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Wow! is all I can say about these last 4 days when my guy came to visit.  This was our first visit even though like I said before we have known each other for at least 6 years.  Everything was so smooth, relaxed and as comfortable as if we had been together for years.  Him and my son actually had a couple of conversations, which was nice.  

On Sunday before he left to go back home, we went down to the dog park that is close to my house, we were there the day before because they also have trails for walking and biking and we saw some really cool things but the only camera we had was my cell phone, so I took a few pictures and we decided to come back in the morning before he had to leave.  We got some really cool pictures of the scenery as well as some of each other and together.  Things went so well that before he left we talked about the next time we can get together.

Here are a couple of pictures that I took.

RockIce

Small Creek Ice Melting

I’m still watching hockey, which of course my son thinks it is because of my guy but it isn’t, it is because of the Olympics that I now like hockey.  But my guy also likes hockey which is great because now I have someone I can ask questions when I have some.  We even watched a ST. Louis Blues game when he was here.  We watch basically the same shows or the same type of shows and that is great.

The NASCAR race Sunday was good, Dale Jr. got the pole for the race in Atlanta, which is a good sign that this year might be better.  As the race progress it seemed that the Hendricks team and those that had Hendricks parts were having a lot of tires problems, which was not good but Jr. was able to finish the race semi decently.

Carl Edwards, who is a local boy, did not have a good day.  He was taken out early in the race by an accident which took him most of the race to fix his car and get back out there.  But when he did, he did something that I’ve never seen him do before, he went after the driver that he felt was part of the cause of the accident that took him out.  The first time Carl tried to hit him, he missed but the next lap he got him and because NASCAR still has a spoiler on the cars that has showed they don’t do the job they were intended to do, Brad K. went flying and flipped over and he was not able to finish the race.  In fact Brad was visibly shaken up when he finally got out of his car.  NASCAR officials wasted no time black flagging Carl for the remainder of the race and called him to the “Trailer” for a meeting asap.  No word yet from NASCAR as to what Carl’s punishment will be for that.

Now I really like Carl and don’t really care for Brad but that was just wrong of Carl to do, it could have gone much worse than it did.  These boys have been going at it for some time now, they both race in the Nationwide and the Cup series and have gotten into plenty of incidents with each other and Brad’s driving and attitude has not made him many friends in either series but Carl really needed to have handled that a different way.

I haven’t watch the Olympics in some time but I’ve really got into them this year.  I’ve watched a lot of Curling, which I had never heard of before, as well as hockey.  I’m really starting to like hockey and come March when the season resumes I will be watching what I can of the games.  I’m really looking forward to watching the US/Canada men’s hockey game for the Gold…..Go Team USA!!!

A very good friend of mine from California that I have known for about 6 years or so now, we have been watching the Olympics together, even with the time difference.  We have gotten much closer this past year as he was already my best friend before my husband died and more so after this death.  I’m able to tell him anything about what is going on in my life, the ups and downs of dealing with a sudden death and all that has occurred because of it.  Next month he will be coming out to Missouri so that we can spend some time together and see how things go.  I am very much looking forward to this.

One of my favorite shows Law & Order: Criminal Intent’s new season starts March 30th and there is going to be a major cast change after the first 2 episodes.  Looks like Vincent, Kathryn and Eric will be leaving after that so the story line must be a good one in order to be able to write those 3 main characters of f the show.  I hope they do get good actors with interesting characters to replace them as Vincent and Kathryn are the original detectives.  I’m not sure Jeff Goldbloom can carry this off by himself  because for one thing he only came on the show last season so not enough time to viewers to get to know him and two Vincent’s character and acting is going to be very hard to replace but I will continue to watch to see where they go from here.

Last night I finished reading Blood Work again by Michael Connelly.  It was really good and much better than the movie.  In the book the killer is different than in the movie.  Since they can go into more detail in the book, it makes the story more complete.

Now I’m reading Angels Fight.  Harry Bosch is the Det and I really like him.  If I hadn’t mentioned it before, I’m re-reading Michael Connelly’s books in order that they were released because he sometimes mentions things that happened in a previous book.

