So this is how it feels to be The Cool Kid? in A New Beginning

Sometimes I still can’t get over how outgoing and, well, popular I am now, at age almost-sixty. I was an extremely, painfully shy child and teenager and pretty much the same as a young adult. I don’t know why! I just seem like a totally different person now. I love to be in the limelight. I love to be the center of attention. That is such a far cry from being shy! I just love being the way I am now; it is so much EASIER. I used to feel so awkward, so out-of-place. Now I feel more like the world was made for ME. I began to change when I was in my late forties I guess. I never sat down and planned it. It just began to happen! I feel like I was given a gift....the gift of MYSELF.
I had a pretty darn fabulous time at the Halloween party. I ended up finding perfect shoes to wear with the flapperish dress. Everyone said my costume was great! I guess I am actually GOOD at coming up with “costumes”! I was just intimidated by some of what I’d seen OTHER people wearing before at our parties! So I didn’t really try; I just assumed I’d never come up with something cool enough to show up in. That was just plain silly!
And ya know, my covenmates are actually pretty fun to hang out with! I don’t know why I was judging them so harshly. Sometimes I just think without really thinking, it seems! Heh. People need to guard against doing that!
I went out-and-about with sister Carol one day and sister Sandy the next. I had fun both times and so did they. I do WISH they would one day become able to do things together again. But that is for them to maybe do something about; not my business at all because it IS none of my business!
The only person I didn’t have MUCH time with was Joe! But we did go to the flea market one morning and out to breakfast the next. That was good!
This is another short entry, but at least it IS an entry. My goal is to JUST. KEEP. WRITING.