New Year

Okay....here we go again. My head is swimming with ideas of things I should do or not do for the New Year. If you think about all the things you have to do everyday...or are suppose to do everyday...when can you sleep?

Here is an example of what everyone is suppose to do each day:

Bathe/shower: brush 3x/day: floss: drink 8 glasses of water; take their vitamins/pills; exercise - walk 1/2 hour per day; stretch; work, usually 8 hours per day; commute back and forth to work; eat three meals; prepare three meals; do the dishes; read the Bible or something inspirational; do some housework (it has to get done); do some home repair, prepare for the next day; learn something; sleep...6-8 hours.

Yeah, this is not true for everyone...some people have other people available to them to prepare their meals and do their housework, run their bath, drive them to work. Or some don't work or some work at home. All in all....there's just too much.

I want to learn something every day. I signed up for online computer training...cost my employer almost $300 but when is there time? Plus, everyone needs some time to just do something fun and a waste of time...for me it is play Pop Drop at myway.com. The game is stupid as I don't win anything...not really and it's time consuming...time better spent elsewhere. I usually only play one game a day and I'm usually on the phone or listening to a TV program.

This leads me to another thing..TV. Who really has the time? I watch a few shows but mostly I listen to them while I'm making my meals, working on the computer, folding laundry.

I can not imagine having kids. Gawd, where do these people find the time. My brother has two kids and he's constantly going... a lot more than I would if I had kids. (He had to end our conversation once because his 11 year old son wanted apple cider and he had to drive to a store to get it for him. Yeah, like that would happen if I was the parent. He says it's different when you have them...you do things you would swear you won't if you didn't have kids and were imaging you had them.)

I guess I really need to resolve to not sleep so much. Let's see if that happens.

Christmas Eve

Okay, here we are again. Another Christmas Eve. Phil and I have watched football today...Bills are out of it as they lost. Oh well. Phil is making pumpkin pie. We will go to church tonight for the candlelight service. I wonder if the preacher will tell a charming Christmas story of his adventures the last few weeks where he found the true meaning of Christmas in the most unlikely of places. He tells one each year but they are not stories where he actually was the partipate but he will say he is. Seems to be to be wrong. (See my post from last Christmas Eve.) At least it is to me.

There is no snow here in Oklahoma...this isn't so unusual. There is also no snow back home in Western New York which is downright weird. Not having a white Christmas there seems sacreligious. As wrong as narrating a Christmas story that didn't happen to you....but less consequential.

I have much to be thankful for...I have been blessed. Yes, my mother is not here on this earth anymore and that pains me so, but all in all, life is good. Any troubles I may have can be best summed up by the words of my mama..."it will all work out." I truly believe her.

This is my first post on this new beta Google version. I'm not sure what the difference is. Guess I'll see when I post.

To my loyal readers..both of you....Merry Christmas!