So, earlier today I was borderline homocidal with my coworker. Believe me, he had it coming. But after a little retail therapy at lunch and time to reflect I have decided to let him live. After all, it could be possible that he did not realize how embarrassing his tone of voice was to me.
Why the change of heart? Well, when I got back from lunch there was a letter for me. Personally.
About a week or two ago while doing family research I ran across a page scanned into the site with profiles of historical families. It had some new, undiscovered information that related to a branch of our family that we were dead ended at. I teased a little more info out online but came up short of a living relative. Phooey!
Then on a whim I did a broader search with another search engine and came up with a possible live relative. I was skeptical that it would pan out since I estimated that he was quite old and living in a popular retirement area but what did I have to lose?
So I wrote a letter to this person outlining who I was and how we were related. I mailed it and tried to not put to much importance in whether or not I got a reply. The letter I had waiting for me when I got back from lunch was a reply from this relative!!!! Yipee!!!!!
He is old and I could tell it was a lot of effort for him to hand write the reply. He passed his daughter's name and addy to me in the hopes that both of our family tree research might come to something. She is, I'm estimating, about my age. I'm sooooooooo over excited about this. I totally needed a plus in my life right now and this is a very good one.
Tonight I'm going to call my sister and do the victory dance followed by a little bit of self promoting and downright bragging. I'll tell her what a clever girl I am for unraveling the tree another few knots.
*sigh*
Today is not a total loss. I've found the Yin to the Yang and can feel the balance of the universe at work.
