Life as a 60 year old Gringa

Yes, I still feel like an expatriot, even though I'm living and working in Arizona. I dream about my casita and my beach while I'm saving lives and watching the temperatures plummet. (Yes, plummet, I live at 6400 feet).

So my boy Obama won! There IS hope! I could NOT abide the thought of that other person being our President.  I wore my old button "Hot Chicks Dig Obama" to the polls, but they made me take it off.

So LIFE as a 60 year old Gringa bears some soul-searching. I actually LOOK better than I have in years, thanks in no small part to weight loss. Which ALSO in no small part was due to no effort of my own: I do not eat much. I drink gin after work, 2 big ones, then go to bed. Sometimes I eat lunch at work, IF someone else goes out to get it, and IF I have time. Never breakfast, rarely any supper more than a corn dog and a Klondike bar or Twinkie, I just bought this T-shirt: Klondike Bars now come in Dark Chocolate, Mint Chocolate, Heath, Reeses, and Double Chocolate!

Currently, I'm on Worker's Comp disability after a mishap at work: I slipped in a puddle of liquid at work and re-wrecked my bad knee. Found out today NO SURGERY! PT and light duty, great news! Although "light duty" at this job may be an oxymoron...

For 7 years now we've been living on Ron's Va disability and SS disability, and while it paid all our bills, there wasn't much extra. There is now, and I'm really enjoying being able to pay bills WHEN they arrive (really new!)  and buy things I want. It feels really great and luxurious to SEE! BUY! after all those years. I get occasional complaints from my other half re: this, but his idea of "necessaries" does not exactly mesh with mine... To wit: these boots are NECESSARY! Why is he reading my emails anyway? I don't read his...


Etsy, $55, including shipping!
 

Mi amigas favorito, (Delfie, Jan, Karen, Bette Sandy Sue, Jill and Joan), are all in or en route to Kino as we speak. I am SO jealous! I am absolutely homesick and devastated that I'm here while they're there. I'm feeling secure in their love and wishes I were there with them, know that it's just a short delay in the grand scheme of things, and in any event,  I will be there for two weeks in December to reconnect and catch up. And have a blow-out 60th-Birthday-Party! And I'll wear my new boots!