Dec 9. Snow today, golfed a week ago

Cold, windy and some snow today...really reinforces the reality that golf is done til April.  I will have to visit the health club more since I now have 6 hours extra on my hands each weekend.  And when  I go to the health club I will have to do more than sit in the steamroom. 

Speaking of golf, the day after Thanksgiving me and my 2 golf buds played.  They put a 4th golfer with us.  Nice guy...good golfer...around our age.   On the 7th tee I was asked him his age, and we started talking.  Turns out he graduated from Maine South with us.  and he had played football with my 2 golf buds...they were close friends in high school.  after that, the round was full of conversation about the old days.  It's a small world, huh?  We played golf with  him again last week.

Went to Menards this morning.  Everywhere you go is in holiday mode.  But I am not.  I have written before that I am not a big fan of Christmas.  Never was.  As long as my family got what they wanted, I was happy.  Now this holiday season is comprised of divorce related activities...submitting legal forms, planning for what lies ahead, alternating weeks in the house....  I am ready to get all of this taken care of now, but seems like such a waste of a holiday season.  A month from now we will be in January, post holiday, and have nothing but the rotten weather of gripe about. 

Way back in 2008 when I started this blog, I wrote that joblessness was ruining the holiday season since I was not attending work parties, and was generally in a depressed mood all the time.  But, only one person can ruin our day, or our holday season, and that is us.  Since I had my epiphanny, I have embraced that approach.  And I will keep that approach.  Because better days are ahead.  or, as Bruce Springsteen wrote, "These are better days". 

When I was in a depressed state back in 2008, my wife said to me that if I let something like joblessness do that to me, what would I do if something worse than that happened?  I guess that must have stuck with me since I am more positive now than I was back then.  Either that, or unemployment is worse for me than a divorce is.  I hope to not find out. 

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