If you married someone, you married his family as well. To have and to hold. For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. Till death relieved you of the burden.
- Sylvia Brownrigg in The Delivery Room
October 29, 2009
August 28, 2009
So, I HAVE A HOME PEOPLE! What a relief. I haven’t been there for more than 1/2 hour so far, and that was basically just to get the keys, but it has already changed my whole perspective. As in, after work today I get to go home, to my house. I’m not going to someone else’s house and walking down their stairs to sit in a basement. And there will be a predictable number of people in my house, and they will all be people that I know (well, except for the telephone guy but that’s ok). All I will have in my house is a bed and a couple of boxes, but whatevs! The rest of the stuff should be in by tomorrow night, at which point I’ll be wandering around aimlessly due to being completely overwhelmed, but this too is ok. Making decisions and organizing stuff is NOT my forte people, and when you’re not good at organizing AND have a whole entire house to unpack, things can go sideways really quickly. But again I say whatevs. This right here is probably the best day of my summer. Yessssss. Grammie the dog will also be pumped because along with everyone else, she has been wondering what the hell is going on. So, hopefully we’ve got some form of sanity just around the corner!
August 19, 2009
Noticed that Coop had the results from his test up on his blog so I followed suit and gave the test a shot. 100% introverted? Yikes. Also, not sure I see being a “dreamer” as being a good thing. Weird. I liked this test because it gives you some percentages, which shows that we’re generally not ALL one thing (ok, unless you’re me who is 0% extroverted), and that there’s flexibility in the categories so it doesn’t put you in a total box. Interesting. Take it and email me your results. DO IT. I love reading about people’s personalities.
June 28, 2009
I’m still alive people. So is my dad. At this point I feel like I have been chewed up, swallowed, digested, and – well – shat out. I’ll get back to you after I’ve had some rest.
June 15, 2009
Happy happy Monday. At least it’s sunny and warm. We were in Swift Current this weekend…Dad is doing ok. Nobody really knows what’s going on. They have literally zero straight answers about anything. I’m tired of hearing from people that they know some kind of specialist and that Dad should just come up here. If only it were that easy… So, we wait.
Other than that, things are kind of the same. Nothing much to say this very minute. Lots of thoughts ruminating in the ol’ brain which will eventually make it out through my fingers. I feel like I’m kind of generally negative these days though, so everything seems to have this critical, negative hue to it. I’m tired of the things I say being tainted with negativity and so for today I am going to say very little! I run into this problem where I refuse to pretend, and so when most things are negative and I’m feeling a bit down I have 2 options – keep mouth shut, or be negative. I feel like I’m becoming that person who always has something negative or critical to say and who therefore is best to avoid. ARG! Stick with me my peeps…this ship will eventually turn around. It always seems to.
Well, that was alarming June 10, 2009
What a morning. If you saw me right now, you’d probably be curious about how my hair looks. Was in the shower this morning, about 1/2 done, and the power went out people. This has always been one of my fears – that the power would go out while I was showering when Greg is away. Just so happens he was away last night/this morning, and my fears came true! My initial thought was – oh no, someone is in the basement and has shut the breaker off and now is coming to get me. But, rationality took over and I decided that the truth was that the power was off. So I finished showering in the dark – it’s amazing how little that affected my progress. A couple of times I did peek out of the shower curtain to watch the light coming in from under the door to make sure there were no shadows moving by… Then I had to get ready with no power, so the hair has been air dried and looks funny today :) Weird start to the morning, I’d have to say. I wonder what the rest of the day has in store for me!
June 8, 2009
The weekend is over and I feel like I need rest today. I think the gloomy weather is totally sapping me dry – along with everyone else. Zero energy. Ze-ro. Zero motivation. I just want to curl up under my desk and disappear today. Moods are weird. We’re affected by so much more than what we usually factor in. Lots of times people (including me) think that they’re feeling so “low” or whatever because something is wrong with them mentally, but really it’s just the weather, or something going on in their body, hormones, sickness, who knows. Mind/body/nature – all highly interrelated as far as I’m concerned. So much to factor in. Whatever…my point is that today I barely have the will to keep going.
The weekend was good. Did a bit more work on the house. I have taken people’s advice and have not painted the kitchen yet. Well, of course there are some people who think it should definitely be painted, so it would be more accurate to say I am taking the advice that translates into me doing less work. Cleaned the clean house and mowed the mowed lawn - again …have been doing a lot of that, which seems so futile. Normally, I DO NOT clean until things need to be cleaned, but hey – the house has to look good at all times right now. So it does. We had an open house on Sunday, and it was pretty slow. Had a few people wander through who really liked the place. Show us an offer people.
Yesterday was our 12th anniversary, so we went out for dinner with some friends also celebrating their anniversary. I’m probably so unmotivated today because I ate WAY too much and my body is just trying to work through all of the fat! Well, time to go fill my coffee cup to the rim again…surely coffee can help rescue this day from the land of blah.
Reality bites June 3, 2009
I’ve had to face the hard reality that it is time to paint my kitchen. Right now it is a very bright color, which we like, but I don’t think that’s good for selling. I’ve known this since the thought of selling first reared its ugly head just over a week ago, but for obvious reasons I have not wanted to admit it to myself. People, I am sick of painting! And a kitchen has lots of edges and corners and fun stuff like that. *sigh* Well, I guess you can’t win ‘em all. The paint is ordered and immediately after work I will be edging my little heart out. uuuuuuuuuuugh…
May 28, 2009
Very tired today again…Lots of activity going on at home getting things ready before tomorrow when we put the house up for sale! It is hard to sit at work while I know I have so much stuff to do at home. Oh well! I am tired though, and the last 2 days in a row, I have made some bad clothing decisions. I am waiting for disaster. I’ve got 2 pairs of capris that have 1 button, 2 snaps, a zipper AND a tie. Seriously. Someone is bound to walk out of the bathroom with something undone…Will keep you posted.
April 29, 2009
A friend on Facebook posted something about this organization – Kiva. It’s this website where you can go and make a small loan (as little as $25) to an entrepreneur in the developing world. From what I understand, you get your money back in 6 to 12 months. I never know for sure if these things are on the up and up, but on the word of my Facebook friend I’m going to give it a shot. It’s $25. If I lose it I lose it…that’s not the point. If it actually gets to an entrepreneur in another country that’s amazing! If the $25 eventually returns to me, I’ll try a bigger amount. Clicking on the thing below should get you to the website.
