Christmas time

I cannot believe that it is already almost Christmas time. Time really flies by when you are having fun. It's been a great year, a lot of changes. On Christmas day I will be doing my usual, going to the union rescue mission and serving Christmas dinner to the homeless.

We started doing this several years ago and now make it a regular thing to do. It only takes a couple of hours in the morning and it is the most rewarding experience you will ever have. I challenge anyone to do it. It makes you appreciate what you really have if you go and help feed the homeless.

It isn't all just dirty old drunk men like you think either. There are families and children and all types of people there. I usually spend about $100 worth of groceries to donate and then stay and serve dinner for about 2 hours. It's very sad to see the children with no home and no Christmas gifts. Last year I went out and bought some gifts for this little girl. She and her mother were living in their car because the Mom had lost her job. They had no other family and the father was killed in Iraq. The military is hopelessly slow and they were waiting on the death benefits to come through but still haven't gotten them. My friend JR who is the hotel manager gave them a room for 5 days after Christmas. That at least gave them a place to go. After that they were able to go stay with a cousin of the lady's in Ohio. Our Church gave them gas money to get there. It was horribly sad.

My point about all this is give. Most of us have so much, that if we gave a little it can really change someone's life. We received a letter from the lady back in July. They finally got a place and were getting the benefits from her dead husband. But there are many more people out there like that and it doesn't take any time at all to help. Please help if you can.

Vacation

Yay! It's almost the new year and even better in January I become eligible for vacation at my job. I get to go somewhere in January and thank God, because it has been almost a year since I have been anywhere. I have 2 options and I cannot decide which one to chose.

First, I can go to Disneyworld in Orlando and stay for 7 days. They have great package deals which include hotel on Disney property, park tickets and 2 meals a day for 2 people it would be about $1000 which is awesome. Or I could go on a cruise with my lesbian friends. My friend Kit-kat sets up these cruises kinda like Rosie O'Donnell and gets lots of friends to go and we get a great deal. That would cost $287 per person for double occupancy and includes a room with balcony for 5 days. We would cruise from Miami to Puerto Rico. There would be multiple lesbians and a couple of gays other than me and Chris.

So I cannot decide. Hard decision. But the main thing is that I am going somewhere. I am leaning toward Disney because I love theme parks and love Disney. It's great in January because no one is there and the weather is awesome. Not too hot and not humid and no lines to stand in. Oh well, what to do, what to do.

Project Runway et al

It's been a while since my last post, and I have been very busy. My birthday was Nov 22 (Thanksgiving) and it was awesome. Of course we had a big family dinner with everyone in attendance and that was great, but it was the next day that was fun. Chris and I went to Nashville and stayed the weekend. Even though it has only been since April that I moved away, it seems much longer. I miss living in the city and may move back soon.

My friend JR is the GM of the Radisson in Nashville, so he gave us a FABULOUS suite for the weekend. It was very nice and we were able to take the dogs with us. He turned on the pay-per-view movies so we watched several movies for free. Stephen, our choir director came over and brought a nice bottle of Vodka. We had several cocktails with him and just kinda hung out on Friday night watching movies.

Saturday was spent shopping. We shopped till we dropped. We really didn't want to go Friday because it was black Friday and we didn't want to fight the crowds. It was much nicer on Saturday. We didn't buy any Christmas gifts, just stuff for ourselves. I know that is selfish, but it was my birthday and my money. I wanted to spend it on me. I had set $1500 aside and spent most of it. I did get many new outfits and was very pleased.

We came home Sunday and just vegged out, did laundry and things like that. It sucked getting back to reality, but it was nice to get away. Lately we have been watching Project Runway. I love, love that show. There is so much I could talk about, but I will leave that to the boys at project rungay. They do it so much better than me. I did love the menswear show that was the most recent episode. Of course most of those queens complained about it, but I thought it was great and has been one of my favourites so far. If those designers have ANY talent at all, they should be able to do menswear.

Well, bye for now. See you soon.