901 - Start your Thanksgiving preparations early. That way you will have time to try new recipes, make fun place cards and decorations, figure out your guest list, and have a more leisurely time of getting ready. You could even surprise everyone with a mystery guest - a long lost relative perhaps. Be sure to accept all offers of help and say yes to people who want to bring a side dish. As for clean up - many hands make light work! This is the season of blessings and gratitude and you are a hero for hosting!
902 - Pick a subject to research. Try something you have always been curious about - World War II, Elizabeth Taylor, archeology, a U.S. President, the history of your town or state, your family's genealogy - whatever! Look things up on the computer, go to the library, read some books and magazine articles, take some notes, go where your research leads you - literally! I have always been fascinated by authors who travel to find out information. For example, if you were researching a President - you could go to their Presidential Library, or the town where they were born, or to the National Library of Congress. I have always wanted to go to a separate room at a big library and be granted access to a famous person's letters, diaries, and personal papers.
903 - Write a real letter - you know, with pen, paper, an envelope and a stamp. Whoever receives your letter will be happy and impressed. They might even write you back!
904 - Do you have odds and ends of greeting cards that just seem to pile up? Sit down with your address book and check out who could use some encouragement, better health, birthday recognition, or even a fun postcard. I am sure you remember how pleased you have been when somebody has taken the time to remember you in the past.
905 - Collect stamps! I collected stamps for a couple of years in my childhood. I loved matching the stamp in my hand to the image in my album, and oh how I loved those little hinges I would use to affix the stamps into my stamp book. My beloved Grandpa was a stamp collector, and by hook or by crook, I managed to inherit his stamp collection. Oh me! Oh my! Recently, I have been trying to figure out how to collect stamps in light of the sticker stamps we have these days. I finally went to a stamp collector's show and I was in paradise! I met a wonderful professional stamp collector who showed me around, introduced me to people, and even gave me a bag of stamps! He said the best thing to me - there is no right or wrong way to collect stamps. However you decide to do it is the right way. Those words were music to my ears. So I do a bit here and there, buy some stamps at the post office, look at my childhood album, and my Grandpa's big grown up album, and just have some stamp fun. PS - there is a new Betty White stamp out!
