Thread:Betty2015/@comment-28694170-20161016111757/@comment-28694170-20161016134758

I spent yesterday with one of my closest friends, Patty. She married a Jamaican almost 3 years ago. She still lives here, while he lives in Jamaica.

Patty brought out the extrovert in me over 12 years ago. I have spent the past decade flip flopping between being an introvert and being an extrovert. My time here over the past four months brought out the extrovert in me again. . . for good. While there may be times that I will still have introverted tendencies, I am having WAY more fun being an extrovert. I am confident that being an extrovert will bring me closer to achieving some of the dreams for my life.

My day with Patty included going for Dim Sum, an impromptu snow ball fight that had us both belly laughing, shopping at Costco, and planning her birthday party WHILE we were at Costco. She was sitting on a bag of dog food while we were on the speaker phone with one of our friends. She currently lives with her parents on an acreage while she and her husband continue to fill out the paperwork to get him here. She made us dinner, and we watched some shows that they had on PVR -- NCIS, Scorpion, and Hawaii Five-O. She made Mars Bar squares, and she even surprised me with a few to take home.

In spite of the difficult circumstances, my time with her lifted my spirits. My Dad and I are both believers. I know where my Dad is going when he dies, and he knows where he is going when he dies. I would much rather he die while he still recognizes us than to have the Parkinson's and his dementia advance to the point that he longer recognizes us. That truly would kill me (and I am not being overly dramatic . . . ☹️☹️☹️).