Well here it is the end of the first week in February...... wow...... did you know that 2009 is more than 1/12th over already? In real life it's actually a little over 10%, which is scary, because we're still recuperating from New Years Eve. Anyway, my reason for pointing to the calendar is to acknowledge that I have been a very bad girl with regard to my posts. Anne makes me seem like such a slacker..... I promise to try to do better. Oops.... did I just say that..... to quote a favorite saying of mine....

"Do.... or do not......, there is no try"

What I meant to say is I WILL do better. :)

So.... who wants to guess what happened in my life this week? Nobody? Come on, somebody give it a shot....... Give up? It's probably a good idea, because you'd never get it.

Here's the fun local stuff. I got to have lunch with Crystal this week! I was complaining to her that I have no 'belly' pictures, and with her being very pregnant with my favorite granddaughter, and as much as I am loving watching my baby have a baby, I had no picture!!! I decided that the only remedy was to take my own, so I did. It's at the bottom of this post. I compromised and allowed clothes, but it's still a belly picture. While Crystal and I were eating lunch, Sheila called and then stopped by while we were finishing. Everything seems to be going well for her, and she sure looked happy! She is selling Lia Sophia jewelry now, which may just be her thing. Crystal and I talked for hours (which is nothing new.... lol) about everything, but I couldn't sit and talk about the good stuff (wait for it....)

Dane had another basketball game this morning. They lost again, but by a smaller margin, which I suppose means 'improvement'. I sure miss Crystal coaching - his coach is.... well,..... shall we say 'less than enthusiastic'. There's still a lot of games, so we keep our fingers crossed. Dad couldn't come with me. He had to finish a job because it's supposed to snow by Monday. drat. I was really enjoying May in February. Dane may be spending the night with one of his new derelict friends so maybe Dad and I can go out and play tonight! woo hoo! Oh shoot.... I forgot that we're supposed to go to Deb and Toby's house for a dinner party. shoot.

Amanda is so much better now that you hardly recognize her. I am so impressed by her progress and the work she has done. Congrats, though she doesn't read these......

Morgan came over to visit me yesterday. I could go on for hours about that, but wont. Call me and I'll ramble on for hours.

Here's the fun part......

Deb is the only one who will say 'wow.... cool!' to this, but here goes. I graduated from HS in 1977. Seems like a long time ago, but...... well..... it was a long time ago. Shortly after I graduated I took a job in Colo Spgs and moved away. Shortly after that, Crystal and Tadd came into my life and nothing has been the same since!

Cut to the chase.. I never saw 99% of those people ever again. One dork I remember moved up here and cleaned carpets. Another dork I ran into at an engineers office. I never saw my friends again though. I think we had a reunion, but I was married to butt-head at the time so didnt get to visit with anybody there and as soon as he got bored we left (10 minutes?). I had been looking for my best friend for most of those 30 years, but couldn't find her. I googled, but didn't know her last name (married). I searched the social sites, Facebook, MySpace etc., for the age group but no luck. I searched Classmates, but no luck....... sad....isn't it?

Anyway, I got an e-mail day before yesterday from somebody I didn't recognize, but when I opened it and read it I just sat with my mouth hanging open! It said something like this..... "Is this you? I've been looking for you..... It's me... Keli" wwhhhhooooooaaaaa........

When I told George about it he asked if Keli was a good friend of mine. I don't even know how to answer that one. Think Morgan and Jessica..... Think Crystal and J...... Think Spongebob and Patrick...... no, scratch that one, too weird. Call Deb, she'll tell you. During Jr Hi and High school when one of our parents couldn't find their kid in the middle of the night, you would hear the phone ring, and a parent say (either my mom or hers) "I don't know, I'll go check her bed" because we'd be sleeping with our other half. We both had main level bedrooms and just crawled in and out. It was a different world then, kids.... don't try this any more.... us parents worry a lot more than apparently ours did.

I knew that after she graduated from college she went to work on the oil rigs in the gulf, and she's is still there. She married, and had kids, and her kids and step kids are grown but no grand kids yet.

I have a dilemma though, and it's this....... How do you catch up on 30 years? Do I bring down my lifetime of scrapbooks? Do I bring a video? (I don't have one, so that one will be tough) Hhhmmm...... I wish I could just do a Vulcan Mind Meld.... Who knows though... Maybe she won't even like me any more. After all, maybe I'm not a dork any more. Worse yet, maybe I'm still a dork and she's not. I've always considered myself to be pretty intelligent - in a relative sense - compared to a lot of people, but Keli is creepy smart compared to me. She's probably way too cool for me. I get to see her in a little more than a week, woo hoo! I am so stoked! I should just send poor George skiing or something, because he will just sit there and never get a word in! She sent me her family's holiday letter, and as I read it I thought to myself ..... wow, this sounds like something I would have written, so..... apparently we are still alike. I am hopeful.

I've made this post long enough for now. I'll write more later... promise. Until then, ttfn!