Some days you just want to hang out and do little or nothing, so we went to see “Jason Bourne.”  There’s nothing like watching a good action movie on a Tuesday afternoon and eating so much popcorn, you feel kind of sick.  Of course as soon as we got home I started thinking about my next video and some cards I need to make.  I need to make a couple more sympathy cards, a birthday card and a thinking of you card.  I didn’t want to make any more sympathy cards until I got a new set of sentiments.  I think it’s important when you are making cards for someone’s loss that you really say something that shows how much you care.  I don’t really like “with sympathy” or “for your loss” as neither really says much in the way of “I am so sorry for your pain and for the heartache you are experiencing.”  Isn’t that what they should say instead?  I found a stamp set that had a lot more “heart” in it and it finally came today.  I’m going to get serious about making the next two cards now and get them mailed.

As for the birthday card, it’s for a friend who is in his early thirties. I have this funny herd of animals stamp that will make a great card for him.  I even think I’ll be gluing some googly eyes on it.  I’m rolling my eyes even considering the use of googly eyes, but I guess I’ve finally turned into my mother.  Yikes!  I think I’ll watercolor the animals and make them really frisky.

The last card is a thinking of you and it’s for our friend who has been extremely ill.  I’ve been trying to send him cards every couple of weeks so he knows we are thinking about him.  We’ve been friends since college, 1978 is a really really long time ago.  He was so much fun and so full of life, that I can’t even begin to imagine him ill.  I have so many photographs from those days and he was always doing something fun in them.  I’d like to have the chance to visit and remember some of those crazy times with him. One of his son’s is 20, and  I think he would love to hear all about some of the things his dad did when he was young.  I think we all love to hear stories about our parents.  Although it was a lifetime ago to his children, to us it seems like yesterday.  Life is funny that way, isn’t it?

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