A little reminder

As a child, the days seemed to be long, summer vacations lasted forever and time drifted slowly from one bip of the clock hand to the next.

What the heck happened?

I pulled up this page to write something and am amazed to see my last entry was in August! I think even Jypsy does better than I do...well, maybe not - her life is much like mine was back when I was, oh, 8 ...and time seemed endless. By the box to the right there, I see the number of blogs I manage to get online slowly decline with each year, but I want to think the ones I'm writing are much better now (ahem).

A lot has happened since August, but most of it is trivial. My two significant achievements during these past months were getting my book on Amazon.com, and then shortly after that, my SECOND book. (Picture buttons bustin' out all over, please.) Sales, sadly, are few and far between. Still. I feel a sense of accomplishment as this is something I've wanted to do, again, since I was a child.

There's also been a birthday, pushing me ever older, but I'm not so fond of the alternative - so bring it on! This might have been my best birthday ever...or at least, again, since I was a child. A little back story: In the last 4 or 5 years I have reconnected with some of the people I graduated with from high school. We are now coming together as adults with a lot of fond memories of each other and find we've turned into pretty darn awesome adults. We get along well; perhaps it's because we're past the point of trying to impress anyone, and we can simply enjoy the company of friends. 5 of these wonderful people came together and treated me to an amazing birthday dinner. We laughed, we talked, we ate wonderful food, we commiserated and we decided we're going to do this more often. I was thrilled to have these people help me celebrate making it another year! So, Marian, Steve, Duchess, Gail and Georgia - thank you so much for making my birthday so wonderful!

Three days later, I was treated to another dinner, which was special for quite a few reasons - the most important one that it was my family. My brother, my sister-in-law and my cousin joined in another celebration of making it another year and still kickin'. Thank you Joey, Brenda and Gary for putting the icing on my 'day'. I received cards from out-of-town friends that touched me and made me laugh - I still have them displayed on my dining room table, but guess Thanksgiving is going to necessitate me putting them away. (Oh, yes, I save cards for years! I re-read them and get the same glow as the first reading.) I received many phone calls, texts and Facebook posts from out-of-town family and friends as well. Thank you all!

I believe I never would have made it this far if it wasn't for the love and support of my family and friends. Another birthday has given me a subtle reminder of just how lucky I really am.