Oh...how I have missed you, darling, wonderful, readers...
Wonderful news...your Holiday Wishes fulfilled...
I'm BACK!!!
I don't want to bore you with all the gory details or whine as if my life, on balance, is anything but enviable. I am an incredibly fortunately woman and my New Year's Resolution is to be more grateful for all my blessings.
Darling Husband, if you are reading this, skip ahead to the next section, everyone else, keep reading. I have an amazing husband (most of the time)...who is my best friend...has given me a beautiful home, cars, shoes, clothes, jewelry, and all of those material things...loves me in spite of myself...and of whom I am enormously proud every day.
I have a fantastic family. It would doing an injustice to the word "dysfunctional," to say I have a dysfunctional family! Sure...a lot of people THINK they have a crazy family...until they have met mine. DH once recently said to me, "It's unbelievable you don't have MORE issues!" Again, feel free to laugh...I nearly fell out of bed giggling! Who am I trying to kid? I laughed so hard I snorted!!! My parents lived, more or less, around the corner from each other after their divorce. When DH and I went back to visit, before Mother moved to Florida, Mother threw huge parties with Dad, Stepmom, Stepsibs, Pop pop, her boyfriend, and my inlaws. Dad flicked a bottle cap at me in front of FIL because his beer, that he purposely carries in his shirt pocket for the sole purpose of driving Mother mad, was empty...FIL was in shock...though I can't say for sure if the look on his face had more to do with the flicking itself or that I knew what it meant and responded by bringing Daddy his beer...and the finger. We have had to employ a "NO F-word in the Dining Room" rule. This rule backfired upon it's inception...when I got up from the table, stepped one step into the kitchen, and, well...you get the picture. Stepmom has called Mother to ask how to deal with Father...to receive the reply, "When he drove me crazy, I divorced him...I not be the best one to ask," followed by laughter on both ends of the phone...and probably nothing good for Dad. Grams always called me a "jackass," and when finally called on it, she explained, "That means I love you the most!" That's just the immediate family. For the sake of everyone's sanity, I'll quit while I'm behind!
I have spectacular friends. Some go back so far that, in one case, as Mother likes to say is, "the first man I ever slept with." We were 3 and went to the same babysitter...another who, well, we met one on her 16th birthday, which was long enough ago that we now celebrate our anniversary rather than our ages, and our anniversary is more than old enough to legally drink!!! Wonderful people that I've known as long as I can remember...and, largely thanks to the USAF, fabulous people all across the country and overseas. I am honored and humbled to count such generous, smart, kind, patriotic...sarcastic, quippy, maddening, funny...as my friends.
But, by way of explanation for my absence, here goes nothing:
There is nothing new wrong with my brain.
Who knew?
I'm going to go ahead and leave it that, because no doubt you feel like reading all of my problems about as much as I feel like listing them...but, I kid you not...a doctor said, "There is nothing new wrong with your brain." Yes, I know you're laughing. I laughed, too. I have just about every specialist one can have...but for a podiatrist (Look out podiatrists of the world, you're next!)...and I thought I had heard it all...but this was a new one...even for me!!! Ask yourself what kind of response you'd have had to that statement. I can't remember ever having laughed so hard at a doctor's appt...until she said, "...and I agree with everything in that book..except that Evolution thing...but anyway..."
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