The Fixx

Reach the Beach

I miss that album. I am going to ask Alex if he can get it for me.

Thanksgiving was fine. We had a family dinner at my Mom’s Thursday with 20 people or so. My Mom ordered one of those complete meals from the grocery store, actually two of them, because she always fears not having enough food, and there was plenty of everything. I went over early to help her and we only had to pop holes in the plastic and slip the items into the oven and warm up the turkey and the ham. My kind of cooking, reheating. My brother showed up and my Mom was just glowing with happiness. My Mom was worried about having the meal in her new apartment but she did a great job cleaning the place up and stuffing all of the junk into the spare room and closing the door. I hugged my brother before we left and it felt good. He said “Happy Tofurkey Day” and smiled. I think that I can count the number of times we have hugged on one hand.

Yesterday I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the kids and Alex and me. I spent 8 hours cooking and it took 15 minutes for people to eat. Then we watched a movie, Click, and all was good. It is getting harder and harder to find movies that the whole family wants to watch and that are appropriate for the kids.

I am supposed to be signing up for school but I feel frozen with fear. I haven’t told anyone how I feel. My sister said she is taking a class called “Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll” and she suggested I sign up too. I told her I could teach that class. Actually her college is all the way out on Oregon City and the last time that I took a class there I spent 3 hours there and back on the bus in the middle of Summer. That was a hard earned A, not because the class was hard, it was the getting there that killed me. I am going to stick close to home. I am tempted to take some sort of yoga class or Pilates because I have been having severe back pain again. My sister Maria is taking Thai Chi at the senior center and she said working out with older people is cool, because she doesn’t feel pressured.

Sorry this entry is so boring. I’m off to do more laundry.