Are you just passing through?

It is amazing how some people just pass through your life and how others stay for the journey. Sometimes it is your journey and sometimes it is their journey. I am feeling a bit nostalgic lately but not sure exactly which life event is causing it. I found out about the passing of a friend who I had lost contact with recently and this reminded me just how short life can be. (she was my age) I also received rather sad news about a family member who has been diagnosed with cancer and be be starting chemo next week.
During January through March I get into this nesting mood and I usually take on a home project or two, cook and bake more, spend weekends in my flannel lounge pants, and dream up new summer ideas. I have been doing these normal rituals but I have also stepped out of my routine and have been checking in with the people in my circle of life. I have gone over to visit some, sent a few Thinking of you cards, and have made a point to spend one evening a week making short "how are you calls". I know I should do these things all the time but you know as well as I do life gets crazy and hectic and before you know it time gets away from you. I have a heck of a time juggling it all sometimes but that is no excuse for neglecting the important people in my life. Any how that is one of the reasons I haven't been posting very often lately. But don't you worry cause the home improvement projects are just about complete (budget will not allow for more) so I will be back here ranting again. Oh, I definitely will be ranting about how if you want to see how compatible you are with your spouse try fixing a leaking faucet together with nothing more than google instructions. ( He is lucky the ground is still frozen so there is no place to hide a body) And just for your amusement it took two trips to the hardware store, the purchase of a new faucet, then a purchase of new under the sink pipes, four hours of quality time cramped in the bathroom, lots of cussing, and the promise that we will never do this again! And if that isn't funny enough I was told by someone today "a new faucet wasn't needed- it was probably just a little rubber washer needed to fix that". This was told to me by one the people I called for one of those "how are you"calls. See, this is the shit I go through trying to be good.............