I have been de-funked.

The cloud has lifted........
I am feeling better.............
This is how it happened.....

1. My sister Carolyn wrote me an email. She is a faithful "reader" of my blog, but never comments. However, she does send me comments on my email. And they made me laugh. [Good for de-funking]. This is part of what she said:

"While I was waiting for Joe to get out of the shower this morning, I read your blog spot. In your honor when I got dressed I put on my blue pants, blue socks, and two blue shirts. If this is the first time you have ever had 'January Blues' you are fortunate. "

"I don't count my blessings either when I'm blue (like every January) But they follow me around anyway....."

2. My sister Rosalie [also a faithful reader (I am glad I amuse them)], called me and told me that:

I did not have the corner on being in a "funk", as that was exactly how she had been feeling.

[That almost put me back in my "funk" ...wahhhhh....can't I be the only one in a funk?]

3. A certain "blessing" started to walk ....so then I had to count her.....

Up until last week Campbell [Robins little girl] had only been walking on her "knees". Seriously, it was the cutest thing you ever saw. She would be up on both knees with her hands in the air and would "walk" all over that way. And then one day last week she made it to her feet and took off. She is still in the 1-2-3-4-5-6-drop, get up 1-2-3-4-5-6-drop stage, but I believe her knees will lose their callouses.

Who can be in a "funk" when you witness that?

4. Had a "secret" lunch on my Birthday which was not for my birthday but for someone Else's birthday with people I enjoy and love......

shhhhh...........it's a secret...............and helped the de-funking process.

5. The day before my birthday my "Maddox Friends" took me to lunch at you can guess where.

Linda got her "banana nut cake" and who can be in a "funk" when Linda was so deliriously happy. Then she flew off to Germany for a day.....and that makes her really happy.....again ........ part of the de-funking.

6. The news is usually gloomy......[Funk material].

But this week 150+ people survived an airplane crash in the Hudson River....in New York....a miracle....a tear maker.......a life changer for many.

7. A Birthday celebrated.........

My "family" at work made my birthday wonderful as they always do with cards, gifts, emails, brownies, Cinnamon rolls, etc etc etc.....

de-funk..de-funk..de-funk!

8. Rich my "hair guy". [I just can't call him my "beautician", or my "hair dresser" [that is way to femmie and he has a deep voice.] And I can't call him my "barber" cause that is way too much a "guy-thing" and he is married with two kids....so don't go there.......

On my birthday when he washed my hair..... he massaged my head just a little bit looooonger than normal [ I did have to beg a little] and anyone who LOVES to have their hair washed and head massaged knows why this was a definitely a big

DE-FUNK-ER.

9. Birthday songs from more of those "blessings" I have not wanted to count.....

"Christmas time...Easter Rhyme.... won't you be my Valentine.........Ya da Ya da"......reallllllly.....this song really makes me happy....so happy it makes me cry. It says "I love you grandma, and I will sing this Birthday song to you even if it does not make any sense to me......... and I am 11 almost 12 and a boy, and I really don't want to sing this song, but I will because I love you and I want you to de-funk."

10. De-funking acts of kindness by my kids...........

Homemade snicker doodles [I shall not confess how many I ate], Fresh pictures from New Jersey, an early morning Saturday trip to the Temple with a daughter.....lovely.....warm.....happy.....a captured memory filled with love and sacrifice. A movie with another daughter ....[Bride Wars] we laughed... we cried....[I love movies that seem like they are frivolous but can touch your heart and make it all worth the hour and a half you sit there] another sacrifice of time on her part...to spend time with her mom [me].......... and the sun is shining bright!!

I have definitely been DE-FUNKED.
A humble "thank-you" to all.

The End.

PS. You will notice that I did not mention Doug. He had surgery on Wednesday and is lounging in his dad's lounge chair he brought over for the occasion. Hernia surgery.....need I say more????????
He is in a "FUNK"