And the beat goes on...

Wow, so much has happened in the last 5 months, and almost none of it

good. Hubby fell and broke his wrist Christmas Eve; the break was so

severe that it required surgery after the holidays. He had also been

complaining about the vision in his left eye - turns out he had a cataract,

so another surgery there. The good news is that he sees great now, and

his wrist is mending well; there is a plate in there with 5 screws, but he

has regained most of his mobility and about 1/2 of his strength. The

physical therapy continues. Last and unfortunately least, yours truly

has lost her job at the local restaurant that I wrote about so often in

these pages. There was a change in ownership, and apparently I rubbed

the new owner the wrong way; we have totally different personalities,

styles, and ways of doing things. The experiment of cooperation lasted

a while, but it had become clear the last few months, as more and more

changes were being made to a restaurant that didn't need change, that

a divorce was imminent. Sure enough, 2 weeks ago I handed over my

set of keys. It has been a painful 2 weeks. I miss it. I miss the drama of

the staff, the food, and most of all, my regular customers, the ones who

came in when they saw the red car parked outside, the ones who came

in at set times certain days of the week, thrilled to see a 'reserved' sign

on 'their' table, the ones who pretended to come in give me a hard time

but in reality to chit chat for a bit and shoot the breeze. I miss my peeps,

and I hate the new owner for taking them away from me. Hopefully some,

if not all, of them will follow me to my next place of employment; I

should know where that will be in the next week or 2. I thought of a

return to teaching, but unfortunately, there is not alot of demand for

history teachers these days. Seems like all the openings are in science,

math, or Spanish (and we all know why everyone needs to learn Spanish

now don't we?). Anyway, I may or may not return to blogging, I have

been having some fun on Twitter now, but that might just be a fad, time

will tell. In any case, the little red Mazda, her husband, and her great dog

Lady continue to roll on.