Coop's Joke

Two penguins were walking together along a glacier.

First penguin says to the second penguin, "You look like you're wearing a tuxedo."

Second penguin says, "Maybe I am..."

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43 Things

Number 22 is done.

Numbers 11, 41, and 42 are in progress.

Numbers 4 and 31 are ongoing efforts, but I'm making progress with them as well.

Prayer

Thank you, God, for the love with which I know I'm surrounded.

Thank you for the knowledge that I'm not alone, even though I feel lonely and tired sometimes.

Thank you for the wonderful man who is my husband, and for my beautiful, beautiful daughter.

I thank you for my friends - for all my friends, past and present. Even if I never see some of them again, they have enriched my life, and I know that, and I'm grateful.

Ghosts, Part 2

Well, that went better than I think anybody had hoped.

It still doesn't matter, though.

"Can this friendship be saved?" Possibly, but what would be the point? She lives in El Paso now. How much comfort and joy can be gotten from a friendship when you live 350 miles apart and see each other only once every two or three years? A kind of friendship is possible, yes - but it can't replace what was lost.

I don't know. I'm tired, and bitter, and maybe a little depressed.

Which brings me to another question I've been wondering about for some weeks now: Where exactly is the line between sleep deprivation and depression? I don't know if I've crossed it or not...but I don't like the way I feel.

What did Mama always say? "If you can't say something nice..." Maybe I ought to lay off the blogging for a while - at least until I can get a full night's sleep. Don't know when that may be...