I'm still here...somewhere...

Wow...it's been almost a year since I wrote something here?? So much has happened. Where do I start - I guess the best place to start is here, today and work backwards. I've learned that some times you have to go backwards to go forwards.

Let me give you an example and if you know me this will make perfect sense to you. If you don't know me, this will give you a glimpse into the way I think so here goes.

I'm staying at my late brother's place [why they say 'late' I'll never know...what is he late for?? - seems to me he's right on time - the Lord's time for returning home]...anyway, we had ripped out the carpet and have been organizing and disposing of things for about 6 months now and I'm sure you can imagine how dirty things can get with all that going on. So...one day I need to have a shower and don't want to lay the clean bathmat down on a dirty floor because sure as shooting my clean wet feet will still somehow end up on the floor instead of the mat so off I go to grab the Swiffer and clean the floor. Okay so now the floor is dry mopped and wet mopped and I want to hop into the shower without having to wait for the floor to dry - here's where the going backwards to go forwards thing comes in - stay with me here.

How to I get across the floor without tracking in dirt from the hallway floors? I lay the bathmat down on the clean floor at the entrance to the bathroom, take off my dirty flip flops and walk to the far end on the bathmat. I turn around facing the doorway I just came in through and, bending down, I take hold of the back of the bathmat, draw it up toward my feet and lay it back down creating a fold in the middle of the mat - from the side it would look like a squished 'S'. Now I step to the back edge of the folded mat, get upon on tippy toes because I will NOT step on a cold, wet, tiled floor in my bare feet and I turn around so now I'm facing the front edge of the mat. I bend down, pick up the front edge of the mat and stretch it out on the floor in front of me. Then...you guessed it...I walk to the far end of the mat turn around, bend down, pick up the back edge of the mat and make a fold in it just like before. I step to the the back edge of the mat, get back up on my tippy toes [calf exercise, right?] turn around on the back edge and do my folding magic again! Next thing I know I'm in front of the tub just where I wanted to be. And I got there by going backwards to go forwards!

More to come...I've got a lot to catch up on :)