March 28, 2007
Playing it safe or Living life.
PWGF will be my PWSUWMGF starting the week after Easter. I've told family, friends, and co-workers about the upcoming change in my life and the range of responses has been startling.
I've had big smiles and hugs, lectures, and "I'm happy for you but secretly think you're moving too fast" grins while being offered wishes for our future happiness.
Playing it safe, by some people's rules, means waiting...waiting for kids to grow up, waiting until we've been together for X amount of time, waiting for the Age of Aquarius...waiting. Bleh!
I spent just enough time in the dating pool to realize that finding someone was going to be hard. I met some nice women, some crazies, but nobody that made me feel like waking up in bed with them would be a good idea.
The thing is, PWGF loves me and I love her. We weren't looking to meet someone at that widow/widowers dinner and we certainly weren't looking to fall in love. But we did. It was unexpected, but incredible in terms of the depth and intensity of our love.
So, I can't think of anything safer than living with someone that feels that way about me. We're not naive and we understand how life works. There may be bumps and hard times but we know that we can love each other through them.
Playing it safe? Living life? You bet we are!
March 21, 2007
It starts tomorrow or The beginning of the beginning.
I drive to PWGF's home tomorrow and will be driving back on Friday with some of her stuff in my car...the first boxes of many that will make the trip to my home and her eventual move to it in early April.
She and her younger son will be taking up residence with me and a couple of the princesses and we'll all be starting a new life as blended families. I'm very excited and we look forward to the days of togetherness rather than hours traveling back and forth each weekend.
The prince and princesses are all on board with this happening and excitedly look forward to the day when it happens. This weekend PWGF will be traveling this way with both of her sons so that all of our kids can meet for the first time. We will be doing fun stuff and just hanging out at home too.
On top of all this...it is only 31 days until me and the two youngest princesses fly over the pond and visit Paris, France for six days!
March 19, 2007
More snow or Weekend Alone.
It did snow, and I wasn't really alone (if you count the kids, their friends, and the cats) but it felt that way.
The snow fell on Friday and after the week I had feeling sick I decided to not drive in that weather to visit PWGF. We are so close now, and enjoy our time together so much, that it was really a bummer to have that happen.
Instead, I went outside at around 10pm on Friday to clear away the snow that had fallen so far, about six inches, and it wore me out! Friday was the first day that I showered and dressed first thing in the morning and I thought I was 'over' my sickness. Guess not.
Doing the driveway, again, on Saturday morning wasn't any easier but I got it done. Then we had to drive to Boston to pick Oldest Daughter up at the airport after her trip to visit a friend in Florida for spring break. Her flight was delayed and we didn't leave the airport until after 9pm, instead of the original time of 6pm.
Sunday was spent recovering from my lack of sleep the night before and attending a birthday party at the outlaws. For some reason, I couldn't fall asleep Saturday night and can remember my last look at the clock happening at 5:30am! I was up by 9:30am so I was ready for bed last night.
Fortunately, I was out like a light and had a great night's sleep.
I had a dental appointment to have the progress checked from my 40 weeks wearing InvisAlign. My teeth look so much straighter but the dentist did some more impressions of my teeth so that they can do some fine tuning. They'll get my case back in about 6 weeks and the I'll have another 6-12 weeks wearing new trays and then I will be done after that.
March 16, 2007
Now and then or Disco Inferno!
My prom date sent me this picture today. She was in the area visiting last summer and we had someone snap this picture of us at Wagon Hill. She found our prom picture and put them together in the same photo.
March 15, 2007
No really or I've never been this sick.
I never run a fever, ever. But I had one this week. I've been to the doctors, had a fever, gotten antiobiotics, and feel like my body has been beaten when all I've done is sit in my chair and sleep. Couple this all with the requirement that I be within running distance to a bathroom and you get a picture of my week so far.
I did post some pictures up on Flickr of my blooming Christmas Cactus. I think the last set had some pretty cool shots but that could just be my fever addled brain talking.
March 12, 2007
Not feeling well or Glad I can work from home.
Another of the benefits that go along with working from home is the ability to lie down for a few minutes when not feeling well.
March 08, 2007
Wicked cold or That wind is wicked!
It is supposed to reach -5F overnight with windchills in the -25F range. I walk across a large parking lot to get into the office and the wind is just brutal.
On a plus note...I will have someone to cuddle up with tonight when PWGF comes to visit. :)
March 05, 2007
Cactus flowers or Always blooming when needed.
Good Friend's Sister gave us this Christmas Cactus a couple of years ago and it always seems to bloom when we need cheering up most.
One year...
As much as I find it hard to believe that Mary is gone I find it even harder to believe that she's been gone for a year.
We're spending the day doing things that she enjoyed doing. We had breakfast at Young's and tonight we'll go to Newick's for a lobster dinner. We'll put flowers on her grave this afternoon once the girls get out of school.
It is a tribute to her impact on our lives that we are spending the day as a celebration of that life and not only grieving for her loss.
This is a picture of Mary while on a catamaran tour in Kauai back in January 2004. Eight months later we found out she had cancer and two years later she was terminal and two months away from dying. If there's anything that Mary would want you to take away from this it is that life is short, so don't wait to live it. Hug and kiss those that you love and tell them that you love them today.
March 02, 2007
More snow or I've posted about this before.
Well...we had some snow, and that makes me really happy. BUT, it changed over to rain. The sudden melt and runoff resulted in a slightly flooded garage and the cat food dishes were floating in the mud-room.
Princess Middle Daughter joined me outside and helped me clear a channel so that we could direct the water away from the garage. My shoulder, which will be fixed some day, is throbbing. I know that if the rain keeps up we'll have to go out again before the night is through to sweep the water over to the side of the garage.
This is a picture of the woods across the street from my home. If you look carefully you can see the headstones for a Colonial graveyard that is over there. It is in the middle left portion of the picture.