The weekend and more...

I actually have the weekend off! I was supposed to go home to help Ruthie Tuesday host the Wheels and Saddles Trail ride but with her in and out of the hospital, and check ups they moved the ride to another farm...which is kinda nice..less strss for mommy and less stress for me.

My friend G-girl and I are heading tot he greenhouses tomorrow to pick up flowers, then Sunday is her birtday party bash.


I am also going to be cleaning the little craphole of an apartment up as Ruthie Tuesday and an entourage come on the 8th, but from the 1st to the 8th I am farm sitting at Grace's....so, I need to get the little place whipped up before they get there.

I have been thinking alot about moving from my little apartment. I miss my dog so much. Since the house has been put on hold with Legs, this means one more stinkin Christmas in the apartment and another year will have passed without my dog Effie. That means 5 rotten Christmas' without my dog and in that apartment.

The more I think about it the more depressed I get. Never in my wildest dreams did I think at the age of 38 I would be where I am. I hate it.

I have seriously thought of moving home. My grama's house is being rented out at the moment to another couple and eventhough they would have to find another place, I could move into it and pay oh, probably even less rent for a whole house then the shithole I'm in now. The trouble is, that I love my job here. Although, they are building a new hotel on the highway at home. But in another sense, I am really getting to know people here and I have started a new theatre group and am president of this and that...ohhhhh, I don't know.


I just really feel "stuck".

Somebody put me outta my self pitied misery.

So.....

So with all that being said on my little rant yesterday...I really can't even call it a rant...anyway...

Things went super at the committee meeting!
Our four noggins came up with some brilliant, brilliant ideas. We had some stunning comments and I think we are set to relaunch this thing!!


YAH!

Today, today is a good day. It is raining here!

We are in dire need of more moisture and by golly its doing its thing out there today.

I just.....I just don't want to see any more snow.

I have my flowers planted and my veggies in their individual little pots. I have scrubbed off the barbeque and am waiting patiently for Legs to bring me some beef. (Poor Steak is heading to the butcher next week - 14 day hang time - then bring him to the barby) YUM!

If I only knew....

So I was in the Queen City on the weekend at a meeting. It was a very frustrating, yet productive one.

Now, I am an organizer as many of my close, personal friends are, and don't get me wrong, I think the girls at the "organization" are fabulous. But after being in the office for the weekend and seeing how things are being "run", well...I was kinda shocked...I think...now my opinion only...don't anyone get their panties in a knot, but I think they have too many irons in the fire and a part time person to run the Auditorium is needed...and we get our girls back to their original job criteria.

We asked them to "pull", if you will the last minutes or any other "writings" for the committee to review so our weeekend could be faster and more productive....yah, we were told that there was no paperwork of ANY KIND!....WHAT?

No documentation that this committee even existed? Bah, you're on crack? There has to be! I was on the board the first time round and I had some documentation but not much. Where are all the minutes? Where are all the programs of previous years? Where are all the inductee bios and forms?

We were told there were none.

After seeing the state of the "office"....well, no wonder nothing could be found.

After the morning was filled with trying to remember all the events and motions that were once made...Just before dinner, I just happened to "zone out" and look behind of the members and see a cabinet with a drawer marked "Hall of Fame"....I blinked a couple of times and then finally spoke up...Guess what we found in the drawer!! Yup! Nothing.

Near the end of the day when the other two members left, Peanut and I thought we might go down to the file room...I was looking around the room commenting on that state of the office when I looked up and saw...yup, the minutes! A binder that said Hall of Fame minutes!

I'm not sure how Peanut felt at that moment, but I was pretty steamed. After all that time, all those hours, all the emails and bantering going on between us and the office staff and there in black, white and yellow were the minutes!

We did go down to the file room and wade our way through the mass amounts of scripts on the floor, file boxes, dust, dinner theatre paraphernalia, cans, bottles, everything stacked for no rhyme or reason from floor to ceiling, we found one lone box of Hall of Fame papers which we immediately took up to the office and filed into the gray drawer of the file cabinet which had our name on it.

