My goodness. that seems to be the last thing I posted to FurAffinity, a year ago - a wish for everyone to have a good year. Well, my 2013 was not perfect, especially health-wise, and I lost a dear relative who had many months of poor health before she passed. But I made many more friends, my dear wuffie got to move closer to me and, best of all, my daughter got to make the career change she wanted. So, all in all, 2012 was not too bad a year for me.

I am hoping that 2013 will be a better year for everyone. Do take care of yourselves and of each other. ^_^

Just taking the time to wish all my friends a safe, happy and prosperous new year! May you reach every goal you set for yourself. ^_^

It would seem I have been tagged bu  bootstrap to do the one thing I always feel a bit self-conscious about: talking solely about myself. I MUCH prefer to talk about my daughter and my son-in-law. I have a feeling I will be able to get away with sneaking in a lot of things about them, with a little luck. *^_^*

(1) I was told, when my husband and I were married, that due to certain physiological conditions it would be almost impossible for me to bear children. I wanted very, very much to be a mother, however, and I braved the odds. My daughter is my only child and my dearest treasure. (There! I have been lucky already.
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(2) My daughter and I remain very close. (As you can probably guess. ^_^) There has not been anything that we have not been able to talk about freely with each other. As soon as she was old enough to understand, she knew exactly where she came from. She once got in trouble at school for telling another student what I had taught her. Apparently the teacher felt the student was not quite ready for the facts. O_O

(3)My husband was in the Army, and our family was able to do a measure of traveling around the world when my daughter had finished her elementary school education. So much of the world has changed since then... I am glad I gained the experience at the time I did.

(4)Speaking of my husband... my family was against our getting married as early as we wanted to. I actually was making plans to elope with him. Fortunately, when my parents doscovered my plans and saw that we were serious, they changed their minds. :)

(5)When I myself was younger, my hair was extemely light. It was almost as though my hair made me seem older than I was - it looked as though I had gray hair.

(6)Speaking of my childhood... oddly enough, I often needed glasses to read when I was younger. I rarely need them to read, now - I often need them to focus on things farther away. O_O

(7)My daughter's favorite pet - or, rather, pets... since she has had several when she was younger - have always been mice. She had almost a dozen at one time. And it was initially difficult for me, because, initially...I was afraid of mice! *^_^* Eventually I got over that irrational fear. (I wonder where it comes from in the first place?)

(8)I have told my daughter and my son-in-law that I will no longer badger them about it - and I will keep that promise - but... I do want grandchildren. Very much. Very, very much. I guess I have not used up all of my maternal instincts yet. *^_^*

There! You now have eight true things about my life. I would never tag anyone, that would be against my nature. But if any of those on my friends list would like to take the plunge, I would be delighted! My friends and family - they are the joy in my life ^_^

I had the honor and the delight of attending  burlington and  moonlightmephit's wedding at the end of last month. It was an absolutely marvelous affair, and even though everything the bride and groom had planned did not quite happen as sccheduled it was still as magical as every wedding should be. :) It gave me the opportunity to meet two people whom up to that time I had only known by their online personas and by email, and I was very much surprised by how exactly my impression of them just from those things alone was so accurate. It made me think even more about how tremendously different - and at the same time how completely the same - the world is since my late husband and I tied the knot. We now have so many and so varied a number of ways to communicate and keep in touch with each other, and it often seems as though this plethora of tecnological things threatens to take the place of good old fashioned face-to-face contact. Perhaps in some ways it does detract from the empathic response between living beings. But I also can say for a fact that both the bride and groom were exactly as I imagined them, and exactly as much in love as I was when I was married - in spite of the fact that the only contact I had ever had with them, for years, was the online type of which I am utilizing to write this journal. Perhaps these new-tech things can only augment, never truly replace, the genuine worth of an individual. I hope so. ^_^