monday, monday

the first week in february- yeah!!! i am pretending today as if the world didn't exist. i think we all need those moments where we are just peaceful where we are and enjoying the moment. the superbowl was a good football game yesterday; i finished the baby blanket for a relative that i started (wow- i finished a project :) and the weather is in double digits above freezing. life is good. put our old apartment building on the market and we have gotten a few nibbles- so i am grateful for that.

new feature here at the blog- and you can thank my buddy thornie for this one- only the good fridays. fridays tend to be 'dump the crap' news days because it's the weekend- and hey, we don't want to be hassled. so, this was the idea behind the day and i couldn't agree more:

"We are living in some pretty negative times, aren’t we? You can’t pick up a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing more bad news about the economy, the war, the stock market, the political candidates. I think that many of us are living in a state of fear (though I’m in the state of Texas).

Fear feeds upon itself. It’s like a contagious virus. I’m tired of adding to it. I want to start another kind of “virus.”

You see, I think that optimism can be contagious, too. If we consciously try to look at the good in the world around us, it will become easier to see."