bits and pieces

I spent January trying to maintain my new diet and for once have been succeeding. I acutally had to purchase few pairs of pants as the old size ones were in danger of embarrassing me! So now February is into it's 5th day and it is time I added to the blog.

January and September have historically been tough months for me and in turn for my family. September is the month that my uncle and mother died. Sept. is also my anniversary month. That in itself is not bad, but often as each anniversary passed I find myself mourning the marriage that might have been. But that is a story of another day.

This January was proving to be a not tough month until my friend's husband died. We buried JW on Feb. 3rd, but he passed Jan. 29. JW was a person I did not know well, but because my friend Leslie loved him, so did I. He made her happy and that made me happy. She now calls him doteworthy. I agree. At the funeral she spoke of him in ways that I wish I could talk of my husband. She said that he never lied to her and I believe her. Her friends wondered who this man was that she was willing to cater to and to love.