the last day of the first year of my new reality

Tomorrow is the day.  My own personal new year...  One year ago tomorrow is the day that everything changed.  I asked 5 questions... the answers were: yes, no, a couple years, no, and no.  By the time I had my 5 answers I knew my marriage of 17 years was over.  I waited for 23 hours to let him know... and didn't give him a choice in the decision.  Over. Done. Out. I'm still not divorced on paper, but in my heart and mind tomorrow is the first day of the second year of my new reality.  There was never a moment of doubt. 

Good night year one... tomorrow is year two.

is that a FROG?

I live in the middle... rural America.  116 acres that have been in the family since 1901.  I'm 7 minutes from a grocery store, 25 minutes from a movie theater, and an hour from an international airport.  I don't live in the outback.... but I don't live in a town either.  I love it here.  I love the quiet, the peace, the seclusion... I love that nature is literally right outside my door.  But that's where it stops.  Nature is supposed to be outside my door... not inside.

I can live with the struggle against the yearly invasion of sugar ants... I can even deal with the constant fight against the invasion of mice... I deal with Deer (that lick my window screens and eat my garden), Opossums (that rummage through my trash), and Skunks (that choose to live under my porch), and Frogs (that occasionally hop right inside).  Ok... I draw that line at Frogs in my house.  I drew it this week.... I didn't intend to kill the frog... I swear.  I normally catch the little buggars and put them back outside WHERE THEY BELONG!  But this poor dead frog didn't play by the rules. I didn't see the frog that was hanging out on my living room floor... and he/she didn't jump.  What kind of Frog doesn't jump?  I know... the dead kind.  I STEPPED ON THE FROG with my BARE FEET!  I feel for the frog... but it was so GROSS! ugh...

It still gives me the ick willies just thinking about the squish.

Well that was fun...

Yesterday I decided to go in the side door of the office because a rather large intimidating group of people were loitering by the front door... kinda.  Turns out the police had ordered them out of the building because of the break in and subsequent theft.  My office lost a few laptops... and the a-hole broke my fabulously cheap printer.  But on the other hand he/she did leave my terribly expensive external hard drive with all my data and music behind.  So thank you.


Yesterday I went home at 8:30 and spent the rest of the day in my jammies working from home.  Today I spent 5, 6, maybe 8 hours trying to get the new (old) laptop working the way I need it to and the new (new) printer to... well print. 

Friday I have to pee in a cup... well great.