The Password Is: Interlude

Sometimes you just have to step back or drop out for a while. You have to break your routines. Sometimes it's necessary to climb up to a high spot to get the lay of the surrounding land -- just to see where the hell you are and where you've been and , if you are lucky, where you are going.




Unfortunately, if you live an active social life, other people are involved. Appointments and traditions and just hanging out times get broken. Feelings get hurt or, worst yet, people become "interested". Now, you'll have the additional distraction of trying to put well meaning people off while assuring them that there is, basically, nothing wrong. It's not enough to say, "We're just kinda chillin' this winter." Further explanations are required.

At any given time, people have a lot of stuff going on. It rarely has anything to do with anyone else and, sometimes, some of it needs to be taken care of.

We have a lot of good friends and a lot of "well wishers" whom we truly appreciate. We have also taken a "breather" from a very active social life. We are just chillin', reconnecting and "tinkering" with our health, menu options and lifestyles. We hope to be happier, healthier and maybe a little wiser come spring.

It's sort of the same thing as taking the family car in for a check up. Right now we have the hood up and she's checking my dipstick. Later, I'm hoping to grease the ol' rear end. Before long we'll be, once again, cruisin' down that endless highway of life . . . or parked in the tow away zone at WalMart.

That's Life, huh?

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