I hope you all haven't forgotten about me.....

Sorry I haven't been on very much. Things are busy where I am, and I am making a new life. I am making friends and am eating on a regular basis again.

Speaking of friends....I just got an e-mail from Peggy, my very BEST friend from the time we were in the same Kindergarten class through early High School. Oh my gosh, I thought I was going to cry. I'm not sure exactly how she tracked me to this blog but I'm sure there is a story there somewhere. Since my husband's family, their family and my family all lived on the same street back in the fifties and sixties, I'm certain that my blog has been quite the personal soap opera for her to read. The last time I saw Peggy was a few years ago at a neighborhood reunion. She and one of her sisters were truly my little soul-mates for many years and her family always treated me like one of their own. Peggy, if you are reading this now, thank you SO much for writing to me and I WILL write back, I promise. God is so good to me. I'm so glad to have had a friend like her. I'm so glad I still do.
There is no better time in my life to realize what good friends I have. I always knew she was the best.

As a follow up to my last post....I have not heard a word concerning the check. It's hard to believe that you would turn down over $600. Tom, but well, I guess that's the price you pay for refusing to deal with me, huh? If you are still interested I still have it. I'm not sending it back to you so you can keep the whole thing and give me nothing though. It would appear that you are being foolish with money, something I never expected from you, but then again, you are doing a lot of other things lately that I never expected either so I shouldn't be surprised.

For those of you who are interested, God is soooo good to me. I can't go into too much detail right now but everything is getting brighter by the day. I am stronger in every way than I have ever been.

I talked to my mother the other day...it wasn't such a great conversation. She is still waiting for me to get psychiatric treatment, but when I asked her if SHE planned on paying for it she mumbled and stumbled and told me that she was SURE that the county I live in would take care of that....as if applying for Food Stamps (which I am no longer eligible for...that's GOOD news!) wasn't humbling enough. Why should I go for anything like that when I don't think anything is wrong with me anyway? To prove a point? Nah, I don't have time. I'm too busy working and starting over. When I told her that I was "working my butt off" she told me that "hard work never hurt anyone". Oh yeah Mom, like YOU ever had to stand on your feet 8-9 hours a day.....you didn't do it at 25, let alone 55. I'm sorry if I'm sounding a little snippy today. To my elderly mother of all people..... This is the kind of thing that I've put up with all of my life though and I'm fed up now. Not mentally ill...just fed up. If being fed up isn't okay then I guess you're just going to have to get your daily devotions somewhere else from now on. My fed-uppedness is causing people to think that I have mental problems....or at least menopausal ones. Nah...like Neil Sedaka used to say, "Growing up is hard to do"..........oh....wait....that's "breaking up is hard to do". Well, both.

Thank you so much to those of you keeping in touch with me by e-mail. You have no idea how much it means to me to have friends like you.

Love you all,
POH