
BAH HUMBUG!!
Okay, thats not exactly what I think, but But its difficult not to. The whole recession thing has been hitting us hard around here, and as cheerful as I try to be, it just makes everything feel wrong. Add that to the rest of everything else thats happened this year, and, well, Im pretty glad that 2008 is almost at an end.
I remember about this time last year, sitting down and talking to my husband about life and about how fortunate we were. Neither of us had really lost anyone that close to us; we had our health and our boys were thriving. I think about that sort of thing now, and it makes me want to cry. Its ironic, how fast things can change, isnt it?
I mean, we knew that my husbands mom wasnt well. The poor woman had suffered with COPD for years. We just didnt expect her health to take that sudden of a turn last summer, and we lost her the day after my husbands 33rd birthday. Hed gotten to travel to Tennessee to see her; hed spent a few days with her when shed seemed to be doing better. He got to talk to her, to laugh with her, and to tell her that he loved her, and while he wasnt there at the end a couple days later, he is able to retain some really beautiful memories.
We lost a couple dogs this year, too: dogs that were a part of my family, whom I loved dearly. I feel as though bits and pieces of me have been falling away, and I wonder just how much more I have, right?
And maybe its just this time of year that tends to make me feel this way, though its harder to combat now than normal. Nothing brings home the hardships that are facing people more than watching as their co-workers are handed pink slips, which happened a couple weeks ago. Pay cuts and the like have been rampant where my husband works, and the idea of actually going out and looking for work? Sure too bad no ones hiring, right?
Which makes Christmas a hard season, not just for us but for so many families around the USA, if not the world. I commiserate with those who are having trouble just making ends meet, who hear their children, oblivious to this state, rambling off the laundry list of toys they want from Santa this year. I know the frustration and even guilt that you cannot buy them everything theyre asking for. Heck, I know the frustration and guilt that you cannot buy even one of those things for them. Thank God for guardian angels, right? I have one. I can only pray that everyone else does, too.
I tell myself that the most important thing is to hold those you love close to you; that that, of course, is the most important thing at this time of year. Its so easy to get lost beneath the commerciality that has become synonymous with Christmas. Too bad that its very little compensation to me.
So I ask you all, whoever reads this, to take a moment to consider those things that are important to you; to thank God or whatever entity you might believe in for the things you have. Take a moment to smile at someone who looks like they need it because you have no idea just how much something like that might mean. If you do these things, youll help me more than you know. Youll help for me to renew my own flagging belief in the good of men, and that, I think, is the greatest gift of all.


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Keeping you in my prayers.
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People are like stained glass windows when the sun is out they sparkle and shine but when the sun sets their true beauty is shown only if there is light from within.
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-Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind'
hey sue!
I hope you are well.
Just wanted to celebrate Purity 8!
I was a lot different than the others I think - more drama and suspense and I think that it was great. Setting it apart. I admire the fact that you have created a unique fanfiction which you have turned into your own world - a beautiful world.
I've a few of my friends about your story and it's so cute because Emily wants to read it -she isn't into inuyasha but it's ok because I we've concluded that because your stories are so special that you don't really need an huge interest or knowledge of the anime to fall completely in love with your work.
Let me know if you publish anything!!!
:huge:
*wishing your world was real*
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People are like stained glass windows when the sun is out they sparkle and shine but when the sun sets their true beauty is shown only if there is light from within.
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My FanFics | Cireus-Anime | FMAA | Meine Liebe Wieder
Just wanted to thank you again for writing them! =]
(By the way, have you read the last chapter?)
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If you ever get tagged, like I did, here's what you do:
~1. Post these rules.
~2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about themself on their journal.
~3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
~4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
~5. No tag-backs.
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Art is a really creative way for me to fill in time lapses...OOH, shiny!! =^_^=
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SANIGIRL
Purity 7 was awesome!
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People are like stained glass windows when the sun is out they sparkle and shine but when the sun sets their true beauty is shown only if there is light from within.
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I adobted an Itachi chibi from The-Den
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