Snowy Sunday...

It's a snowy Sunday....the first Sunday in February....and it's Super Bowl Sunday. I had plans to go to a party tonight and watch the game with friends, but after more snow than forecast fell for several hours today, the I decided to "hunker down" in the house instead. 

This week I'm housesitting for a coworker who went on a golf trip to sunny Florida with her husband this week.They have a beautiful home and a very sweet dog named Gracie who is curled up on the couch next to me right now. She likes to lie on my favorite fuzzy red blanket I brought with me. 

While I was holed up in the house today, I decided to start a blog. After looking around online, I decided to check out Blogger. To my surprise, someone with the blogger name "Prose Angel" was associated with my Google account and had posted two blogs! When I clicked on the posts, memories washed over me as I saw the two blog entries I posted 4 and 1/2 years ago and then completely forgot about! 

I remember that weekend clearly after re-reading my blog posts about it. And reading them also brought back memories of my 3 years living in a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas....lots of weekends cozied up in my apartment with my shih-tzu who went to heaven a couple of years ago after 17 years of a good life. 

Reading again how I ended the last post with my innocent desire to get married and share my life brings up bittersweet emotions. About a month later I met a guy online, and I left Texas to move to the midwest and marry him about one year after I wrote those blog posts. Unfortunately the relationship was a huge mistake and barely lasted a year. 

Back in the South now and reading about the 36-year old me, in some ways I feel like a completely different person inside than I was then, happier and more blessed now in every way. 

I had totally and completely forgotten about the movie, Evening, I rented at a Blockbuster store and enjoyed watching so much that weekend I wrote about in my last post in 2009. I found it tonight on Amazon and played about half of it on my laptop before I turned it off. I just didn't enjoy it this time around. 

Yes, I'm different and my perspective is different. I look at life less philosophically and more practically. In some ways, I wish I could go back and give myself the gift of a wiser perspective. I wish the 36-year-old me could have pulled that wisdom all around myself like the soft, warm blanket Gracie is snuggled up in right now. 

But I'm so grateful to have that wisdom now...and the joy and peace that comes along with it. It was fun taking an unexpected peek back into the past tonight. But it's much more fun looking ahead to the future and all the good things in store! 

I am starting to write again, and plan to keep up with posting blogs regularly...definitely more often than every 4 and 1/2 years! Hahahaha! Good night.....talk to you again soon.