Meets and Greets

The weather wasn't rainy but had turned a bit colder, so I had to don the winter jacket this morning and wound up waiting 10 minutes at the transfer point from the express to the local bus, so that wasn't fun. However, I knew what awaited me at the office - a tasty bagel and lox sandwich with all the trimmings, and tons and tons of meetings with folks I hadn't seen in awhile. That's really my main incentive for coming into the office in the first place, seeing folks including the partners I support (even the ones I used to), fellow exec assistants, pretty much anyone I run into now that we're all in the same building rather than three different NYC locations. It filled my day pretty quickly, and guaranteed I don't have to come in again for the rest of the week as we're only mandated two in-office days a week and I'm pretty beyond exhausted. At least it kept me from thinking too much about how this would have been Mom's 95th birthday had she lived just a few more months. And yesterday was, I think, the 18th anniversary of Dad's death, so wherever my parents are (even if it's just in my heart and memories) they're together now, which is of some small comfort. The candle has been lit to remember Dad and now Mom, and now we move on because time travel does go both ways, but we move only forward in real life and look to our memories and dreams to move backwards.