It's barely even December and already the airwaves are saturated with Christmas carols. I do have my favorites but, call me scrooge and yell Bah Humbug at me, I like my Christmas carols the week before Christmas and not a day before. Not only that but we had our first taste of winter this past week. Granted it wasn't as bad as it could have been but we had been lucky not having snow. Usually we get some snow in October but it held off for a while this year. Thank heavens for electric blankets especially with the price of fuel oil this year. Will it be April soon? I think not!!!!

This weekend has been nice as we haven't HAD to do anything or go anywhere except for Jim's memorial service but, really, he could do that in his sleep. We went to the movies today and saw Rent; it's always nice just spending time with Jim and we really don't go to that many movies together. Mostly it's because he's so busy. For dinner we had salmonburgers. It wasn't at bad as it may sound. In fact they were very good. They were wild Alaskan salmon patties and I didn't think they would be very good but I was pleasantly surprised. Yes, we're still on our healthy diet but we are still recovering from all of the rich foods we ate over Thanksgiving weekend. Talk about a shock to the system.

Stranger than Fiction (I can't make this stuff up): A star was stolen and replaced. One of the Hollywood Walk Of Fame stars was stolen: Mr. Gregory Peck's. The star was stolen sometime near the end of November and didn't even cause an eyebrow to raise until someone noticed a few days ago. Whoever took it knew how to use a concrete saw. It's only the fourth star to be stolen since the Walk Of Fame began honoring celebrities back in 1960. At least the thief had good taste. And here's another one. I recently saw the film Good Night, and Good Luck which tells how Joseph McCarthy was "dethroned" and during initial screenings of the film some people didn't know who Joseph McCarthy was. What's more, some people complained that the actor playing Senator McCarthy was a real ham and overacted in the role. Little did they know that the actor playing Joseph McCarthy was THE Joseph McCarthy. The film uses archived footage to show the Sen. Time to hit the history books again.