The Key

It's been a rough couple of weeks.

Things kept breaking down. A dog learned how to hop a wall. Illness struck. Health insurance stopped due to a mere $15 over the limit. Vacation cancelled. And the stress level rose exponentially.

Consequently, I've been a bit aloof from Ye Olde Blog. It's not that a lot wasn't swirling through my head because, boy, it was. I was just filtering. And sparing you all from my pity party. Granted it was hard, and tears were most definitely shed in abundance, but I succeeded in filtering.

How are things now? Still ebbing. A glimmer of hope was needed. Finally, a glimmer came in a literal key towards happiness.

This key to be exact.

You see, life has been ebbing for quite some time. Short flows have been interspersed, but ebbing has prevailed. During this ebbing, we lost a key to the now broken car. The plastic loop hole was broken, and despite trying to jerry-rig it with an industrial twisty tie, it fell off the key ring. Since it's a certain type of key, you can only re-order through the dealer over just going to Home Depot to have a duplicate made. When you talk about getting items through an authorized dealer, it means money. Why are parts so much more from the company of origin? I have no clue. Either way, the new key was well over fifty bucks. With my ability to lose keys in an empty room, we desperately needed that new key. But being the frugal person I am, I couldn't fathom shelling out that sort of cash for a simple key. So we made do with one. And yes, at times, my keys were lost, forcing us to be late or miss events. Yet adding to the strength of the ebbing motion my life has been taking.

Today, the stream of life decided to take a quick, but strong turn towards flowing. All it took was the discovery of a broken key under a car seat while vacuuming out our one mostly functioning vehicle. Will the ebbing take over this short burst of flow? Time will tell. For tonight, I will rest knowing that a spark of the positive has finally entered our life, and hope that spark turns into a positivity fire.

And how are you all, lovely readers? I apologize for my absence, but have missed you all. Comments will be replied to. Also? Since I'm still in a bit of a funk, I'm trying to get together a Q&A post for the next post--the 100th one! Thus, I sort of, kinda need some questions. Feel free to add it in the comments below, leave it on Google+, Twitter, or FaceBook, or e-mail it. Thank you all. Truly.