How many of you were wondering if we would drop off the face of the earth just 10 years ago when we were turning to the year 2000? And here it is, a decade later, and we don’t even think about those things. We only think about how this decade has fairly flown.
So, did you stay up New Years Eve? As I did in past years, I spent my evening working - a noble pastime, not a fun one, but noble, also, lucrative, if you are getting only 32 hours a week and you get a chance to get your full 40. I simply put in my head that New Year’s Day is not a holy day but a holiday, so I don’t mind working on New Year’s Eve or that day.
My kids always remember spending New Year’s Eve with Grandma, who was more happy about staying up late than me. I guess the fun gene skipped a generation.
Happy birthday to Keeten Jones. He turned 12 this past month. He isthe son of Sandy and Eddie Jones. I hope the day was fun for Keeten and this year is fun, the last before he becomes a teenager. Look out Mom, the fun years are yet to come - Just hope Sandy enjoys giving those driving lessons.
It was also a month of Birthdays in my own family, Robert Swanson turned 40. His wife Shawn, who also had a birthday, had a party for Robert and a lot of his friends came to celebrate with him. It was quite fun.My nephew Alex and my nephew Major had birthdays. Major is 21, so a big one for him. My mother’s birthday was in December, so I took the day off of work and took the kids to Silver Dollar City. It was a fun day to think about my mom and see the lights at SDC. My, someone went to a lot of work there!
Linda Alsip had a birthday last month, on Christmas Day, nonetheless, but we won’t say how old she is.
It has been fun to have my children home for the last couple weeks. School does not start until about the 12th for them, so we get to keep them one more week. Both have spent a lot of time working, and we are glad that they are able to work when they are home. It has certainly been a blessing for them. College is such an expense.
I didn’t get a lot of Christmas cards this year. I had lost my address book in the move, so I only sent cards to people whose addresses I had, or to people who took time to send them to me. I did get two e-cards - it was surprising that I didn’t get more. In this age of computer-savvy people, I would think more would send them that way.But, there is the chance that most of the people who are my friends, are lucky to be computer literate. Not that I have idiot friends, but most of my friends are older ladies and were not raised on the computer like my children’s friends are.
Have a wonderful new year, and I hope you don’t have trouble writing 2010 in your check book. I suppose the banks will get a lot of January 2009 checks in the near future.
Opinion, Pages 5 on 01/06/2010