Reflections

Today is January 2, 2011.  What a decade it has been.  Let's track back.   My mind is so old, I have to start from 2010 and hope I can remember ALL the way back to 2000.  Here are some highlights.

2010 -  April of 2010, I left the  court reporting firm I had been with for 7 years and hung out my shingle (again).  So happy with where I am now in my work life.  Some days it is stressful being the big boss but I love not answering to anyone but myself and my clients.  

May of 2010 - went to Folly Beach and stayed at a wonderful apartment right on the beach.  Decided that Folly Beach is where I would like to live when I retire.

August of 2010, my daughter - Queen 1, age 25  -- got married in Las Vegas to the Cop.  She invited me to go to LV with her for the wedding, but it wasn't possible for me to attend.  

2009 - Nothing too memorable for 2009.  Worked a lot.  Went to Universal Studios for the Halloween bash with Mr. Honey, the Boy & Queen 2.   Queen 2  was dating a boy who had a 1 1/2 year old little girl.  I kept her a lot and got very attached.  Made me realize I do want grandchildren.  Sooner rather than later.

2008 - Had cervical disc fusion on my neck.  Thanks to my many years of court reporting.

2007 - Danged if I can remember.  I'll have to get back to you on this year.

2006 -  Had eye surgery this year.  A very rare cancer.  Melanoma of the iris.  You see (no pun intended) I had had a little green spot on my left eye since I was a kid.  Nobody ever thought a thing about it, just a discoloration.  After having cataracts "at a young age", I had been followed for a few years by my eye surgeon to watch this spot on my eye.  It's akin to a melanoma on the skin.  They do nothing about it unless it changes shape and color.

Sure enough, it started to change shape and the color started to turn brown.  Surgery was done, and it is called an iridectomy.  They literally take out part of your iris.  It leaves it looking like a black hole in part of your eye, or, that you've been on speed for days and just one eye is affected.

Not that I know anything about speed.

2005 - January of 2005, Mr. Honey & I flew to Las Vegas and got remarried on January 3rd  Won about $5,000 on slot machines that trip.  Have been paying it back ever since.

2004 - Mr. Honey moved back into our home in January.  We took a family cruise in the summer of the year and we all had a great time.  I rented a moped and had a terrible crash in the Bahamas.  I'm a good driver, just had Queen 2 sitting behind me, leaning the wrong direction! Our marriage is better than ever and it did both of us some good to live apart and see what we missed about each other.  Dating other people made us appreciate what we had in each other.

2003 - The financial status of single mommy hood was taking its toll on me and the kids.  I had been an independent reporter with my own clients, and made a decision to go to work with a fairly large court reporting firm in town.  It wasn't a bad decision, and a commitment I kept for seven years.

2002 - Began the year as a single mom to three kids.  Queen 1 was about to graduate from high school.  Queen 2 was just entering 7th grade and the Boy was in 2nd grade.  I wish I had been smarter then and known what I know now about life.  But, we can't go back in time, only forward.

2001 - November - Mr. Honey & I got a divorce.  It was a painful time for all of us.  There was no specific reason, no extra-marital affairs, I had just had enough and needed time to find myself.  Mr. Honey was confused.  I was entering menopause and didn't realize how my actions were hormone related.  I call it our two year sabbatical.

2000 - Felt as though I was entering into the 7th inning of a losing ball game.  I was diagnosed, very young, according to the doctors, with cataracts.  Had them removed from both eyes over a period of months.  Amazing how much better I could see afterward.  

I had my last child in 1995, a son after two girls, and it was the year I turned 40.  I was feeling old.