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It's New Years' Eve & I'm sitting on my lanai, drink in hand & now-trusty walker by my side, not mourning the pending passage of '05...
Can't say I'm sorry to see it go. I woke up this morning
thinking about the promises '05 seemed to hold a year ago, only to
witness not only my own dreams but thousands of others shattered into a
million pieces during these 365 days from heaven & hell.
At the beginning of '05, my boss & I were starting to
realize the million-plus $ internet spin-off based on the
retail/wholesale business we'd started in '04. That is, we were until
jealousy crept in & I walked into my office on 2/14, only to to
told by the COO that my job had been outsourced & to pack it in. An
hour later I was at home, my present dashed & terrified of the
future. Yesterday I received news that my boss (former president &
CEO for 26 years), who had built the physical business into what it is,
had been booted two days before Xmas — no notice, no thanks, no nothing
— as well as that the woman who'd built their restaurant from a
half-baked $100 grand operation to over half a million $ success had also
been booted recently. Many lifes have been set back by this group of
ruthless, heartless, greedy know-it-alls who are going to do nothing
but destroy what could have been a booming business.
Despite being on un employment, things went along pretty
smoothly — at least until Tommy came back into my life. It was all so
perfect I would have bet my last buck we would have been married (or at
least seriously committed) by now, but then along came Katrina &
tore everything asunder (not just for us, but for all of those who lost
everything). Our relationship has not been the same, the whole dynamic
changed. Don't know if it will ever be able to come back to what it had been...
Tina died in July. Her family & friends, including me, lost much with this sorrowful event...
Then I fell over a sheepdog, broke my hip & had to have a total replacement, which has set everything back even farther.
I had to leave my fabulous new job in NOLA & am now back where I
started. Don't know when, if ever, I'll be able to go back; don't know
if I'll have my job, don't know if I'll have Tommy.
So goodbye, '05. I raise my glass to your departure. May '06
heal everything you wrought & bring back everything you took away,
even though it can't bring back a life taken...
Archives
06.25.2006 — My best friend...
06.16.2006 — Her 50 is the new 30?!?...
06.09.2006 — Laughing my ass off...
05.31.2006 — The quarterback, the linebacker...& me....
04.21.2006 — Two loves...
03.15.2006 — Farewell, dear Maxie...
07.03.2005 — I'll be seeing you...
06.26.2005 — He had me from 'hello'...
05.30.2005 — New York City Grrls...
05.18.2005 — The blog that started it all...
Love's Illusions — poetic musings from the past...
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