Death and Taxes.

Ugh.

I am getting my financials in order for tax time and it's overwhelming. I have to send in my medical bills and get only 80% back, so the other 20%, I have to prepare for the accountant so I can get that back. Sheesh.

The weekend can not get any closer!

I am also trying to find some of the donation slips, gas reciepts and oh, ya, the schooling that I took back on September for the EMT Course. Gahhhh....

I am also preparing to meet the cast tonight at a church who houses 1900's costumes and may have to sign my life in blood if we decide to take them. We are meeting about 5:30 and then from there, I have a performance to work at tonight...which, I am assuming that I will have to help in the bar....sigh.

The weekend can not get any closer.

I am also counting down the days to Mexico and its painful, there are so many sleeps left before we leave.....Wahhhhh.

The weekend can not get any closer!

Tomorrow I have play rehearsal with the cast, and that my friends, is going very well. I have the lighting sorted and the music picked....and the cast MUST be off script by February 9th.

There is this one little guy Gene, that is my little gopher. He is new to the theatre world and is just so enthusiastic that I want to hug him and smack him at the same time. He fills in for those who can not be there, he bounces from back stage props to prompting. He is really a cutie.

This weekend, I have to get down to business though and get my tax stuff in order. I want to send it in as soon as I can so I can get it over with as this will be my last year that I still have divorce crap hanging over my head. Man, I have been seperated from Millertime for 5 years and divorced for 3 and it still haunts me....and I was the nice one! HA! Won't evah be doin' that again!

Meantime, in the nut house, all seems to be coming together for me and I may be able to get a year pass if all goes well.

Buster and I are getting along famously and I am really latching on to his daughter, who is pretty cute, if truth be known. As for my family, well, I still am sticking to my motto "you can't change others, you can only change yourself", so, things are still basically the same.

The finances are ever so slowly dwindling down and there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel, which pleases me.

Still, the weekend can not get any closer!

Random thoughts all over the board.....you'll get used to it!

Not cured yet!

Packing up.

Buster is heading back up North to Wabby World for work and is he done packing for Mexico?

I'm not sure, but I am!

I have packed as light and airy as possible.

I have packed a couple pairs or shorts, a couple sun dresses, some evening wear...black of course, some shoes (and I am only taking 4 pairs with me!! I'm so proud of myself!) and do I bring the blow dryer? I was glad I took it to Vegas because the hotel we stayed in didn't have one? WTF?

Anyway, what were we, oh yes, the blow dryer. I'm thinking I should take it.

My make-up, sunscreen cuz this pasty white girl burns! and face moisturizer. Moisturize ladies..that skin isn't getting any younger!

I have also packed another duffle bag to bring home goodies in. I should take up some candy for the kids and make-up samples for the maid service....sigh, am I missing anything? Oh yes, the bathing suits. One piece for the jet ski and other activities and the two piece for burning in while laying under the umbrella with my floppy hat on.

Yes, I think that should about do it.

Did I forget anything else?

No more!

I don't want to see it, please, please don't let me see it anymore!

I am so sick and tired of seeing overweight females with lowrise jeans on. I am so sick and tired of seeing the disgusting overweight muffin top flowing over the already too low jeans. I am grossed right out if the truth be known!...and maybe they aren't that fat but their clothing choices make them out to be! I don't know, but I do know that enough is enough!

I am sick and tired of seeing the too small top on the too large body with the too low rise jeans. Do their friends not tell them! I know mine tell me when something looks good and something does not!

I am sick and tired of seeing the obese women in these clothes! Don't they know that the lowrise may be in for most but not for them! Don't they know that Penningtons and Reitmans have fabulous plus size clothes? Gahhhhhh!

Where is Stacy and Clinton when you need them? Where are the fashion police when you need them?

Christmas

My Christmas experience this year was a good one.

I spend from the 22-26th with Buster and his family.
I have never experienced so much Ukranian food in my life and was. it. good!

I was a little nervous going into this meet the family thing, after all, Buster has only ever met my mom, let alone the rest of the family, he has however, met Wilma and Bruno and they have given me a thumbs up and they are about as close to family as they can get in my books....but still I was nervous.

I was welcomed though with open arms and soon warmed up to Aunts, Uncles, Brothers, Sister, Mom, Dad, Cousins, In-Laws, kids....you name it, I was broke in. They also discovered that I can play a mean crib game! I love crib...and am not fussy about food choices! Yes, I do like to eat and try new things.

From there I went home from the Dec. 27-January 3rd. I needed to go to the Doctor. I was racking up various ailments, but was waiting til I got home and hoped I stayed together long enough to get there to see him....I unravelled at the Doc's office and was told that I still needed to be on my happy pills and that I had an ulcer, a sinus infection and a torn rotator cuff...WTF? What did I do to get that...I have no idea....but anyway...

