Bon.

Je suis revenu!

Et, je pense, j'apprend que la vie est ne pas toujours simple.

But what can you do?

So - what the hell's been going on, you wonder? (Or, maybe you don't!).

Here is life in a nutshell:

1. Just before I had summer holidays, I learned my temporary replacement job was going to be posted, so I sat anxiously awaiting the posting. (It didn't get posted until mid-August).
2. When the job was posted, I applied, then had to await the result.
3. While waiting, on September 4 in the evening, my mother fell and broke her hip.
4. September 5th, my brother and aunt came over to help convince my mother to go to the hospital.
5. They kept her in, and she had surgery for a broken hip on Thursday, September 7th.
6. She's been recuperating at home, but it is hard on my to keep taking time off work (I found out I had the job on September 6th!). 
7. But now - my brother took her for an X-Ray - and she's back in the hospital. The pin moved, and I feel guilty, like I should have known she was slowing down. I mean, I did feel she was not doing as well. It was after her first physio I felt she slowed down....

So, that brings us to today. Yep, number 7 occurred today. And I'm tired, I will admit it.

But tired. That is my current mantra. 

I. Am. Tired.