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Interesting how you can be happy and sad at the same time! I just watched “Sleepless in Seattle” last night which I hadn’t seen in quite a while. It was such a great movie—sad and funny and sad and happy. Especially when Jimmy Durante was singing “Make Someone Happy “ which brought back wonderful childhoodContinue reading “Mixed Emotions”

The roller coaster of emotions. Especially when required to do tasks involving the medical bills, the non-payment from renters, the appeals to Medicare, and so on. So draining. Then the next day, with the tasks done, rather than relief or a pat on the back, there is a numbness. I find I don’t cry asContinue reading “Too Much to Not Enough”

Little did I know when my friend took me on the bus to downtown Seattle to show me all the new buildings Amazon was building, (making a total of 57 so far), that I would be walking 8,000 plus steps! My arms and shoulders paid for it later, but surprisingly not my legs. I wasContinue reading “8,000 Steps”

Every task is so much harder now. it seems like things take longer to process, making my patience thin. I have to be more careful when processing my orders, looking over them more than once to be sure everything is right. Sometimes my hands will just jerk. When I stop to wonder why, I realizeContinue reading “Am I as ok as I Think I am?”

A beautiful sunny day called for a walk on the beach. The same beach I grew up with starting 72 years ago. It was always my haven. I would come down, sit on a log or on the rocks and slowly move them back and forth looking for agates. I even found an arrowhead oneContinue reading “Getting Out is Good”

It’s funny. I hate that word. It’s a label. An unnecessary one except it reminds me I am one. But it also defines us. We are a group that unless you are one, you don’t truly understand what we are going through. It’s like we have our own club house and you can only enterContinue reading “The Widow Club”

It was six months yesterday. I was at a retirees luncheon of a small group of friends from the college we worked at. One had just lost her husband in December. I explained how my blogging group have helped me, but she doesn’t have internet. We talked for a while and exchanged phone numbers, soContinue reading “Turning It Around Today”

As some of you may know, although I have flown over 70+ times, I haven’t liked it since my dear cousin’s small plane crashed in the same mountains I am going over in a small plane right now. Before takeoff they had to de-ice the plane. There were rough looking clouds ahead. We finally tookContinue reading “The Flight”

Just as I feared, baggage check and Security were a nightmare. I had three pounds too many in one of the checked bags, and less than needed in the other, so had to transfer stuff until it was okay. Which meant I had a heavier bag to carry on. Got to Security, and they pulledContinue reading “The Worst is Over, I Hope!”

In about 12 hours I’ll be on a plane to Seattle. My daughter is renting a house that they are trying to sell, so she probably won’t be here next time I see her and her family. Sadness envelops me. I’m tired of goodbyes. I need to give myself an attitude adjustment and start findingContinue reading “Leaving Another Home, Saying More Goodbyes”