Autumn goodbyes

It’s always sad when a coworker who you were good friends with leaves. This past week I said goodbye to Mel, my coworker who left to move to another state. Her and I started this job at the same time together, one year ago.

Most of us who work with her, thirteen of us, went out for dinner/drinks after work on Wednesday. It was a great time – but I am really, really going to miss her! I’m really sad!

Unfortunately though, I’ve been through a fair amount of times when you’re close friend at work leaves the job. It’s great when they still live in the same area, so you can still hang out outside of work. But it’s awful when they’re moving far away and you don’t know when, or if, you’ll ever see them again. You just have to be thankful for all the good people in your life because you never know how much time you have with them.

I recently saw that my downstairs neighbor moved out. I’m a little sad about it. Normally, I don’t really care about when neighbors leave. But this woman who lived below me was really cool. She was possibly in her fifties or maybe late forties, she was super friendly and nice. I didn’t run into her often, but when I did, sometimes we would just end up talking for a really long time.

I’ve been living alone, so it meant a lot to me that I could have someone in my complex who I felt safe and comfortable with, especially if I ever had an issue. She was the best apartment neighbor I’ve ever had. I didn’t even know that she was moving out and I must’ve been gone while it happened because I never saw moving trucks or anything. I just came home one day and saw the apartment was empty.

It doesn’t matter too much now — because I’m moving out too. I’m not going very far though.

I’m going to be moving to a new complex and living with Kevin. I’m really excited about it and can’t wait! After living together for a couple years, and then living apart for a couple years, we are moving back together again — I know it’s kind of silly! But life is funny like that. Life pulled us apart but it also brought us back together again.

This month has brought so many changes and it’s still only the beginning of October. Autumn is going to bring a lot of huge shifts.

Oh yeah, and my foot (fifth metatarsal to be exact) is still broken. I’m still wearing the boot. But I’m feeling much better than I did three weeks ago. Slowly but surely, I’m healing. I’m still wobbling around quite slowly, but the pain has significantly eased.