2011

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

January 1, 2011 -- When we were teenagers, this year was so far in the future that it was Sci Fi! Amazing. And very cool!

Looking back on 2010:
The best and most amazingly wonderful thing that happened was that my daughter had her first baby. She was seven weeks old yesterday and is the light of our lives. My other granddaughter will be 15 this year -- all I have to say to that is wow!!

My daughter divorced her emotionally abusive husband and is with a wonderful guy who I'm so happy is the father of her child.

Accomplished a bunch of knitting for exchages and started  million projects. Lots of UFOs there. Hope to fininsh some of them in the New Year. LOL!

Had someone who said she was a friend but did nothing but complain since November of 2009. My ex husband passed away back then and I canceled Thanksgiving dinner. Then I had the dinner for myself and my granddaughter. And the 'friend' who was originally invited went ballistic. She'd told me it was ok when I canceled and she had several other invitations. But she is still pissed at me -- well over a year later. She calls me a user -- I was without a car for a year and she was kind enough to ask me weekly if I needed to grocery shop and I'd accept. I didn't ask her to take me and I certainly had other ways of getting to the grocery store. I thought she was being a friend plus we'd go out to eat and hang out -- you know, doing friend stuff. She deliberately lied and told me she'd be too busy from then on out to take me grocery shopping. No problem, I had other ways of going. But for a year she's told anyone who will listen then I used her for her car. That I univited her from Thanksiving dinner, etc., etc. etc.  A year! My God! Who can hold grudges like that? And who is so unconcerned and cold-hearted that they would act like that knowing that someone is grieving? I may not have been married to him, but that didn't mean I didn't love him still or that I shouldn't grieve more than a day. Unbelievable.

Anyway the point of all that is that I have stopped all communications with this person and will try my damndest not to allow any negativity into my life beginning with this new year!

And blog -- I'm going to try to blog regularly. This way I may remember things if I write them here!