The Rest of my Life
Today I am 55. I have just served on my last convention committee. I spent quite a lot of Lent thinking about what my life would look like now - how much I wanted to stay connected with fandom, what I wanted to do on a daily basis, project priorities, health issues, all sorts.
So my birthday present to me today is ... a fridge. I need a fridge because as of this evening I am moving into our "new" house in Halfway. There's a lot of work that needs doing to it, and I will come back here to camp out while that's actually happening. But the garden and sun room call to me, the lack of clutter, of TV, even of a cooker. I'll go to and fro on visits, for laundry and such like. John and I never dated, so we're looking forward to how arranged evenings (and illicit-feeling overnight stays) might work. He is staying here with his Worldcon office and the Cats. We decided it would be unfair to move the boys to a building site, especially as in its current state there are no catflaps.
I like jumping off cliffs, and I haven't done a really big one for nearly 25 years.
So my birthday present to me today is ... a fridge. I need a fridge because as of this evening I am moving into our "new" house in Halfway. There's a lot of work that needs doing to it, and I will come back here to camp out while that's actually happening. But the garden and sun room call to me, the lack of clutter, of TV, even of a cooker. I'll go to and fro on visits, for laundry and such like. John and I never dated, so we're looking forward to how arranged evenings (and illicit-feeling overnight stays) might work. He is staying here with his Worldcon office and the Cats. We decided it would be unfair to move the boys to a building site, especially as in its current state there are no catflaps.
I like jumping off cliffs, and I haven't done a really big one for nearly 25 years.