Sometimes changes aren't difficult. (Thank goodness for that. Not sure how livable life would be if they were all hard.) I was just looking over my list of Facebook friends, updating how I knew each of them, and came across many people I don't talk to now but were a significant part of my life at one point. One of them was my supervisor at the college library. She's awfully nice to me; she gave me a good recommendation letter for a job that applied for (and unfortunately did not get). I saw a picture of she and her daughter, who was one of my roommates junior year, holding some kind of certificate or something. I looked at Mrs. M's salt-and-pepper hair, which she kept dyed a brownish red color while I worked for her, and realized it doesn't shock me anymore.

She was standing next to her daughter, who was my roommate junior year. They were grinning big and holding some kind of huge plaque or framed certificate. I wondered what the certificate was that they were so happy about. I briefly contemplated asking Mrs. M via Facebook, but decided I didn't need to. It was suddenly clear to me that our relationship had been changing for a couple years and now was changed. Once she had been a confidant; now she was a woman who left a positive mark on my life but I no longer talked much to. I wondered how that had happened and realized that it was just me getting caught up in all the changes of my new life. And that's not a bad thing. Mrs. M is a very wise woman and would probably say to me that that was totally fine, and even expected.

Another cool thing I have noticed just now is that I have a number of very wise older women in my life whom I admire and respect. Mrs. M is one of them. Stephen's mom is another. Women that give me very practical advice; women that are not at all surprised by the turns my life takes, even when they throw me totally off track.

--Ack. I need to go do laundry! We have inspections this Sunday. :S Have to be clean for them so they don't mark us down...YUCK.

-Stephanie

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