MONDAYS WITH MOLLY

 

 

A good friend introduced me to this sing a long blog and I have fallen in love with it!  It does not hurt that Neil Patrick Harris is one of the stars (yes, I do know he is gay but that doesn't mean I still can't admire his acting, his singing, his body LOL)...  There is a story behind why Josh Wheden put together this video and it has to do with the writers strike or the actors strike or the garbagemen's strike .. but that really doesn't matter in the long run - what matters is that this is a great video ...  the actors are wonderful in it - they will have you laughing, crying, singing along and wanting more!  When you have a few moments just take a look at it..    I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do.  I find myself singing some of the songs during the day - they are quite catchy..   come on then, whatcha waiting for ..hit that "play" button or click on the link below it and hop on over to the actual Dr. Horrible blog and see it there..    I can promise you - you won't regret it!

 

 

 

 

 

Let me know what you think ....

 

hugs,

Molly

 

Three weeks ago I received a very pleasant surprise.   One of the families I worked with asked me if I would join Facebook so that I could keep in touch with her and see how her son was doing through the pictures she was planning on posting on her Facebook page.  I did so reluctantly as I really didn't need one more thing to keep up with.  I did so after a couple weeks of this mom sending me quick emails sharing with me that new photos had been posted and please won't I join so I can view them and stay in touch.  I did so and then, much to my surprise, received a wonderful gift.

 

Three weeks after I joined Facebook I received a message from an old friend I went to college with.  He also has a facebook page and every so often does a search for friends he went to college with - and this time my name came up and he sent a "hi, how are?" message.  I responded back and we got to chatting and catching up and one thing led to another thing and we started a group page for anyone who was in our college group to join and share memories with each other. 

 

We were a very tight group back then.  We worked on the college paper and ended up spending most of our free time together.  We had parties, we had dinners, we went swimming in the hudson river together, we all joined the drama club and ended up in the play together ...  I know that college can bring people together but what is so surprising is that this was a 2 year community college and we all commuted to/from each day - one of the guys was a very talented piano player and we could often be found in the student lounge with him on the piano and a number of us around him singing Bruce Springstein songs ... Born to Run being one of our favorites..   We stood up for each other, encouraged each other, a few of us dated each other .. and yet no matter what happened .. disagreements, break ups..  we all remained close..   that is until an awful accident took our piano player from us ...   totally out of the blue.. and for most of us this was the first time we had lost someone we were close to.  If that wasn't hard enough it wasn't more then three months later when a car accident took another one of us ..  and that was more than some of us could take - we were young, we didn't know how to handle so  much grief so close together..  we drifted apart... almost as if we couldn't be together without feeling the hurt and emptiness caused by those who had died...  we felt guilty perhaps for still being here together .. doing things we use to all do .. we tried at first to comfort one another but .....

 

and now it is approximately 27 years later and we are finding one another again ...  reaching out to each other.. remembering.. talking.. catching up on what each other has been doing.  We laugh because when we would bump into one of the "gang" we would ask "oh, have you heard from anyone else ..do you know how so and so is doing? ..." but we didn't reach out .. not until now - and even better we are talking about all getting together .. one of us is in the army in Iraq (the marvels of the computer age has allowed us to even talk to him!) and will be out in 18 months so we are looking towards that as the 'get together' date...   what is so amazing is that we all want to know how each other is doing .. we spend hours chatting with each other on line (again the marvels of the computer age) ..  it's like we never left.  A couple of us have even managed to talk a little about "that time" that caused us to seperate.  We each thought we were going through it alone .. and we find we weren't - we just were too young to know how to help one another ..  but we are older and a little wiser and we find we are still those silly college kids at heart.

 

These last couple of weeks have left me with this strange feeling ..   I feel like a piece of me that was missing has been found.  A piece that was lost when we all seperated is no longer lost.  I can't explain it very well.  I just know that when I log on and I see their names I feel a smile starting from my heart and warming my entire being.  It warms me even more to be able to share my memories and to hear that they are also their memories - that it wasn't just me who felt we had something very special and unique back then - that we all felt that... and we are all happy to reach out now to each other and share, again, in each other's lives.  We are still missing a few friends but we are searching for them and sending out inquires and hopefully we'll all be together very soon...  sharing stories over a beer...  wouldn't that be nice.

 

and I owe it all to that mom who just wanted me to be able to share in her son's achievements and be able to view her photos of him and their family.  If it wasn't for her ...    one small request has led me to find lost friends and to start healing a hole that had gone unnoticed for far too long.  How do you thank someone for that gift?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my previous blog I received a comment from Jill saying I sounded "peaceful".  (thanks Jill!).  It made me stop and think for a moment and I rezlied I was peaceful.  I think it is because I have cut back a little on my hours and, this is the BIG reason, the hubby has hired someone in his office to do all the paperwork I have been doing for the past 10 years.  (10 years?!!  Has it really been that long?!! yikes) ..  What this means is that I can come home, help the kiddos with their homework (or at least convince them they need to start working on it! before it's bedtime), start dinner, have a glass of wine (some days - not all) and do this without running around like a chicken with it's head cut off!   At night when they are in bed I can now sit back and work on some of my own things... do some jigsaw puzzles (I've really been into doing the spherical  puzzles - very challenging), knit, read, watch my fav tv show (sob.. which has again been canceled.. oh Jericho! sob).  I don't have to spend my evenings getting the hubby's paperwork for his business all caught up - invoices run - new clients added - checks inputed - reports run ...   *phew* (wipes forhead) - that is now and for the future will be someone else's responsability - not mine!!  WAHOOO..

 

I think it is because of these two things that I am now much less stressed and able to finally feel a little something that has been missing for some time - and Jill hit what that was right on the head ..  peaceful.  No worrying about what I have to do when I'm sitting down not doing anything for a few moments .. it is a nice feeling and one I think I am going to enjoy feeling a bit more often from now on.

 

I hope everyone can find a way to find some "peace" in their lives and be able to sit back and enjoy it for a few moments for we all know how quickly those moments are here and then gone.

 

hugs,

Molly