A Good Ole Monday Morning!!
It was a pretty uneventful weekend.
Sarah leaves for Louisiana today as soon as her mother arrives at the airport…we will surely miss her and her bulldog “Lily”…Sarah is the easiest person who is not family to have at our house…she is a strong self reliant person so she is not demanding or needy and she is a positive person so no whining or complaining from her…
I got a membership in the Gold’s Gym which is only a mile or so from my house…went over there yesterday for a workout…I think I am going to really like it there…
But first I went for a long walk (approx. 4.5 miles in 1 hr. 30 min.) and then went directly over to the gym where Julie dropped me off to workout there for another 30 minutes…well to make a long story shorter…I over did it as I have been known to do on occasion…it made me sick so I had to pass on Sarah's invitation to go out to Red Lobster for dinner…so her and Julie went out without me and I stayed home with the dogs and watched the Steelers game on the tube…I feel much better this morning…more like my old self…
We slept in both days until at least 7 a.m….ran all our errands and the such…we are a wee bit tired of having company though we can’t complain at all about the folk who have been visiting us…our routines get messed with when we have company but I would rather deal with it than not have company…my daughter Tiffany and her little one Adrik will be here at the end of the month and my brother Ric and his wife Bev will be here in March too…after that I don’t know…
It is so slow here that is scares me some…Western Tech can’t keep us around if they don’t have any work…I stand to lose my house if I lose my job…well, at least I won’t be alone…a lot of other folk are in or will be in the same boat along with me…during my lifetime I have witnessed recessions before but none any worse or uncertain as this one we are currently in…the one in the early 80’s cost me dearly…we lost our house in Angleton, TX, my welding business including all my equipment, and a Ford luxury car that was only a couple of years old…I am too old to start over again so I don’t want to…but I can and will if I have to…folk say that hard times make you a better person…after seeing a lot of hard times in my lifetime I am not so sure that this is always true…someone can live thru so much difficulty that it ruins their emotions and they can’t feel excitement or any other emotion for life any more…we need to feel life for what it is good or bad and have enough courage to make it…that is one of the dangers of getting old…so many old folk can’t feel any more…they have grown numb to life…I don’t want to end up old and numb and dead even while I am still living (at least medically alive)…all we have is right now this moment without any guarantees for tomorrow…take a deep breath and open your eyes and grasp life for what it is right now today!!
Time to go home again…later…
