Hooray for Good Self-Esteem!

Even though I have been feeling fat all day (unfortunately there is a good reason for that, but usually I can ignore those 100 reasons) ...I feel so loved and appreciated tonight.  All my swap partners were thrilled with the items I made for them and my husband has spent all evening telling me how pretty, lovable, and talented I am.  If this is what good self-esteem feels like I need to get me some more of it.  Do they make pills for that?

Life's Cruel Ironies

Finally!  Finally after 8 long years of living away from everyone we know and love...and just away from anyone we know at all we are now in a place surrounded by loved ones.  With each year we prayed for it to be the one we could journey off to another distant (or not so distant) land to see new sites and endeavor new experiences.  And with each passing year, there we remained in a...I won't say hellish place, but a place that just wasn't our cup of tea.  Then it happened!  Set free, we fled--even if only a few hours away.  It's been like livng in a whole other world.  As if the dark clouds were dusted away by the hand of God, himself and the sun was finally allowed to shine down upon our heads.  It has been a glorious 8 months.  I have had so much fun here, learned so much about people, myself, my family and now...NOW! the powers that be have suddenly attatined some sense of urgency and seen to it that Here is no longer the place we should remain.  Sad...