Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I know I've been gone from my bloggy friends a long while. I'll be back. Meanwhile, LT Dan and I are about to travel to the great frozen tundra that is the Midwest. Wish us luck, I imagine we'll be spending Tuesday night in O'Hare and if we aren't, then we'll be driving from another airport to my Mom's in a snow storm. Yeah. LT Dan says to think positive. I'll try.

I hope you all are well, happy, warm and safe. Please give your babies an extra kiss on their little heads for me and enjoy your holiday!

I like this

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men’s initiative and independence.

And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.”
————-William Boetcker (1873-1962)

Sit n Spin

I was going to title this spinning but then I decided ya'll would think I was a healthy person...no, not so much. Or at least not enough to do that spinning thing.

I'm really talking about Fay. Who sits on top of me spinning. Well not really on top of me, but she's right out there to the East of me and I can see her in my sky...spinning. She won't go away and she won't be in any way predictable. Very bizarre storm. The meteorologist blogs I read are going crazy and one is calling this storm "The Joker" I'm inclined to agree.

The thing that made me cry today (8/10/08)

I adore So You Think You Can Dance. Little known fact about Bon--in my first life I was a dancer for 20+ years. I wish I had had the opportunity to do the dancing they do these days...oh yeah gimme some of that. These two were just extraordinary, and that young man has had little if any formal training, that's all him, all natural raw self-taught talent under some direction. Amazing.

For my part, the story I saw in the dance was orders, separation. The shirt just pushed me over the edge, I have a shirt. It's got so much magic in it it can actually save the day when I am in the depths of sadness. It's the ugliest shirt you've ever seen, got paint all over it, acid holes, you name it. But it belonged to LT Dan for years and now, it's MY magic shirt.

I haven't seen my husband in over a month. Damn I miss him. One more month and I get to see him again. This has been a long stretch. Bless his heart he actually watched this whole video and another one too! Just for me. Dance would not be his biggest interest. ;)