As time goes by

It is nearly October now, so summer is gone, as is our 20th yearly( and possibly last) summer visit to the Del.

Another sign of time passing is the retirement of long time local new anchor Kent Shocknek.  I have been watching him since the 80's when he anchored the early morning news on NBC.  I watched him every morning before work and getting the girls to school. I was watching when he was covering the Challenger launch . I will never forget sharing his so human yet under control reaction when it exploded and the realization sunk in that all were lost .  Likewise his ducking under his desk during an earthquake  and earning a joking nickname after-Shocknek.  Human and relatable.

He always seemed so genuine.  His goodbye tonight (from CBS/KCAL where he has been for the last several years) was humble and heartfelt.   One thing that really got to me was that he is a year and half younger than me!  Oh to be able to retire so young!  Godspeed to him. With him go my best wishes and not a little envy.

July the 4th and where the hell did the year go?

I am telling you, folks, that a sure sign that you are getting well along in years is that the years fly by. It is the 4th of July in less than half an hour, and I swear it was just April five minutes ago.  It is only 6 weeks to my vacation at my beloved Del, and it will be Christmas a  nanosecond later.

Work is very busy, and often fast paced, and complicated, but doable and I seem to be doing ok at it as well.  If being needed and depended on is job security, the secure I am.  The days do not drag, that is for sure.
My tomatoes are in, I just pulled that last avocado  from this year's crop of of the tree, and Wimbledon is nearly to finals weekend. .It is summer full on, and it snuck up on me.

It is another sign of age that you repeat yourself .  Look at my blog of 7/6/11 entitled "Summer already?  "

Ask, and ye shall receive

Just when I  start thinking that my  believing that everything will work out somehow, some day has been stretched to its farthest reach......something happens to bolster my faith.  I have been stressed about work, about being thought inadequate, about expenses coming up, and finding a way to deal with it all without imploding.   For my prayer request, I put down "peace of mind".

Work was a zoo today, but I got what I needed of get done , done.  I worked how to handle at least one of the expenses I was concerned about.  Then, at the end of a very long day, I got an email about an old stock plan from work. It is paying out this week, and it  more than I had hoped. And it will cover the bulk of what I was worried about.  Knock knock, who 's there? . Answer to your prayer, ma'am.

I am going to try to give up worry for Lent.

Happy 2014

Happy New Year.  First let me state that this year will likely be better than the last, in that my job (although altered) is secure for the immediate future.  No more sense of impending doom, and all that. 

However, let me also go on the record as saying that some experiences should be recorded under be careful what you wish for.  And also under never say never. It can come back to bite you in the butt. It isn't fatal, but also not a lot of fun. And being middle-aged doesn't keep you safe from the experience.  Sigh. 

Sometimes real life sucks.  

I guess that happily ever after is the fairy tale that it usually concludes.  There is happily, and there is ever after.  However, ever after will do, as long as it is happily more often than not.