Last week several of my Young Harris friends were in town. They came over and we had dinner Wednesday night. It was fun! We caught up, we joked about old times, we ate well. We had to be careful not to veer too much to the old YHC stories, our spouses were there and they've heard enough. It was funny to see us all with our significant others...and kids! How old are we now??? I still cling to my 20s, even though I'm closer to my 40s.

This past weekend I went to Gatlinburg with Rachel, Anna and Stephanie. It was supposed to be Rachel's wedding weekend, but her ex-fiance cancelled the wedding 3 weeks ago. Who does that? He says he's not ready for marriage and couldn't love her like she deserved to be loved. Basically what it boils down to is that he just didn't want to be married to her, or even be with her and now it's over. She's still hurting though, understandably. It'll take some time.

I talked to my dad last night- he hooked up with an old friend while he was in Daytona last week. His friend, Dave Smith, and he used to be business partners and friends. They hadn't spoken or seen each other for about 10 years. Much has changed. Dad said Dave and his wife came over for dinner one of the nights- they exchanged kid and grandkid pictures. I really think dad gets tickled over that- he's such a proud Grandpa!!!

Here's the interesting part- One of Dave's kids, Eric, used to be really into karate. In fact, the last time I saw Eric, he was visiting us for summer break- I must have been about 20-something. His enthusiam for karate got me interested and I took it briefly (15 years ago, mind you). Last week (before I knew that Dad had reconnected with Dave), I went to the place I used to take karate and signed back up. Fortunately, when I signed up 15 years ago, I did the "lifetime" membership- so, other than the cost for a new karate outfit, there's no cost! How exciting is that??? Look out world- I'm about to learn how to kick butt!