Here I Am!
Well, we are finally moved, mostly unpacked, the kitchen and bathroom are fixed up, and it's time to come out of the nesting mode and return to participating in the world around me. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, and Happy Birthday to Karen McConnell.
Two days ago Steve asked if I got an email he forwarded to me, and I hadn't. After a bit I started wondering about it, and decided to check that email address at the source...only to discover...get this...300 emails that hadn't made their way from the server to my inbox since October 31st. So if you are wondering where the hell I've been and why I haven't answered my emails, that's why. Many many apologies and I vow to rectify this problem in the coming week.
Another element which will be changing is this blog. Essentially it will be eliminated, and then replaced with a new, improved blog structure which is better suited for multiple users. So watch this space in the next week or two.
Another big reason for being incommunicado is a vow I have made to myself re Projects, particularly Domestic Projects. I love this new house, but the bathroom and kitchen both required customization and/or cosmetic changes. I wanted to treat the changes as part of the move, and gave myself the month of December to take care it. 2007 will not feature such projects, so help me god. 2007 will be about my work and my family and my well-being. So now, with the most important fixup jobs done and suitable for at least a year, if not longer, I don't have any excuses lurking in the form of cringe-worthy areas of the house. Just trying to be my own best parent here =;D Or my own best shrink, take your pick.
My parents and son and daughter-in-law are all very happy to have us much closer by. Steve and I are thrilled to have a smaller house in a lively commercial/residential area. We walk to restaurants, the bank, the drugstore, and walked to do our Christmas shopping. I was out doing my own shopping when who should come around the corner but Nick, cell phone in one hand, and legal documents in the other. He was delivering the papers to another legal office for his boss, and talking to Amy about where to meet for lunch. It was great--yet strange--to have the experience of running into my grown up son like this in the town where we last lived together when he was 9 years old.
I admit to some nervousness about running into people I haven't seen in over fifteen years. In my head they still look like they did back then, and I wonder if I will recognize them now. Will they recognize me? Will there be mutual shock at the changes aging brings? Then the nervousness passes, and I resume my usual mode of not really caring about it one way or the other, just gonna keep on keeping on.
Until the next blog is set up, this is likely to be the last post, so see you as soon as Steve and I can get the new blog up and running!
Two days ago Steve asked if I got an email he forwarded to me, and I hadn't. After a bit I started wondering about it, and decided to check that email address at the source...only to discover...get this...300 emails that hadn't made their way from the server to my inbox since October 31st. So if you are wondering where the hell I've been and why I haven't answered my emails, that's why. Many many apologies and I vow to rectify this problem in the coming week.
Another element which will be changing is this blog. Essentially it will be eliminated, and then replaced with a new, improved blog structure which is better suited for multiple users. So watch this space in the next week or two.
Another big reason for being incommunicado is a vow I have made to myself re Projects, particularly Domestic Projects. I love this new house, but the bathroom and kitchen both required customization and/or cosmetic changes. I wanted to treat the changes as part of the move, and gave myself the month of December to take care it. 2007 will not feature such projects, so help me god. 2007 will be about my work and my family and my well-being. So now, with the most important fixup jobs done and suitable for at least a year, if not longer, I don't have any excuses lurking in the form of cringe-worthy areas of the house. Just trying to be my own best parent here =;D Or my own best shrink, take your pick.
My parents and son and daughter-in-law are all very happy to have us much closer by. Steve and I are thrilled to have a smaller house in a lively commercial/residential area. We walk to restaurants, the bank, the drugstore, and walked to do our Christmas shopping. I was out doing my own shopping when who should come around the corner but Nick, cell phone in one hand, and legal documents in the other. He was delivering the papers to another legal office for his boss, and talking to Amy about where to meet for lunch. It was great--yet strange--to have the experience of running into my grown up son like this in the town where we last lived together when he was 9 years old.
I admit to some nervousness about running into people I haven't seen in over fifteen years. In my head they still look like they did back then, and I wonder if I will recognize them now. Will they recognize me? Will there be mutual shock at the changes aging brings? Then the nervousness passes, and I resume my usual mode of not really caring about it one way or the other, just gonna keep on keeping on.
Until the next blog is set up, this is likely to be the last post, so see you as soon as Steve and I can get the new blog up and running!
posted by meg at 8:21 PM
1 Comments:
Good gosh....how could you remember?! Thank you for the birthday wishes Meg. : )
So glad to hear news about your new life and that all has turned out so beautifully.
Will keep watching for the new blog with great interest.
Happy New Year!
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