Amy and the "UP" E-Mail

Amy is an interesting peson. She works in a local nursing home where I volunteer on Saturday mornings. My routine every Saturday has been to drive down to Grafton, Ma., have breakfast with my brother Ray, my nephews David, and Phil and then drive to the Beaumont Nursing Home on Plantation Street (formerly known as University Commons) and sing songs for the patients in the lounge o the first floor there. Eddie Lennon has been volunteering there for 15 years, and I meet him there in the lounge. He always has the doughnuts or homemade brownies or cake for the patients. He also makes the coffee. "Polish Eddie", whom you may have read about in this blog, used to print up the music in large enough print for all the patients to read. His name was Eddie Symonywicz and we sure miss him. Anyway, Amy has taken Eddie's job of printing up the music, and I have the job of finding new music. Occasionally, my nephew, David, who plays a mean guitar,violin, and mandolin comes to help out, but right now he is coaching basketball and has to stay in Grafton.
So much for my introduction and explanation as to who Amy is. Now for the "up" email. I received it from Amy today, and since I teach ESL, and this blog is mostly about ESL, I thought you might like it, so here it is repeated and thank you, Amy.

It's easy to understand Up meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but we awaken in the morning , why do we wake UP? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP? and why are the officers UP for reelection? and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends, and we use something to brighten UP a room , polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has special meaning. People stir UP trouble , line UP for tickets, work UP an appetitie, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
This next UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP . We open UP a store in the morning, but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP. TO BE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE PROPER USES OF UP look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk -sized dictionary, it takes UP almost one fourth of a page and can add UP to about 30 definitions! If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we may say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP. ONE COULD GO ON AND ON BUT I'LL WRAP IT ALL UP, for now and say my time is UP so................it is time
to shut UP!

Oh..........one more thing
What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?
........U-P.....................Thank you, Amy!