Tuesday, December 04, 2007

I love this time of year... Every day someone with a birthday or some holiday almost every freaking day for over a month... How often does that happen????? And all the good stuff that goes along with Christmas... How can you not love it?

But there is one sad point in the whole holiday season thing.... Decemeber 18th is one of my big sad anniversaries. I don't have a lot of days I let myself be down but the 18th is one of them. October 1st is another one of those days.... But the 18th of this month is the bigger of the two. At least to me...

December 18th is the official anniversary of my dad's death. This year it'll be 17 years since he died. And every year on the 18th I just take the day to sort of reflect, having a good cry and just trying to remember the good stuff about him. But every year the picture I have of him in my head gets foggier and foggier... Its like an old picture of him that just keeps fraying around the edges in my head... And as more time goes by the picture gets more and more frayed around the edges and I have to focus more to be able to see it.... Luckily I have a few pictures of him around and the whole family is pretty open about talking about him... And about how life was when he was around. And as my mom likes to say... She's got a constant reminder in the 3 of us girls.

As for October 1st... That's his birthday... And its not as big a day as the 18th of December but its still a biggie. I may suck at remembering peoples birthdays as a whole but that one is etched in the granite of my mind.

Which in a way brings me to thinking about my own birthday. I plan to spend the next couple of nights at Blanco's... Friday seeing Dane Cook... And Saturday a slumber party at a friend's house.... If thats still on that is... I haven't confirmed that in the last few days... And at some point I need to go by Mom's and do the presents thing (since I have a crap load of new clothes)... And eventually we're all going to get together (probably once La's back in town) probably next week sometime for a big bday dinner with me and Baby since hers is Sunday....

Anyway thats it for the moment.

Laters.

posted by Ali @ 10:45 PM

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