Day Forty 2012

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
Eubie Blake

Day Thirty Nine 2012

Thanks to generous peeps (daughters Kelly and Holly and hubby Neil), I am enjoying my Christmas and birthday gifts--a Bose audio headset that arrived today (can you say Amazon gift certificate?!) and an iPod Nano that I'm stuffing with my favorite tunes. These two gadgets (I admit it--I like gadgets) make for a most excellent combination. Bose sound is everything it's cracked up to be and these are very comfortable. (I hate ear buds.) I'm in musical hog heaven.

Day Thirty Eight 2012

Hubby Neil and a couple of his co-workers received a thank-you recently, apparently for a job well done, from another company they'd done business with. Turns out it's the gift that keeps on giving--a year's subscription to a cookie club called Cheryl's. This month, just in time for Valentine's Day, he got a box filled with soft, heart-shaped frosted cookies. They're pretty tasty. The next batch will be egg-shaped in time for Easter. Sweet! Unless you're trying to drop some pounds. And all this comes on the heels of the scolding I got from dear hubby about buying too much cookie dough from our middle school peeps last fall. I can't really fault him, since the cookie club subscription was a gift. But I probably won't be buying any cookie dough from anybody this year. Here is the link if you want to check out Cheryl's goodies.   http://www.cheryls.com/

Day Thirty Seven 2012

I did not err; there does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.

~John Milton coined the phrase 'silver lining' in Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634

Day Thirty Six 2012

Grandson Knox watched his first Super Bowl tonight. Well, it did hold his attention for a few seconds.

Congrats to son in law Kerry, whose New York Giants beat the Patriots and won the Super Bowl in what turned out to be one of the more exciting finishes in this over-hyped game. It was nice to have a team to root for this time. And it's always fun to watch the underdog win.