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May 08, 2007

These Dots in History

Maybe this is just me and my freakishly sharp memory, but I look back at my life and I don't necessarily recall single moments. I recall phases when things change. I have a feeling this past week will be one of those, for in the past week I've ...

  • explained bisexuality to my mother.
  • sold my house.
  • lost a house I thought for sure was ours.
  • bought a house.
  • lost a friend, whose ashes will be scattered tomorrow.
  • learned one friend was making plans to end a marriage.
  • learned a second friend was making plans to end a marriage. Not the same marriage, mind you.
  • wished my dear Basset Chloe a happy 10th birthday, which makes me a little sad because even though she doesn't act it, she's getting up there.
  • possibly done permanent damage to my back by performing the oh-so-difficult task of sitting my ass down in my desk chair, which I accidentally kicked out from under my very own ass. You remember in the Roadrunner cartoons, when the coyote would go over the cliff and he'd land in such a manner that his body would turn into an accordian? Yeah, that happened to me.

I think this might be the week where someday, I look back and say, "Yeah, that week in May, 2007, when I was 34 years old? That was when I officially hit adulthood." Because you don't fully hit adulthood until something happens that gives you the ability to predict the weather based on past injuries, right? I think I'm there.

Posted by Robin at May 8, 2007 10:17 PM

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I guess I'm an adult then! I've broken bones four different times before last summer, but last August I broke my ankle in two places. It still isn't healed to the point I don't experience pain if I twist wrong on it. Oh, and it aches when a front is coming through. Combine that with my barometric sinusitis and weather changes are rather unpleasant at my house!

Posted by: Amy in StL at May 8, 2007 10:58 PM

Ugh. Just hearing about someone you know deciding to end a marriage makes me qweezy. I don't know why - I guess I just imagine how unhappy someone must be to want to leave a marriage. And a second person is/or will be very unhappy in turn.

Posted by: christine in portland at May 9, 2007 12:43 AM

good grief, woman. time to head for borneo.

Posted by: robiewankenobie at May 9, 2007 05:53 AM

Get thyself to a chiropractor asap. Hope you feel better soon.

Posted by: Cassie at May 9, 2007 10:02 AM

And I thought I was all grown up by buying Mother's Day Cards more earlier than the day before Mother's Day!

Posted by: Wendy at May 9, 2007 01:27 PM

Ow. Come knit with us tonight. It's guaranteed to make your back feel better. Honest.

Posted by: Rachel at May 9, 2007 02:36 PM

It's been a ride this week, hasn't it?

Hope your back is better by now. But it is sorta fun to be able to predict rain with body parts.

Posted by: Dixie at May 9, 2007 03:17 PM

Sounds like quite a week! Good to see you handling it all with grace and humor.

Posted by: Jenn at May 9, 2007 10:02 PM

bah, i had bad knees as a teenager, not to mention the pressure induced migraines that allow me to let you know if a storm is coming the moment the air pressure starts to change.

i had that "i'm an adult" feeling at the purchase of the first house... or maybe it was with the having of a baby (which was before the house). whatever, my point was i still feel 16 most of the time and wonder if i'm ever going to get caught faking "adult". is that just me?

Posted by: exposed at May 10, 2007 10:00 AM