It’s Never Too Late – So They Say

It’s a good thing there was only one gown and we had to take turns hopping in and out of it for pictures. Can you imagine a whole slew of us prancing around the room in that getup! It would have been like landing smack in the middle of the filming of “The Penguin” movie. Penguin or not, I do look like a pretty proud graduate with that grin, don’t you think?

And here’s a picture with the person I couldn’t have done it without, sitting beside me, eating a fine dinner. She encouraged me, believed in me and stood beside me as I piled in those 16 University courses in one year.

Good God! 55 years old just graduating and looking at starting a career. Shouldn’t I be thinking about retirement right about now? It was a tough but rewarding year and I’m darn glad I journeyed through it but now the trick will be to go somewhere with it. Most of my efforts lately have been geared towards finding us a home and the whole business thing kind of took a turn and went on the back burner. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs kind of takes over. It’s a little difficult to think about setting up shop when you don’t have a roof over your head.

But now that the housing problem is almost over I have to start looking at where I want to go with this and how do I make it happen? I’ve never been very good at the promoting myself. I hate that part. I’d much rather do the work I want to do and let someone else worry about the researching/marketing part but unfortunately starting up a business doesn’t just happen on its own. Darn details!

Being that our new home is now going to be in Kelowna I also have to wrap my brain around a whole different market and way of going about things. Who knows, in the end it might prove to be the better place business wise. I’m not sure. But one thing is for sure. As soon as we’re set up in our new digs I will be starting on my Bachelor degree with Canyon College. Maybe by next summer or next fall I’ll land another one of those little diploma scrolls. This one I vowed I would pick up in person. Watch out Idaho. Here I come!