Getting on with it

I know. I've been lax keeping up this blog and you may be wondering how I am and what am I doing. Well, you know the old saying: no news is good news. It's true. Life has gotten back on its track and I am trying to go with the flow.

This 9-5 routine takes up a lot of one's time. I haven't done it for years and it's really interesting how fast one forgets the daily grind: early to rise, the public transportation crunch and 7 hour sit by the computer, then the transportation crunch backwards, and when you get home, you can start your own day - cooking, socialising, living. It's pretty full on. I can't imagine how I raised Tunde, built the house in Takoma Park and did everything else. People here think I do too much, but when I think about how much I did 20 years ago, I get tired just from the memory.

So, I am not trying to reinvent the wheel and go back to the stresses and strains of life as I knew it before, but I am trying to get on with my 'new' (post cancer) life while staying financially independent.

One of the interesting aspects of all this is that I prioritise things differently. Whatever interests me goes in the calendar and I make arrangements with friends to do things as before. However, if I am tired, or the weather is awful, I just cancel without feeling guilty. I guess one great plus of the post-cancer age is a guilt-free life. It's rather nice.