BLOG: Amazing Janet
While she can on occasion get me a bit crusty
(usually over hypothetical questions, like today when she said, "What happens if a bank loses it's FDIC rating? Do they have to tell the customers?" and that line of questioning continued until I finally said I did not know. That was 10 minutes later!),
my wife,
Janet is the brightest light in my life.
She has the unique ability to be sweet and cynical at the same time. Example: During our recent vacation at Disney, she was totally in her element because:
A) She is a total Disney freak, Mary Poppins, to be specific.
B) There are so many idiots to make fun of
C) All of the above
Answer, as always, "C"!
Because that's exactly what she's like. One minute, she was like a 10 year old girl looking at all the crap in some overpriced Disney store.
Next minute, like some buddy in a bar, wondering how effective a certain park visitor might take to clean him/herself after a latrine visit on a hot day.
She is just very able to move with whatever mood strikes her as right. She has an ability to take the temperature of a room better than anyone I have ever met. She can fit in and be accepted in just about any setting. Pretty good ally to have on my side.
Just tonight we were discussing some of the possibilities that might await us when I reenter the world of radio. That will entail moving, literally, anywhere the right job might be.
And this is as we are JUST getting absolutely settled in our house in OC, Md, a year and a half after we started to move in fulltime at the beach.
All the details, like getting the cabinets fixed just right, and having the door replaced, and all new storm shutters installed, and having all the boxes totally unpacked and a house that really has three bedrooms downstairs, not just three rooms full of furniture and boxes (the lower level wasn't a pretty sight for a while) and all the rest is finally done.
OK, the electrician guy has to come by Monday to tidy up his work, but it's 99.9% done.
And as we toasted our success tonight in our clean beach house, she was cool enough to roll with the fact that sooner rather than later we'll be packing some of this stuff up and moving somewhere else.
She is actually looking forward to the adventure.
Have U Haul, will travel.
That used to be by dee jay motto back in the real day, when I would jump to the next best job whenever it opened up.
Not exactly the same scenario, but there is that level of not knowing exactly what's going to happen next that has me very excited.
And Janet, too. Even though we finally just are really moved in. I'm glad she's a free soul like me in that regard. She is the reason I'm so ready to take on the next chapter.
d.
November 11, 2009
