Thanksgiving Unlimited

My Thanksgiving was actually pretty nice, considering. I think it was helpful that our family was mostly all together. Great food, good times, kids running all around the house, loud talking and loud laughing, BINGO!, and booze...had by some.

See, I have a very interesting extended family on my sister-in-law's side. Great people...funny...and interesting.

We laughed a lot, but the funniest part, by far, was when my sister-in-law described how she gets her beautiful and funny, yet annoyingly drunk sister to be quiet....she spikes her drink with a SOMINEX!

OMG! I thought that was the funniest thing I'd heard in a very long time. Somehow the sister didn't quite appreciate my finding SO much humor in the situation.

Oh, well.

Good times, good times...

Happy Thanksgiving, Ya'll!

It's that time of year....the holidays have begun. It's been a pretty rough year for me, and for my family. And, although I could definitely be sad, I also have many things to be grateful for and about. Many.

I hope you can see yours, as well.

One step forward, three steps back

Just when you think you've learned a life's lesson, another one smacks you right in the forehead.

Isn't that lovely?

Inner Strength

Broken promises, broken dreams.
Broken life, so it seems.

My heart aches for more,
Floating through the clouds, I want to soar.

It feels so close, as if I can touch;
then reality sets in, and I'm crushed.

Faith the size of a mustard seed.
Changes...complications...situations impede.

Time and time again, I stand up strong.
Broken promises, broken dreams...all along.

Okay, okay....

Apparently, I haven't blogged for EIGHT DAYS.

This is my first post of November. Okay, it's been too long. I get it.

I've been trying, as I might, to figure out what to write about. What do you do when there's so much to write about, but nothing to write about...at the very same time?

I could talk about how I love meeting new people, yet I hate being nervous when having a first meeting. Isn't that sort of a contradiction? That seems to have been a theme for me lately. I'm a walking contradiction.

I'm complicated, yet simple.
I'm happy, yet sad.
I'm content, yet insatiable.
I'm humble, yet egocentric.

And, the list goes on.

And, I've recently met two people who have noticed this about themselves, as well. I think it's good when you can a) notice these things about yourself, and b) when you can actually admit it.

Or, I could write about how I've been busy with practicing second soprano in the choir for our annual Hanging of the Greens Christmas program coming up December 8th & 9th.

What else...what else...um...hmm...how about how thankful I am that some stress has been relieved regarding some of the personal matters I previously mentioned.

I could also talk about how it's been several days, if not a full week, since I've seen my good friends, and I miss them.

Or, I dunno. I should write a poem or something, huh?

Stay tuned.