Countdown

Well, here we are, making the countdown to the big day. I'm excited. It means time with friends and family and time off. We'll also be celebrating the new year. I am thinking about how good a year it has been, and it really has. I think that each year, life gets better. Hope that the trend continues and that 2008 is a good one too.

I am so Cold!

It is amazing to me that I can be so cold inside! I have three layers and am snug underneath a bedspread on the couch. Right now we are watching the Hudsucker Proxy. It is a good movie. An odd movie, but a good one. Just got the word that we will be going to see Van Halen in April. Sweet. Pretty cool with me. Play out in Lake Geneva this weekend. Should be fun. We have a few surprises worked up. I've been thinking a lot lately. But not too much... don't want to get too freaky-deaky.

Sad News

Today I learned that we lost my Grand Aunt Katie. I was fortunate to have to have seen her just a few weeks ago. Her health seemed to have declined rapidly. It was difficult seeing her, as it had been quite some time for me. Then to see her in rough shape. I wish that I had known her more as I became an adult. I don't know that regret is quite the word... but perhaps it is.

The Happiest Place on Earth

A few weeks ago I was at Disney World. I love it there. Is it wrong for a 35 year old woman to have a crush on Mickey Mouse? To me, Mickey represents the happiest of times. I am, to outright steal a phrase, simply mad about the the mouse. I first met Mickey when I was 5. Didn't run into him again until I was 30. Fortunate enough to rekindle our relationship again just a few weeks ago. I am very glad for that. It's an emotion... sure I know that Mickey is really someone in a mouse costume. This is going to seem corny, perhaps even pathetic... but what the heck... in my heart, Mickey really is a mouse that owns a dog and has a dog for a friend that drives a car and wears pants. Mickey is right up there with Santa Claus.

Mickey is a part of me that I don't want to let go. The part that I don't want to let grow up. The part of me that feels unbridled joy, without worry. A bit of selfish, childish pleasure. That's the part of me that I want to hold on to, to remember that indeed, sometimes life can be that simple. It doesn't have to always be about car payments, reports, grocery shopping and laundry. I remember wanting to grow up so much I couldn't stand it. Now, I wish not so much for being younger, but for being smarter in life. But, I guess that's all part of it. Am I without regret? Not completely. But I try not to let it drag me down... if you live in the past, you can't make a better future.

Thanks Mickey!

Sunday

Today is Sunday. The day after Saturday and the day before Sunday. Very good, Ann. Yesterday we had a whole snot load of snow and then freezing rain, then rain. Then it kind of froze and today it was much warmer, so we had a lot of fog.

On Friday night, we put up the Christmas tree. Then had about 6 mugs of hot chocolate. Saturday, well like I said before it snowed. So we stayed close to home. We went out to eat with our friends at the restaurant in town. It's fun to do that. Especially in town. I like going there.

Today, I had rock and roll practice. Things went well. I like it.

This week we will have to start Christmas shopping and take care of the people that take care of us.

We have a countdown for this month. Counting down to a Packer game. SWEET.