Well, there are necessities and then there are “necessities”.   This weekend we acquired a free piano (seen here:)

No one in our family actually plays the piano, but we’re optimistic people I guess.  Anna is very musical.  God has a way of rectifying talent-deficiency in the next generation–so Anna, we believe, can overcome her musical genetic inheritance (father’s side).  Or maybe Sarah will be the next Jerry Lee Louis (she is a fireball after all.)

The irony of the piano, for me, is that we don’t own much–mattresses, bedding, dressers, kitchen appliances & utensils, pots, pans, plates, silverware, etc.–but we now do own a piano…which none of us can play.  There is something soooo American (Seinfeld-ian even) about that.

In case anyone noticed, I unplugged my Facebook account again.  Yeah, it had to be done.  The rub is my obsessive-compulsive disorder. With FB I can by nosy about what everyone is doing/thinking/imagining at all hours of the day.  I also feel the need to provide moment by moment minutia about everything I am doing at all hours of the day.  At least with a blog I can provide some limits to my obsessions and voyeuristic tendencies.  And I’ve been painlessly “quiz-free” for three or four days now.  Feels freeing.