Monthly Archives: December 2012

Day 331 There are 8 hours until midnight and the new year begins … eight hours to carry on with my old habits and ways … eight hours until the slate is, once again, wiped clean and a whole new … Continue reading →

Day 330 The nest seems emptier today than it has in a long time. Not really liking it much. Back when the kids were in high school Tim and I used to fantasize about what our “empty nest days” would … Continue reading →

Day 329 It gets to be this time of the year and I start feeling that anticipation building. I have butterflies for the new year. I look around my house and even though I’ve been doing nothing but non-stop redoing … Continue reading →

Day 328 A while ago I was introduced to a remarkable website that sends me a daily message … more of a life lesson at times … and more than not it is eerily appropriate for the day when read.  … Continue reading →

Day 327 Once again, it is late. Too late/early for my own good. A habit I plan to change in the new year. A habit I plan to continue (and do more of) is laughing. And I don’t mean just in the song … Continue reading →

Day 326 I should have sent this out earlier but better late than never … and the holidays are NOT over yet! As is said, “It’s not over ’til the fat lady sings.” And she might be waddling around more … Continue reading →

Day 325 Merry Christmas! We woke up to … SNOW! Right after I wrote that the odds were slim to none for getting any white accumulation on Christmas … Mother Nature proved me wrong, yet again! But, I’m happy to be … Continue reading →

Day 324 I am sitting here thinking how nice it is to hear movement in the house below me. No, we are not having an earthquake … Ted is home and the house, once again, feels alive. Living by myself has … Continue reading →

Day 323 Today is the 23rd … or was the 23rd as I am writing this, once again, way too late for my own good. Somehow my days have turned on an axis and my bedtime of late has been … Continue reading →

Day 322 Abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz …. What is missing?* Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen and Olive – Who’s Olive? ** Today I dispensed candy canes along my route as I did my errands. Anyone within arm’s reach got … Continue reading →

Day 321 Well, with an hour or so to go on Doomsday Friday … we are still here. I think I’m safe in saying … we’re okay. Today I was trying (key word here) to drive the two miles to the … Continue reading →

Day 320 Here we are on the Eve of Destruction. If I had a poster board I might make a sign … The End is Near … and put it atop one of the reindeer in my yard. Fancy that. … Continue reading →

Day 319 Well, not many of you know it, but I had a boyfriend for a while. Actually, he was kind of a true love if ever there was one. The man was generous to a fault. On the first day … Continue reading →

Day 318 Yes, it’s been one of those days. I, unheard of for me, was up at 7 a.m. to greet Mr. Sump Pump man who was installing my new sump pump. Don’t ask. Another zillion dollars literally down the … Continue reading →

Day 317 Nine thousand, one hundred and thirty two days …  That is how old my “baby” turned today. How can that be? Every holiday letter I’ve sent out in the last 20 some years has said the same thing … Sam will … Continue reading →

Day 316 I have come to realize what I do when I need comfort.  And before I disclose what that actually is … I’ll tell you what I do NOT do. I do not clean my house. I do not … Continue reading →

Day 315 In light of the recent tragedy I thought I’d go completely in the opposite direction of emotion and throw out something humorous … if for no other reason, than to relieve, for a bit, the heartbreak we all feel. … Continue reading →

Day 314 I am heartsick.  IT has happened again. Every time children are gunned down I think that it cannot possibly happen again – EVER. And yet, it does. Shattered lives. Shattered families. I do NOT understand this. I just … Continue reading →

Day 313 The other day I was at the post office – standing in a long line of pre-holiday patrons awaiting my turn up at the counter, just like the rest of the people in line were awaiting their turn. … Continue reading →

Day 312 Today was 12/12/12 … one of those rare phenomena that happen in one’s lifetime. Today is my 312th post and I’m posting it around midnight. Go figure. I love these happenstance coincidences.  Every once in a while you’ll … Continue reading →

Day 311 Old King Cole was a merry old soul, a merry old soul was he … Nat King Cole sang one of my favorite songs of all time – Unforgettable … Cole Porter wrote songs that were lovely … … Continue reading →

Day 310 Besides visions of sugar plums dancing in my head … I have lyrics of yet unwritten songs spinning around in there, as well. I have been humming and singing bits and pieces of holiday carols for a few … Continue reading →

Day 309 I was going to write earlier today and then one thing led to another and time, as has been the case for the last 20 some years, flew by! I was out driving today and passed a home … Continue reading →

Day 308  There are days when I worry that Alzheimer’s is creeping up on me. It started when Tim died. Stress, grief, hormones, lack of sleep, poor diet … all combined to totally erase and eradicate any short-term memory cells and … Continue reading →

Day 307 Okay, I have a short wick. I know it. I have always been like this – well, as long as I can remember. My patience is short and sometimes my tolerance is shorter. And if there is injustice … Continue reading →

Day 306 Today as I walked across my lawn to check out the neighbor’s yard mauling/sewer repair job I nearly stepped on a dead squirrel. For someone with a very stiff back who doesn’t bend very well or move quickly … Continue reading →

Day 305 I am a sorority girl. A zillion years ago … twenty some years back in the last century … I became an initiate, at the University of Illinois, into the Greek sorority of Alpha Chi Omega. Little did I … Continue reading →

Day 304 Just when you think your day is turning rather crappy … you notice the plumber’s van parked in front of your neighbor’s house. Your day isn’t crappy … theirs is. Actually their basement is. Ew. Yes … my poor neighbors. Yuck. They … Continue reading →

Day 303 Deck the halls with boughs of holly … I’m sure whomever wrote those lyrics didn’t have any kids or animals in their home at the time. I mean, seriously, who decorates with HOLLY? The leaves are spiny and wicked! Well, … Continue reading →

Day 302 The fog rolled in – sometime in the last hour – and, once again, swallowed up the trees and surrounding homes in my “neck of the woods”. I let the dogs out before bed and was met at … Continue reading →

Day 301 Weather. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again … it’s fascinating to me. I should have studied meteorology at some point in my life. I’d make a great weather-gal … I could point to suns and clouds … Continue reading →

Day 300 Well, here I am … day 300! I’ve made it this far … I’m rather tickled with myself! I’d say I’d wish I could rewrite some entries … but it is what it is … and I wouldn’t … Continue reading →