I have been trying to set dinner dates with friends so that I have to get out a socially interact. I do not want to lose my people skills.
There is nothing major going on in my life. It is settling in and I am finding my new normal. It has taken me a minute to realize that I am not waiting for my next move. I am making changes to this place a little at a time. Putting my mark on it. I am getting ideas for what I want to do outside. I want it to look really nice, pleasant, not over the top. I have one more tree in the front that needs to be cut down. But it is a size that my brother and father can tackle with chain saws. It is a tree that could grow to be out of hand and I would rather take care of it now. I will replace it with a decorative tree that does not get very tall.
My kitchen will be the last thing I tackle. I have ideas but they will cost.
The next big thing I have my sights on is changing schools. There is another online school that one of my teaching buds from last year jumped into at the last minute and she is putting in some work to get me in there next year. It pays more and is less work. She says the environment is not quite as stressful as the school I am working for.
Bethany and Jordan are working on moving up near me in summer of 2020. They had thought about doing it this summer but realized that they weren't quite ready yet. They still need to save up money for a down payment on a house. I think they finally got what I was trying to tell them that moving into a rental up here for a year was not going to help anything because rent up here is just as much as it is down there. They have a decent apartment in a decent location right now that allows them 2 cats and a dragon.
The DIL is now working and training as a vet assistant and she loves her job. She really does love it. She loves the animals and does not have a problem with going to work. TJ has been sick for quite some time and finally went to the doctor. He is on meds now and hopefully it will get better for him soon.
So, a dinner at home with a couple that I went to college with that lives in the area, and one dinner out to a new restaurant with my friend Susan...in February. Lucy is not liking the snow anymore than I am but even less because she has to go potty outside. I, on the other hand, do not have to leave the house.
This is my life now. I am 58 years old and living on my own with a dog that is the best behaved dog in the world. She is my buddy. I work from home. I cook what I want when I want...or just eat toast and peanut butter. I do laundry about every 10-14 days. I go grocery shopping twice a month. I just don't have the daily human contact. That is both a good and bad thing. I can have complete control over my finances.
God has my back. I am not worrying about what's up ahead. I know He is taking care of it.
This blog has helped me to put things into writing that I needed to get out of my system and get through my marriage/divorce/aftermath.
