Closing the Houston Chapter of my life.
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Category: Life
Closing the Houston Chapter of MY Life
This week, I made a decision to finally put an end to my time in this house and city. Memorial Day weekend marks the 6th year that I have been back here. I guess you could call it a seven year itch that started early. No decision has been made on where I'm moving, I just know it's time to go.
I had sort of made the decision after my father died but, someone else decided that I wasn't ready to go. If you are thinking that someone was human, you are way wrong. And really that's way cool because had she not taken that off of my hands, I wouldn't have met some of the really wonderful people that I have this past year and a half. All she really did was remove a giant obstacle out of my life and in doing so, I found peace within.
Yes, I said she. My guardian angel is one or both of my twin sisters. I am the only survivor of triplet pregnacies. Long story but, they thought I was dead too. Even though the x-ray showed two gas rings mom insisted that she felt movement and they found my heartbeat in January and I was born in March, thirty ???? years ago this week.
Anyways, lots of stuff has happened in my life this past year. If you haven't kept up with my blogs, go read them and you will know. One of the biggest things to happen is that I have found childhood friends and made new ones. As the girl scout song says, "Make new friends but, keep the old. One is silver and the other's gold."
In February, I finally got in touch with a platinum friend. I found my first ever best girlfriend and she lives in Alaska! Geeze! Now she and I are on a quest to find the third friend. Peter, if you are out there, we are going to find you. lol
At the early part of March, we had a little scare as Mrs. Moore, my 85 year old next door neighbor/second mother was diagnosed with colon cancer and was given 6 months to live. We all prayed about it and the tests came back that she will be making a full recovery with treatment. Whew! But even with that, she still is 85. You would never know it looking at her getting around the house and still driving however, after her last accident, she isn't driving after dark anymore. Bless her heart! I love her to death.
Backing up to January though, my finances went to hell in a hen basket. Since, my former tenent was hospitalized with congestive heart failure, survived and moved at his son's insistance, my extra income was gone. The break ins didn't help matters either as they took anything of "hockable" value. Several of my utilities were cut off and I had no one to go to for a little cash loan. With a bad leak in my roof causing mass destruction to 4 rooms of my house, I had to refinance.
I didn't get as much money as I thought but it was enough to get a new roof, new appliances for the twenty something year old appliances that were here and died on me and my a/c to be re worked. I couldn't afford a totally new a/c unit for the house but, I had enough for a slightly used one. Houston is freaking hot in the spring let alone the summer!
The roof was finished yesterday! Yeah! Now more work has to go into getting all the moldy sheetrock and insulation out. Ugh! I'm highly allergic to mold. It's been slowly making me strive to survive.
So, with that being said, I will be extremely busy with all of that, still. If you want to help out, please call or send me an e-mail. I will try to check once a day. It's not that I don't love y'all, it's just that I need to move on with whatever my life still has in store for me. This house and all the memories are just that memories. I need to make some new ones.
The Goddess CoverDBabe has spoken
