A New Year!!
New Year’s Resolution…
Communicate more on Live Journal.
So here goes…
Life this past year has been very good, but very exhausting. The weeks before Christmas were filled with work, coming home, trying to take care of the children’s issues and then after supper, more work until midnight. Now I’m at the end of the holiday and it was too short and filled with obligations. I'm afraid I don’t feel particularly rested or rejuvenated. Part of the stress comes from this first year of teaching a new subject at a new place. The post Christmas study list includes Dante’s Inferno, A Doll’s House (which I know but it has been years), The Great Gatsby, Merchant of Venice and some other stuff I’m sure I’m forgetting. I think next year, when I have been through everything one time, life will be a bit less complicated.
I continue with my love/hate relationship with my small town southern home. I measure and second-guess the pros and cons of this place all the time. I miss the city and sometimes want to scream at the narrow-mindedness of this place, but I love the beauty of the land, our home, and the practical little benefits small-town life provides. I’m blessed to have three beautiful healthy children and a darling husband, whom I adore.
Last night we went to visit our best friends for New Year’s Eve. When we got to their house, they ushered us into the guest room and hanging above the bed was an enormous photo of me and the-darling-husband from when we were in our 20’s. In the pic, I was in desperate need of a haircut and my long hair was over-curled 80’s style and way out of control. I must have gone crazy with the hot-rollers. I was wearing a leather jacket that was in that old “Members Only” style and (this is the worst part) I had this bandana knotted like a necklace and tied around my neck. Gross. Darling-husband looked far more normal in his denim jacket and dark sunglasses. And we both looked much skinnier. They gave us the picture as our Christmas gift. What a hoot.
So - on to the prevailing HP news…Who the *&%$# is Audrey?!? :)
Oh well, it is a lovely name and at least she married Percy and gave him two daughters with adorable names. I can see Percy being completely over-protective with two little girls. I was terribly afraid she was going to marry him off to some yucky character or to tell us he married but he was such a jerk that he divorced years later. One minute I think JKR hates Percy and then the next I think she likes him after all. It’s a bit odd. I have been thinking about Audrey for a couple of days now and I think I’m figuring out who she is for me. It’s actually sort of fun to come up with her. I’m sure whatever I come up with will eventually go out the window when JKR gives us more information one day, but it’s nice to have some strings off of Percy in the relationship department. After all, he has a lot of baggage.
I must get up from the computer now and go take down the Christmas tree. The long wait for spring begins tonight! Love to all my friends and I will try to be better about communicating this year.
Communicate more on Live Journal.
So here goes…
Life this past year has been very good, but very exhausting. The weeks before Christmas were filled with work, coming home, trying to take care of the children’s issues and then after supper, more work until midnight. Now I’m at the end of the holiday and it was too short and filled with obligations. I'm afraid I don’t feel particularly rested or rejuvenated. Part of the stress comes from this first year of teaching a new subject at a new place. The post Christmas study list includes Dante’s Inferno, A Doll’s House (which I know but it has been years), The Great Gatsby, Merchant of Venice and some other stuff I’m sure I’m forgetting. I think next year, when I have been through everything one time, life will be a bit less complicated.
I continue with my love/hate relationship with my small town southern home. I measure and second-guess the pros and cons of this place all the time. I miss the city and sometimes want to scream at the narrow-mindedness of this place, but I love the beauty of the land, our home, and the practical little benefits small-town life provides. I’m blessed to have three beautiful healthy children and a darling husband, whom I adore.
Last night we went to visit our best friends for New Year’s Eve. When we got to their house, they ushered us into the guest room and hanging above the bed was an enormous photo of me and the-darling-husband from when we were in our 20’s. In the pic, I was in desperate need of a haircut and my long hair was over-curled 80’s style and way out of control. I must have gone crazy with the hot-rollers. I was wearing a leather jacket that was in that old “Members Only” style and (this is the worst part) I had this bandana knotted like a necklace and tied around my neck. Gross. Darling-husband looked far more normal in his denim jacket and dark sunglasses. And we both looked much skinnier. They gave us the picture as our Christmas gift. What a hoot.
So - on to the prevailing HP news…Who the *&%$# is Audrey?!? :)
Oh well, it is a lovely name and at least she married Percy and gave him two daughters with adorable names. I can see Percy being completely over-protective with two little girls. I was terribly afraid she was going to marry him off to some yucky character or to tell us he married but he was such a jerk that he divorced years later. One minute I think JKR hates Percy and then the next I think she likes him after all. It’s a bit odd. I have been thinking about Audrey for a couple of days now and I think I’m figuring out who she is for me. It’s actually sort of fun to come up with her. I’m sure whatever I come up with will eventually go out the window when JKR gives us more information one day, but it’s nice to have some strings off of Percy in the relationship department. After all, he has a lot of baggage.
I must get up from the computer now and go take down the Christmas tree. The long wait for spring begins tonight! Love to all my friends and I will try to be better about communicating this year.