“Lonely Road” Still Winding

Heh.  I suppose that was the greatest part of being friends with Dolly.  You know what our solution to problems was?  Making a story up about it, getting the other to laugh, and everything would be okay.  Our problems usually involved the great mystery called the male mind, so we’d usually make up something about how the guy in question was a vampire, and he was actually in love with one or the other of us, and wanted to make us his vampire queen, to rule the night with him!  Lol.  Those were good times.  It never solved anything, as I said, but . . .  It felt good to laugh about stuff like that.  I mean, geez, the stories we made up about Ryan . . .

I have the feeling that if I’d been able to talk to her during everything with Dan, things wouldn’t have been so bad for me.  But, I can’t guarantee they would’ve been any better, either.I suppose that’s why I reminisce as much as I do.  Remembering what I’ve already been through helps me know that I’ve been through hard stuff before, and that I’m tough.  I can handle things.  Somehow, things will solve themselves.  I just have to hang in there.  If I haven’t gone crazy yet, nothing will make me lose it.

Heh.  Patience is a virtue, Dan always says.  But he never said he had learned it . . .

I wonder how many people actually have?  I know I’m learning it now . . .

And to think.  I didn’t even need macaroni and chopsticks . . .