Crazy, Stupid, Love

Yes.  Crazy and stupid describe love perfectly at times.  It's January 1st, 2012.  I can't believe how quickly time has flown by.  Carey and I just finished two bowls of popcorn and the movie "Crazy, Stupid, Love." And as usual I blog after movies, or as Carey would say...I do what they do.  He says if movies are mushy I get really mushy, basically I'm a copy cat of whatever the movie is we are watching.

I really enjoyed this movie, not so much the cheating (well sort of cheating) part of the movie, but the grand theme about LOVE and how sometimes you can't stop it and sometimes, well all the time I think...it lasts.  I asked Carey if he thought that 25 years from now we'd love each other like we love now, or would we really love each other more.  I think 25 years from now the love will be different, not more or less (definitely not less, I mean have you seen how cute my husband is?) but definitely different.  I look forward to that day...the day we celebrate 25 years together.  Perhaps our children will be 23 and 21 and that is a slightly overwhelming thought.  Guess we need to get started on that part don't we...the love part we've got down pat.  We just celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary about a month ago and it's been the best 3 years of our lives.  I hope the next 25 are just as wonderful as these 3 have been.

At this time last year, I was asleep (I think).  I didn't know that I'd be going to the hospital to see my dad being rolled in on a stretcher, intubated.  Thankfully it was only up hill from there.  He hasn't smoked a cigarette since that day.  1 whole year.  Harvey went into the hospital again in June and it didn't look good then either, but thankfully he is home an on a super strict diet and doing extremely well.  I'm so grateful that the Lord gave me another year with my Dad.  I guess I need to spend more time with him...I DO need to spend more time with him.

A new job, a new home and some weight loss finished out 2011..what a year it has been. I ran my first  1/2 marathon in Memphis this year.  Although my training was everything but, I feel great and I'm a whole size smaller.  It feels great.  Quite costly to lose weight though.  What an accomplishment that 1/2 marathon was for me.

I realized one very important thing in 2011 - I'm so very blessed.  There is not a day that doesn't go by that I don't say Thank you for everything I have, material and otherwise.  Ok, there may be a day that I "forget" and others where I fall asleep before I have a chance to pray.  But my God knows what it is in my heart.  That is comforting.

If I had to wish for anything in 2012, it would be that Carey and I get the opportunity to visit at least one place we've never visited.  I know we have 3 weddings to go to this year and I'm sure a couple more will pop up in the future, but those don't really count as vacations.  Carey has a Vegas trip for Seth's bachelor party and the annual LSU away game.  I'm thinking 1 girls trip is in store for me and the St. Jude 1/2 marathon again for sure; our annual Flotta/Poche beach trip and well if there is any money left over, maybe Italy?  Probably not since Carey doesn't want to fly for that long, but I definitely want to do NYC and Carey wants to go skiing, guess we need to win the lottery somewhere in there.  :)

I rang in the new year with Nicole and some of her DC friends (Katie, Jen, Janice and Jill) along with Jamie, Erica Settoon and Jesse Jones.  We had a blast.  9pm reservation at Patois restaurant, watched the fireworks from the street and then headed over to the Goldmine.  As usual it was a blast. It was the first NY that I spend without Carey since we've been together but I'm sure we'll be together for a million more.

We are thankfully both off of work tomorrow and have lots of little errands to run.  I need to run tomorrow, it's been two weeks now.  OUCH.  I'm way behind. AGAIN.

Happy New Year, welcome 2012....glad to see you.