Wonder Years

For the last few days, I've been watching The Wonder Years - its fascinating.  At my age, it reminds me of so many things -- the music they play are tunes from back then, the cars are period, so is the clothing.  And Kevin, the main character, is a 12 year old boy in junior high, the year is 1968.  The themes are all about the angst a 12 year old feels as they muddle through life's circumstances.   We all had those same feelings as we found our way through our first crush, school bullies, dealing with parents, our first dance.

Remember your first dance?  Girls mixed with girls, boys gave each other friendly pushes on the other side of the gym.   A few brave kids danced with each other, but most of the time, we looked busy getting punch, saying hi to other kids, anything to make it look like we weren't a) bored ; or b) wishing someone would ask us to dance.

We look back on those days and think they were good times, but living in the moment, we were full of confusion, questions and feelings we didn't know what to do with.  The drama we endured was all consuming in the moment.  Luckily, it was forgotten just as quickly as it happened.  

One of the best lines from an episode speaks eloquently about what these kinds of memories mean to us as we get older:

Memory is the way of holding on to the things you love,

the things you are, 

and the things you never wish to lose. 

Chilly Mornings

At 6am I got up to let Sadie outside; when I opened the door, I chuckled to myself, all I could hear was a symphony of heaters running!  It's only 30 degrees, which is quite cold for the desert!  We usually get our freeze nights in January, but they are here early this year  I wonder if that is a sign of a rough winter ahead, or even if it gives clues about our summer temps?  I wonder if the Farmer's Almanac would tell me??

Interesting!   

DECEMBER 2013: temperature 45° (3° below avg.); precipitation 0.3" (0.2" below avg.); Dec 1-9: Sunny; cold, then mild; Dec 10-17: Rain and snow showers, cold; Dec 18-24: Rain and snow, then sunny, cold; Dec 25-31: Sunny, turning mild.

So far, its totally correct for Dec 1-9 !!!!!

Jan 1-5: Sunny, cool; Jan 6-10: Showers, then sunny, mild; Jan 11-21: Sunny east, showers west; mild; Jan 22-28: Sunny, cool; Jan 29-31: Showers, chilly.


Well.  I am thinking I outta be purchasing a few more long sleeved shirts for working in!

After getting up, I snuggled back under the covers.  It's a chilly day, and that makes me want to just stay under the covers, read a good story, or maybe watch a movie!

I finished a book called The Christmas Note, good story about a girl raised by her alcoholic mother who learns upon her mother's death that she has siblings who were adopted.  She breaks out of her shell with the help of a new next door neighbor in order to find the lost siblings, and ends up finding herself as well.  Enjoyed the book, its an easy read with an uplifting hopeful story line. 

Happy weekend, everyone :)