I can't say why, but I have this feeling, deep in my heart, that 2004 is going to be a great year, right from the start. 2003, was dicey and wild, but 2004 is going to be mild. Okay, that's enough rhyming. I'm sitting here on New Year's Eve day, looking out my back yard window into our lovely, peaceful, backyard, at the orange trees, heavy with fruit, and the squirrels and crows going about their business, with two sets of jammies on, and a rested mind form our recent trip to San Francisco, and a belly full of German food from last night, and it's hard to imagine that anything could be wrong in this world.
Wait! I take it back! I just went to get a cup of coffee, and when I went to pour it, it was darn near clear! And then I noticed hot water running all over the counter top with floating coffee grounds going this way and that! Seems I didn't manage to completely close the coffee compartment, so I didn't get complete coffee, and had to start the process all over again. Such problems, tsk tsk.
But really, I wonder what is in store for 2004? Will there be another war? Will the Dow Jones go up, or will it stay lower? Will my son's soccer tournament team win it's game, will my weight go down, or just stay the same? Oh wait, I'm rhyming again! Better go try for that coffee one more time. Ahhhhhh, there we go.
I love January. It gives me the feeling of being baptized from duties. All the fuss of the holidays comes to a screeching halt. The twins have just about wrapped up their science fair projects. Oh, did I say the twins? Was it their projects or mine? Sometimes it's hard to remember. And now it's just soccer All-Star games, getting back on the exercise track at the gym, and continuing on my quest to earn 50K a year working 20 hours a week. Any suggestions anyone? The next few things coming up are my birthday, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, no fuss no muss. It's easy street until July! Well, for me at least.
My better half has been doing his best to hang on
to his career. Some days the outlook is grand, and other days it is grim. I'm just trying to take it one day at a time, and make the best of it. It got so wild before Christmas, that I got down to a one minute schedule. I finally, for the first time in nearly thirty years, gave up reading the L.A. Times. I just couldn't fit it in. It's killing me wondering what I've missed. However, I did get a chance on our holiday to start the novel 'Tis, by Frank McCourt, which I've had in my possession for I don't know how many years, and I am enjoying it thoroughly. I figure if I only get an hour to read each day, may as well make it count. You know it's a good book when you choose to forego sleep to read just one more chapter.
Now, I've just got to get those Thank Yous out, and put the birthdays on the 2004 calendar. I think I can handle that. I've got a book waiting for me so tootles!
