Life Goes On

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days...I've had a hard time coming up with something that could even come close to following my last post!

One thing I do have to say as a follow up - I think I am cured forever of thinking that I can't have what I want. It didn't look exactly how I pictured it would way back in January - when I thought I would have a referral in the spring and be home with a child by the fall - but I did in fact create family in 2009. I will never again doubt my own power to get something done when I put my mind to it.

On the other hand, getting what you want doesn't automatically solve all your problems.

I may have a family now, but I also still have an unbloggable situation that makes me miserable more often than not. I still have a car that keeps insisting that I spend money on it (I had to bring it to a different mechanic on Friday night and take the train home from work, because of the same problem it had back in October). And I still have a dog who gets into mischief when she doesn't get enough exercise and attention (twice this week she has decided that the stuffed animal I bought for ET needed to be broken in with some slobber and pulled it down off the couch during the day while I was gone at work). And I also still have an internet connection that seems to become unreliable exactly when I need it most - like tonight, when I had to wait over 30 minutes for the green DSL light before I could get started on this post, and then it went out again before I could finish the post, which is why you are getting this today instead of yesterday.

And I still haven't finished everything on the suddenly much more urgent mother-of-all to-do lists!

Life goes on.

And I can still get what I want.

The mechanic called this morning and the car will be fixed and ready for me to pick up later today. I spent almost an hour on the phone with Verizon tech support this morning, and now my DSL connection is working again. The dog still needs more exercise, but ET's stuffed animal is now up high on a shelf where Tinker can't reach it. The unbloggable situation is still annoying, but it is what it is.

From now on, I know that even though there might be a few detours along the way, I can make life go on in the direction I choose to go in.