This Perfectly Imperfect Life

i've been thinking about my new year's goals (see prev post titled "the dreaded new year's resolutions" ~ or something to that affect!) and tied for number 1 on my list is exercising and writing, both every day! just found that my garden blog @ dig in dirt garden blogs has been deleated in the revamping of the site! ugh ~ that soooo hurts! (10 months of writing!!!) at least i found out tonight instead of tomorrow! (wouldn't bode well for the new year i don't think!) i don't know what's happened to other fellow garden bloggers i became friends with through the site & that saddens me a bit. i've emailed someone who used to be the contact for the site & i hope that answers my questions soon! anyway, be safe, be well and have a happy, healthy & prosperous new year!!!

i've been thinking about the dreaded "new year's resolutions" today. on 12/22/06, i not only wrote about having the totally disheartening thought that none of my dreams will ever come true because i am too old and i've wasted too much time, but, i wrote about how earlier in the day, i decided i'm not going to make "resolutions" for 2007, i'm going to make goals, from the simple to the not so simple and i'm going to achieve those goals, one by one. (a very contradictory day in my life apparently!!!) i think the terms "new year's resolutions" has such a stigma of being associated with things you meant well enought to do but never did that they are doomed from the start! actually, i think there have been more years i never even made any resolutions than years i did! nonetheless, i think getting rid of the "new year's resolutions" language could actually be a start in the right & positive direction! i have some th...

i've been searching "new yr's traditions" for a bit this afternoon and the one that keeps popping up is the eating of black eyed pea's on new year's day to bring good fortune in the new year. click on the following link for the best article and recipes i came upon during my search: http://www.austin360.com/food_drink/content/food_drink/dining_at_home/stories/2006/12/31blackeyedpeas.html from what i've read, it's mainly a southern tradition which seems to come from 2 similiar civil war era legends. 1 of the North's soldiers raiding much of the South's food supplies on new year's eve but left black eyed peas, salted pork and rice. therefore, that was all there was left to eat on new year's day and sustain them through the winter and they were thankful not to starve. the second doesn't indicate the North's soldier's raiding the South's food supplies, but, of them burning all the crops across the South except for the black e...

bin laden organized the carnage that happened on september 11th, 2001. nearly 3,000 people died on US soil as a result. bin laden has been "sought after" since then but has not even been close to being captured or punished. he still lives. saddam hussein was hanged before sunrise this morning in iraq. this seems somewhat wrong to me even given the fact of what a horrible human being he was. it's become quite aparent that our government mislead us to justify their latest invasion of iraq. how many more of our troops have been injured and died since they took on iraq in addition to afghanistan? yet, bin laden still lives. and the focus seems to be on iraq.

after presents, Christmas morning. after presents, Christmas morning. oops! forgot to move this one around before uploading! this is the christmas tree in our kitchen, infront of the patio doors, taken christmas day eve. this is a silver bell ornament on the tree which is engraved with her name and the year 1999. another view of the Christmas tree, taken Christmas Eve, late afternoon.

view from our porch, taken Christmas Day eve. view of our patio, taken early December. view of the Christmas Tree from our couch, taken Christmas Day. that's precious under the tree ~ caught in mid lick & yawn! taken Christmas Day eve. (her favorite place to nap!) that's 5-oh on Christmas Eve. (get it, 5-oh, he's black & white like the old cop cars... never mind!)

according to norad.org (santa tracker!) santa's passed pa, nj & ny and he's heading out of boston as i type this! it's 10:58pm. my hubby's asleep. i'm not ready to sleep yet. i love christmas eve! the peacefulness and quite beauty of it. we stopped at my aunt's house this am to drop off a gift for her. then we went to the cemetary to put pointsettia's on my nana's & uncle bill's graves. we've had xmas dinner already with my mom & sister-in-law. we spent some time this evening with another sister-in-law, her husband & son and another nephew dropped by. then we stopped at my hubby's best friend's aunt's house. now we're home, alone and that's how it will be through tomorrow! our 3rd xmas together ~ our 1st alone!!! in a way, there's always a let down when things are over & that's how i felt when we got home. i was a little sad. i was so disappointed when i thought 24 hours of "a christmas story...