A lovely Evening

Had a lovely evening with my son, his wife and our grandkids. Good food, good conversation and fun with the kids. Next weekend is my son's birthday and we are going to take them to the movies and dinner. That will be fun too.

September 11

The thing I always take away from the anniversary of 9/11 is the fact that most of the victims were ordinary people who just got up and went to work on a lovely Tuesday morning. It reinforces my belief that I work to live and not the other way around. 

Every year, it strikes me again as I watch the replay of all the footage of the tragedy. People just went to work.

Innocent people. 

It could happen to anyone. 

I realized that there are so many more important things in life. I can't give everything to a corporation who will never give me anything but a paycheck in the long run. 

A paycheck is nice, don't get me wrong. 

September 11  is a day of reflection for me and, work is not my biggest priority at the moment. I go, I do my job to the best of my ability to earn that paycheck.

But, I stop myself from feeling safe there-especially after what happened to my former supervisor.  No one is safe, there is no loyalty in the corporate world any more--there hasn't been for years, I know. But I'm still young enough to remember when there was...

So--more and more I find that I just want to be surrounded by the people and things that I love.

Yay!

Went out to dinner tonight with hubby and had an AWESOME time. Much laughter, good food and the best part--? He took my hands, gazed into my eyes and said, "I really do love you". AWWWWW!!

I love him too.

Then, even awesome-er--we went to Home Depot and bought a bird feeder, wild bird seed and suet. Our feeder holds both! And we hung it in our tree.

Can't wait to see the birds gather round. We talked about getting a birdbath, too.

GLEE!!

Snow & Ice & Randomness

The image outside our house this morning.

And outside the back.

Icicles on the deck rail and the fence.










And-it's snowing again. We haven't dared to venture out...see the pic out the front door above. There is snow/ice all over our street. And...the mailman just came! His is the only vehicle I've seen driving on our street all day. We weren't brave enough to go out.

My sister and her husband are on the ground crew for the Super Bowl pre, post and halftime show this year. They did it the last time the big game was in Miami and were asked to be on the crew again. My daughter is going to help out, too! Awesome. Oh, and Beth and Jose are going to be crewing the Pro Bowl, also.

Nothing else much is happening. I did participate in a live chat last night with one of my very favorite romance authors, Laura Kinsale! I took a break of about 15 years from reading romance...but the last year I have been back to reading, not just romance, but fantasy too. Ms. Kinsale was recommended to me as a wonderful writer of thoughtful, exciting romances--and none of her books have disappointed me so far. I started with For My Lady's Heart which is a medieval romance in which the characters speak in Middle English grammar. Unfortunately, it is not available except used...

Then I devoured Midsummer Moon, The Prince of Midnight, The Hidden Heart and The Shadow and the Star (which should be read after "The Hidden Heart" luck was with me there, heh.) Right now, I'm reading Seize the Fire and after that, I'm going to read her latest book, Lessons in French. After that, it's on to the rest of her backlist. I cannot tell you how many hours of enjoyment I have gotten from her books so far. And after chatting with her last night, I have to say, she is just as delightful "in person" as her writing would lead you to believe. The Romance Writers National Convention is going to be in Nashville this year...and since we are getting a rather large tax refund due to our home purchase...I'm thinking of going. But it's very expensive so, I doubt if hubby would approve the expenditure. (Especially since we are talking about perhaps taking a trip for our 10th anniversary this year...) I might be able to convince him if my sadly neglected novel was anywhere near being ready to pitch...

However, if Ms. Kinsale does attend, maybe I can arrange to meet her in N'Ville for dinner or something one day since I live about thirty minutes away in Murfreesboro...

One can dream, right?

Wow, been ages

Ages since I updated here. Mostly I journal over at Live Journal under the same moniker "rayvyn2k".

Since I updated here last, I've bought a house, my son and his family moved to TN and I've become a grandmother twice more.

Dang.

I'll try to do better.

In Memoriam: Challenger and Columbia

It's been ages...

Since I made my first post here. As I said, I have a Live Journal...so I guess that is where I post the most often. http://rayvyn2k.livejournal.com/ if anyone's interested.

My life is really not interesting enough for two blogs, but I keep this one open because I have a couple of friends who use Blogger and if I want to comment I must have an account. So if you don't see updates, check LJ...they'll be there.

I really thought I'd use this for posting things I didn't want people who know me to see, but that hasn't happened. I had visions of writing deep, thoughtful essays that would move people...but yeah, that's not really happening, either.

So, just a random, drive-by post. Oh, and a random picture of my cat, Pippin, who will play fetch with anyone who tosses a balled up piece of paper for him.