January 31, 2015
3:48 p.m.

I am well aware that it's been ages since my last post. There will be no need to remind me what a bad girl I am. Haha!

Well, I am back home after a seven week visit in Oklahoma. I got back on the 28th, and came home to a house that had been rearranged in my absence.

Now, anyone who knows me knows that I do not do well with change. I mean, I had been forewarned, but it is still a stressful thing for me to have to deal with changes within my own personal space.

I'm happy to say that the changes are all good ones. They were done to accommodate a bigger television with 3-D capability. My desk has been relocated and I can actually see the t.v. as I'm sitting here typing. The room appears bigger, etc.

That being said, I will still have to get used to it. I'm an old stick-in-the-mud, I admit it. Bear with me.
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The visit was great, wonderful and terrific. I was so sad to leave and come home. Retired or not, I have obligations and had to return, but it was tough! I wanted to stay with my babies.

It's really come home to me how hard it is to live so far away from family. I have family here in Colorado that I don't want to leave, and family in Oklahoma that I just had to leave, and family in Wyoming that I left fifteen years ago. Yes, I visit. They visit. But I honestly wish we all lived closer. Either that or I wish someone would finally invent the transporter so I could beam myself around. (I'd do it myself, but I'm not that smart!)

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So, it's good and bad to be home. I will get used to my new place in the living room, and I will get busy with my studies and maybe make some new jewelry, and while I'm at it, I will save up for another trip.  

I miss you, Oklahoma family! I love you.

And to all of you--good evening!