Fall

Life has been busy, so once again I won't make any excuses for not updating this blog.

Number one big change would have to be the birth of my third grandson, Evan Michael on October 8th. Everything went well and now I have a new "little man". Mason has now become my "middle man" and I guess that makes Sean my "big man"! What a pleasure grandchildren are.

A most amazing thing has happened to me this fall. I always was afraid to fly and really haven't done it much in the past. In September I went to a training seminar in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and of course had to fly. My supervisor was fired shortly before so I ended up making the flight by myself which I was actaully quite happy about because the man had started to drive me insane and the idea of traveling with him was just beyond what I felt I could endure. So off to the airport I went and the flight went well. I was able to call the hotel to get picked up at the airport, something I had never done and was quite proud of myself. I know these things are quite simple but for me, someone who hates to make phone calls and is afraid of trying new things because of the thoughts of failure, this is quite an accomplishment. I guess some of my past therapy has worked after all!

The training was excellent (Q'Straint) and within days I was flying home. I had a chance to take a bump but figure why bother, I don't have anywhere else to fly to. When I mentioned this fact to my guy, he replied something along the lines of "you could always come here". I was surprised because he had never mentioned me going to visit him and when I mentioned that to him he was surprised that I felt I needed an invitation. It was a pleasant surprise to me and now I regretted not making a trip to NC during the summer. Oh well.

A couple days later I was looking at the school calender and noticed we had a long weekend coming up. That night I was on the computer checking flights, talking to my guy on the phone and making plans for a trip to NC. The next day I ordered the tickets and last weekend I was flew to NC to spend a wonderful weekend with him.

I was nervous about this because even though we have been together almost two years, we had never really spent much time together for hours and hours much less spending even one night together. What if we found out that we really couldn't stand being together that long? We talked about this before I got there and I think we were both very pleasantly surprised and pleased to get along just great!

Now I'm looking at prices of tickets for another trip to visit for a longer time. So I have gone from fear of flying to a semi savy traveler looking at different flights going to different cities wondering if I should try different carriers to see which works best to get to my ultimate destination.

Once again I have to remind myself that change is good!