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December 27, 2004
Warm Thoughts
This title has multiple meanings. I want to thank everyone for their warm thoughts. Words can not express how much it means to me that so many people, both those we know and those who we do not know, have kept us in their thoughts and prayers. Sometimes we all take for granted things such as our health, our ability to run, our friends, and many others. It should not take some kind of emergency or tragedy for us to express how much we appreciate these things and these people. Maybe I'm just a little bit sentimental because of the holidays. We received one of the most random acts of kindness today. My brother's new girlfriend is coming to visit tomorrow (more about that later). I was sent to buy a welcome gift from the family at a small gift shop that we absolutely love. My brother is good friends with the owner's daughter. She was in this afternoon when I bought the gift and I told her that my brother said hi. She told me I was the luckiest to have him for a brother, he is just a terrific guy. We got to talking and she insisted on sending a gift to my mother. B has never really met my mother, but she knows that we shop in her store and she just adores P, so she sent a gift to cheer her up! It was just the nicest thing that she could have done.
Onto the second part of the title. I'm thinking warm. It was bitter cold here this morning. We got some snow last night, not a lot, just a covering. I fell asleep early last night and slept late, probably my body telling me that I have not been treating it as well as it needs. So the temperature at the bottom corner of the Today show said 20 when I was getting dressed and the wind was howling. As long as I was moving, it was not all that bad. Since there was not a significant amount of snow, the plows did not attack the roads and it was after rush hour, the roads were quite slick. There was not very good footing. The wind was only really bad at two or three points on the run. When I was waiting to cross the road, I had to hold on the street sign so that I didn't get blown over. I felt so much better than I did yesterday. It is amazing what a day of rest can do for you sometimes.
This afternoon I ran a bunch of errands. I'm still looking for something to wear to the wedding I'm attending in January. I bought a skirt that I may or may not wear for it. I can always use it for New Year's Eve no matter what. Not like I have any plans as of yet. I did head to the gym and do the elliptical for half an hour and then lift. The good news is that my right foot cooperated and did not fall asleep while I was on the elliptical. I don't think that I could tolerate much longer than half an hour on the machine.
My brother's girlfriend is coming to the East Coast to visit. She is from Southern California and has never been East during the winter. They met through her older sister who is one of my brother's good friends. She thinks that it is cold when the temperature gets below 70, so we are all a little bit nervous about how she is going to react to this cold. It is supposed to warm up by the end of the week to unusually warm temperatures for December. They're heading up here for dinner, which I have been commissioned to prepare. I'm making chicken for all of those who eat meat and risotto for a side for those eating the chicken and a main dish for those of us who do not eat meat. The girlfriend does not eat meat most of the time. I actually enjoy cooking, my family makes fun of it because I don't particularly like to eat.
All right, now I must catch up on everyone else's blogs. Not having access to the computer has put me behind on my reading! Hey, we can all have some kind of indulgence.
Posted by Blondie at December 27, 2004 07:23 PM