Tomorrow, Christmas Day, Alan and I are going to do something we have never done before. Since we don't have our son in our lives, we tried to volunteer to serve Christmas dinner to some people who don't have families. We called the local churches but, and this is hard to believe, they don't have things like that.

So, and we really feel blessed to do this, because we have no family so to speak, tomorrow we are going to Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, where my girlfriend has been for 2 weeks. She has stage 3 lung cancer which spread and she's anorexic so she doesn't eat anything. Actually, she won't eat anything. So Alan said "Let's go and visit Elaine for Christmas, and I said "wow, that's a great idea". So I bought a stupid Santa hat, some little gifts for her and we'll be there by 2 p.m.

Her own children don't visit her because they can't handle this and her 83 year old mom can only go when she is taken. She called me this morning very excited that Elaine won't be alone on Christmas. I said "Not to worry, when she gets through this, we have movies to see and omelletes to eat. (Elaine and I used to go out on friday evenings to a diner and have an omellette).

So while we don't know if she's going to get through this, we will be sharing Christmas with a dear friend and to me, that's the most important thing.

So merry merry and have a great eating experience.

Love ya.