Happy St. Patrick's Day! We had our party on Friday (today being Sunday) and though our only guests ended up being Crystal, and Shawn and Steph, we had a great time.
I'm definitely going stir crazy, cooped up in the house so much. There's snow on the ground still.....last year our party was outside! Ah, well. Spring is on it's way, you can smell it in the air, hear it when the geese sing, see it in the evening sunshine.....so I've just got to hang in there. I mean to start walking this week, though my walking partner is down with the flu. I've got to start moving more.....I've been feeling the effects of my laziness for a while now....I'm not putting pounds on, but I'm not losing any more either, and I just don't feel good.
So far 2013 is an interesting year. It started off badly with a great loss when my Aunt Glen died much sooner than expected. Though she was fighting stage 4 small cell lung cancer, she had a fall and slipped into a coma months before we thought we'd lose her. But she went quickly, all things considered, and was spared such pain. I have days where I miss her very much and pull up pictures. I only got to know her well in the last year or two, but I am so very glad I did get that chance. Though it hurts so much to have lost her, it was worth it to know her. My aunt and I went down and helped my cousin get the house cleaned out so it could go up for sale. It's a beautiful house and the price it's listed at is a steal.....if I lived in the Syracuse area I'd be all over it! Hopefully it sells quickly so that my cousin can put the last of all this behind her and have what closure she can. It's been a long and winding road for her that has left her with so many wounds and scars.
Financially things are pretty much where they were at last year. Which is to say, struggling, but no more than anybody else, and managing to get by one way or another. In this economy I don't believe that there are many people left who feel comfortable financially, so we try to stay grateful for what we do have and not worry about what we don't have. We have a lot more than a lot of people out there so we count our blessings.
We start this year with a very full house -- Kyle and I, Colin is headed into his teen years this year and we've moved his bedroom into the basement, our four dogs Max, Jake, Gypsy, and Milly, and our three cats Lucky, Viscous, and Maya. It's a bit crowded, and things get a bit nuts at times but all in all, it's all good.
My father's hip replacement is all healed up, but his lower back is destroyed and isn't something that the good doctors can fix, so he's all but disabled. My mother has psoriatic arthritis and is taking low dose chemo to help with it and looking to start Embril soon.
My youngest brother is job hunting. His back is destroyed, too, but he's young and looking to put that aside and have some kind of life. My other younger brother down in Philly sounds like he's doing well. He has a girlfriend whose parents sound like they actually LIKE him, and he seems pretty serious. I'll believe it when I get the wedding invitation, though.
I have friends in every state of existence it seems.....one going through a divorce, one trying to plan a wedding, one working through and unusual marriage, one who's gone all quiet, one who's popped up out of nowhere, one starting a new career, one sick and struggling with her health, and more. Anybody who thinks that getting older puts you beyond some of these hurdles in life is dead wrong.
So that's a short summary of the last several months.
So how you doin'?
