Wow! I'm Back--Dec. 8, 2003
Wow! I just checked and realized I hadn’t written in my journal since November 17th. For one thing my computer has misbehaved a lot of the time, but that’s not the only reason. I am now working four days a week—long tiring hours—and I have used all my free time to get all my Christmas cards written and addressed ( 250-- 80 of them for overseas) and Christmas presents purchased and wrapped. Tomorrow I will mail all of them. Every year I say I won’t send cards or give many gifts, but as the time approaches I can’t resist. I have given away or sold much of my big collection of Christmas decorations, crèches, Santa Clauses, etc., but I still seem to have way too much. So I HAVE decorated, but no tree this year.
Festivities have started, and tonight after work I rode with friends in the dark way out in the country to Preston Winery for a great party. They have one of those old fashioned wall ovens and make fresh bread every day. Tonight they made the best pizzas I have ever tasted! As we left the winery to return home I looked up just as a shooting star flashed across the dark sky. It was the first one I had seen for many years, and it made me very happy. Then too there was a full moon, and all through the dark distant hills Christmas lights were twinkling on houses and on trees that seemed to be suspended in the dark.
Between now and the end of the year there are already several fun events scheduled both at work and at friends’. After that I will have to start preparing for my trip to Vietnam at the end of February. There are shots to get and a visa for my passport and lots of other things. But to prepare for a trip is often for me even more exciting than the trip itself.
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