Life has been doing what it tends to do… Time flows by and if you don’t pay attention it disappears. You blink and a couple of weeks are gone.

Thanksgiving happened. There were three turkeys in the freezer and three more came home from work with the boys so the four in the pen are still out there.

November 30 was my parents 50th anniversary. I held the party on the following Sunday so that it didn’t interfere with other people’s holiday plans. The party came out perfectly. I cooked a Cuban style dinner and had chocolate cake. There weren’t as many people as I expected, but they were all good friends. The whole day ended up being about family because we spent the morning sorting through old photos. I liked it better than any fancier kind of party with more people, and I think my parents felt the same.Now I’m back to work. Fighting off a bit of a cold. I figure I’m getting my annual immunity boost. I don’t trust flu shots to cover what’s actually out there, but the general public does a great job at exposing my immune system to everything. I rarely get really sick anymore, and when I do I seem to fight it off fairly quickly.I still haven’t decided my purpose for this blog. For now I guess I’m just working on developing the habit of writing regularly. It hasn’t become a habit yet, but I’m working on it.Another thing I’m working on is deciding what direction my career shift will take. I am torn between digging in here in Portland and heading up to Alaska. Ultimately I think it will be a little bit of both. If I can follow through on my plans for my property up North it can provide some income flow. If I can follow through on my plans for my property down here it could also provide a certain amount of income flow. But neither one can provide all of the income I want in order to hit some of the financial goals I have.I am supposed to be putting out feelers to people in the various positions that interest me. I am supposed to be asking questions that will help me determine which paths are the ones I want to pursue. Every time I think about it my mind goes blank. Part of me says that means I am not ready. The more logical part says if not now, when? It isn’t as if I am getting any younger or any stronger. I am not 20, I am the mother of 20-something children. Time is infinite, but my path through it is not. This is the time to act. So why does it have to be so hard?That is a fraction of what cycles through the background noise of my brain. By putting some of it out into the public I am hoping to make it obvious how weak some of my stumbling blocks are. I never want to put them out there as excuses. It is a daily fight to avoid making excuses and I don’t always win. But I have rambled on long enough for now. This should satisfy my blogging itch for today. Maybe tomorrow I will have something of more substance to say.