Shaping a New Identity

1/4 Dinner with Carmen tonight. How I pray that she understands how her life will become much tougher and less secure once she is divorced. I wish Manju would quit showering her with gifts and meals, so she is not thrown into it without some warning of what is to come. Supposedly their therapy session next week will be to fill out the divorce papers online. 1/5 I realized this afternoon after a brisk 10 minite walk at work that I felt a bit less stressed. Not necessarily from the walk. Something else. It is my new assistant at work. We had a meeting earlier and she said she was going to reorganize our digital files. I realize I no longer have the thought of unorganized files just sitting unorganized that caused so much stress. I called her and told her how much I appreciate her help. 1/8 More major info gathering to prep for switch to IIFM 2.0 seemed overwhelming, but sounded better as I went over more instructions. I will start entering info tm. 1/9 I recieved a call from a stake cler...

3/23  Slc to Honolulu. Arrived at 2:30 Hawaii time; our 6:30. We went bed at 8:30; SLC time of 12:30. I got up at 4:30. From airport, went west to  We had joked on the plane about having Malasadas for dinner. Malasadas at Leonards truck.  Spring rolls and garlic shrimp from Thong Thai truck.  Banana Republic outlet looked promising but did not produce any great deals that fir right. Drove through Koolina shopping across from Aulani. Walked around Aulani. Went to Farmers Market that was going on there. Lauren found handmade Harry Potter themed backpack for Avalon for her birthday. I bought local honey w a molasses taste for Lauren s sore throat. And a bowl cozy for Roberta. Drove back west and north towards Laie.  Downloaded the Gypsy travel app we had used in October 2019 when I came w Lauren,  her family and Roberta.  Drove by Buddist Temple, "Chinaman s hat", beautiful waves even far off the beach shores.  I asked Lauren about the lo...