It seems as though the years go by faster and faster as I grow older.
This summer has flown by. I spent a lot of it on the motorcycle. It seems like only yesterday that I bought the bike and started riding. It’s actually been over a year. This struck me yesterday when I was at Walmart. I had to buy a gallon of windshield washer fluid. I knew I was about out. With the falling leaves and debris on the road, I would be using it more and more. It dawned on me that this was the first I had purchased any all year. It just goes to show how much my truck had been sitting.
I guess it has been kind of a busy year when I think about it. Dad had his knee replaced. He was in the hospital longer than they expected and then they moved him to rehab for another week. His kidneys decided that they didn’t feel like keeping up anymore. He spent another week in the hospital with that. I had various fights with my back and my emotional state. A lot of the time spent on the bike was therapeutic for me. The dark feeling that I have been fighting over the last couple weeks seems to be drifting away. I made a couple changes in my surroundings that have helped that situation.
I missed not taking a big vacation this year but that’s ok. Health issues, finances and my back have to take precedence over fun. I am going to try to put a little money aside each pay for next year. Not sure what the destination will be but I’d like to go ‘somewhere’. I have about two payments left on my credit card consolidation loan. My thought is to take the money that I have been sinking into that and splitting it between a vacation fund and some house repairs. Like everything else, it probably won’t go that way… but that’s my plan for now.
Just in the way we see the leaves change with the season’s, I have seen some things change in my health. I’m told by my doctor that these are normal things. I’ve heard my parents and grandparents comment on how at a certain age you seem to have to deal with more changes in health. This last year must have been my year. My vision has always been pretty good but I’m noticing that fine print is just a little harder to read. My back pain has changed a bit as well. It has gone from isolated in a couple key regions to a more overall ache. Part of this is due to the arthritis that they tell me is spreading from my neck down. I also think that the ribs I broke a few years ago are seeing their share of “Arthur” too. I have trouble getting a continuous night of sleep in because I can’t lie in one position very long. Oh well…That’s life… Right?
I continue to work at the same company that I’ve been at for the last eight or so years. How long will I stay there? I can’t really say. I’ve thought about moving on. I just don’t know if I want to change things very drastically right now without good reason. I’ve been asked why I don’t move away from the area. My answer of late has been Dad’s health. I don’t want to leave him by himself. I guess I’ll stew on it a little more. Maybe I’ll find the magic combination of interest and drive to get me out of this place.
Alas, I must close this post to go run a meeting or something. Catch ya later…
~Cappy