Thanksgiving was fun. Lots of food. I didn't bring any of it. I was busy getting Nathanael last night. And staying up last night late talking with him so we all slept in this a.m. Steve came back today and came by. Karl was going to have come with us but he never got back with us on that. Nathanael showed me a picture of the girl he is now interetsed in- Nicole, from Maryland. She is a music major and plays piano and violin. Like yours truly? LOL She comes from a family that all is into classical music, I think all professionally. He showed me her pic and hey they have matching hairdos. :) She looks like a cute girl. They are crushing on each other. So now both my boys have girls they are interested in. :) Everybody 1 2 3 awwwwwww.....

I went w/ Micah to pick up Nathanael at his friend's house near Dayton. First thing Nathanael said to Micah, "Wow, so are you goth/emo/skater?" Micah got offended. He is touchy around Nathanael. They get along but when Nathanael is home Micah takes a lot of time to sharpen the distinction between them. Whatever "statement" Nathanael makes, Micah makes another.

Nathanael's current fashion statement is plaid and no shoes. Micah got a cool jacket and skinny pants at Hot Topic. And a skater hat and gloves. The skater hat looks like it could have been crocheted by a loving old granny. But it's THE style. He went to school with that look and got complimented. He's not emo or goth, but definitely kind of skater. He's kind of, hm, combined a few different looks: Roca wear or Paco (rap), skater shoes and hat and gloves, emo this or goth that. Well he thinks he's da shiznit....LOL....and I guess maybe he is. :) Uh, the look may work when your 14 but Steve and I have said to him, "It's OK for now, but if you dress like this at age 25 you have some issues." So anyway he skates around a lot and listens to a lot of post-grunge, nu-metal, indie this or that... call it what you want but it will be "classic" in 20 more years.

Tomorrow is T-day at Oxford. Steve is in W.Va. but is coming home soon. He got a deer! He was pretty happy about that. Missed going to W.Va. this year but the logistics didn't work out. I will miss all those people. I guess I will see them at the summer reunion when again I will bid on the mystery gift. :) Every year there is a cute auction to raise money for the next year's gathering. Old family photos, tchatchkes, ornaments, and all kinds of cool old things. Way fun. But they don't do the auction at Thanksgiving. At T-day it's EAT EAT EAT at noon, some people go hunt, then everyone comes back to EAT EAT EAT again. OH MAN it's good eats there. I will miss it. But I will like t-day in O-town with my kids and my brother's kids. Dad will do his oyster dressings.

btw my dad is doing pretty well. Mom broke her ankle so now he is taking care of HER again. They seem to be taking turns at it lately. Dad's back more to his old self and personality now that his health is better. We all know something happened to his personality some years back (and it was a sudden shift, so a mini-stroke possibly but we will never know) and it was like he was a different person completely. But a lot of his old personality is coming back since his operation and his much improved diet. Good for him!

To everone who reads this post:

My apologies if I offended anyone who reads this. I realize I should set some things to "private". I apologize for hurting anyone or exposing personal things that I shouldn't.

This is kind of like a diary which I have kept all my life. In my paper diaries I always wrote EVERYTHING. I have found myself discarding some of those, too. At the time, though, it helps to vent.

I found that I was using this blog as a way to vent as well. I realized 1 or 2 people occasionally read this but that is all. I mainly keep it for myself. I know that some people do like to see the pictures but like most blogs this is fairly boring unless you are me.

So I am going through old entries and trying to filter out things that could have hurt Steve. I am sorry, Steve (husband).

I have asked Steve to read this blog but he doesn't want to. Most other people don't read it, either.

Believe me, there are MANY personal things that I absolutely leave out of this blog. But I should have been even more careful.

I AM SORRY to anyone I have hurt.

In the past a couple of people have brought this to my attention and I have had to delete things, and Steve just brought it to my attention again. Seems I have to be constantly reminded that this is public, not private. I guess whatever I want to keep private I should put as private...which some of these blog entries are...that's why no one can read them. At one time I didn't know how to do this on blogger but now I can.

Please accept my apologies and if you are still angry at me, then you have every right to be.

But there is nothing I can do about it now except apologize and I do mean it sincerely.

Micah has a new little honey. The poor thing's name- Ernestina. But she calls herself Chi-chi. WHY oh WHY did her parents name her Ernestina? The world is full of questions. She is about Micah's age and in the eighth grade at Finneytown. She's a cute little girl with three sisters. Short with long hair and likes to have fun and laugh.