If the sky above you

I mentioned in my last post about my two friends from work. This made me think that I must mention four awesome friends who have and will always be there for me. Mary and Phillip and Mary Alice and T. R. have been there for many times. Mary Alice has been my good friend all my life and then the Lord brought Mary into my life for the past few years. I mentioned them earlier in a post but did not explain how they have truly been great friends. Phillip is one of those guys that if you need some help, he'll be right there to lend a hand. Mary is one who will listen to your problems and pray for you and yours and then be at your door as soon as you need her. I have been through thick and then with Mary Alice - she lost her parents at an early age. Her parents and my parents were great friends. She has been there for me during the death of my parents and her husband, T. R. has been right by her side. By the way, they are all great cooks:) Thank you friends.

"I get by with a little help from my friends." - John Lennon

I had the best time with two of my friends B. J. and Amy (who are also coworkers) today. We had lunch and talked for about three hours at Amy's house. They have been really great to me especially during my Dad's illness and death. Cherish your friends!

On the reading front - still behind on what I wanted to do. Now I'm dreading having to be back in 5 days to work and still have some things to do for work I wanted to finish.

Off topic, we started watching the series Dexter - Season 1 - very weird but I've had so many people tell me how great it is, I'm going to keep watching and I'm sure it won't take long until I am hooked.

Would you like me to fix it for you? Personally, I think you look a little more devil-may-care this way, but it's up to you. - Luna Lovegood

Monday, we had a fine meal at Betolla - scrumptious lasagna tonight.

I just had to mention that we really love Harry Potter movies. In fact, we are about to watch the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Widescreen Edition)
for the 4th time. My favorite character is Luna.

Titles! We don't need no stinking titles!

OK, this comes from the quote about badges which has been changed up from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and then also in Blazing Salles... but my point I'm trying to express is sometimes it is hard to come up with a blog post title.

So, my dad - I had planned to read ...not there yet (unless you could reading internet stuff - does Farmville count??? - and I guess to some that does), hoped to walk - too cold!!!!.... Oh, yeah, I'm not supposed to be squandering life... hummm... this is my Christmas break, after all.

Am I squandering?

I found Benjamin Franklin's quote about life, and I wonder if I am squandering time.  I know there are many wasteful times I can think of - I know I spend way too much time on Facebook games - or maybe - it's a great way to relax - this is debateable.

So, I'm thinking I will post what I am doing each day - just for a laugh - not for anyone else, but just to see what I am actually doing.

Since I posted my first post on this blog (about Christmas) I have done a lot of relaxing squandering of time.  I've watched three movies - Up (Single Disc Widescreen)
! (again - what a laugh), Four Christmases
(kind of funny but not that funny), Maiden Heist, - woops - I mean four movies - Julie & Julia
(totally awesome, glad I purchased this one).

We met some friends for dinner last night and went to Sweet Bones Alabama - nice barbecue place.  Tonight we are meeting with some other friends and hopefully we will be able to get into California Pizza Kitchen. 

Tomorrow I AM going to read.  I love to read and need to get away from the noise of the television and just do it.  I have a week off and this will be a great time to get back into the habit.  Maybe, I'll even take a walk ....

Now, I think I will "publish post" this and take a nap:)

Christmas 2009

This was our first Christmas without our Dad. It was hard eight years ago when we lost our Mom but this particularly hard, I guess because we didn't have Dad to fuss over and take our minds off of our grief. We didn't do anything the same things we usually do - I guess it was hard to be around each other. I talked to one of my sister's and her daughters - they were calling me to wish me a Merry Christmas and it took all I could not to cry. I guess we all should get together and have a real good cry.