hi again michelle,
i didn't think i offended you, but wanted to make sure.
glad i didn't.
also, i wasn't here over the last few years, wasn't here when you lost everything to katrina, so i'm glad to hear some of the background. i'll go back and look at your posts from around that time to.
but i can understand why you are taking the loss so well this time.
and joking about having to eat up all the ice cream
this can in no way be compared to loosing everything, but i had a similar change of mind when i was robbed. they mostly stole jewelry and other small stuff. i didn't care about the monetary value of what was stolen, it was the sentimental value of what was stolen; i grew up poor and every piece of jewelry was a special gift, some from people no longer in my life. but i got over it and from then on, i just don't care about material things the way i used to. compared to losing everything, its small. but it did make me look at things differently, made me grow up a little that day.
and the thing i remember being really really thankful for. i was planning on going home early from the time i went to work / school in the morning. i was really tired and not feeling great. but didn't get home til 4 pm. if i had gone home, i would have been upstairs in bed, with the door locked, and not owning a car at the time, and both roommates at work, there would have been no car in the driveway, so it would have really looked like no one was home. thought a lot after that day of how someone was watching over me, preventing me from going home early.
sue
