I just finished a bottle of two buck chuck and evybody knows that's the best time to blaaag.
Here it is, Sunday night after a very nice weekend. The weather had a relapse; pretended it was October for a few days. High 40's both days. I had windows open, I went for a run even tho I didn't have to and then I lit up all the trees in my backyard with the lights I didn't cram onto my Xmas tree.
Josie and I decorated the mantle with my fake pine boughs, lights and little Santas I bought at the dollar store a few years ago. Then we hang all the gorgeous White House ornaments that my Uncle Wood and Aunt Helen have sent us through the years. They are way too beautiful for the tree, where they get lost in the clutter so we hang then from the mantle where you can actually see them. All the decorating is done. Just in time for book club tomorrow. I even vacuumed up all the peanut debris Jay left on the porch this week.
Jay was up North with his team this week. They didn't have a good road trip. You can read about it at
www.minneapolisbasketball.com. I didn't see the games because I don't travel with the team. I don't imagine I ever will. I have a life, you know.
While Jay was gone, I made two kinds of Christmas cookies and helped Zack and Josie eat them all. I addressed 125 of the Christmas cards I'm doing for some company and I got half of the Christmas tree skirt I'm designing painted. It's really going to be cool. I designed an enormous skirt many years ago in six sections, so that people could do one section at a time. It's Santa, four sections of reindeer (all different) and the sixth section was going to be the NOrth pole, but I never painted the whole thing. People loved just Santa and one reindeer and finished the skirt with fabric. Well, I've scaled the whole thing way, way down, left off a lot of the detail and done just a semi circle for the front of the tree. One piece, take it or leave it. It's smashing. I have to finish it tomorrow.
Fortunately for my work schedule, the lovely Mr. Curry called this morning and offered to bring over the stew he was cooking up in his crockpot. Jay threw together a salad and bought some bread and all I had to do for dinner was chew. The lovely Mrs. Curry taught us all to play texas hold em and I bluffed my way to second place before Mr. Curry cleaned me out. I actually won a few hands accidentally.
Last night, Katie and Mike were kind enough to allow me to invite myself for dinner at their house. They had steak and made the kids put some back on the platter so I could eat. Then we sent the kids downstairs to watch Christmas with the Muppets and we watched an abomination called Strangers with Candy.
Well, there wasn't any candy but it was mighty strange. Even though I laughed (Hard) throughout the movie, I really can't recommend it because I'm not sure why I laughed. It was so
weird. Mary Jeanne would love it.
No wonder it was such a good weekend; I got through the whole thing without having to cook once.
OH, Tyler called today. ONe of his room mates is getting married and asked Ty to be his best man!
Ty said "I was actually there when they met."
Ty has only known this young man since August.
"So he's marrying a girl he's only known a few months?" I asked. "When's the wedding?" I'm hoping to hear "Next Summer."
"Friday."
"Next Friday? That's...they haven't known each other very long."
"I know, I know! If it were anyone else, that's what I'd be saying but I was there. They've been joined at the hip since the night they met..."
"Bolt of lightening, love at first sight for both of them?"
"Exactly. I'm telling you, Mom; these two need to get married."
I had to admit that I was hardly the person to say anything about getting engaged quick. Jay and I started dating in July and were engaged on October 1st. BUT!!!
BUT
Jay and I had actually known each other for ever and we knew each other's whole family's and we came from identical backgrounds. When you're young and in "love" you have no idea how important that is. Jay and I were very lucky that all the things we took for granted, we actually
could take for granted because of our families. You don't realize how important things are like, do your families get along? Do you both go to Church? Same Church? How important are things like Holidays, children, and family gatherings to each of you? Can you stand each others families? When I think of the hails of bullets Jay and I dodged simply because we fell for each other, it makes my hair stand on end.
Back to the happy couple; Good for them! God Bless them and may they always be good to each other. There's something wonderful about people getting married these days when there's nothing but arguments against it. Getting married instead of just shacking up an act of joyful abandon. So what if statistics say you only have a 50/50 chance? Statistics are just damned lies. Go ahead; buy that lottery ticket and say "I do!"
You can't win unless you play.
