Well it sure has been a while hasn't it? I have been told I have not blogged enough...so here I am. I am just back from vacation and I feel refreshed...kind of. I have lots to do and hopefully tomorrow is a new day and I can do all the things I have been putting off for so long. Getting the house cleaned up and cleared out, starting to use my treadmill, planting (well planning) the garden (to plant after the snowfall tomorrow), looking forward to the next vacation, etc.
Where to start? I don't really know where the year has gone so far...its almost May and I feel like it was just Christmas. So much has happened I can't recap it all here. Doug moved here, I thought things were OK but they were far from it. Doug was moving back to NC and now he is staying. Ugh...I don't even know what to think anymore. I was so hopeful for the two of them (Doug and Nicole)...for Doug to move here with the kids and start a new life with her, with us...I am still hopeful but its definitely not what I envisioned. Its so hard...it shouldn't be so hard...I guess because there are a lot of other variables I don't quite understand. I just hope it works out and everyone ends up happy because that is all I ever wanted and all anyone really deserves. Especially the kids. They are resilient. I hope the most that they slowly drift away from their mother. Its terrible to say. I hope she cleans up her act and can someday be a real mom to them. But seriously? I have no optimism there. Too bad.
Vacation...driving 14 hours with Andy. Awesome. We took my moms car. Sirius XM radio, ipod connection...nice. Someday we will have money to get a nice car, right? I wonder sometimes.
It was nice to visit with the family, except for the fact that about 2 hours into our stay Andy's dad dropped the bomb on him that he has liver cancer. Fantastic. Explains why he quit drinking. He goes for his first treatment Wed, 4/25. He is not eligible for a transplant and the tumors are too large to remove so they are only doing chemo. My brother's cancer is only in the lung. He is scheduled to have his entire left lung removed on 5/4. Keeping my fingers crossed for both.
We did some walking on the beach, some fishing, went out to eat, went to the concert (Warren Haynes Band) and just had some nice family time. Andy didn't get to go fishing for catfish but he found out where to go and found out a little more about surf fishing so maybe we can do that the next time we go down there.
And now we are home...back to work tomorrow. Blah. I hope I can work for my cousins sooner than later. Right now, just looking forward to going to Florida May 30-June 6 for Alexis's graduation. I have never been to visit my sister with Andy so this should be fun. If my brother isn't back to work by then and my uncle doesn't go with us then maybe Paul can go in his place. That would be nice. It doesn't sound like he will need chemo and radiation if they remove the lung and all the cancer. Fingers crossed.
That's all I got. Oh, and Andy turned 40. Not exactly the birthday he dreamed of I am sure...driving 5 hours to Wytheville, VA and staying in a hotel overnight and driving 8 hours the next day. We had a jacuzzi suite so that was nice and relaxing...I wish we had one at home. We ate dinner late at Applebee's...not your dream dinner for your 40th but oh well. His present from me will be RUSH concert tickets for October...it will be around my birthday and our anniversary as well so maybe we can make a weekend out of it and get a hotel and just chill out even if it is in Buffalo...
Things to remember...walks on the beach, fishing off the pier, silence in the car, staying at the Fairfield Inn in Wytheville, VA, daydreaming of all the houses I would buy all over the world if I won the lottery...
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