As I have reviewed the blog I realize that I have not "jumped in" here this year yet. Last year at this time I was back in San Diego/Temecula area awaiting my second stage surgery and visiting with friends as well as closing up the house ready to close that chapter of our lives and see what the "new area" had for us. Not close off our relationships with you all out there just be done with the property and all it's horrible "red tape" ends! I could rant on that for about 3 pages, but to suffice it to say that property has been put on the market for a mere $340K! Ah, about half of what we paid for it but hey you can't cry over spilled milk, so move forward! We have moved again, (I know I keep saying that) and we are settled here within the city limits of Falls Church with a nice little house with a big yard (lots of branches and leaf clean up), enough room for Craig and I and guests on a really nice street with kind neighbors and the items that had to be fixed are repaired so we are on a good slant right now.
As for me and work, well I am looking at all options and not finding many opportunities but I trust that one will present itself as soon as it will and then I will be working once again, maybe for myself maybe for some other company. One thing I am trying to keep in mind "I want something that is more philanthropic than corporate". The weather here has been spring, some days cold, some days warm, and all the while a little precipitation lurking on the horizon, that is always good. Weather. Craig's job seems to be holding it's own, the teams there are looking for work and so far he still has some contracts to work on so for the time being we are in a holding pattern.
During my birthday week this past January I took a quick trip to Pittsburgh, PA and visited some old friends and our old stomping grounds. What a walk down memory lane I had been back to Pittsburgh one other time with Craig and the boys but that was so fast and they had little interest in walking down those memories with me that I don't think that counted this time I was with my sister and she having most of the same memories it was nostalgic to see how things had changed yet remained the same. The old roads that we used to walk were recognizable but had highways built up around them, the neighborhoods were there but the houses were much smaller than I remember and I was there when I was 22. Some things the mind plays tricks on.
I keep thinking that I am healed from all my surgeries now, I even decided to see physicians again or start back up with them. I just felt that I had given over a year to doctors and their diagnoses, surgical plans, and complications that arose and I wanted to take a break from all of them, which really didn't happen as I broke my arm walking the dogs and had a couple of colds which led to sinus issues but at least I felt like I was taking back control of me. So this Monday I will meet with a local Oncologist here in the area and get the annual mammogram and start back on the path of keeping myself current with those sorts of things, not that I "thrive" on that but "knowledge is power" so let's not fear what they might have to say. Although the end of November I did find out that my blood levels were the best they had been in over 5 years! That's good news, so something I am doing is doing some good. I am alone most days which I thought was going to change here but that is under my control and I just need to get out and find some things to do, get involved in, keep my mind and body occupied as some would say and keep moving forward.
Til next time,
Hugs, Deb
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