Have a safe one!

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I wish I could live here all the time

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All you have to do is believe

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“The thing about trains… it doesn’t matter where they’re going. What matters is deciding to get on.”
~ The Conductor

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Every holiday season, I watch The Polar Express to remind me how important it is to believe and to have a  childish delight for life.  The older I get, I find it harder and harder to do this.  In these times, it is easy to lose faith, no matter the religion, and hope, for a better future.  It is easy to settle for things as they are, rather than try to make a difference for ourselves and others. We start thinking, "What's the point?"

The point is that it really is never too late to make a change in your life.  If you're unhappy, take a chance and go the path you never planned.  Who knows what amazing things will come into your life, and what you might bring to others. 

And even it doesn't work out, at least you tried.  In the end, knowing you had the courage to try, that will mean something.

Baby, it's cold outside...

I'm starting to think about where I want to go for vacation this coming year:

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Seafood Night

Even on Christmas night, while most people are enjoying the traditional fare consisting of poultry, ham, or beef, I opt for seafood.  Tonight it's snow crab legs cooked to perfection.  Nothing beats the sound of cracking the legs open, carefully pulling out a perfect piece of crab meat, dipping it in melted butter, and savoring every juicy morsel that goes down.  I really can't get enough of it.

Maybe I should consider moving to Alaska.  I hear that they hold a yearly Crab Fest in Kodiak.  Hmmm. 

Merry Christmas to All!!

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Wishing everyone a happy Christmas and blessed New Year!

Blow out the candles and make a wish

It's my birthday, and I'll cry if I want to..

I will not say how old I am.  I'm not vain (mostly), but I can't believe that I'm this old.  The years go by faster each year.  But, I've never felt so content and comfortable in my own skin.  I won't deny that some nights,  I look wistfully back at my youth and wish that I could change many things--choices that weren't the best ones, wishing I'd taken the other fork in the road...  But then if I did, I wouldn't be where I am and who I am at this moment.  And I am thankful for the things I have and the people I've been surrounded with. 

I don't regret anything, everything I've experienced is a life lesson learned in full.

Flowers for me, thanks lover

Las Vegas, Baby!  The beautiful hand blown glass ceiling at the Bellagio Hotel.

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