TheBanyanTree: December

[Margaret R. Kramer]

4/23/04
RE:  Count the Fs
four -----------George found them ALL!
 Love you Ray

The subzero weather with clear and stark night skies has changed today.  We’
re having light rain with cloudy and gloomy skies.  It’s almost like March
instead of December.

I worked out at the gym today.  I worked out so hard that I almost passed
out.  My heart was beating out of my chest, so I forced myself to slow down.

I went to the bank.  I stopped and got gas for the flower van.  Last fall it
cost me $64 to fill its tank.  Today it was $21.  At least, something hasn’t
gone up.

I ate leftovers when I got home.  There go all the calories I worked off.  I
checked my work email so I wouldn’t get in trouble.  Hardly anyone is
working today, so I only had one thing to do.

The boys got Guitar Hero for their Wii, so my son and his oldest son have
been in the basement getting calluses on their fingers trying to move up
from the “easy” level.

They’re braving the rain and went sliding this afternoon.

Joe gave me $500 for Christmas.  Oh, and he bought me a HUGE poinsettia
plant, a couple boxes of chocolate and a fruit cake.  Note – none of these
gifts are personal or required any type of thought.

I used part of the $500 to buy a new camera, not an expensive digital SLR as
Joe wanted me to do, I’ll continue to use my film SLR, but a small, compact
digital Canon PowerShot, that I can fit into my pocket and take everywhere
with me.  Actually, I used part of Joe’s money to buy him a PowerShot as
well.  I uploaded my first pictures to my computer today from my new camera.

And that’s been my day.  Kind of boring.  But that’s OK.  I need boring
right now.

Margaret R. Kramer
margaretkramer at comcast.net
margaret.kramer at polarispublications.com
www.polarispublications.com

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so
intangible that it is like a fragrance.  It may weave a spell of nostalgia.
Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a
day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever
loved.
~Augusta E. Rundel
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