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  My new journey is continuing......I just joined a group on this website, but haven’t added anything yet to the conversation.  I noticed one of the topics is something like ’Something New I’m Doing In My Life’....assuming they mean in my new single status ife......and as I read through what a few of the other members had written I realized they are much farther along in their ’new’ status than I am.  They’re talking about their more recent travel experiences...or their newest social interaction, etc.  I’m thinking of my new experiences as being things like ....talking with a vinyl siding salesman and deciding on whether or not to spend that kind of money....finding out what fascia really is and whether or not the salesman is bluffing me or does it really need replaced......making my own choices as to whether or not that sound in my vehicle is an okay sound or not.  Not that the other group members don’t deal with those decisions everyday, too, but these are the things that seem to top my decision-making list these days.  And don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I dislike dealing with these type of things....it’s just a little different for me.  And it’s also not because I am the type of person that would have let my husband make these decisions....nope, because in my married life he would’ve just put it off because he didn’t want to spend the money to maintain the house.  That’s why all of these type of things are on my plate right now.  And I feel good about it!  In the last year since our separation I have felt like a repair tornado in action :)  I say that in a very positive way because it’s felt good to get this little home back on its way of feeling like a good place to live. 

So yes, I will contact this vinyl siding salesman again soon and arrange to have new siding installed...WITH the upgraded blanket installed as well mind you!.....and when it’s done I’ll sit back and enjoy the fact that I made the decision myself...that I incurred the debt myself....and I’ll move forward again....onward and upward.  I love life and I love myself.........for the first time in a very long time.....it feels very good.  It’s amazing what new vinyl siding can do for ya!