Hi y'all! Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. We went away for a few days to our previous city (12 hour drive). It was interesting to see my nieces, sister, and some cousins (visiting from my home country), and I loved seeing my D20 again with her little baby. Unfortunately, I did not like seeing her idiot boyfriend, who is 35 and sporting a red, full mohawk. Ugh! What a clown! Can we say MLC!???

Anyway, as good as it was to see my sister, it was also very enlightening to observe a person who has never been able to let go of past resentments, grudges and is very defensive and has to always be 'right'. I fear myself getting to be that way. I last saw her about 2 years ago, and she is harping on the same stuff from when she was a child, and something our brother did some years back. All I could say was to just let it go, and yes, it was awful what he/they did. (BTW, my sister is 9 years older than me, so we kinda come from slightly different generations in a way, but I always felt she resented my intrusion when I was born, since she then had to share a bedroom, etc. There is a long story to this so I will leave it at that.)

In the meantime, my M is going as well as can be. My H is still travelling, although he was able to take off between Christmas and New Year, and this week too. So, we have spent some time together. I still feel a distance between us, and things are certainly not back to 'normal', whatever that is. I wonder if we have ever had a 'normal' M. We always seem to have one crisis or another. I do know this ... if he had/has a PA, it is over for me. The EA I can work through, but I doubt I can go beyond that. That would be it for me.

I start my new job next week, and I hope it goes well. We may have the opportunity to travel to my birth country in March, so I don't know how to approach the new boss to ask for that time off so early into the job. I guess I will cross the bridge when I get to it. I will be working 20 hours per week, so maybe I can offer to work full-time, to make up for the 2 weeks away.

Well, this is turning into a novella, so I will leave the update at that.

Take care, y'all!

Me:57 H:52 M:28 Got another lawyer last year and filed.
D35,S/D twins28,D22
EA4/04 End? Who knows?
"Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you." — Peace Pilgrim