to respect each others' space and time. 

thank goodness for Tylenol PM.
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Privacy or Secrecy??

When it comes to keeping things to ourselves...
what's the difference between privacy and secrecy?
IS there a difference?
Where do we draw the line between one or the other...
and does the same rule apply between people based on your relationship with them?

I've always been one to respect another's privacy. Some things just aren't meant to be shared, especially if you're just friends. But when does that change... when do two people move from the natural privacy issues? As you can see, I'm full of questions, and very little in the way of answers today. Sometimes, life lessons are tough, and you have to deal with what's been dealt.

Looking on the 'net, I found some important things to note:

Privacy is a right, secrecy is a choice.

Privacy is the state of being unobserved;
Secrecy is the act of keeping things hidden.

What is private is also a secret and what is secret is also private.

We all crave privacy in some issues.

Gabriel García Márquez once wrote, “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life,”

While secrecy trickles into privacy, not all privacy is secrecy.

I like the first one the best. But when it comes to privacy, and secrecy between two people who are intimate with each other, the line is a very fine one. If each respect the other's privacy, is there a need for secrecy? Good changes can come our way when we air differences, and least expect them.... thank you for trusting me :)

thoughtful HUGS to everyone!