I managed to get well enough to go out on the 31st. I headed to Spy Hill with my cousin and a best friend to see the cousins husband play drums in a band for a girl who won the star search contest for the local radio station. It was a great time.

The week at the farm was good, we managed to winterize the barn, bring home the main herd of horses to start feeding hay to, and we attended a few house parties.

I came home on the 3rd, welcoming the thought of work. Now, things are back to normal including my eating habits...although there is Mexico in a few weeks...

Hmmmmm

Mexico or bust

My chicken mystery remains...

On Janusry 29th, Buster and I head to Mexico. Can he handle my stupidity and quirkiness for a whole week? I guess we will find out! Wilma and Bruno are used to me rambling all the time but will Buster?

We are staying for a week at Decameron Los Cocos just outside of Puerto Vallarta. All inclusive and more weight I will gain. Why? Because the a la cartes are Seafood and Mexican!! YUM!!!! I am hoping to do some boogie boarding, matini drinking, pina colada sipping and tequila shooting! I also want to maybe get in a horseback ride, fishing and zip lining? Jet skiing and tanning. I am looking forward to nightly entertainment by the performers and Buster!! (haha) and am looking forward to the daily activities at the pool and on the beach.

Ahhh, so much to do...not sure what exactly Buster wants to do but I'm sure we can work his wants in too!!

I have packing to do and am gonna throw in an extra duffle bag, just in case! I just love the pottery. So many bright cheery colours...makes me smile.

Actually this whole trip/prep is making me smile. I think spending the week with Buster is gonna be great! He always makes me smile and I haven't laughed this much in a long, long time. I laugh with him about as much as I laugh with Wilma and Bruno and thats....a good thing!

Mexico...get ready!

Where's my chicken??

A few months back I had in my office, a bird that you squeezed and he chirped. Well, someone here at the college swiped him.

When I came back from Christmas holidays a couple of days ago, I had hanging on my wall a chicken calendar....it too is gone.

If someone is playing a joke, it is no longer funny. If someone is in my office when I am not here, it is scary.

Maybe its a ghost...highly unlikely, maybe its a gremlin, thought I doubt it, maybe its a fairy, I don't see any fairy dust...I don't know who or what it is but I would like it to stop now, cuz its starting to freak me out.

Gold 4 Cash - CROOKS!

I decided to send in my engagement ring and band to Gold 4 Cash. I took them in to Peoples to get them appraised and they were worth over $2200.00

I emailed this company for the package AND you have the option of sending $10 in the package if you want them to call you with a quote. If you don't like what they quote you, then they will send your gold back to you. I didn't bother with this option because I thought if they send me even $500 I would be happy.....they sent me $100.00 cheque!!! I was stunned AND in the memo it read "scrap". I was sick.

I immediately called them and asked them WTF? The dude on the phone told me that they are a scrap metal company and I was lucky to get the 100.00! I offered to send the cheque back to them and/or tear it up and would they send my rings back to me and I would pay for it. NOPE! Not an option. Did I mention I am just sick about this.....

Yup, another learning curve in life, if it sounds to good to be true, just keep walkin' cuz it is!

So, if you plan on using this company in the future...DO NOT. You would be better off to go to your local pawn shop to hawk your valuables because this company, this Gold4Cash Company, they are nothing but crooks, and con artists!

$1800.00 back....my ass!

Bringing in 2010

2009, was quite a year. It is bitter sweet. I ended a terrible, unhealthy relationsip to a boy who is and always will be a bully, manipulator and a controller. Out of that crazy time, I realized just how much a person can go through, just how much a soul can endure before the breaking point.

I have been lucky enough to have family and friends to haul me outta that mess and get me help and support.

By the end of 2009, my luck changed for the better. In August, I joined Eharmony and met Buster Brown and haven't looked back since. He makes me happy, and I am smiling all the time, which I haven't done in quite awhile. My family and friends are still there for me and now know when to give me a pep talk and when to give me a pat on the back.

Now, I am surrounded by good people, I have rid myself of any bad karma and have now started to listen to "that gut feeling".

This Christmas I spent it with Buster and his family and enjoyed myself immensely. I met all sorts of relatives and neighbours with good hearts and great humour side by side. I then went home and had a belated Christmas with my family and celebrated the New Year with my cousin and her hubby and a best friend (that I have known since kindergarten) at a dance in another little town 40 minutes away.

I think the "2009: The Year of Being Me" was a good year. I discovered many things about myself....and I like me.