So the Holidays are here. Next week will be Thanksgiving, then closing in, like that axe murderer in the closet waiting for you to change your shoes, is Christmas. I have been crocheting for Christmas and most of my loved ones are getting a Winter Ensemble which includes a hat, mittens and scarf. I have asked each one of them there favorite colors, because I believe that if you are going to give someone a gift, it should be something that they will like or use, or at least somewhat appreciate. And I am not doing those toboggen caps either. I hate those. My mother use to make me wear them when I was a kid and I still hate them. The squish your hair down, make your head sweat, and look tacky and just plain ugly on women. Men can wear them, and I think men should wear them, but women look ugly in them. So as of now, I have completed a blue set, a red set, and I have the yarn for a green set, a pink set, and I need a yellow set and another color or three for some others. And I need the time to finish this crocheting!!!!
Speaking of time, I will be in North Carolina next week visiting family. I will take my crocheting there, and well... we will see. Anyhow, I'm going to visit my daughter Mary, and my mother, honorary title, Fran. Fran has been going thru a bad time lately. Her brother died last week, a nephew of hers died about a month ago. And as these things seem to go in three's, she is understandably worried about who the third will be. Not to mention all that dividing of personal items. That alone can stress a person to the breaking point. And my own family, I just found out my brother has been in the hospital. He has not been taking care of diabetes like he should, and his blood sugar was well beyond what the doctors consider to diabetic coma stage. My brother is like the rest of us who just hate doctors and hospitals, so he has not been an overly friendly patient, which is obivously wearing on my SIL nerves. The poor thing sounds like she is just wore out, and stressed a little past breaking point, but still hanging in there just for spite!! Of course she would need to be tough to deal with this family.
Ahhh family!! And it just might be that I may get to meet for the first time, my niece, Deanna Renee Harper. I have been wanting to meet her for years now, and there has always been something to come up and stop me going in that direction. But now, at least I may get to see her. I bet she looks just like my sister and brother, who are twins. I wonder if I can steal her away. I may have to think up a plan :-P !!
I really am looking forward to going to Fran's for Thanksgiving. I will be able to laugh, eat good food and have a much better time of it then I have in my everyday life with Alex. At least I would have if it hadn't been for all the other stuff. With him and his family, everything is morbid, taste like salt and pepper, and no one laughs or does anything fun. They go to church, or they drink, and they are not even fun drunks, in fact, Alex has been growing more and more nasty. When he starts in lately, I just go in the other room and forget to answer or respond to whatever he is trying to start. He keeps going though. If you ignore one thing, he switches tracks fast and starts another. He pushes buttons just to get some response. What he doesn't realize is that when he starts this lately, I just picture him sitting in the white room with Madeline from Le Femme Nikita. Then I picture that scary couple, you have to be familiar with the show to know who I mean, coming in with their torture equipment!!! Trouble is, it takes effort not to smile with this thought. I have to keep my face impassive, so he doesn't take my smile as some response to his goading. Sometimes I even go in the bedroom and put a DVD of the show in the player and watch it. He doesn't realize how much I wish it was him sitting strapped in that chair. Ha!! I'll get around you somehow, and one day, I'll even get you back!!!
I do hope that everyone has a healthy, happy, and pleasant memory making, Thanksgiving!! And remember to be thankful for not being me!!
Bright blessings to all!!!
