Random Saturday morning thoughts...

I have to be at work, in my Monday - Friday chair at 9:45am for yet another migration/upgrade of an application. This time it's VDIRECT FOR THE INTERNET. It has an alias of MOBIUS (pronounced MO-BE-US). Some call it V D R NETS. I call it Moby One Kunoby. How ever you spell that I don't know. Wasn't he a star wars character? I didn't really care too much for Star Wars. I could dread going in but hey it's good paying work and it keeps me eating and living indoors. You don't even get dirty tho sometimes it can make you sweat.

We are trying to start a new family structured night out for Mexican food at Monterrey. Last night was our first night. I am looking for forward to trying to do that. Our lives are so stretched out with other predictible and those unpredictable things that it will be nice to add something predictable that we can look forward to on a regular basis. (All that to say, we like to eat and be together). Maybe if a month has 5 Fridays we can have "Taco Bar" at home on the 5th one!

Oh Christmas tree... hope to get it put up today. It's time to do it or it could be too late soon. I woke up early this morning and did my usual mix and match of reading (ajc.com, tiderinsider.com, work email, etc). I also stopped off to read a caring bridge blog of an Alabama H.S. kid in a car accident and of course Jarrett Boston's CB blog also. His mom has a way with words and I feel so deeply for her tho I don't know her and she lives about a mile away. She quoted something she read on a tombstone at McKendree UMC. "I miss you everywhere!". Maybe it was one of those little metal plate tabs that you can attach to the stone like Peggy and Bruce Lang have on Alan's. I don't know. But as simple as it is, it's profound. I miss Grandma at Christmas most of all. I try to make it better for others to honor how special she made it for us. I miss Mama Sib's soup (and cornbread) anytime it's cold and I need some "home". I miss you everywhere! Kind of says it all.

The toilet in the downstairs bathroom is dripping into a ziploc bowl. I can hear it as I sit in her at the kitchen table that we call the internet cafe. It's time to do something about that before it overflows unknown and ruins that pine floor in there. (( Don't put pine floors in bathrooms ok! ))

I'm going to the beach more in 2008... I'm making that one of my goals.

I'm going to the gym more in 2008.... It won't take much to beat 2007 but hey.

I'm going to get my passport in 2008... so when I'm ready to cruise I can.

I'm going to fix alot of what broke in 2007... it's time.

Speaking of fixing, the dishwasher has been down since March. I am on the verge of making a move on that. Tuesday I'm going to do something about it... more to come.

I'm happy today. Reflective as always but I am up and moving, I've showered and I'm warm. Lord walk with me today, watch over me, watch over those I love, help me to do right, act right, not yell when a word of encouragement will do, help me to laugh at some of the things that should make me fall down and cry, pick me up if I fall and help me carry on. Please don't let the toilet ruin that floor. And dear Lord, let's get that dishwasher fixed somehow, someway. Keep me sober and sane. Thank you that I have that job I tell you I hate sometimes. Bless the Rodeo. Thank you for being here on mornings when it seems no one else is. Lead and guide, except when I know better. Provide understanding, comfort and love for those that don't seem to have it or find it. Thank you for everything and I mean EVERYTHING. Thank you for being everywhere since I can't be and don't need to be. Amen.