New Year

Let's just cut thru the chase here...I haven't been walking and I haven't been working on my quilting. I have been mostly lazy. I have been working on a knitting project, I just don't know who it's for yet. Last time I started one of these (it's a prayer shawl...no not to wear while praying...just look it up google "Prayer Shawl Ministeries") it turned out to be for my sister in law who was very ill in the hospital at the time. I'll know who this one is for either by the time I'm done or shortly there after. At least that's how it seem to work out for me.
Anyway, I've given a lot of thought the last day or two to addiction. You know, it's realy easy to look at a junkie (if you don't think you can, just watch Intervention sometime) and say "I'll never be like that" or "how did they get like that?". It's easy to never see ourselves as addicts. We are too good for that. We are white, middle class, Prodestant raised, Americans. There is no way I would ever do (fill in the blank) and ruin myself and my family that way. But the truth is, we are all addicted to something. Don't believe me, go without TV, music, Starbucks, the gym or (as my teenage son is about to find out) videogames for a week. How long would you last without your fix of news or favorite TV show? How long would you go without the background noise that fills in for all of us when we don't want to talk to others in our homes? I don't know the answer...I've never tried it.
Okay, enought nattering on for now. I hope your New Year is filled with success, love, happiness, and just enough of what ever it is you need to get you thru your days.

Sara