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Cold, cold go away

Monday, January 11th, 2010

And I know all my family and friends in the North are going to say “what are you complaining about,” but I really am tired of this cold weather. I want my 40s back thank you.

I would like to express to all those who are gritting their teeth and turning away saying she’s a wuss or something of that nature. I have lived in three different types of climates in my life in three different types of areas – completely land locked, northern but by the water, and southern by the water.

Colorado had nice winters. Yes it snowed, there were blizzards, but the cold was just that cold, it didn’t have the added chill that comes with the humidity in the air. I hated winters in New York – hated! The cold and the snow, no, I just can’t think of that as being “warm” or better than anything else. But the cold weather in the south, it just doesn’t get out of your bones. It has been below the 20s at night, one night we were one degree away from tying the record low, and while it’s not as “cold” as -7 degree I would much rather be up north in -7 degree weather than down here with 19 degree weather.

Sooner Rather than Later

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Oh wow. I checked my email and my new computer has shipped I should be getting it the 6th or the 7th. That’s like almost a whole two weeks sooner than expected. The estimated date of delivery was the 19th. So wow!

I won’t be completely up and running until a few days after wards and I may or may not have my personal business files I need to continue work, but most definitely will be able to start new work lol. So by next Monday I should be back to making some money. I guess it’s time to clean my desk off and find homes for the stuff on it, and start working on my design resolutions or more like business plan for the year.

3.5 days left

Monday, December 14th, 2009

There are only 3.5 days left of Shea working. Then he gets two weeks off. It’s pretty cool that he gets off the time but he’s only paid for like 3/4 of it. So it hurts but it’s nice.

End of the year sucks. It brings with it so many worries and so many financial concerns. The house land taxes are due, the car tag is due, have to file taxes. So very not a fun time of the year.

The holidays are always good though. My only concern is that we aren’t going to get to see Shea, Sydney and Gabriel for more than the 20 minutes we did last week. It’s really a heart breaker, and it really did break the girl’s hearts they didn’t get to spend more time with them. I can only hope they’ll stop by again sometime before Shea has to ship out again. He’s leaving in five days so the odds are not in our favor.

I really do hope they understand that they are part of our family and that we really do want to spend time with them. We want to know what is going on with their lives. That we aren’t going to make judgment on what they do, where they go or who they do it with, we just want to be included in their lives. Not to find out the backwards way, like they are sneaking around behind our backs. We just want to be involved.

I feel really bad that Shea’s not going to be able to see much of his grandson as it is.

All I can do is wait and hope things turn out for the better. Nothing more we really can do. As with all things in our lives.