He Always Pulled A Rabbit Out Of The Hat! Kick Ass Fighting Depression!

 

Photo of ME ... Gloria Faye Brown Bates  ... when I was Skip's co-driver driving tractor-trailer.  I made the most money in my life, I was very proud to do something most women never got to do. I loved the respect men showed me when Skip would introduce me, his wife and ... co-driver. Skip was proud of ME ... I loved that ❤

8:40 am ... March 30, 2024 ... Easter Sunday

I put a nice pot roast in the crockpot, complete with seasonings, vegetables. Soon a wonderful aroma will fill the house ... that's what I want. This will make Skip feel happy, look forward to something good to eat making today special  ... Easter. Oh! It will make me happy, too!

Holidays have a way of pulling one into depression ... especially in situations like ours where one's health is fragile, isolation, no family ... such things as one grows older. So many changes. 

I am glad I kick ass fighting depression... yes, I said that ... if I didn't,  I would be the most depressed person in this world. I am determined to stay positive, smile no matter the storms. I am going to do my best to weather them for Skip, Camie, myself. I will win.

Skip has been saying he is 'kinda looking forward' to Easter. I was glad to hear him say even that because ... Skip doesn't look forward to a lot since he hasn't been well. I understand him so well. Skip worries about dying ... Skip says he fights to live because ... he doesn't want to leave ME.  The very few people who know him best knows this to be true, he has talked to them. I don't want him to die, leave ME. He is my very Life.

I keep our tree on each day filled with colorful LED lights. They blink bringing life, magic into our daily life. We live a very boring life ... it's okay! I want boring for the first time in my life ... that means my little world that consist of Skip and Camie ... is okay. No chaos, everything is on even keel.

I remember well loving exciting, wonderful times ... perhaps too exciting at times. Especially out west on the big truck ... well ... back east, too! You never knew what was going to happen ... minute by minute be it truck related, human related, weather related. Things really did just happen, happen fast! ... all Hell could break loose ... or all wonderful could happen ... all went better depending on one's reaction to it. The fun part was ... not knowing what was going to happen!

I learned how one minute the weather was perfect ... the next ... the worst possible weather would happen. I was very, very respectful of the weather, gracious! I drove white-knuckled many times ... Skip would be asleep in the bunk, exhausted from from his many hours of driving. I either had to keep driving or ... give up, quit. I drove ... I did the best I could as carefully as I could. We survived!

Too exciting? Yes, it could be. When you are younger, stronger ... you love challenge.  I did ... I hung in there when I thought I wasn't tough enough. Skip taught me so much ... he was always ... cool as a cucumber! He was, still is the ... coolest Dude I've ever known. 

When the going got rough you could depend on Skip's calm manner, quick thinking ... I would always know Skip was going to make everything alright again.  He did ... he always managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat! I always knew down deep he would.