The transition has been painless so far, the keyboard is nice, I am figuring it out. It will take time to move all of my crap, but really, it's so easy so far.

It's, what, 2 more days until 2007? I've been thinking a lot about resolutions, and then I read Crazy Aunt Purl and just shook my head with recognition, because I'm 12 years older and widowed instead of divorced, but we are doing the same thing in 2007.

And Bess is so right that if we quit learning, we die. This is something I truly believe. If we decide we are settled, we are where we are and we know what we know and that's that, we may as well give up and die.

When my husband died there was an element in my life that wanted to coddle me, encouraged me to play it safe, not spend any money, stay in the same job, don't take any risks because You are a Poor Little Widder Woman and you will have no idea how to live without a man. Poor Dear!

I did not follow that advice. And I know how to live without a man just fine, thank you. And after three years, two job changes, nearly doubling my income, increasing my prospects for the future, a new roof and a new kitchen and new landscaping for the house, and a lot of solo travel, and a couple of dates that went nowhere, I think the idea that I should be cautious and sit in my little corner and wait for old age because I am alone and without a man has been safely put to bed. Oh, isn't that a ladylike way to put it? How about Fuck that Shit.

So now I feel ready to meet someone, but I'm not sure there are men out there who could deal with me.

I'm serious about a new blog for the new year. This blog was started in the last few months of my husband's life, and it has grown large and evolved with me, but it's overdue to retire. It's time for a fresh start. I am working on a lot of things at once but I do have high hopes that I'll have a trail of breadcrumbs to the barely finished structure of a new blog by 1/1/07.

It's time for a fresh start and a new focus.