Dia, Part Deux

[Dia]

Wow, and here I am almost a year later with a long overdue update.

Things continue to be great. A week from tomorrow, we will be heading out for a 3-week family road trip to Yellowstone, the Tetons and all of those places.

We are sorts kind trying to conceive, but given my age, we're not expecting much. The trying is still fun, tho.

I'm not working at the job-from-heck anymore, though I consult there occasionally at nearly double my old wage.

The MIL is still a pill, but her family has been giving her grief for giving me grief, so will see if that goes anywhere productive. She has become largely irrelevant to our lives. DH checks in my phone at the appropriate times and she takes care never to be around me. I don't wish her ill, but this is a burden I can't - and won't - carry for her. And at least there's been no more talk about evicting us. *eye roll*

Kidlet is doing well and will start middle school in the fall.

All three of us have joined a karate studio, and we're enjoying that.

The kitty I brought with me is a character, and the alpha female just barely tolerates him most of time, but the sitch there is livable.

Keep on keepin' on, everyone!