22 Dec '04 - + 0 - 0 Snow, In Austin?

Mood: Somber
Gas 1.57 (87 Oct)
High 50 (at 01:00 this morning)
Austin current temp 39
OKC current temp 27
Madison current temp 1
Snow chances are 30% for Austin on Christmas eve. In Wisconsin after 4 years I think I only had 1 white Christmas. I move to Austin and Mother Nature threatens providing one here. Ironic?
My own health index is improving. Actually went to the doctor yesterday. Found a doctor with 22 years experience. She gave me a 'supped up amoxycillin and a combo pill with pseudophedrin and guefenesin. After 2 doses I already feel 50% better.
Aby is steadily improving. Kim is sniffling but is pretty much over her cold. Ryan is also sniffling but nothing slows him down much.

Hard to believe this is Christmas. Lots has happened this year but nothing in my past exists to relate this year to. We still do not have any cash flow and Kim is extra disapointed we do not have a Honukkah (Christmas) tree with all the decorations and presents underneath. We do have a couple hundred dollars of presents but that does not seem to meet "deleted" requirements when previous Christmas' were in the thousands of $$. In years past I could find enjoyment in the food, people and festivities, although this year that seems more difficult because of the distances between my friends and family and the volume of personal insults hurled at me by "deleted" for not meeting year-end expectations. Reality is never what it seems though and while one thing gets told to me, what actually happens is usually the opposite.
For the record, I am not related to scrooge. I was taught that if you do not have it you do not spend it. Espcially after I have destroyed all available credit. This of course, directly conflicts with the expectations I am currently under. Thus I am quickly approaching the breaking point.

seven stones, bouncing:

I would apppreciate it if you would keep Ryan, myself, and my family out of it. If you feel the necessity to have a web page, then keep it to what is relevent to yourself and to Aby. My feelings on Christmas and my family’s traditions are nothing to be spoken about on a public website…and just for the record…up until this this year, there has not been $$$ of money spent on X-mas and whatever other people spend is none of your concern.

Kim - 22 December '04 - 18:02

So you can see the dilemma…

Nathan - 23 December '04 - 07:23

(Tevye)
“Golde, I have decided to give Perchik permission to become engaged to our daughter, Hodel.”

(Golde)
“What??? He’s poor! He has nothing, absolutely nothing!”

(Tevye)
“He’s a good man, Golde.
I like him. And what’s more important, Hodel likes him. Hodel loves him.
So what can we do?
It’s a new world… A new world. Love. Golde…”

Do you love me?

(Golde)
Do I what?

(Tevye)
Do you love me?

(Golde)
Do I love you?
With our daughters getting married
And this trouble in the town
You’re upset, you’re worn out
Go inside, go lie down!
Maybe it’s indigestion

(Tevye)
“Golde I’m asking you a question…”

Do you love me?

(Golde)
You’re a fool

(Tevye)
“I know…”

But do you love me?

(Golde)
Do I love you?
For twenty-five years I’ve washed your clothes
Cooked your meals, cleaned your house
Given you children, milked the cow
After twenty-five years, why talk about love right now?

(Tevye)
Golde, The first time I met you
Was on our wedding day
I was scared

(Golde)
I was shy

(Tevye)
I was nervous

(Golde)
So was I

(Tevye)
But my father and my mother
Said we’d learn to love each other
And now I’m asking, Golde
Do you love me?

(Golde)
I’m your wife

(Tevye)
“I know…”
But do you love me?

(Golde)
Do I love him?
For twenty-five years I’ve lived with him
Fought him, starved with him
Twenty-five years my bed is his
If that’s not love, what is?

(Tevye)
Then you love me?

(Golde)
I suppose I do

(Tevye)
And I suppose I love you too

(Both)
It change a thing
But even so
After twenty-five years
It’s nice to know

JC () - 23 December '04 - 11:02

Buttercup: You mock my pain.
Westley: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

JC () - 23 December '04 - 12:35

what’s scary is that I know where JC’s two posts came from….Kelly got the first one, but wasn’t sure about the second. I really believe you (John) are a son of our family lost at birth. The only thing missing is something Shakespearean!

sis - 24 December '04 - 12:24

Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind.

Merry Christmas, Sis

JC () - 24 December '04 - 14:51

This made my Christmas. Things have been so difficult emotionally and I have never been so lonely.

Nathan - 28 December '04 - 10:17