What's the big deal?

The news tonight is all about the "big freeze". Puleez, 30 degrees is just getting a little chilly! Walk to Mcdonalds at lunch with the thermometer at 4 degrees and then we will talk about it being cold! I may be a Texan born and bred, but I know the difference between between cold and merely "cool".

Today was a good day. Spent the day with my daughter. We shopped for groceries and then because we were bored we went window shopping at Target. At least that is what we were supposed to be doing. Target had a small home theater for $100 and I bought it. For a little cheap one it works pretty good. At 150 watts total it puts out plenty of sound for our little apartment. Once we get our stuff from South Dakota I will have my old DVD player so down the road I can purchase a better home theater that does not have a built in DVD player and put this little one in either my or my daughter's bedroom. I love my life and wouldn't want it any other way than it is right now.

A couple of observations....

I have a new take on the old cliche "If a tree in a forest falls and no one is there to hear it, did it make a sound?"

"If my life is going really well and I have no one to share and appreciate it with, is it really going so well?"

Second observation
Each day at lunch I read a book and today I came across something in it that made me stop and think for a moment. The guy was in a predicament (I won't go into those details) and he thought about something from his past. When he had been younger he had been attempting to join a gang. One day after coming home from another of many "initiation" beatings, bruised and in pain, he realized they didn't want him in the gang. He was just something to amuse themselves with and expend excess energy on. How does that fit in with me? I have come to realize that the female part of our society just doesn't want me. I am something to amuse themselves with for a time but not thought of seriously as a lifemate. I know I am sounding like poor pity me, but this is not so much of a pouting statement as it is a statement of fact, an acceptance of how things really are. I have friends, male and female, but that is where it stops. Just how I feel at this moment. Subject to change at anytime.