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God this program works on you when you work on it. Saturday Morning and the wife has been gone for a week and not because I've had anything to do with it and the pups miss her (I think they do anyway...how do pups show they miss anyone who isn't there when they got you?) but seem to be fine using my body heat at night. It's getting really cold here now I think it even reached 65 or so last night but then the comforter was very warm. I have found out I don't like cooking for myself and I won't ask her when she gets back but maybe she doesn't either. So I do the best I can with what I have just like she does and eat. The sun rise was a Winter sunrise...low in the horizon and very red...nothing to complain or do about that. My build gates project is almost finished and didn't come out like it coulda, woulda, shoulda and I'll have to ask the customer if they will accept it like that or?...Saturday Morning...Super Saturday Al-Anon Family Group in one hour and the gals will be a bit more animated than last Saturday because this is the annual Christmas White Elephant (Why is the world is that a discription of something other than a White Elephant...please?) gift swap and pot luck. It is fun even for a guy who could be traveling around town in his pickup truck looking like well...a guy. I like to laugh so the pot luck will be the choice and the pickup can do the garage. I am grateful that the wife is with family and they might be closing the hole little by little that was created when Olivia left us. It will be good work don't you think? Sure can't complain about what love can do. I am convinced she even came by to say hello and goodbye to me yesterday morning. She would never have flown all those miles to come to Hilo to be with us and to be taken care of by us. She was too frightened by it all but then yesterday morning just before my "other" meeting she flew in gave me a look over and flew out. Just enough to say "Aloha, I'm fine and take care of yourself." Taking care of myself...hmmm my own compulsion for alcohol is awake after all of this time. Compulsion of the mind (subconscious) with very poor timing although I am looking at the timing for solutions. The alcoholic in my life today is me and I know how to care take one huh? So let it begin with me. I love you all...Take care of yourself today and don't forget your gratitude list when leaving the premises. ((((((MIP))))))
It was fun...the meeting was on the Al-Anon Promises and the food was enough to kill an overeater cheeeeez can these gals put FOOD TOGETHER!! I got my White Elephant christmas gift involutarily swapped twice before I got the final one..."The Sinatra Treasures" book a compilation of Frank Sinatras life and music...Frank sang during the Addiction days and his voice and music sometimes interrupted the slaughter. Gonna read, listen and maybe walk off the chow.
