High School

Does anyone else get the onslaught of alumni crap from their high school like I get from mine?  There are always teasers that say, "look who has joined us now, don't you want to register too so you can get back in touch?"  My high school was the size of a community college.  I think their were close to 1000 students in my graduating class.  I attended school for the first period in the morning and then left to work the rest of the day.  I think I knew 5 people, I barely keep in touch with one of them.  High school was a long time ago for me and not the "best" years of my life.  Don't get me wrong, it was pleasant enough, but I knew much better experiences were on the horizon for me and really didn't feel the need to make it my only crop of memories to desperately cling to the rest of my life. 
I moved so much as a kid, you would either think we were running from the law or my dad was in the military.  I am happy to report he was in the military.  The experience of moving a lot as a child has helped me to enjoy where ever I am and whomever I am around.  There just isn't time to cling to things when they will be gone soon.  So I was always looking forward to the next location and the next group of friends I would make.  I married someone like me too so we are pretty good about just having people over and getting to know them.  Who doesn't love a BBQ or a free meal?  I love making the meal too so it all works out! 
Switching gears a bit, I made a spinach artichoke dip last night that was out of this world!  I love cooking from scratch.  It is so much better.  I marinated the hearts myself in a broth that consisted of a head of garlic, a lime cut up, fresh parsley, salt and peppercorns and then used the broth left over to cook some navy beans in for dinner.  They were yummy!   Food is awesome.  I love making food that in years past we would have paid for at a restaurant.  I don't even like restaurant food now.  It just tastes yucky!  There is nothing like cooking something from scratch, free of all of the nasty things that end up in our foods now days.