One Week to Christmas 2008

And I have some stuff to do today. I plan on getting it done and feel good about what I get done.

We have a winter storm watch looming on the horizon so I plan to go food shopping today to prevent the storm. Every time last year when the larder was stocked, the storm held off.

I want to get all my holiday shopping done today and make my last trip to the post office.

I also need to get Ariel's bowling shirt clean for her match this afternoon. She did pretty well yesterday in the Holiday tournament.

Peter is working on the next New Frontier novel.

It feels like a pause before holiday. I plan to take advantage of that pause.

I am grateful for the rituals in my life both big and small.

LJ Idol 5.12 My Favorite Story

Anyone who says their favorite story is anything other than their own life is simply lying.

How could it not be? I know my life story is my favorite.

It's filled with action (finding myself driving late at night through twisty mountain roads while being followed since I am a line of defense between a famous actor and his over adoring fan), adventure (Escorting a VIP through a convention and keeping the fans at bay so they could get to a meeting which launched the next part of their career), romance (anything with Peter and me), birth (Caroline), deaths (More than I care count for this year), and exciting chases (and if you don't think sprinting after a fleeing, yet laughing, two year old across a busy parking lot isn't exciting, then you don't know from exciting).

It has a vast, even sprawling supporting cast filled with peculiar and memorable characters, it's long-running, I'm the main character, and I have absolutely no idea what' s going to happen next. But I can't wait to find out and I hope it never ends. Or if it does, I don't want to be there when it happens.