Memories As Such

I'm sitting here in my best friend Mel's house, housesitting while she and her family have a much needed vacation before the hurried first weeks of school. While cooking dinner on her stove, I decided to check email and Facebook, and lo and behold, her sister Charity invited me to follow her new blog. Lo and behold, it was on blogspot...and on a fluke I tried to log in...and there was a blog that I'd created in 2007 and had completely forgotten about.

I read back through the old entries; there were just a few before I apparently forgot about it. I was apparently taking the antiseizure medication Neurontin at the time, so that may have had a lot to do with that. Still, reading them took me back. It was a troubling time, yes, but a lot of life is. As someone told me once, "you're the only person I know who just goes from crisis to crisis laughing the entire way." Well, maybe not the ENTIRE way. But I do try to laugh, and laugh a lot. After all, what else is there to do?

When I started that blog in 2007, my daughter was 4, close to turning 5; Mel's son was 3, close to turning 4, and her daughter had not yet arrived. Her cocker spaniel Emerson, who was the best dog I've ever gotten attached to, was still around although he was slowing down some. My mother would still be alive for a few more months, and I'd have my father until 2011 (just this past March.).

What was going on in the world at the time? I couldn't tell you. The events happening within my family and circle of friends were everything to me; still are. Not to sound sappy, but the previous years have shown me, sometimes painfully, that all we really have is each other, and all we have is right now. We're told this often in our lives...but sometimes the universe has to hit us over the head until we realize it.

So, will it be another 5 years before I post here again? I hope not. But then again, who can tell?