To Anon...

finally, an anonymous comment that isn't spam! I almost deleted it when I checked my mail...I think I'm in a better place emotionally. The instability, the not-knowing, the politics about this whole thing will drive anyone insane. I kept thinking to myself that things would eventually get better, I can't continue day in and day out feeling sorry for myself because you know reality will set in eventually. I've accepted that we can't go back, but I made no change just to move on. I was just empty for awhile I think. I didn't want to get attached to Houston or anyone here, I didn't want to make any commitments here because they would easily be broken if we had to leave again. I would love to move back home, but after being spoiled (and I mean literally spoiled) for the past month just living here, the quality of life is so much better. I've known there are other things, better things outside of New Orleans because I was not raised in New Orleans and almost forgot what it was like actually living in a nice area with low crime, better school system, even better customer service when you just go to the McDonald's down the street. I think I'll miss mostly the food when I leave... And as we all know, it'll be a long time before we can go back to what it was, and that basically means just selling yourself short. Yeah it was home for a lot of people, it my home for almost 8 years, but who wants to go through this again next year when another hurricane hits and we're in the same position again...they did say this "cycle" of hurricanes will last for the next 20-25 years, and they may get even worse than Katrina. I don't think we can actually go anywhere in the world that won't have some kind of natural disaster, I mean Colorado has tornados and blizzards...so of course we're taking that chance...but atleast they aren't at devastating as hurricanes. So to answer your question, I'm not experiencing up and downs, but not quite happy yet...getting there.