Monday, December 31, 2018

Into 2018

WHOA... publishing without more edits or finishing it up. 



It should be no surprise to anyone I know that 2017 was definitely a big year for me...

I got married!!  How did that happen?  I never imagined I would get married, probably because I never found a man that suits my needs.  Now, here I am, living in the house he raised his children with, driving my teenage stepson around, and friends - both real and FB - with his ex-wife.

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Seriously, though.

My older stepson asked me how it feels the following day.  I said it felt 'organic'.  Because it is so natural it's weird.  I still wonder how it happened so easily.  I didn't even put up a fight!  The ring did have trouble getting on at the wedding but it was a hot day and my fingers were swollen!

This is one of my favorites, manipulated by our dear friend Eddie.  If you weren't invited, please don't think we didn't think of you.  It was hard to make those decisions when we wanted everyone there!  We had family and friends among the bridal party, the teenage stepson walked both our mothers down the aisle and my Dad flew out for the weekend - so happy!!!



The other big piece of news this year was Trump and his administration.  My family, specifically my husband and stepson, noticed my depression and anxiety after the inauguration.  I struggled with it and have struggled with it since he started winning in the primaries.  However, since the first time I posted about the election in August (I think) when my best friend, known as the 'voice of reason', and my aunt got into a public fight, I decided to remain silent.  Given the political bullshit, I hope that I can have a reprieve, I couldn't bare to see two people I love dearly to fight so viciously.  

Now, however, I am ready.  I am to show the world who I am. Not the American I so courageously defended during the Bush regime while abroad, not the American who wants to build a wall dividing families, not the American who is more comfortable with guns on a billboard than titties.  I am an Evangelical.  The kind that Christ would support, rather than deny.  The kind that loves everyone, not the one designed to force people into boxes.  

And the last of my 2017 comes down to my professional life in 2017.  While making money in a professional setting is important, it isn't everything.  My stepson made the mention a few weeks ago that ...