Life Update

March 25, 2025

I’m still here. This winter was just tough on me. The blahs. My MM and I were supposed to meet up in January but in late December his wife fell and broke the tip of her tibia off! She had to have surgery and could not put any weight on it for three months. That meant either he or one of the kids had to be there at all times for her. It may seem like an excuse. But he sent me the x-rays so I know that it’s legit. She is doing much better and has started PT now but this month he has been extremely busy because they are switching out entire computer systems at his job. (Background note here is that they were still using Windows 96 to run all of the business’ tech. If something would’ve happened to those computers it would be very difficult for them to repair. So they finally got the money to change them all out. However, this means that he has been working on his day off the last three weeks. This week was the first one he’s had off since then. And next week he has to work his day off to get those last computers figured out.

We still talk almost every day and we really want to get together. Hopefully his wife will get back to work in the office soon instead of working from home. Or even better hopefully she’ll be able to travel for her work soon.

Right sent me part of his Christmas bonus money. It’s not that much but it certainly comes in handy. I’m trying not to spend it until I can go see him, but it’s getting to the place where I might have to.

I recently realized a really weird parallel. When my husband was still alive I had all these people with the same name in my life. I had a brother name the same. I have a brother-in-law named the same. Of course my son was named the same and a couple others. NOW I’m finding my MM’s name popping up in my life. I have a great local friend who works in the same field I used to who has the same name and is actually from my MM’s area. Also, my general practitioner has the same name — and my son has the same middle name. It’s weird.

Nothing else really going on at the moment. I started volunteering at the local Art Center a couple days a month just to help them keep the doors open. It’s not much since that we are in such a small rural area, but it gets me out a little bit and gets me a little tiny bit of culture — and I do mean very tiny.