I'm sitting alone in my house. It's very quiet. Except for the clicking of my keyboard as I type this.... and the humming of the computer (I often times wonder if that is normal.... ).... the ticking of the clock that reads "Home Sweet Home" -- the O in the first Home is the clock's face.... then there is the sound of the refrigerator running and the gas oven is making those heating up noises as the ham bakes quite nicely (it smells delightful!).... and there are the noises coming from my dog as she dreams nearby..... and the house creaks....
DAMN!!!!! IT'S NOISY!!!!! :willy_nilly:
I won't be alone for long. Guests for dinner will start to arrive in a couple of hours. I'll have everything prepared and ready before then. The ham will be glazed..... the scalloped potatoes will be browned.... the greenbean casserole will be tender and tasty.... the dinner rolls sitting covered with a holiday cloth to keep them warm.... baked beans bubbling on the stove top.... My tummy is grumbling as I type this anticipating the feast to come.
I've got bottles chilling in the refrigerator for celebration of the New Year. My favorite.... Tosti Asti. As guests arrive they will be bringing drinks of their choice too along with whatever desserts they offered to go with the meal.
I've had time to reminisce about the year that will soon pass. I've thought of those that won't be here to bring in the New Year..... not because they don't want to.... but because they are gone now..... They will be the photographs in pictures in my albums.... pictures in frames in various rooms of my house or just pictures in my mind's memory of them. I'll toast to them this evening and be thankful that I had them for the little while that they were here.... I'll only think of the good times.... the fun times..... the happier times. And then I'll put them in that special place in the back of my mind where I can fish them out at different occasions to see and touch and be with them whenever they float to the front of my thoughts..... whether it be myself that longs to bring them there.... or something else....
Then I'll turn my attention to family and friends that I hold near and dear to me..... and toast to them and what they have meant to me.... and I will wish them prosperity, health, happiness, and the usual sentiments. Not one of us knows what the New Year will hold for us. So.... take the time to tell those that you love... that you love them. Take the time to mend fences.... give forgiveness or ask for it..... Give a little more to charity... Be a bit nicer to strangers on the street or people that you work with or see in your daily life doings.
...... or you can do nothing different at all. No one's gonna know but you anyway.
I guess I just want to say Happy New Year to all who read this. Take care.... don't drink and drive or drive with drinkers.... use protection or at least carry it just in case.... and most of all remember that you are not immortal. You are responsible for the body you reside in. Be nice to it. Be careful with it.
...... and pick up your socks! For goodness sakes.... would it really hurt to help out.
DAMN!!!!! IT'S NOISY!!!!! :willy_nilly:
I won't be alone for long. Guests for dinner will start to arrive in a couple of hours. I'll have everything prepared and ready before then. The ham will be glazed..... the scalloped potatoes will be browned.... the greenbean casserole will be tender and tasty.... the dinner rolls sitting covered with a holiday cloth to keep them warm.... baked beans bubbling on the stove top.... My tummy is grumbling as I type this anticipating the feast to come.
I've got bottles chilling in the refrigerator for celebration of the New Year. My favorite.... Tosti Asti. As guests arrive they will be bringing drinks of their choice too along with whatever desserts they offered to go with the meal.
I've had time to reminisce about the year that will soon pass. I've thought of those that won't be here to bring in the New Year..... not because they don't want to.... but because they are gone now..... They will be the photographs in pictures in my albums.... pictures in frames in various rooms of my house or just pictures in my mind's memory of them. I'll toast to them this evening and be thankful that I had them for the little while that they were here.... I'll only think of the good times.... the fun times..... the happier times. And then I'll put them in that special place in the back of my mind where I can fish them out at different occasions to see and touch and be with them whenever they float to the front of my thoughts..... whether it be myself that longs to bring them there.... or something else....
Then I'll turn my attention to family and friends that I hold near and dear to me..... and toast to them and what they have meant to me.... and I will wish them prosperity, health, happiness, and the usual sentiments. Not one of us knows what the New Year will hold for us. So.... take the time to tell those that you love... that you love them. Take the time to mend fences.... give forgiveness or ask for it..... Give a little more to charity... Be a bit nicer to strangers on the street or people that you work with or see in your daily life doings.
...... or you can do nothing different at all. No one's gonna know but you anyway.
I guess I just want to say Happy New Year to all who read this. Take care.... don't drink and drive or drive with drinkers.... use protection or at least carry it just in case.... and most of all remember that you are not immortal. You are responsible for the body you reside in. Be nice to it. Be careful with it.
...... and pick up your socks! For goodness sakes.... would it really hurt to help out.
