September is done. Bring on October

I am so very glad that September has ended. It is the month of contradictions for me. On the good side I left home at 19 years of age, drove across the country in a van with a guy and 2 cats to start my adult life in Calgary in 1975. We arrived during an Indian summer similar to the one we are currently having. We explored the mountains and lived at Restwell Campsite in Canmore like a couple of gypsies. I wish we could have settled in Canmore bought property and we would have been millionaires by now.

I married Sandy on Sept 23,1983 that was a good thing to do at the time. It gave me my 2 girls. I also had a great friend for 9 more years and then 5 years of WTF. In 1989 in Sept I had a mis-carriage in my 2nd trimester. I sank into a terrible depression when I didn't know or recognize what depression was. Every winter after that until I knew what SAD was I suffered. That was one of the contributing factors on my part for the mariage breakdown. That happened in Sept 1994. From 89/94 was a very long 5 years of turbulance.

On the good side again I started my classes at SAIT in 1996 for my library tech training. In 1998 I started my career at Mount Royal College. Every September we watch a newby batch of students arrive and wander around with that dazed but awed look on their faces. 

It is again time to enjoy Sept. This year has been a very blessed year. I had Shauna stay for awhile. I have heard from Laura that she will soon leave work to take it easy before the baby arrives. Glad she has stopped working at the bar and will soon stop at the greasy spoon job. There has also been the most glorious fall weather for everyone to enjoy. 

However I am getting ready for the change in the season. October has always been a good month. There is football, Thanksgiving, Octoberfest and best of all Halloween!