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Bonne année (Happy New Year)

Our daughter was off to spend the night with her friend Alicia over New Year’s Eve. I think we’ve always had Brittany with us for NYE, so it was interesting figuring out what we would like to do on our own. We thought about going out to our favorite Thai restaurant, but instead we decided to pick up some trout and yummy scallops from our favorite fish monger (Absolutely Fresh).

In Nebraska, when we go to the grocer, we have a selection of fish. Catfish. Swai. Some sort of icky whitefish. Nothing worth eating. The salmon is likely good, but if you really want good, good fish, you have to make a special trip to the fish monger.

We watched a movie on Amazon (can’t remember what) and then we watched part of the festivities in New York City. I began wondering… why is the calendar changing to the New Year party-worthy? I don’t mean to be depressing at all. It’s just that every new year is full of its own challenges. I’ve had some pretty major challenges in the last year; some of them pretty amazing, some of them incomprehensible.

So if every year continues to have its own challenges, I suppose that it’s realizing that you’ve made it through the old year’s challenges or enjoyed the gifts of the previous year, and you’re moving into the unknown, where it can be good or bad; happy or heartbreaking, but hopefully mostly joyful.

Maybe it’s the feeling of comfort of the moment; being in a happy place, with a roof over our heads, access to all of the requirements to live on… plus something more.  And if we’ve started the New Year off in a horrid place, there is always hope for a better tomorrow.

Maybe that is the point.

And getting to see LMFAO performing in Times Square. 🙂

I am waving “so-long” to the challenges of 2011 and saying, “Bring on more great things” to 2012.

Happy New Year!

la deuxième anniversaire

The 29th of 夫妇交换性3中文字幕 was our 2nd wedding anniversary.    We celebrated by going to dinner at Le Voltaire, which is a cozy french restaurant not far from where we live.    We mention it to people, and they say, “Where?”, but the reason is because it is tucked away in shopping area behind the mega building for Texas Roadhouse.

After dropping Brit off at our friends’ house, we went to eat.    Ian was able to pronounce the french words for the food dishes we chose, which I think impressed the wait staff.

The food was lovely.   I had Coquilles Saint Jacques et Crevettes and Ian had Cassoulet de Canard Confit.   For dessert, it was Creme Brulee, which I’d never had before.  Actually, I don’t recall ever eating french food, outside of escargots, at all.    It was really good food and the dinner was quite special, because I was with Ian.  🙂

It is difficult to believe that it’s been two years since we were married; it seems like just yesterday.   There have been many happy moments since we met.  I’m looking forward to many more.  ❤

Nebraska Music Educators Conference

Brit’s school band performed at the NMEAC in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the acoustics were amazing, to suit the the band’s amazing performance.   They have come a long way with their musical pieces, and it was just fabulous to hear them at this venue.

Brit spotted her band director from last year, and she was quite pleased he was there.   The school principal also was in the audience, which as a great show of support for the band.   And the proud moment was at the end when the band got a standing ovation.

Of course, the interesting part was navigating the university’s campus in order to find parking.  Even with a map, it proved challenging.    🙂   I think the satnav needs to have a feature that identifies available parking areas, too.   Maybe someday.

 


Conversations

Yesterday, Ian and I were having a conversation about life and death.   He said, “Everyone is replaceable, even Steve Jobs.”

I had to think about that for awhile, and said, “I’m not convinced”.

I appreciated Steve’s sense of design/creativity combined with technology.   “Here’s a new idea, and you’re going to love it” was the pitch.   And when he revealed the next new Apple thing, we saw the cool aspects of it through his eyes.   You knew when he said it would do cool things, it would do thing or two you didn’t think a device would be able to do.

Who else is going to be able to do that?

Happy Birthday to “The Little Girl”

Well, she is not so little anymore, even though I still ask her to “shrink back down to around age 2” some days, only because I miss when she was little.

When I brought Brit home from the hospital, I couldn’t help thinking, “Really?   You’re going to let me take a baby home?”, only because I was 36 and had begun thinking I would never probably have a child of my own.

I remember those early days, watching her rock in her swing, eat every couple of hours, turn yellow briefly from a slight case of jaundice (don’t mention the “Mellow Yellow” song to her, ok?) and sleep, sleep, sleep.

I remember the first day she actually had enough hair to put into pigtails.  She was around 2 years old.     Her short stint in ballet at age 4, learning to ride a bike, chasing puppies, talking up a storm and being the sweetest girl ever.

She still is.  She’s grown so much, and now we have band concerts and plays to watch and remember.

So happy birthday to “the one we would always choose for a daughter if we had our pick.”  🙂

Love you, much!

 

From 夫妇交换小说全文阅读 9, 2011

 

夫妇交换小说全文阅读 11th, 10 years on.

My daughter was only almost 1-year-old when 夫妇交换小说全文阅读 11, 2001 happened.    It is a day that will live in infamy, because of the loss of life and the horrendous affects of having acts of terror of this scale carried out in this place I have called home and sworn allegiance to all of my life.   Like so many have said, it left us waiting under dead-quiet skies, wondering when the other shoe might drop.  It was a fearful, uncertain time.

I’m proud of this country.   No matter what is going on, be it upcoming elections, rivalry or disagreement over one thing or another, I believe that patriotism lives on.

It is why many found a sense of closure, at least, when the military took out the ring leader of a major terrorist organization behind the 9-11 attacks.  It didn’t end terror, but there is one less organizer of terrorism.

It is why I look at the cctv of the hijackers about to get on the plane, and mixed in with the horror that there is no way to reach into the past and undo anything, is the small feeling of satisfaction that these terrorists lost their lives, too.   Maybe they thought there were rewards on the “other side” of death waiting for them.  It is that point when I hope the atheists are completely right and there is absolutely nothing, or the Christians are right and they will burn in hell.    Or according to Islam, they will spend ages in Jahannam repenting their sins of taking innocent lives, many of them not American, that day.

It is touching, always, to watch the memorials on 夫妇交换小说全文阅读 11th:  The reading of the names of those lost, the moments of silence, and this year, the opening of the WTC Memorial.

May God continue to bless America and those around the world who oppose terror.

 

 

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