Wasn't quite sure what direction I wanted to write in tonight. The news of the plane crash is still working its way throughout our community. Wichita is like a big small town. It's unique. It's also the Air Capital of the world - we build the aircraft here. Lots of airplane expertise and love. This loss was especially hard.
Jake and Julia are aircraft babies. They would not exist had I not been covered by excellent health care coverage during my pregnancy. My husband was employed at Cessna/Textron when they were born. I married into a family of aircraft workers - crew chiefs.
Yet aircraft as a career is unstable (for reasons like these and political economics) and when facing the extensive medical needs of the kids - my husband changed careers into natural gas but there is still an enormous fondness in my heart for aircraft manufacturing.
I was going to attach some background photos, just can't seem to find them on this computer tonight. I like the idea of daily writing but I need to set time limits for this project. I had a long day at work and am tired. I can admit I've been emotionally drained on this subject. It bothers me when preventable tragedies occur.
My blood pressure has been higher again. I'm not sure if it's because of the new running routine or something else. Now I'm wondering if I should have pushed the doctor for a different drug or to adjust the dose because it was high at the office too. We had a discussion but overall it was trending down from all of my other readings. He told me it'd take another month before I'd see the full benefit and that it was best to slowly let it adjust. But today at work I was walking around with blurry vision at times and that was scary. So I'm feeling a little bit of personal doubt and frustration.
Am very happy it's the weekend. The temperatures are supposed to be comfortable.

Although I probably won't do anything fun. I'm fairly certain there is something wrong with my car's tires after all the ice/snow. So I have to figure that out. I 'might' have hit a huge pothole once the snow melted. The streets were a mess. I didn't see it until it was too late.
Other cute things - loved these from the kids. It was Kansas Day and they drew buffalos.
It's difficult for them to draw. These are pretty good.


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