Time and tide wait for no man. – Chaucer.

There are so many great quotes and this is definitely on the list. We are always “going to”. We are going to get together. We are going to relax. We are going to take a trip. And on and on and on it goes. Jeff and I were going to do a lot of things but that list ended on 1/14/2017…..or did it??? Jeff and I had our retirement all figured out. We were going to travel. We thought about seeing the US in a motorhome but then I decided we might be better off with 2 small ones. We could park side by side, sightsee during the day, have dinner together and then retreat to our separate vehicles……Hey! I was just trying to save someone’s life!! I guess, the thought of being together that much in such tight spaces scared the crap out of me!! That is because Jeff and I were pretty much opposites. The easiest way to sum it up is that I’m the 1/2 full part while he was the 1/2 empty part but together we made a full glass!! OK, back to the list…….I thought when he died so did my list. After 2 years of Susan mandated mourning, I pulled my head out of my arse and decided I could really do it. Not necessarily with him but definitely for him. The one thing that I set out to accomplish was an NHL game in every arena. I deleted any that we had previously visited and started the “Official Bucket List” tour. Philly was easy….I had season tickets. Then came The Coliseum (that’s got funny stories attached, just ask Evan), Madison Square Garden, and Capital One Arena. I had tickets to the Devils but freakin’ Covid changed those plans! Over the past three seasons I have added PPG (at least one Flyers game a season) and Nationwide. I know this is slow going but I’m going!!! I did some traveling as well. The biggest one was Switzerland, by myself, for a weekend, to go to a Flyers game!!! OK, so I flew by myself. Luckily for me, I have an amazing friend who lives in Switzerland so once I got there…… I often sit thinking about how things were supposed to be. I had a plan, Jeff had a plan, we had a plan but we all know what they say about best laid plans! I have decided that I am not going to wait for time nor the tide because as the saying goes, neither will wait for me! I try to see people when I can. I try to do things when I am presented an opportunity. I try to limit regrets on the daily. Does that mean it all gets done? No!! Do I do things that I probably would have never done before? Yes!! Are things different than I had expected? Yes! Is that a bad thing? No! I am still breathing for a reason. Do I know the ultimate reason? No, but I do know that I am still on this earth to accomplish something. Maybe it’s the NHL thing, maybe it’s seeing a place I fall in love with and eventually move there, maybe it is just as simple as God can’t figure out where to put me when that time comes. I have no idea why but here I am and I am going to live!!! It’s not the same…..but that’s ok!!!!