Showing posts with label celebrate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrate. Show all posts

Monday, September 21, 2009

Happy Birthday Buddy!


Yesterday was my son's 10th birthday.


Happy Birthday Buddy!

You can send well wishes here.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Words To Live By (at least for the long weekend)


Motto To Live By
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an
attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
chocolate* in on hand, latte* in the other,
body thoroughly used up,
totally worn out, and screaming,
"WOO HOO, what a ride!"
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* Insert various favorable items - wine, food of choice, beer, soda etc.


Also - if you weren't by lately drop down one more post and see the answers to "Ask Jules"....

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Winter Solstice 2008

My 7 year old reminded me today that it was The Winter Solstice. This of course marks the shortest day of the year. However, one could also say that today is the day with the most hours of darkness. Something we in Minnesota do not need....

Right now our wee ones get on the bus in the dark and they are only home for a short while before it is dark again. It has been too cold for the school to let them out at recess time to play (highs of -7). So, they spend all of their time in the dark or artificial light (and I wonder why they act like a bunch of caged animals) Workers are stuck in the same boat - to work in the dark and home in the dark, and if their office has no windows - another caged animal..... So basically right now I am living in a really bad zoo! I have taken to the hibernation method myself! Sleep through the winter as much as possible, only waking to fuel my body.
Right now it has been dark before 5 p.m. and it doesn't get fully light until almost 8 in the morning. No wonder our zone suffers from high numbers of us suffering from S.A.D.

Maybe we could look at it in this way, today, marks a change! (If we can pull our head out of the covers or out of our depressive fogs long enough to look at anything anyway....)

From here on out the darkness will become less and less. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and that light is the sun. More hours of sun!!!! How lovely it will be to sit down to supper in the light. .... oh the joy of sunshine.

I have added a set of artwork celebrating this day as others have before us.