Whew....

Well, well, well!!! So much has happened this year that I can hardly bring it the attention it may deserve on this posting, but I'll try to hit the highlights.
First and foremost, can you believe that another year is already gone? It seems to go so slowly, but then it's over.
Let's see...I think the last post was around Thanksgiving of 2007, at which time I was still healing from my broken jaw. Ah, getting older!!
Well, after that, I moved the beginning of Feb. '08, as did my son, Jaeson. As a matter of fact he, along with the help of his cousin, Jimmy, moved me one weekend and then the three of us moved Jaeson the next weekend. Actually, it was probably the other way around, but still a hell of a month.
For the next four months nothing to extraordinary went on until the beginning of June. Just about exactly one year after my quitting smoking, perhaps to much for the old girl (me). Anyway, hello!!! It's time to shake things up with a Subarachniod Hemorrhage, otherwise referred to as a form of stroke. It involves bleeding of the brain for no apparent reason (no injury to the head, etc.), at least in my case. As is evident with this posting, I survived!!!! One heck of a outcome since 50% of suffers don't survive long enough to attain medical help. Although I appreciate the outcome, I certainly hope not to do that again!!!
More good news in or about Sept. for my son, he has a new relationship with a local girl in his new home town and that not anything to sneeze at!!!
Thanksgiving this year was spent together with my son, Jaeson and his girlfriend and her family in Pennsylvania. It was a very nice time.
Christmas is now past, and the new year is only days away. It doesn't seem possible. Another year gone. Let us all count our blessings!! I'm sure we have more than enough to rejoice in!! May God bless us all and may we be a blessing to all we touch!!!

A year already!!!

I can't believe that once again another year has been lived and is now gone. I don't think I appreciated it as I should have. It seems that to do so is very, very hard to do. I try to remind myself of all the blessings I have and for a while I truly appreciate the moment. Then all the other things life brings ushers themselves on and around me, and appreciation lacks. I am going to train myself to respond to appreciation, with appreciation. Sounds so simple, but I need full concentration to pull it off. I do realize that the only true way to fail at anything is to stop trying to succeed. I refuse to be a loser as an example to anyone who takes note of my passing by in this life. Perhaps it's age. Hopefully, with (if God grants more time)time, I'll find peace. To all who struggle with depression of any kind, or with life's trials that seem overwhelming for the most part, I understand, I am here to say that, and to hope that we all can find a reason to WANT to keep on, keeping on. Perhaps it will just be as simple as believing that we are here for some reason! If not for ourselves, in some way, for others. Do something wonderful for someone else. It will make your existence feel worth something, at least for the moment. This all sounds like a huge pity party, perhaps in large part it is. Pity for a life screwed over, under, on top....well you get the idea. I think most people have dreams, wishes and hopes. I believe most people want to be loved and to love. I guess what I'm saying is I believe there is a line of demarcation between living and existing. This post will hit home to many who exist, and always have. Outside looking in. God help us. It is not who we want to be..... Don't give up though, even (which, by the way, is sometimes almost impossible not to do) if only as an example to the ones we love and so as to not set a precedence which may be interpreted as o.k. Instead of giving up, write.