I would absolutely donate a weekend if my time to dust, organize and help put away unwanted empty boxes, pop cans, and even in the display case where all the honoured ladies of stage were, contained screw drivers, old name plates, shot glasses....OMG Blanche!...

I just think those ladies are bogged down with too much responsibilites of running the other half of the facility.

I do love them both to death, but really...

Facebook

Ahhhh, facebook.

It really is a networking system.

I am a farm towner...I enjoy pimping myself out at the Markeplace waiting for someone to hire me to harvest their crops.

In the meantime, you strike up conversations with people from all over the world. Yes, I am a talker.

I have gabbed with people from many countries where my morning is their night and vice versa and have even practiced my Spanish on a few of them. I have what is called a buddy list and when your "crops" are ready you can hit the buddy list to see if anyone is online. I use this quite alot and have made friends with three people who I talk regualrly with. One woman who is from South Carolina, one woman from West Virgina and a man from Vancouver who is actually from a town that I used to live in...Punnichy, Saskatchewan! I was on last night and the three of us gathered at my "farm" and we all talked for over an hour! It was great! We laughed, joked and even talked about our healthcare!

Since I have been on facebook I have reconnected with many, many people that I have not heard from in years and its nice to be able to "peek in" on them and see what they are up to and how they are doing, if they are married, have a family, and so forth.

I have an eclectic group of friends and I must say that alot of them are not close friends, we are however still friends and I am grateful that I have the opportunity to get to know them all over again!!

Oh, what a time!

The long weekend was one of thee best weekends I have had in a long, long, time.

After I had the snail intervention, and released the little creatures into the slough, I headed to Wilma`s for an evening of sushi making. Yes, the art of sushi is definately something a person needs to practice...but let me tell ya, they were deeelish!

The company, although most new to me, were wonderful ladies brought together for a wonderful night of wee drinkies, food and comradery.

A few young and a few young a heart, you could tell the seasoned drinkers from the non seasoned ones! A few power naps here and there which was amusing to see....ahhhh, the good ole`days!...wait....from what I can remember sleeping around a bunch of drinkers was not the best idea!

But the night was filled with fun and laughter and really, that`s what counts!

The next day we (Puffy, Wilma and I) were off the the lake to see Bruno and his better half.

When we arrived, it was boat launch weekend. We prepped the boat to glide on to the lake, once that was done, we played poker pool, sang 80`s tunes all night and ate, drank and laughed.

The whole weekend consisted of good friends, music, food, wee drinkies, movies, pool, singing, boating, fishing, tanning! Yes, tanning! and laughs, laughs, and more laughs....AND

THE BET!

Escargot anyone?

SO now that I have most of the drama out of my life..things are slowly turning back to normal..



About 3 months ago I decided to buy a snail for my fish tank. Not thinking they are hermaphrodites, in fact never even crossed my mind until this morning.

I stopped counting at 84 snails in my fish tank.

My poor little frog can't even have any of his food because of all the prolific snails!!! Its outta control!

I have to have a snail intervention before I leave for Wilma's house today.

This is the snail that started it all! Big MOMMA Snail....

In awe.

I am absolutely flippin' wild!


Apparently, I am the cause of the two women fighting... according to the one boyfriend. This is the boyfriend who's only ever done anything once but a know-it-all about it when that particular task it done.

I had a good chat with Stifler's Mom and we are cool and has sorted out just where the problem lies. Our allegiance to each other will always be there, its the third party that was causing problems.

That's it, I wash my hands of it all.

Hmmmm....If I had just listened to the warning card!

....Wilma....

Thank you.

??? of 365

1). Weenies cooked black on the barb-q.

2). Work= paycheck

3). being able to leave work and avoiding the people I hate.

4). Calling my mommy

5). being, once again calmed down by the Cuz.