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That's literally all I have and there are a few things that I need to say...

• Happy Birthday to my Gramps. He would have been 93 today. I miss him. It makes me sad that he never got to meet my kids. Tonight we are going to celebrate the 82 years he did live over steaming hot bowls of his famous beef stew recipe and then we'll enjoy a homemade apple crisp. He fancied himself a baker, and could actually make a mean apple pie, hence the crisp which is basically an upside down pie. On Thanksgiving, he was always in charge of bringing the pies. If there were 6 people, we could expect at least 6 pies. He was good like that!


• The only reason we're having said stew tonight is that I got up at 6:45 this morning to cut and peel carrots and potatoes and get everything in the crock pot. I am a full-time working woman this week, and although it's only Tuesday, I have come to the certain conclusion that it is way overrated and definitely under appreciated! And I'm not even working Friday because I'll be at my Grandma's funeral.


• That got me thinking that I am celebrating too many loved ones passed on these days. It makes my own mortality take front stage and demand to be acknowledged. It will be pure bliss when we are all reunited.


• I'm still working on a Disney post. It already seems like ancient history. Forget Calgon...Mickey take me away. I have a new, not so secret crush on Mickey because he is the epitamy of bliss on earth.


• Why I thought it was a good idea last night to go to the nursery before dinner to buy mums, gourds and a pumpkin (but seriously this is THE great pumpkin) I'll never know. I was outside long after dark planting and doing fall cleaning. I hope it looks good. Then I came in and started cleaning the inside of the house. We're having company for the weekend you know. All while I know that a perfect house is really only an empty image.


• It's probably a very bad thing that I am irritable with people this week seeing as how I'm going to have a houseful come Thursday. This week I'm envying those who have taken vows of silence because I am not sure I have sufficient restraint to keep from saying what's on my mind and in my heart.


• David Letterman is one person that I would like to have a few words with (not that he'd care what I have to say). If his wife stays with him after the mockery he made of their marriage last night following his apology, then she absolutely deserves him. I'm not a late night t.v. gal, so he's not losing a viewer, but I'll be sure to blast him every opportunity I get for whatever that's worth.


• In fact, I've watched less than 2 hours of television since we've been home and we've been home for a week. I may be on to something here.


• I wish I could talk with my Mom. She'd understand how I'm feeling. I know she'd make me feel better.


• I think I need a new pair of boots. Lil Bit wore her new, hot pink suede with fringe numbers yesterday and she couldn't wait to leave the house and go to school. If only it were that easy.