Wow.  If you thought there was a lot of time before my last two posts....LOL.  I actually half forgot about this blog, but I just thought of it and wondered if it was still available online.  Yep!  I went through and read all my old posts.  It's cool to look back and see what was going on in my life during that period.  Kind of a public, permanent diary.  Ha ha.
A LOT has changed since my last post.  Some of the changes had just begun at that time and set me in a completely new direction, but I kept things private at the time and it was a very painful period for me.  Basically, just as we were moving into the retirement home we had spent more than a year planning and six months constructing, my husband decided he wanted out.  Long story short, there was someone else.  At the time I was willing to forgive and just wanted to work things out.  In hindsight, WTF was I thinking!?  I held on for a while, but finalized the divorce after about a year and a half.  It was very hard to do, but I knew I couldn't move forward and start healing until I did.  I worked part time in New Mexico and went back and forth between there and NM for a couple,of years.  It was great!!  The third year, my company said they couldn't pay travel and per diem any more.  I elected to change to full time, but kept Allissa in the house in Texas since she was in her last year of high school.  I had a flexible work schedule so I still went home to Texas about three weekends a month (although I now had to pay for it.  ☹️). After a while I figured out the best schedule was for me to leave work about 2 pm on Friday, which would get me to Texas around 7.  At first I would return to NM on Sunday evening, but the flights always seemed to be delayed.  After a few times of getting to NM at one or two in the morning and going to work at six, I elected to fly out on the first flight available on Monday morning, which would get me to work by ten am.  Those flights were never delayed and I would just adjust my schedule the rest of the week to make up hours.  It was tough though because I could never really be settled in either place.  An opportunity came up for me to get a job in the D.C. area.  I had always planned on trying to get a job out there at some point, so I thought it was a good idea to at least apply for it even thought I loved my job in NM.  I ended up getting the job and moved to Maryland.  Best decision I ever made.  I ended up reconnecting with someone I knew in the Army and he had had a similar experience marriage-wise.  We started dating mid-2012 and will celebrate our third wedding anniversary next month.  He is wonderful!! They say everything happens for a reason and I guess that's true because I couldn't be happier.