Lasagna & Birthday Cake!

On Saturday I was sitting outside enjoying a bit of sunshine and waiting for Fred to come back from the grocery store. Our neighbor saw me there and brought her littlest baby over for me to see him. His name is Oliver and he was born at home in the early part of December. I had seen him before about a week after his birth when he was red and wrinkled  and now, three months later, he looked very different. He has quite a lot of thick black hair and looks a lot less like a little old man. Anyway, his mother asked if we liked lasagna and said she was making some on Sunday for her only daughter’s {3 boys and 1 girl  } eighth birthday. The daughter, Grace, explained to me that her real birthday was last week but she was at her father’s house then so they were having lasagna and cake this weekend for her. When I first moved into this street, Gracie was the baby we heard crying next door! So, yesterday evening, our evening meal was brought to us. First the lasagna and then Grace brought two BIG slices of birthday cake!

Yesterday I went for my fortnightly massage and today my left leg is really hurting. It wasn’t the massage that did this, however; it hurts because I was doing leg lifts the day before and I overdid it. The chore of the day is laundry and after I came back up from the basement a couple of minutes ago, I took a generic Aleve. That stuff is a really good painkiller but I can’t take it for too long a time since it tears up my stomach! But it will get me through the stuff that needs to be done today.

Next Saturday is our book club meeting so I guess it would be a good idea to read the book! It is The Things They Carried  by Tim O’Brien. I had to buy the book {second hand, of course} because it is not yet in a format for the Kindle. I have started it once or twice but can’t get deeply interested in it. I am pretty sure it will not go into the bookshelf to be read again but into the bag of books to be offered on Freecycle. Talking about Freecycle, it has moved from the yahoo groups to a different place and it was exceedingly complicated to get my name set up. Actually, I finally had to have the Freecycle email sent to my google email address and then have g-mail forward it to my freepoint address.

Today’s high is supposed to be 45 with rain, but tomorrow sunshine is in the forecast…

"You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are

happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but

trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change

your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to

correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working."

Emmet Fox

"Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Paul Goodman