Five Years Ago Today

[tadpole1025]

Thanks Job and Jack.

Job,

Work is going great. I love it. The days are long sometimes (I work 4 10-hour days) but overall I enjoy the job more than my radio career. I get along great with everyone and my lady friend is a very good friend. We talk a lot and have tons in common. No dating though...

I enjoy the photography too. I'm a newbie, but it is a lot of fun. I take pictures of wildlife....mostly zoo animals and birds and ducks that I see at the pond. The pond is about two miles from my place so it is real easy to get to.

I have thought of volunteering at a shelter, but the photography keeps me quite busy. Maybe someday. Knowing me though, I'd want to bring them all home. I'm currently feeding a homeless cat in my apartment complex. He's getting brave and now will come onto my patio. Haven't been able to get close enough to pet him yet.

Yes, I am waking up and I have come a long way. It is a very long road. I still wonder if I "went through something" myself just because of the way that I've changed. My boys will sometimes laugh at me and shake their heads. They know that I'm different too. I've heard that this experience changes people....boy, that's the truth.

Jack,

It is so nice seeing you here on the boards! You posted to me in the very beginning and handed me a few 2x4s. Thank you.

As for wisdom, I'm not going away...just won't be posting much on my thread since things have settled and there isn't much to report. I will check in from time to time and post to newbies when I can. There's just so many of them. I would have never believed that this MLC mess was so common.

Yes, I do like the person I am now very much. More so than who I was. I have more compassion for people, less uptight...as I said in my earlier post, there is a calmness or peace about me. I'm just.....at peace. As for my love of animals, I think that my little rats that I had kind of helped with that. They showed me unconditional love at my lowest/darkest point. I know, sounds kind of funny, but it's true. They helped me a lot believe it or not.

You mention the changes that I made. I'm not sure that I actually knowingly MADE changes. They just seemed to happen. I kind of "morphed" into something different. I seem to enjoy things that I did as a kind....animals, sea life, the ocean...stuff that I kind of lost a long the way once I got married.

I would love to meet someone to do things with and share things with, but if that never happens, that's cool too. Again, I'm at peace.

Thanks for checking in...

Tad