It just keeps on coming. Big news everyday. Yesterday both boys report cards came out and both did really well on their finals and have good grades. On top of that, Jag found out he was accepted to Pepperdine in Malibu! Whoo hoo! It’s another great school and I’m sure by the time the end of January rolls around he’ll have a half a dozen schools to chose from. Last but a bit harder to explain is that the largest beverage company in the World wants to enter in to what we’re calling a six picture deal with us by Monday! They wanted to sign us to a deal on Wednesday but we said we needed a few days. This essentially is a 3 year or so deal that gives us a chance to make a whole bunch of money and may even force the company we just partnered with to buy us early, like within the next 3 months! Of course a lot of things need to go right but we’re in the game big time. Last, I made it up here safely with Dixie and all’s good.
Dixie is at the Sonnenalp in a nice suite that Lori’s friend Patricia (who runs something over there) secured for us. We had a good drive up. Dixie is a pretty good old girl for a Democrat. She is 89 after all. Hard for anyone to change their mind on things at that age, even if they’re wrong. Lori spent the night with her at the hotel and I’m going to get her to go to the gym. Then I think we’re going to breakfast and doing some shopping. Dixie just loved the drive up here reveling in the mountains and all the snow with the bright blue sky and tall trees blanketed with pillows of snow on each branch. She talked non stop in a good way about how beautiful it is. Living here we sometimes take it for granted but with all her comments, I took a fresh look too and said, “you know, you’re right”. It reminded me of when I’d go take Mom every year for a drive in the Fall to see the colors change. She really loved that. Funny how as you get older those are the kind of things that matter to a person. Tom and Robi, I talked with Deb Rubin yesterday who wore Mom’s Christmas sweater I sent her to a party last night! It was the black and gold one. Deb told me it’s a bit small but she was wearing in anyhow and I told her no worries, men like tight sweaters. She also said she remembers when she met Mom and Mom found out she had no family and told her “that’s ok I’ve decided to take you in as my little sister”. Good memories.
Today Ty needs to clean his room and Jag has some picking up to do too. We’ll bring Dixie over sometime today I’m sure. We’re going to Left Bank, my favorite French restaurant in town for an early dinner. Time to get moving so I can go get Lori. Have a great day, football is on today, whoo hoo! God Bless.