Quiet

Gary is gone. Rachel is gone. I've resorted to turning the Mavericks' game on TV for background noise.

Later--Good ending to that game! Go Mavs!

Bubble

It doesn't take much

to amuse

me.

Getting Married and Living Happily Ever After

Today several thoughts about getting married have crossed my path.

1. I guess it started last night when I saw that Cinderella boy from Boise State proposing on national TV.
2. Next it was an email I received early this morning from the girl whose wedding Gary will be playing the processional for Friday after next.
   
3. Then there was the blog by a 23-year old friend who feels like she's the "only" one who isn't getting married.
   
4. And lastly, the email I got from a woman nearly my age who remarried in December, thanking me for the photos of said event that I emailed to her.

These are my thoughts in response:

1. Cinderella boy and cheerleader girl, may you live happily ever after. (But the odds are against you.)
2. You said the Lord is good for helping you to find "the one." I agree and I pray that you two will live happily ever after too. (But the odds for Christian marriages don't look much better than for the population in general. May God bless you with a strong union.)
3. I'm sorry you are alone. I really am. But you're not alone in being the only one without someone. In the words of a 32-year old single friend, "There's an epidemic of singleness out there." Maybe it is time to consider that perhaps the Lord's plan for you is to never marry. (But the odds are against that. May God bring you the right person at the right time.)
4. Your first marriage was a happy one, and may your second one also be. How blessed to "find someone" not once, but twice in life. (The odds are definitely in favor of you living happily ever after.)
   

Happy New Year!

The new year is almost a day old. I spent the day cleaning and reorganizing and putting away and vacuuming. I often have these "clean up the nest" drives when I'm transitioning between one thing and the next. I tried to get Gary to do some cleaning in his office, but he didn't do enough, IMHO. I'll just keep nagging :-) Back to work tomorrow.

I've got the usual list of New Year's resolutions: eat less, exercise more, be nicer, read more, blog less, don't bug people. We'll see how all that goes.

Errata

I dug out my old yearbooks and discovered I was off by a year. I don't actually know the month this photo was taken, but it was sometime during the 1972-73 school year that Gerry Ford was having dinner with us.

I wonder what other mistakes I should try to correct during these waning moments of 2006?