Monday, February 7th

 TERRY

As I begin to blog this morning I hear Terry!  Well here I am 20 minutes later after taking care of Terry and putting a small load of clothes in the washer!  Terry seems good this morning as she is now reading the paper with a movie on.

Well not a whole lot going on today.  I do NOT have tennis as the courts are all full without my name on them.  I do have tennis the next four days.  So what is a person to do who is 75, retired and nothing on his agenda for the day??  

Well I will go to the post office.  When the kids were here after Christmas I gave somethings to them but Aaron/Amy were not here so will mail a small thing to them today.  BUT the real deal is this.  I actually started cleaning up some messes here and there yesterday so will continue to do that today, I think!  Other than that it will be to make sure Terry is taken care of and making some food later on.  

I do have kind of an interesting story today AND I may have written about this before but not sure.  You understand that as age creeps in repeating is accepted without any judgement, right?

It may have been the fall of 2005 or so.  The principal of Highland Park came to me and asked if I would be interested in coaching the girls soccer team.  In the past I had coached the boys and had fun.  The girls had No coach and the principal said one of the girls had approached her and asked if she would ask Mr. Lee to coach.  Well here was a chance to earn a little extra money and also try to give the girls a fun fall.  In the past the girls team had been less than average!  So I took it on.  We came to our first game and I had a talk with the girls.  I wore this tie and said that it brought good luck so I expected us to do well.  The story goes that I wore the tie at every soccer game that fall and we ended up with a winning record.  I think that was the very first time the girls team had really won anything in soccer.  As we sat on the field after our last game and talked I took out a container from my coaching bag and said I had one last job to do.  I had the names of all the girls in the container and I pulled out one name.  I then took off my tie and then looked at the piece of paper.  I then gave my tie to the girl and said that was a good luck charm that she could have.  About a week later we had our end of the season little picnic in the school lunch room.  At the end one of the girls presented me with the tie with all their signatures on it!!!  I would have to say it was one of the most meaningful gifts I have ever gotten.  The real ending was these girls had experienced NO success on the soccer field in the past but now they knew they could do good things when they put their mind to it.  I still have the tie hanging in the closet BUT I almost never wear a tie now!

There were some interesting things in the paper this morning, that is the WSJ.  For the super bowl on Sunday a 30 second ad costs about $7,000,000.  I decided not to put an ad on TV, too expensive!!!  I also found out that I will not be buying a Chanel Classic Flap Bag.  The fairly small bag cost $5,200 in 201 but now sells for $8,200.  I just do not know how anybody can pay over 8,000 for a small purse and have any money left to put into it.  Oh, I forgot that there are perhaps many people out there with bank accounts much much larger than mine!

I do think that the Sunday Super Bowl may turn out to be a really good game.  I do not know what time it is played but I am sure I will watch at least part of it.

I know it is very early but I am starting to think about a 2023 calendar.  IF there is anybody who reads this and has an idea shoot your idea to me.  carjlee@gmail.com is where it can be sent.  Now I do NOT want to get ideas like, "You can just put pictures of me on every month!!!"😄

No here it is close to 9:00 AM and really it may be time for me to make some breakfast.  I do have my first load of clothes in for the day but there may be a few more I suspect.  AND maybe I will make a call to get some help in.  No promises but maybe.  I know I have that delicious FP everyday and still I tend to be kind of a "maybe' type of guy.