100 Years.

April 14, 2012

Just opened a bottle of wine, It's called Twisted Spur and it's made by Niner Winery in Paso Robles. My sister Alicia also happens to work there. Tonight I have lasagna in the oven, garlic cheese pizza bread in the queue, and homemade chocolate cookies ready for later.  We are going to dine and then watch Titanic. At home, on VHS because that is what I have. I haven't fired it up in a while so I hope my VCR still works. I remember being mildly annoyed in the fall of 2000, when I bought my first DVD player. I just wasn't ready for VHS to end and why do we have to have this new DVD thing anyway? Emily was just two at the time and we had a happy little collection of preschool VHS tapes that I have only recently parted with.

When I was pregnant with Emily 14 years ago in the fall of 1997, Tony and I went to see Titanic and I remember it being a really big deal. I remember one of my first  pregnancy discomfort moments in that theater. It was a long movie for a pregnant lady to sit through!

Tony's grandpa who is known in my house as Abuelito Pepe passed away five years ago.  The family always gave him big birthday parties and he was dearly loved.  When he was alive we would answer questions about his age by saying, "he was born in 1910, two years before the Titanic sinking." Abuelito Pepe would be 102 if he were alive today. Tony sure did love him.

My favorite line from the movie is Thomas Andrews to Rose: "I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Rose."

100 years is a long time! The song by Five for Fighting sometimes makes me cry. Speaking of music, I have the best Pandora playlist. It's so good that I am on it almost all day, even at work, and sometimes in the night when I can't sleep.

This seems like a very scattered post but I'm going to hit publish and get over to my lasagna and my family and then that old VCR.