Halfdollar: January 7, 2014
2013....I am letting you go.....s...: January 7, 2014 2013....I am letting you go.....slowly. Most of my Christmas decorations are still in place. Sigh..... I need to put th...
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January 7, 2014
2013....I am letting you go.....slowly.
Most of my Christmas decorations are still in place. Sigh..... I need to put them away.
I am taking my own sweet time packing 2013 and Christmas away. I am not lazy or sentimental this year at all.....yet.....it is as if 2013 is one unruly year to put away or forget.
2013 was hard.....
It started last January........
My dad got the flu in spite of his flu shot and I took care of him and nursed him back to life.
After my "super angel nurse" (his words not mine) stint taking care of my father, I was sick on and off for several months with various respiratory illnesses that culminated in my being really sick at Artsplosure with a fever of over 102 degrees for most of the festival. If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger?
This entire year my thyroid levels kept going up and down and are still being regulated with some not so pleasant side effects.....
We lost Grandpapa this year to brain cancer. He was very precious to us. After his death, we had some ugly family betrayal stuff that was revealed that made mourning him more difficult.
Work was super stressful this year and one of our key team members left to take another job which added more work and anxiety onto an already crazy timeline for First Night.
The culminating event for me was an emergency appendectomy on Christmas Eve:) Oh Joy....
In a weird way---it was almost as if all of the rotten stuff that happened in 2013 year concentrated in this one useless organ in my body and just HAD to come out. I felt immediately better after it was removed. It was almost symbolic to have this taken out of my body and destroyed. (I think my appendix was sort of shaped like 2013.)
Lest I sound like a cry baby---2013 was not all bad.
I learned to love to run and ran my first 5K race at Disney World.
Our month at Wrightsville Beach was amazing and we shared some amazing and warm memories with both of my daughters and Grandpapa.
I traveled to St. John's, Newfoundland CA and Bury, UK for work and reconnected and deepened friendships with many folks from across the globe that I admire and respect and love and enjoy.
I learned to appreciate my amazing daughters for the gorgeous loving people they have become. They rocked Christmas Eve when I was in surgery and they carried on with our Christmas Eve Dinner and made this mom proud.
My work inspires and amazes and keeps me young and alive more than ever. I am grateful I love to work and have a job that I love. I love what I do and I do what I love. I am grateful every single day for this.
I am loved and cherished and encouraged to be all I can be by a great guy I have been with for over 30 years.
I will embrace 2014 with whatever it throws my way. I will laugh and love and work and appreciate life.
2013---I have some boxes waiting for you.
2014---I have some stories to tell you.
2013....I am letting you go.....slowly.
Most of my Christmas decorations are still in place. Sigh..... I need to put them away.
I am taking my own sweet time packing 2013 and Christmas away. I am not lazy or sentimental this year at all.....yet.....it is as if 2013 is one unruly year to put away or forget.
2013 was hard.....
It started last January........
My dad got the flu in spite of his flu shot and I took care of him and nursed him back to life.
After my "super angel nurse" (his words not mine) stint taking care of my father, I was sick on and off for several months with various respiratory illnesses that culminated in my being really sick at Artsplosure with a fever of over 102 degrees for most of the festival. If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger?
This entire year my thyroid levels kept going up and down and are still being regulated with some not so pleasant side effects.....
We lost Grandpapa this year to brain cancer. He was very precious to us. After his death, we had some ugly family betrayal stuff that was revealed that made mourning him more difficult.
Work was super stressful this year and one of our key team members left to take another job which added more work and anxiety onto an already crazy timeline for First Night.
The culminating event for me was an emergency appendectomy on Christmas Eve:) Oh Joy....
In a weird way---it was almost as if all of the rotten stuff that happened in 2013 year concentrated in this one useless organ in my body and just HAD to come out. I felt immediately better after it was removed. It was almost symbolic to have this taken out of my body and destroyed. (I think my appendix was sort of shaped like 2013.)
Lest I sound like a cry baby---2013 was not all bad.
I learned to love to run and ran my first 5K race at Disney World.
Our month at Wrightsville Beach was amazing and we shared some amazing and warm memories with both of my daughters and Grandpapa.
I traveled to St. John's, Newfoundland CA and Bury, UK for work and reconnected and deepened friendships with many folks from across the globe that I admire and respect and love and enjoy.
I learned to appreciate my amazing daughters for the gorgeous loving people they have become. They rocked Christmas Eve when I was in surgery and they carried on with our Christmas Eve Dinner and made this mom proud.
My work inspires and amazes and keeps me young and alive more than ever. I am grateful I love to work and have a job that I love. I love what I do and I do what I love. I am grateful every single day for this.
I am loved and cherished and encouraged to be all I can be by a great guy I have been with for over 30 years.
I will embrace 2014 with whatever it throws my way. I will laugh and love and work and appreciate life.
2013---I have some boxes waiting for you.
2014---I have some stories to tell you.
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