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09.12.05 (3:01 am)   [edit]
Good Morning:)

I thought I would do a quickie little post about my weekend. I have to say. it was utterly fantastic!! Saturday went shopping for cruise clothes mostly. The problem was, I didnt come home with any:( We leave in 12 days now!!!!!! I went looking for some cute summery little play things and didnt have any luck. Every single store was stocked with heavy fall clothes already. Ok...its Florida....Its still 90 plus degrees here...daily. Sweaters, corderoys, long sleeves.....aint happening for my Western Carribean cruise. Dammit!! With three closets of clothes, I am sure that I can find enough to wear for the week. I have the dinner attire. We have two fancy nights of dress. Got that covered ok. Was hoping to find some loose, flowing sundresses to make me look 20 pounds lighter......didnt happen!

Sunday, I had planned to drag David shopping. He needs some new T's and shorts. Im not quite sure of his size....so he was coming. Had to do a Walmart run...blah, blah, blah. Just an errand kind of day. We were sitting having our breakfast planning our route and my brother calls....We are taking the boat out on the lake...wanna go???? Um, Gee...let me think.....OK!!!!!!!

This last whole week's weather has been very dreary, grey and gloomy. That hurricane Ophelia had been churning off the coast all week, just sitting there making our days fugly. She finally drifted away and Saturday was picture perfect day. Not a cloud in the sky all day long. The humidity was lower than average. the lake was gorgeous!! We could not have asked for a nicer day. We wrapped it up about 4, drove home and showered and met my bro(again) and sister out for dinner at 6. How could it possibly have been any better?????

Can we re-wind and do it again????? I wanna play some more!!!!
 
today
09.06.05 (12:21 pm)   [edit]
Good Morning:)

I thought maybe a I would try and catch up here a little bit before I started working, before I started some laundry, before I tried to clean up the house a little. I have been really, really busy lately.

I had a friend, S, stay with me last week. She is from my hometown in Ohio. Issues, issues and more issues with her. I feel bad that I dont have the answers for her. I wish I could wave my magic wand and make her life happier and healthier. No such luck. If anything, she did get some reprieve from her troubles while she was here. At least for a little while.

I cant tear myself away from watching the news. I am having such a difficult time trying to express my feelings about New Orleans. Most of you know that my state got hit with four devasting hurricanes in a 6 week time span last year. Well, you know.....we didnt suffer as bad as we thought we did. This last week has definitely humbled all Floridians that I know. Yes, some people are still rebuilding, yes some people lost some valuables, yes we were inconvienced without electricity and water for periods of time. But, no way did we remotely go thru what those people of New Orleans and neighboring communities are going thru right now. I just can not fathom what they are going thru. How they sleep at night, how they fuction thru the day. How they have hope. I cant help myself this week thinking how extremely selfish, spoiled, and ungrateful I am. I thought life sucked last year when I didnt have power and water for a week. Big effing deal. I had my home and all my family.

I know there are countries out there that live like that daily and really dont know of a differant life. I remember a few comments during the London bombings that were made...people have been going through hell and back daily. But, when its not in your face, when its not in your neighborhood...you really just dont know. You really arent as aware of it. I know there are refugees in other parts of the world. I know there are people that have had thier lives stripped of all they own. When its in your own backyard, when its your own gov't that is supposed to help. its still unimaginable. I am horrified daily. I am humbled daily. I will live a life with more appreciation of what we have. Safety, a solid roof, daily meals and my family.

Dave and I are going on a cruise in 18 days. I am very much looking forward to not having a cell phone and a pager attahed to my hip. I am looking forward to Freckles, my Moms dog, not being attached to my ass. I am looking forward to not having to check emails and the answering machine. Nothing but 7 days of bliss with my husband and friends/family. We are sailing on the Carnival Glory. News had spread that the Carnival Cruise lines were lining up to provide shelter for the hurricane survivors. I would not have been upset in the least had it been our ship destined to provide such service. I would have gladly changed our vacation plans in the scope of things. Gladly. Luckily, though, we are set ot sail on our 11th wedding anniversary. Has it been 11 already?? Seems like yesterday:) Only another 80 to go!