Still alive.

Noters Beware!! This is a “mean-note” free diary.

It’s been a while, I know, but I’m still alive. It’s been a very strange winter for me, not all good, and not all bad. Lots of laughter, and even more tears. Still not sure where my head is half the time…and my emotions are all over the place. Heartbreak will do that to you, I guess. I just wish it didn’t take so long to heal. Some days I wonder if I ever will. But I’m still here and to prove it, here’s a pic of me with Rooby-dog, who, by the way, just turned an amazing 16 years old.

Thankfully he’s doing well. I had a scare with him about a month ago. He wound up with an abscess on his side and it got ugly. It was all oozy with pus and bleeding and just plain gross. When I first noticed it, I was sure he had some kind of cancer and it would be the end. And with my head and heart where they’ve been recently, I don’t know where THAT would have taken me. But a round of antibiotics and a lot of wound cleaning later, he is healed. And I can still hug him and that does me more good than I can say in words.

I just started work at a different location…same company, just a store in a different and better location. Longer drive for me each day again. That’s all good in the summer months, but unfortunately for the winter months, it requires driving down some awful back roads, which are usually the last to get plowed. There’s not an easy way to get to this store from where I live. That worries me, not so much for this winter, but for next. Hopefully this winter is almost over…although it is only March and this is Michigan. However, my old store was stressful, in an inner-city kind of way…too much theft, and customers with bad attitudes. My new store is a country store, and the customers are nicer. I’ve only been there a couple of days, and I am trying to find where I fit in, but hopefully in the end, it’ll wind up being okay.

So, yeah, I’m still here…and I’ll be around. Hopefully, when Spring finally gets here, it’ll help get me out of this crazy funk. And then maybe I’ll be able to find more to write about. Or at the least, get me out to take pictures somewhere. Meanwhile, I’ll keep on reading…so keep on writing everyone.