Was It So Long Ago? No. But now I'm old.

No I'm not posting a current photo, are you kidding me? I just spent eight hours running on concrete in inadequate (but *real*) shoes and then a couple of hours fitzing around on book stuff. My hair is a mess, I've got zero makeup on, and I'm still in my scrubs. Plus I've aged a couple of decades in the past couple of years, I kid you not. One day soon I will put up a current photo and you will be so sorry you asked.

Ah well.

Getting old has its compensations I do have to admit.

I have learned so much over the course of the past couple of years that it's almost scary. Old people are supposed to already know everything.

My life has changed considerably over the course of the past couple of years. I love many of those changes. Others I really kind of think I'd have been better off not ever even having to know about.

Over the course of the past couple of years I have set goals and met them. It's been incredibly enlightening in a lot of ways. Now I've set myself some new goals and am in the process of meeting those too.

Over the course of the past couple of years new friends, true friends, have come into my life and seem bound and determined to stay. That makes me happy, content in a way I wasn't sure I would ever be able to be. 

Over the course of the past couple of years my perspective has changed in some way that I can't quite explain, but it's a good thing. I've learned to trust and I've learned to not trust, if that makes any sense.

Over the course of the past couple of years the vision in my left eye has *faded*, but not as rapidly as we were afraid it would. The above photo was taken shortly after we realized there might be a problem.

In the course of the past couple of years I've found ways to cope a little better with stressors - because unless I can cope with them they will kill me. I'm a bit too stubborn to allow that to happen. Knowing my limits is what's going to keep me happily breathing my way through the rest of the life I want to have.

Over the course of the past couple of years my own self has begun to feel like a real live person again, which no doubt sounds a mite odd but is quite true nevertheless. 

So now I'm old.

It seems to have happened kind of all of a sudden, but it isn't a bad thing.

Over the course of the next couple of years I expect I'll learn even more stuff I never thought about learning, and what fun that will be!