snow day, our painted garage and sunshine at stafford lake

WOW what a crazy and busy week it has been.

For those of you who don’t live here and didn’t have to ‘suffer’ through what we did I will share…Tuesday evening it started snowing (yes snowing on April 13) and I thought ‘oh okay it will snow for a bit and then it will stop and melt’ Well by bedtime it still hadn’t stopped snowing and I didn’t think anything of it.

Well we woke up to like 8 inches of snow covering everything on Wednesday.

The road reports all said poor driving conditions and apparently most of South and North Lethbridge had lost power overnight. We still had power Wednesday morning. My work called and told me to call them back when I knew what was happening on my end. We I tried calling them back like 15 min later only to have the phone ring and ring and ring (I had totally forgotten that landlines run on power…silly me) Well finally someone from work called me at like 9:30 from their cell phone to tell me they still didn’t have power and to not bother coming into work…so I didn’t. YEAH SNOW DAY!!! I was happy until about 30 min later when we lost power :( which means no TV, no internet and no Wii. So what did we do…we brought out one of our puzzles from Christmas and worked away on that. Nice and relaxing! Josh also went outside and played with Molly in the snow for a bit and then we all took and nice long nap…under lots of blankets because the furnace runs on power too and our house was 16 degrees by the time the power came back on at 4:30. What a crazy day!

When we went back to work on Thursday that just meant we were one day closer to the weekend! And boy was our weekend busy! Friday night we ended up having drinks with some of our neighbors and we all ended up at the local bar (aka hole in the ground) and needless to say the night was a little more than we bargained for…we ended up walking home, lucky it is only like 15 blocks from our house and most of the snow had melted by then.

Saturday and Sunday we decided to push ourselves and get the garage painted. I am proud to say that we succeeded!! We cleaned the entire garage, organized what is in there so we could move the ladder around and masked off the windows, doors and electrical panel. My DH had borrowed a spray gun from work and that made it much faster to get the painting done. It still took a total of over 6 hours to prime and paint, but I am sure that it was faster than rolling!
Sunday afternoon was so beautiful…a stark contrast to Wednesday. We went to Stafford Lake to visit with family and to move my parents boat lift before any more water was let into the lake. All went well and we all had some good food and soaked up lots of sunshine.
All in all it was a great week/weekend!

finally

Things are finally starting to come together. Our garage will be ready for primer and paint next weekend, ceiling texture the next weekend and then install lights and shelves. Yeah!! That means that a lot of the "junk" in our basement will be making its way out to the garage!! Really this is all about me, I know it sounds funny because the garage is my DH's space. Once things start to move out of my basement then I might, just maybe, have some space to organize my scrapbooking stuff so that I can actually work on some things instead of just dreaming about them. I'm so excited I can hardly wait. Oh and I was looking at shelves online at Ikea, they are too cute and would work perfectly for all my scrapbook things. I guess I have waited for 2 1/2 years, what is it going to matter if it takes another 4 weeks. Don't worry, there will be pictures when things are done.

:(

So I love my dog...but last night she came bounding down the stairs as I was bringing groceries in, she ran into me so hard that I dislocated my right knee. This is not necessarily something new, my knees have been doing this for over 10 year, but the difference this time was that my knee cap stayed out, normally it pops back in. OMG I had forgotten just how bad that hurts. We ended up calling the ambulance because it wasn't going back in. Finally, because I was shaking so bad it did go back in, but by that time it had stretched everything so bad. The ambulance took me to the hospital to have it checked out and now I'm wearing a splint and on crutches until it heals :( This really puts a damper on things. I can't do anything, I feel so useless, and being on percaset doesn't help my usefulness. Hopefully this heals fast and hopefully things don't come in threes because I don't want anymore.

ugh

I feel like hell! Had minor surgury yesterday and was fine until about 9:00pm. Then the freezing started to wear off and the pain is ridiculos. I didn't sleep at all last night, was out of bed at 6:30 throwing up because of the pain and the meds and now it is 8:15 and I've already thrown up 2 more times. This really sucks, I can barely move, in so much pain and I'm hungry, but I know I will just end up throwing that up too. Hopefully I can fall asleep and waste the day away and not think about the pain. Just thought I would record how crappy I feel :(

So I know I am a procrastinator, and I know that I can be lazy sometimes, but this blog just doesn’t get enough of my attention. I think I’m going to try to update it more often, but with smaller posts, maybe that will get me going?!?

So Christmas and New Years have long since passed as well as my 26th birthday (oh my, where did 26 years go?) and Valentines Day. Christmas was wonderful and full of visiting with family. New Years was a night to remember only through pictures, spent with great friends. My birthday was also wonderful, had a full weekend of dinners and drinks and visiting with family (minus Jossy and Jared  Miss you guys so much) and friends. We decided to do nothing for Valentines Day, no cards, no gifts, just time spent at home with each other and Molly, and it was just as good as any other year!!

We have done some painting and decorating in our house as well as starting to clear out the clutter! So far it has been going really well. We each have gotten rid of over half of our clothes because they don’t fit anymore (such a good feeling to know that we are both a lot smaller and healthier!!) I love how our house is finally turning into our home after almost 3 years of living here. It is a relief!!

So now it is time for my rant……Sometimes I just don’t get people. People who say one thing and do something else. People who mishandle their money and then complain about it. People who think they are better than everyone else. People who make excuses. People who don’t support their family and friends. People who don’t return phone calls. People who don’t acknowledge other people because they have their heads too far up their own ass to give a shit about anyone else. Why don’t people just take charge of their lives, take responsibility and make a change. What happened to simple smiles, notes and phone calls to acknowledge that someone else is there and that you appreciate that person and the things they do. I feel like I put all this time and effort into making my life better and fuller and to making other people know that I enjoy their company and that I care and it just doesn’t seem to be reciprocated. Why is that? Am I supposed to stop caring?

Now that February is more than half over we have a lot of things to look forward to in the next bit: Josh has a ride-a-long with the Police for recruiting, Josh’s birthday is on February 27, a much needed visit from Jossy, more spring cleaning and hopefully some nicer weather!