November 25, 2005
Getting started...
Ok, I'm joining the ranks of bloggers out there. I don't know how faithful I will be about posting to it though. I seem to have way too little time for the things I like to pursue.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and also my son's birthday. I just finished a red velvet cake (his favorite) but had to make it with Splenda as he was diagnosed with diabetes a couple of years ago. I've been told you can't tell the difference in how the cake tastes, so we shall see. He will be 34 years old which just boggles my mind to think about. It seems like I'm the one that should be 34! LOL
We are going to have dinner with my mother-in-law and her new husband (as of last July). Since they married, they have not had a "family gathering" so I think he is a little nervous. I was told that he has been cleaning like crazy in preparation! LOL It is a large family with a LOT of grandchildren and great-grandchildren; so things should be interesting. I hope we all don't make him wonder what the heck he got into. :-)I am looking forward to meeting his daughter and her children. They live here in town, but we haven't had the opportunity to meet them yet.
Ronald and I will probably take in a movie in the evening if we can find one that is not extremely crowded. I went earlier tonight with Becky to see "Walk the Line". It was an excellent movie! I was thinking that Joquin Phoenix was just not the guy to play Johnny Cash; but he nailed it! It was pretty awesome that the stars did their own singing and they sounded so much like Johnny and June Carter Cash. If you haven't seen it....do!
The movie made me think of my mom. About half way thru the movie, they started singing a lot of songs that I remember my mother playing on the stereo when I was in grammar school. She had some of his albums, as well as other country albums; and she would have me put several on the stereo to play and I ended up learning all of the songs she listened to.
I got a little teary thinking about it during the movie. My mother has been gone for 24 years and the unexpected memory caught me off-guard. It's amazing how you can hear a particular song or music and it can take you rushing back to another time and place in your life.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and also my son's birthday. I just finished a red velvet cake (his favorite) but had to make it with Splenda as he was diagnosed with diabetes a couple of years ago. I've been told you can't tell the difference in how the cake tastes, so we shall see. He will be 34 years old which just boggles my mind to think about. It seems like I'm the one that should be 34! LOL
We are going to have dinner with my mother-in-law and her new husband (as of last July). Since they married, they have not had a "family gathering" so I think he is a little nervous. I was told that he has been cleaning like crazy in preparation! LOL It is a large family with a LOT of grandchildren and great-grandchildren; so things should be interesting. I hope we all don't make him wonder what the heck he got into. :-)I am looking forward to meeting his daughter and her children. They live here in town, but we haven't had the opportunity to meet them yet.
Ronald and I will probably take in a movie in the evening if we can find one that is not extremely crowded. I went earlier tonight with Becky to see "Walk the Line". It was an excellent movie! I was thinking that Joquin Phoenix was just not the guy to play Johnny Cash; but he nailed it! It was pretty awesome that the stars did their own singing and they sounded so much like Johnny and June Carter Cash. If you haven't seen it....do!
The movie made me think of my mom. About half way thru the movie, they started singing a lot of songs that I remember my mother playing on the stereo when I was in grammar school. She had some of his albums, as well as other country albums; and she would have me put several on the stereo to play and I ended up learning all of the songs she listened to.
I got a little teary thinking about it during the movie. My mother has been gone for 24 years and the unexpected memory caught me off-guard. It's amazing how you can hear a particular song or music and it can take you rushing back to another time and place in your life.
November 23, 2005
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