The Ups and Downs Of The Week

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This week has been filled with things that have never happened to me before, one of them that you have seen on TV, but would never think it would happen to you.  You never know what each day will bring.  Over the course of my life I have become a true believer that there is always something good in everything that happens, sometimes the good is just harder to see.

UP: The big exciting news of the week was that I was accepted to be a contributing writer for another web site.  I am very happy about this – I love to share my knowledge and have the ability to learn new things and write about them.  Very exciting.

UP:I was laid off from my job in May of this year and Stella, I think, was more upset about it than me, but during dinner this week Stella told me she was glad that I did not work there anymore.  I asked her why and she said because now we get to eat dinner each night together and not be interrupted by phone calls, where I would say I have to deal with this and would be tied up for most of the rest of the evening.  It has not been easy, not having a job, but I have never been happier and more focused on what is truly important to me.

UP:  My mom flew in last night for the weekend.  We are going to have so much fun.  Spending the weekend in the city, going to the Rockettes, having dinner with relatives and doing all the Christmas sight seeing NYC has to offer.  So much fun!

DOWN:  My sister and her daughter were not able to come to NYC for the weekend, bummer.

DOWN:  I was sitting on the couch knitting and all of a sudden the Christmas tree toppled over.  I am not sure if the dog did it or it just fell – but it had been up for 3 days!  I quick ran over grabbed the tree, pulled it up right and was stuck there.  I yelled for Stella, but she was already in bed.  I could reach the phone and called a neighbor, but she could not come over to help, so she called another neighbor and between the two of us we re-positioned the tree in the stand, re-hung the ornaments and cleaned up all the broken ornaments.  That was disheartening, of course it had to be the ornaments that were very sentimental – Stella’s first Christmas ornament, some ornaments that were my grandmothers and several glass ones that were hand painted.  I will be able to mend some, but Stella’s first Christmas ornament I cannot find all the pieces – we searched and searched – it will probably show up next summer!

DOWN: This was truly an unbelievable thing – I had just come down from the attic and was packing a box to be mailed when all of a sudden a heard a loud crash and the house shook.  I ran to the window and there was a car in my back yard!  I could hear my neighbor shouting my name, she was in the basement – we both ran out to the yard.  My neighbor went to the woman in the car and talked to her to keep her calm and I was frantically trying to get the pieces of my fence out of the road.  I could not believe that the cars were just flying by, driving over the fence pieces and the pieces were flying everywhere.  Dodging traffic, I was running into the road picking up pieces and throwing them on the sidewalk.  The  police arrived and closed the road.  I finally was able to speak to my neighbor who told me she thought I was out in the yard – thankfully I was not and thankfully there was no one walking on the sidewalk. Then I thought about the cat, who loves to hang out in the yard, she was in her hideout in the basement, phew.  It was a freak accident.  The woman was taken away by ambulance, but had been consciousness the whole time.  I got to meet the new police officer in town, who by the way is very cute, and we got into a conversation about lavender – he was asking what the smell was and he decided he was going to plant some in his yard.  The conversation continued in regards to his yard and what else could he plant.  My yard is destroyed, along with 2 garden beds, my compost container, my lavender plants and many other plants.  The woman’s husband stopped by later in the day to tell me he was going over to his insurance company – I asked about his wife and she was just waiting for the doctor to look at the CAT Scan and xrays.  It could have been so much worse.  People are stopping and staring as they are walking and driving by, trying to figure out what happened.  But here is where there was some good – I was able to meet the cute police officer and now I will have new beds to plant come spring time and the woman was not seriously hurt, they were even able to start her car and back it out onto the flatbed.

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