So far this year has been a new experience. A life changer…. When you relocate to a new work location there’s always that propensity to “re-invent” yourself because your always meeting new people. This year I have been working too many hours to get a feel for Baton Rouge.. how I fit in it, much less get a clear feel for our re-invented life. I simply haven’t been off to get to know the place. Right now I’m working 13 hours a day, 14 days on and one day off for the next couple months, so I’m staying at the RV close to work. I have been sick with either a cold or the flu since Thanksgiving.
Between the cold medicine and work hours my life has pretty much been a blur this year….. I have Christmas toys I haven’t got to play with yet… Don’t feel too sorry for me though, it’s the life I chose, but I am in the “trenches” right now. How my life works is… I normally get a year’s worth of hours earned in 6 months, then we take off the rest of the year, unfortunately we have been buying large items, cars and RV’s so I have a couple years worth of long hour jobs to get caught up. I have been told dreams of summer days on the Bayou, having friends over, going into New Orleans…. but right now I just can’t see that happening. I have too much to do, too much to take care of. Linda has been great virtually taking care of moving the house without me, we are both running pretty hard. I need to get some things done at the lake house when the long hours are over.. so winding down takes back seat… again. I need to get the sailboat here so we can use it to unwind.. but it takes about 4 days to make the trip and I don’t have 4 hours to spare much less 4 days.
Normally I can see a clear picture of the future… but right now I can’t see out of the ever deepening trench. Re-reading that it sounds pretty hopeless…. in truth we have a lot to be thankful for and one day if we survive the war……. I guess there is a good shot at having what we want ….. unless it changes again. Hope and Change…. I hope it doesn’t.