Okay 2008...

...I'm done with you. In fact I'm pretty much sick of you.

Out!

Get!

Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you.

Today I Am An Adult

No, I didn't get married, or buy a house, I did something that most people take for granted.

I ran some errands and went to visit a friend.

I did this with a borrowed car and I did this alone. For the first time.

I have never had the freedom to go where I wanted to, when I wanted to, and mapped the trip the way I felt like it. It was wonderful. 

I have never felt like an adult, as I've mentioned here before I've waiting for a letter to come and give me the instructions on how to be grown up. Or an epiphany that would open up that closed of part of my brain that keeps me feeling like a child.

I got my epiphany while sitting behind the wheel of my neighbor's Neon. It was if sinuses I didn't know I had suddenly cleared and I was able to breathe deep and free for the first time.   

It was a nice way to spend Theanna's birthday eve.

Now I can't wait to do it again.

Doesn't anyone want to give me a car?

Driving Force

This winter I haven't gotten depressed about the snow. I think it's because I move Laurie's truck for her and that makes it feel like a storm is a good thing. I love to drive. I've driven alone twice now and am looking forward to a time when I can just go anytime I feel like it.

Someday soon I will take a road trip to New Jersey and see my Goils. There will be much laughter and kitchen snuggling. I might have to wait until spring, but today is the first day of winter so it's not so far away. The days will start getting longer, and longer. I can't wait.

I haven't heard from my cousin since Thanksgiving, I wonder if I should call her or wait until she calls me. Waiting for a call hasn't worked out very well for me, I've lost friends that way. They might say differently but that's how I remember it; I decided to let them call me for a change and they never did and the next thing I know I reach out only to have my hand slapped back.

I'm sleepy.

In This Holiday Season

Do yourself a favor and rent Kinky Boots.

Whatever Lola wants

Lola gets
And little man, little Lola wants you
Make up your mind to have no regrets
Recline yourself, resign yourself, you're through
I always get what I aim for
And your heart'n soul is what I came for

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets,
Take off your coat
Don't you know you can't win?
You're no exception to the rule,
I'm irresistible, you fool, give in!

Update

How was your Thanksgiving? Mine was great, thanks. 

My cousin, Cathy, her daughter, Christina, and Cathy's companion, Greg, came over for dinner. I made turkey, dinner rolls, heart attack mashed potatoes, and Cathy and company brought nibbles (deviled eggs, olives, pickles, etc.) and cranberry sauce. The best part was the conversation and the snuggles (hey, Tavie, I got kitchen snuggles from my cousin!) and the laughs.

One other Thanksgiving note; I was talking to Sparkie the other day, I was telling him about the push to make lobster the Thanksgiving meal in Maine. He pointed out in fact lobster was served at the first Thanksgiving, but never caught on. I said that it was because they were so hard to stuff and the guy with the instructions died.

I've kept the place pretty clean after the huge push to get it clean for company; dishes are done every day so that there is nothing in the sink when I go to bed, the table has remained mostly clutter free and I'm going to vacuum today.

In cooking news, for the first time I boiled down the turkey carcass for stock, it took until yesterday to get it down to a really flavorful broth. It was so good that I had to have some last night with the last of the left over turkey meat and potato. Very yummy! I'll have to get another bird while they are relatively cheap for cooking and broth. I'd like to can it or freeze it. Yes, it was that good.

Now I've got to get two more colors of silk and I can make my curtains for the living room. I'd like to go to The Christmas Tree Shop again to get one more curtain rod for the kitchen, but I don't have any of the fabric for that yet so it can wait.

I'm off to eBay to look at fabric!