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Holiday Mood

02 Sunday Dec 2018

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I find myself this year in less of a holiday mood than usual. As the years have passed and my boys have grown from sweet little guys into big, hulking, hairy men, Christmas has definitely lost some of its magic. I try not to feel that way, but it’s true that Christmas is more fun and way more magical through the eyes of a child. Being sick hasn’t improved my mood any. 

As an adult, Thanksgiving was never really all that much fun. It was a lot of hard work. From my very first one as a wife when the turkey wasn’t defrosted and I stood at the sink, running a cold, dead, frozen turkey carcass under the hot water trying to thaw it out and gagging the entire time, and my Gramma, honest to a fault, declaring my very first from scratch pie crust to be “tough” and inedible (yes, and making me cry), it’s always been WORK. I always had my mother and grandmother over, and I rushed around and tried to make it all perfect like it had always been when I was little. After Gramma passed, I had my mother over and the stress there was always wondering if she’d stay or if her social anxiety would get to her and she’d ask to go home as soon as she’d arrived. I understood her issues. Hell, half the time, I shared them. When I’d worked so hard to make it nice for her, and she wouldn’t even sit down and eat with us I was so very hurt. I never told her because that just wasn’t done with my mom. She’d have gotten angry and the solution to her would have been no more visits ever. So I tried every year. I hoped she appreciated the effort. She’s been gone thirteen years so I’ll never know now. 

Thanksgiving here this year was me sick as a dog. 

I watched the parade on TV – one tradition kept. My hubby and boys were here. I believe my hubby made himself a Hormel microwave turkey and dressing meal. 

I had chicken bouillon and toast and slept a lot. I’m not sure what my adult sons fixed themselves.  There was no way I was touching food for anyone else to eat. I was nauseous, and I didn’t want to share the bacterial GI infection. 

So now I look forward to Christmas. I know I should decorate inside the house (we always have a tree) and outside (I always put up lights). I drove to the grocery store last night. First time I’d driven since November 15 and my first lengthy outing (other than a doctor visit). I walked the entire store. I pushed the cart; my sons did all the fetching and carrying. I finish the antibiotic this Wednesday. I am supposed to return to work on Thursday if the blood work I go for Monday or Tuesday is clear and shows no infection/inflammation. 

So, yeah, Christmas. Maybe our fake tree this year, but who cares about outside. Right? It’s the people inside who count. I’ll work on psyching myself up. 

Donna Reads: The Substitute (The Wedding Pact #1) by Denise Grover Swank

21 Saturday Jan 2017

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substituteMegan Vandemeer has broken up with her fiancé after she catches him cheating. The only problem is she hasn’t told her parents about the breakup yet. She’s on her way home from Seattle to Kansas City a week before the wedding, and she’s a nervous wreck. Her mother is a nightmare, and Megan is afraid to face her. Not a fan of flying, she takes two Dramamine and then has a couple of drinks on top of that. Josh McMillan has problems of his own. He’s also on his way to Kansas City. He’s trying to save his business after his brother lets the plans slip out of his hands for a revolutionary new idea that Josh developed. Another engineering firm has stolen the plans, and the thief’s business received a patent on the idea first. Josh is determined to meet with the other business and try to get ownership of his idea back. Fate steps in, and Josh finds himself sitting beside Megan on the plane. Megan is the daughter of one of the thief firm’s principals. In a case of mistaken identity, Josh is mistaken for Megan’s fiancé as he helps her off of the plane in her drunken-drugged state. Not knowing what else to do, he decides to run with the idea.

I loved this book! Goodreads recommended it to me, and I’m glad I took a chance on it. I couldn’t resist reading it in the first place since it involved patents and intellectual property (I work in IP law). The story was cute. Megan’s family is a bit eccentric – from her overprotective brother to her mother-of-the-bridezilla and her bizarre grandmother who’s a fan of naked yoga. There were several spots where I laughed out loud. The story takes place over a period of four days. Josh is posing as her face fiancé, and he’s supposed to break up with her just before the wedding. Along the way, his own brother joins him and Megan’s real ex-fiancé even shows up to try to ruin the day. I highly recommend this one. It was very enjoyable.

Donna Reads: What Alice Forgot

09 Tuesday Sep 2014

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alice2In ‘What Alice Forgot’ by Liane Moriarty, Alice Love is a 39 year old who falls off of her bike during a spin class at her gym. She bumps her head hard enough to give herself amnesia. She’s forgotten the last ten years of her life. She wakes up, thinking she’s 29, happily married and pregnant with her first child. She discovers to her dismay that she’s in the process of a divorce and is the mother to three children who are strangers to her.

I loved this book! It caught my attention right from the start. As the story unfolded, I kept turning pages and couldn’t wait to see what happened next. My book club group chose this book, and I finished it in a matter of days. I just kept reading it and reading it. At first I felt sorry for Alice who is so disoriented and confused. As she begins to unravel bits and pieces of her memory, I began to think that 39 year old Alice had not been a very nice person. Everyone kept telling her they’d lost touch because Alice had been so “busy”. Older Alice was busy running kids to and fro and was involved in several different committees and projects. I enjoyed the interaction between Alice and her husband, Nick. Nick had also changed as the years went on, and he was a bit of a workaholic. Alice kept trying to win him back. Complicating matters, older Alice also had a boyfriend, Dominick, who is also the school principal. I didn’t care as much for Dominick. He was too nice, and everyone in the story worried about Alice hurting his feelings. I didn’t care and found myself hoping she’d dump him!

Without giving away the ending, Alice, of course, gets her memory back. She must then decide what she will do. I liked that she didn’t just go back to being old busy, (bitchy) Alice. She realizes that there are now two Alices – younger, calmer, nicer Alice and the older and wiser Alice. She blends the two and comes up with a happy ending. I also liked that this book told two other stories in a unique fashion. We hear Alice’s Grandmother, Frannie’s story, too. Frannie is writing letters to tell her tale. We also hear Alice’s sister, Elizabeth’s story, and Elizabeth is writing a journal. The book jumps back and forth between their different viewpoints, and I thought this was kind-of an interesting way to progress through the story. I thought the character development and interaction was great. Yes, there were some cheesy, oddball characters, but they did not spoil the book. I highly recommend this one.