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meanmistermustard said

Thank you. Whilst I am a very supportive person (ask my family, well you can’t but thats the point) i don’t buy into all holding hands by the graveside for 7 months of mourning every time a cornflake is dropped on the floor as seems to be the way in the modern world at times. I bet I don’t come off here very well to the outsiders looking in.

 I am resting and recuperating. Find myself tired and a little energyless and unsteady at times so having to sleep more but slowly on the mend. Back to work on Friday which will be interesting.  

You come off fine to me 🙂 Just, as @Beatlebug put it, pragmatic. I like to think it’s how far north you (and other Scots) are that makes you pragmatic. I once had a email pal from the Orkneys and she was…pragmatic 😉

Good luck, @HMBeatlesfan - I would offer the advice of not downing yourself. I did it for years and it really feels good to shed it.

We all have our skeletons, we all have to keep on keepin' on just the same. When we bruise we heal back stronger (hopefully!).

As for me, I just booked a flight & hotel to visit Doris on our first anniversary. It means putting off the move a month (til January),

 and driving through two mountain ranges in the dead of winter, but I'll have a lot more money saved up and if I have to hole up in

 a hotel while they clear passes I can handle it. I had planned to arrive there on the anniversary of the night we fell in love (11 years

 ago), but our wedding anniversary is more important. And this way I'll be here and the 3 kids who speak to me and my mother will

 come over for a day at Christmas. I'm going to visit each of them in November, so I'll get to see them twice before I move. Fortunately

 mom inherited a bit of coin so she will pay for them all to visit us on the west coast once a year, if they want to (and I'll be back once

 a year anyway). As they're all in uni, they are busy and I only see them 3-4 times a year as it is.

 
EDIT: made the next paragraph a spoiler because it's personal & political and probably a bit annoying and off topic even for this thread

Reveal Spoiler
Alas, two of my kids and their mother are ultra-conservative, pseudo-evangelical Catholics (not judging, just describing) and are voting

 for the dark side 🙁 I'm so tempted to put together an email attempting to reveal the darkness but...I think I should refrain - maybe

 we'll talk about it when I see them, but it'll be after the election and I will hopefully not feel like I have to passionately try to convince

 them to switch (and hopefully the light will still be shining on us!) I suspect my oldest boy, who's in the seminary, is a one-issue

 voter (anti-choice ;). Apparently the girl who isn't speaking to us is a potential vote for the home team, so that's promising anyway. That

 would end up making the group of us making up one vote for the home team, but the kids, ex, and Doris are in states that their votes

 won't really matter. Indiana will go to the dark side and Washington is very blue. My mom and I are in the swing state to end all swing

 states (Ohio) so we get swamped with ads and our votes actually mean something. Feel free to private me if you don't understand

 how we vote and want a brief explanation...


In other news, the younger son (who somehow inherited all the [liberal] socio-politico-ethical values of my family) has also inherited some

 form of mood disorder from his male ancestral line. He was diagnosed bipolar but we all think he's ADHD. He's a great kid, he's the one I'm

 closest to, but it's hard as he makes his way from doctor to doctor looking for a good one (for those of you who've never had to see a

 psychiatrist, it usually takes at least 3 tries to find one that's "compatible"). In the meantime you are taking medications that aren't

 right and going through much stress - poor kid (he's 20). Ok rambled on enough...does my loneliness show?