I try to be happy, but sometimes it is hard. When I am around people I perk up, at work I perk up as I work with the students. College level, but certificate class... students of all ages, all backgrounds... some are worse off than I am and that help me forget my problems... till I stop at the end of my day and my feet let me really know what they think about all that walking, getting up down stuff. Some days it is hard to get going, but once I do... I move OK. I am allowed to wear loose shoes and sandals, with socks, so that helps.

Would love a dog, but cannot afford it. I did get a 10 gallon fish tank and have 3 fan-tailed goldfish who are always starving... as least that is what they want me to think. But after cleaning that tank totally today, removing all the gravel and having just the large glass balls... it is finally clear water. They will not be able to convince me they need all that food as so much was in the gravel.