Dragon Mood? --
circadian rhythmically disoriented
Early, early this morning, while I was blissfully sleeping, most of the country, including us, turned our collective clocks back. Instantaneously, 2 a.m. became 1 a.m. Voila, just like that, we created an extra hour for ourselves! Why can't we do that EVERY weekend?
Sue and Michelle invited Jeanne, Joanne, Sally, S and I over for a lovely, entertaining dinner last night. I made
Parmesan Pinwheels (simple and
TASTY from Real Simple) and traffic-light crudites (red-yellow-green, with a little orange thrown in for good measure) and vegetable dip for appetizers. Michelle made a knock-out Beef Stroganoff along with fresh, steamed green beans. Jeanne and Joanne brought a dazzlingly delicious berry crumble pie from the award-winning
Sweetie-licious Bakery in DeWitt. With Cosmos, better-than-average red wine, beer and other, assorted alcoholic beverages, the seven of us schmoozed, talked, interrupted, laughed and made good-friend conversation with one another for four or so hours. It was simply delightful!
And I'll end this post by saying that not one of these crazy, 'spring forward' or 'fall back' events occurs without my thinking of my mother. More times than not, she was working as a night nurse at a local nursing home (now defunct Provincial House) on those semi-annual Saturday nights and would always note on the 'fall back' ones, how she was so lucky (hear the sarcasm) to get to work an extra hour! For some curious reason, I always remember her mentioning that. I love you, Mom, and miss your love and care.
