More Me…
Family and Friends
Me and my son started with a small family, but I learned at a young age- family is what you make of it. So, that is how our family grew. It went from my warm and loving parents, extraordinary sister who married a lovely man and a best friend who has been a sister to me and is my son’s godmother to another sister, nieces, a nephew, aunts and uncles, more cousins and a nana too! The entire clan I hold dear to my heart and I love them a bunch.
True friends are hard to come by, but there are a few and they have each enriched my life and are great people in many ways.
Work Family
We spend half our time with people who start out to be strangers to us, as we work to support ourselves and family. As time passes they become a part of our lives. In my case, especially with the twists and turns my life has had, I am really lucky to work at a place that has so many very nice people from the moment you walk in the door. Always a greeting and a kind word spoken.
The folks in the pharmacy are just the sweetest people I have ever met. It is so hard to find so many nice people in one place and it is a pleasure to go to work. They just make it a great place. Everyone is easy to talk with, caring and considerate of the other.
Life’s little indulgences…
I do not really do much baking, so it is a sweet treat when I do; but I love to cook meals and create new recipes. I enjoy feeding family and friends. My goal is to make delicious food that would knock your socks off– like make sure your full and leave the table with a flavor you can not find no place other than my table.
I enjoy serving up hot soups that are a hearty enough meal alone: salmon in mustard sauce, ziti with a rich gravy you just want to dip bread in, and melt in your mouth ribs. A bit of Dutch Pear Pie after dinner is a treat to go with it all.
I try to make all my meals low in calories and fat, and low in sugar for a diabetic to indulge and enjoy without that diabetic food taste. The diabetic concern is for my diabetic sister. I want her to enjoy good foods so I serve everyone the same meal, that’s how you know it does not taste like diabetic food -when no one knows that it was designed for a diabetic to indulge and you do not even taste a difference.
Me time!
I enjoy quilting it relaxes me. It is a hobby that started two years ago when I attended a free monthly quilting class at the public library. They have two of the most patient and enthusiastic teachers that work as a team that got me hooked from get go. Can not tell you how many quilts I have done, but I love giving something I made from start to finish with love as a gift. One of these days I plan on treating myself with a quilt of my own.
Reading was a problem for me until my mom got me started with The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading & Learning Program. Then it all came together, and I have enjoyed reading since.
My favorite all time author is John Grisham, especially the legal stories -at the end of each book I always feel like “wow”.
James Paterson books about “Alex Cross” (currently reading that series) are fast paced and exciting books like his books Beach Road and Beach House; just start reading and do not want to put it down.
Mitch Albom can really move his reader emotionally. I especially enjoyed the five people you meet in heaven and for one more day.
Elizabeth Joy Arnold’s Pieces Of My Sister’s Life had more twists, turns and surprise to it, it was incredible reading to me.
Of course I have read many other books, authors, short stories, poems and prose- but these guys are the ones I search regularly for the next book coming out. I love shopping for books on Amazon.com; they are great shopping inexpensively just on myself!
Relationships & Matters of the Heart
Just like any good soap opera, man meets women, that is where the story begins with an ending that spells disaster. After being in a relationship for too many years, that eventually died, but not before my life was wrecked. The usual storyline, me in financial ruins, responsible for his actions (that’s what it means when you give out an additional credit card, bottom line “you are it”). He just drained me, financially, emotionally and mentally. It was a slow dying relationship, but that is what makes a good soap. (Tune in three months later and they are still having the same conversation.) I gathered perhaps I made an error in judgment and this was not my forever most definitely “soulmate”. What do ya think?
Seriously, the good and beauty of what we had together, obviously had more of a meaning to me then him. He was the other half of me, and we made a helluva great team, until the team had an “I” in it, standing for “it is all about me”. Clearly it is more than very over, after all when it is all about you, you need nothing else.
Do not know if I could ever let someone that near ever again and feel that level of comfort. But right now, I am comfortable where I am at.
I am lucky. I have my son and family. My son, he is a great kid (young man) and when the day is over that is all that matters, to me.