What's That You Say, Mrs. Robinson?

The calendar has wings

It just dawned on me today as I was having lunch at CPK with my oldest son and my husband that Thanksgiving is only a little over a week away. Now I know everyone always says, "Where does the time go" etc. but this realization really shocked me.

Could it be that we have been experiencing much warmer than normal temperatures through October and November? Could it be that because I now have 2 kids in high school it now seems that everything that I have been about for the last 16 years is quickly coming to an end? Or could it be that because I've been swamped at work for the last 6 months, I just don't have the energy for much of anything else and so it seems that life is cruising by me at 100 mph?

I'm sure it is all of these things. An explanation doesn't make it any easier.

I love this time of year. It fills me up in every way. All of the friends, and food, and gifts (giving AND receiving), and attention to detail, and holiday music and giving thanks for what we have; everything just comes together.

So for now I will take a big, deep breath. A moment to chill. To slow things down. To enjoy. Before things get too crazy. Slow and easy. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Clever German Folk

This post is for my dear friend Twinga that I have not seen since she moved to Germany. It's only been a few weeks, but it is WAY too long already. Anyway, dear Fräulein, this one's for you...

It's a crazy world we live in today!

Seems to me that the world is all jumbled about right now. We could debate about the causes for all of it (like global warming, states of war, mean people), but that would go on forever. Instead, here are some the clues that have pointed me in this direction:

Town survives on 3 hours of water a day

And we're not talking about a rural town in India or Africa. We're talking about Tennessee!

Court packed for O.J. hearing -

Note: This is NOT a flashback...you are in 2007...

North Korea says thanks to U.S. Navy -

Really? NORTH Korea? OK, so maybe a good thing, but surreal none-the-less.

Toy contaminated with 'date rape' drug pulled -

It's just a crime that the the word "toy" would ever be in the same sentence as the phrase "date rape."

Do you get where I'm going with this? What's up? Can someone please explain? And you can't use the full moon as an excuse.

Another Cheerful Saturday Night

Gotta do my NaBloPoMo post for the day before I run out of time. It's amazing how making a public commitment to write every day will inspire you, or not.

Just finished a FAB dinner of Italian sausage ravioli's with pesto sauce, garlic bread and a nice Chard. (see photo to the left). We've been groveling on the couch all day watching college football. Navy vs. Notre Dame (go Midshipman!), LSU vs. Alabama, Washington vs. Stanford (WOOF!), and now Cal vs. WA State.

My oldest son, Payton, got a taste of what it is like to be committed to his girlfriend today. He announced to us this morning that he would be spending his day at a "cheer competition" up the city (SF) . WTF? As hubby dug further into why in the world he would be doing something like that, we found out that his new (1+months) girlfriend Alex was participating in this cheer competition. OH! OK, it's starting to make some sense. When we asked him how he was getting there, he explained that he was going with her DAD! Come to find out that Payton didn't volunteer to do this. What happened was:

"She mentioned that it was happening and then next thing I know she has made plans for me to go and spend the day with her Dad watching the 3 hour competition, of which she will appearing for no more than 3 minutes."

That's when we started laughing. Dude, you got roped. There's no way out. You just gotta suck it up. He better get some major brownie points for this one. Honestly, I think it is sweet. In a sick sorta way.

Call me crazy...

I'm doing it again!

No, not THAT!

THIS:

I've done this before and it was a really great way to get me writing again after struggling for a bit. LIKE I HAVE LATELY! So I'm going to do it again. For those of you who don't recognize this, it is NaBloPoMo which stands for "National Blog Post Month 2007." The idea is to commit to writing a blog post every day, each day, in the month of November. It is a spin-off of sorts from NaNoWriMo which is National Novel Writing Month. That is the more aggressive commitment to write a 50,000 novel in a month.

Yeah. 'Cause, like, I could do THAT. Actually I would love to do it someday, just not now.

So here I go. This is my first post of the month. It will get tricky as we go through Thanksgiving and as I prepare for our big holiday party which is on December 1st this year. Look at me, making excuses already!

So now I'm looking for inspiration. So I'm looking here, and here and here.

Only now I have to run off to pick my son up from basketball practice. At 9 o'clock at night. Sheesh.