Since I’ve cancelled my Sirius subscription after they gave me some free months, I’ve started going to Live365.com again.  Don’t ask me why but I just love Celtic/Irish music, especially on Winter mornings.  But this last week been listening to it longer than just in the mornings.

One day I was laughing all day because of the songs they were playing, it really had me in a good mood.  The 2 stations I listen to most are Highlander radio and Celtic-Rock radio.  If you like listening to finding new music or music from around the world, you should check out live365.com, and not I don’t make any money be sending people there lol

I had my bankruptcy hearing today, went as expected.  I’m still screwed but it will clear some things off my credit history in time I guess.

My friend that took me there stopped so I could buy some beer.  The store didn’t have my usually brand of Rolling Rock so  I bought 12 Budweisers, which is the brand I use to drink until they pissed me off by selling to InBev, which months after I switch to Rolling Rock I found out it is owned by AB which InBev bought so either way they are still getting my money.

Oh well crap happens lol  Like I don’t know that already.  Yes I know it is before 5pm but I’m drinking already and it feels good.

I know it is only 9 days in but so far things are going good.

I do have my bankruptcy hearing on Tuesday so that will be one more thing out of the way.  I moved my office upstairs which I really like because it is better than being on the couch all day working.  It is more convenient since my son is living downstairs and sleeps days since he works nights. 

I started reading again Blood Work by Michael Connelly.  They made it into a movie staring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Daniels and even though the book is much better I can’t help “hear” Clint and Jeff’s voices while I’m reading LOL

I’m a bit sore yesterday and today, my shower backed up the other day and I worked on it all day trying to get it unclogged.

Can’t believe in March will be a year already since my husband died.  Time went be fast through it didn’t feel like it a few months ago.  But now that the “fog” is starting to finally lift I realize how much time has gone by.

Sure this new year is better than this past year. 

I had a couple of glasses of Seagram’s 7 & Cherry Dr. Pepper, played a few games on pogo.com.  Then had some leftovers and a piece of spice cake I made and put in one of my favorite movies, Same Time, Next Year with Alan Alda and Elene Bernstein, I might have spelled her name wrong.

This is the exciting life I lead.  Not that my husband and I did anything special on New Year’s Eve or anytime really but at least I wasn’t alone.  Well that isn’t true either but someone was here.

It was a tough week but today I’m actually doing pretty good.  It is snowing out and I’ve got Christmas music going.

Last night when Justin, my son got home from work, he works until Midnight,  we talked for a few minutes.  Told him I’m sorry things aren’t better, he said “Mom the important thing is that we have a place to live, the gifts don’t really matter.”    A moment of maturity that surprised me because he is only 23 yrs. old but it did make me happy that he said and realized that.   And then he started to put some soda in the fridge, something he can’t seem to remember to do, I said “Ok, what did you do to my son?”  He started laughing and so did I.  Before he went to bed he said to wake him up around 5 pm so we can have dinner together even though he usually sleeps until 10pm on nights when he works.

Last night on Netflix I watch a couple of documentaries on Musicals.  It seemed to lift my spirits some.  So today after I little bit of work I watched Hair and then The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Those have always been some of my favorites.  Rocky Horror and a few beers helped me relaxed some.

Might look to see what other musicals I have on DVD to watch.  I just need to try and forget about all that seems to be going wrong or still hasn’t improved since my husband died.  This is the only thing I can think of doing that usually lifts my mood.

Some of my musicals are still on VHS and some I have on DVD but I still have a VCR in my bedroom, which is where I watch Hair and Rocky Horror I have on DVD.  Decided to put in Saturday Night Fever, which my son bought me on DVD a few years ago, he also bought me Footloose.  Sometimes I wonder if anyone is reading this blog but I guess it doesn’t really matter because I least I have a place to put all my thoughts, feelings, etc and get it out of my head…but I sure hope someone is reading this.

It is finally snowing here today.  Not sure how much we will get but I love how things look when it snows. 

I’ve been listening to my Celtic/Irish CD’s, they go so well when it is when it is snowing out….well at least to me it does.

My mood is still abit down but eventually it will go back up but right now I don’t really care about anything.  I wish I could just get a break from all this stuff going on but I can’t so I’m trying to deal with things the best I can.