October 02, 2003 - 10:32 a.m.

Dear Diary,

Dear STACY,

Try to be careful of missing the forest for the trees today, STACY. You may be concentrating on a detail in your personal or professional life that is not as crucial as you might think to the big picture. This kind of obsessive thinking is probably keeping you from progressing over all. Let it go. Sometimes it's necessary to sacrifice winning a battle in order to later win the war.

Happy 25th Birthday Kirk!

As you can see, its my brothers birthday today. The big 25. Seems strange to me that he is already that old but I bet that he's been looking forward to it now for some time. I'll have to give him a call later on tonight when he'll be home from work and wish him a good one and many more to come. Maybe by chance Kirk and Carolann will pop over for a visit tonight but with the hours of work that Carolann is working lately, (5am-5pm) I doubt that they will be. As far as I know though, they aren't doing anything tonight or going anywhere so they should be around a ttheir place later. Possibly if mom is feeling better and she doesn't have much to do tonight, she will want to take a drive out to their house for a little while. I'll have to ask her when she gets home.

It finally ended up snowing last night. The weather chanels were all calling for it but I kept hoping that it wouldn't happen. It did though. I was upstairs last night for a good long while in my room cleaning and then talking to Greg and when I finally did come down I had to get some dinner. That was somewhere around 10:15pm. By 11:00pm I went to turn around and when I did so, I caught a quick glimps of the roof on this big shed thats right behind us by the pool and it didn't look black...it looked white! So I turned the inside light off in the family room and turned the outside light on for the back of the house and low and behold, the roof was white and the snow was falling heavily. It was actually really amazing. I wanted to call someone just to say "go look out your window." and then hang up, but I didn't because it was so late. I love the first snow fall. Even if it doesn't last from melting the next day. I was seriously considering putting on some warmer clothes and getting my boots and coat on and then just oing outside and running around on the backyard but I didn't. I sat at the window for a while just staring out into no where except up in to the sky and then evenutally I decided to just crawl up onto the couch and watch from there just peicefully. Mom went to bed early and has now had the heat on in the house for two days. Its been so cold. It got down to 1 degree last night with a wind chill of -3 degrees so it was mighty cold out. As of right now its looking as if its half raining but half snowing outside. The grass is still covered with a snow paste but the roads and sidewalks are all clear. The mail just arrived and still, there is no letter yet from Alicia. I was hoping to have got it by now. Still, assuming that she has sent it by now. It took a little bit longer though for her to recieve my package that I sent her a few weeks ago as well so maybe its just taking longer from now on. Hopefully I will have her letter soon though.

I managed to get all the dusting done already and started as soon as I woke up this morning so now all I have left to do is the vaccuming which shouldn't take very long since I don't have the back room to do now. I even cleaned out the one shelf in the bathroom and it looks a lot nicer now. I have to get up to my room soon though and get my air conditioner out of my window and put away and I still have the cushions from the chairs outside to put away in the storage closet still sitting in the middle of my floor to do. Plus so much more. I don't expect dad to be home today until 12:00 assuming that he doesn't get done early with no work to do until the other contracters come in and more material gets in stock for him. So I still have some time left before he gets here. I think I'll see just how much I can get done before he gets home and that should keep me motivated and up and going for a while longer. Tootles!

*love always stacy*

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