Another gloomy morning, and the paper says it will continue all next week. It's hard to start the morning without a little sunshine. But I've had my fruit shake, V-8 and tea, and I'm ready to vacuum or do something useful. I'm not 100% yet, but I think I ought to move a bit more, or I'll just turn into a slug.
I had a good long talk with my friend last night. We're both a bit under the weather, and it helps to have a buddy to complain to. Two of my other friends have birthdays next week, and I've got to get out enough to find cards and gifts. Many of my friends are in the same quadrant of the year as myself, so it's kind of strange. We're all shifting around the same time to a new reality of a year older. I generally feel two things: amazed I have made it this long and grateful and celebratory. My husband feels low around his birthday. But this year he has planned a trip for us and that is a lovely change. He may even be coming around to the gratitude thing, or at least making the best of getting older. His elderly grandparents certainly took him on fabulous trips at our age, so he knows that you can still have fun and see new places. In fact, on our trip we are going to a city he saw first with them, when they were our age. Now he's showing it to me. I think that's a reason for gratitude.
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