80 @ MindSay

Whew, so the 'dark days' of December are over. Christmas, I already told about. But I also had a birthday. No, not from me. Cause I am having my birthday in August. The 4th if you wanna know exact. But my grandmother was becoming 80. It's my mom's mother. My other grandparents have died. Already a few years ago. But my grandmother has cancer. And she knew that already a few years ago and then she tought she would die in a few months. But she survived my other grandparents. I think that's pretty good. So she became 80. And the entire family was invited to a diner. We could walk past a table and choose different kind of food. Well different. It was fish. Fish, fish and fish again. And not like six or seven different sorts of fish. No only 3 different kind of fish. I didn't like it. And I am glad I had eaten one thing before it, cause I was really hungry when I came back. Altough it was ment for eating I didn't eat much. Just because that the fish wasn't really good. My gran also came when we celibrate New Year's Eve. She was having her birthday on the 29th December and so New Year was on 31th December. Yes, I am serious :P. Anyways, we celibrated also with family. We did a game (a boardgame, not a videogame), we ate all kind of stuff. And ofcourse we said "Happy New Year" to each other. It was a pretty fun day. My grandmother however was pretty tired. Not very strange after her birthday and then again two days after that a late evening again. And the people who weren't at New Year's Eve then, well they came at 1 January at her. So that was also a very heavy week for her. Well, I am talking about her now. But how did my days without New Year and that birthday went? Good. I bought a new book. ;). Yes, again. I am really wild about books. Kinda strange isn't it for a guy being on the net often. Well, I love reading. The book I bought was one of Dan Brown. Digital Fortress it was called. I already read his 'famous' DaVinci Code book. Well, it was pretty exciting book, but well, wonder if this one is so good. I also watched the Gladiator. And I didn't watch 24 after that. But I still think Russell Crowe and Kiefer Sutherland are look-a-likes of each other. Is there anyone who agrees with me on that? Let me find two pictures of them, so you can compare them. Really, just look then.

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I almost forgot, HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone

Here are the lyrics to one of my old fav's.  Check it out. 

FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIME
Foreigner

I would climb any mountain, sail across the stormy sea
If that's what it takes me baby, to show how much you mean to me
And I guess that it's just the woman in you, that brings out the man in me
I know I can't help myself, you're all in the world to me

Chorus:
It feels like the first time, feels like the very first time
It feels like the first time, it feels like the very first time

I have waited a lifetime, spent my time so foolishly
But now that I found you, together we'll make history
And I know that it must be the woman in you, that brings out the man in me
I know I can't help myself, you're all my eyes can see

And it feels like the first time, like it never did before
Feels like the first time, like we've opened up the door
Feels like the first time, like it never will again, never again

chorus - open up the door, won't you open up the door

In response to yesterday's song yrics ... My Man,    I always liked this song, too ... it's a real moving song, but when I learned the lyrics ... I was almost   outraged.  And we wonder why a woman will stay with an abuser.  This is the culture many of us know, or knew.  This is what both history and much today in our TV shows, magazines, movies etc ... this is what we see.  It may not be what people say they believe, but ... This is the stuff that should have been the focus of the "women's lib" movement etc. but the media is all around us, with images of "beautiful, but brainless" women.  Most of us even laugh about it.  Our girls are still taught (not in words, but in images - and what is the cliche, one pic is worth 1000 words? )  that if they are not attached to a man, their life is pointless, empty, lonely ... (add your own description here)