Today is 5, 6, 7 day!!!

 

……….. where to start?  I’ve been wanting to post something for a few days now, every time something happens I immediately think about how I’m going to “blog” that!!  Unfortunately, when I get the time to sit down and actually post some thoughts, my mind goes blank and I can’t remember what I was going to write about.

 

Let’s put it all in a nutshell shall we?

 

I lived through a rather uncomfortable and nerve-wracking conference call at work last week.  It’s a long story here, but basically I had to prepare myself to put my butt on the line for some of my colleagues in order to bring attention to the management team the idiocy of another manager sitting at the top. The guy is a complete moron and no one will actually admit it!  It’s that don’t-want-to-rock-the-boat syndrome!  But I think I rocked it slightly that day and then Friday the boat tipped over!!  Everything is out in the open now and he is under some intense scrutiny to shape up or ship out.  Personally I’d love to see the latter! 

 

So Thursday and Friday, I was wound up a bit tight, but managed to get through it and hopefully nothing will come back to haunt me.  I’m not perfect myself, so when I am in a situation where I have to point out someone else’s shortcomings, I always wonder what will be my consequences….. or what they’ll retaliate with!  As far as I know, there is nothing to retaliate with….but one never knows!!!

 

Friday after quitting work early, I headed over to the local RV park and set up camp for the night.  Not a normal camping trip …. This was for the Cancer Society’s annual Relay for Life.  As a team, we relay around a track for 12 hours straight, starting at 7PM Friday night and ending at 7AM Saturday morning.  So this year, my daughters and their boyfriends and I all entered a team and we walked for 12 hours straight!  Of course we only walked in pairs, so we were able to have some fun in between our turn at the track…. It’s a fun night, but exhausting.  I always had to walk alone though, since I was the 5^th man!!  But it was okay – the evening was bright and warm and there was no wind and the track is all paved, plus they light the entire track with candles all along the way. Each candle has a card on it stating a person’s name, either in memory of them, or in honor of them.  I bought 5 or 6 of them in memory of my dad – and sold a bunch more for cousin’s and uncles that have had cancer….so it’s fun to walk the track and look for the candles you sold or bought.  All in all, an exhausting but fine night!

 

Then, with no sleep and a half hour drive home, I hit the bed at 8:30 AM and managed to sleep till 11:00.  I got up and drank about a pot of coffee…… the day was sunny and warm and absolutely perfect!  I made up a bunch of planters, I think 11 in total.  Then watered around the yard, pulled some weeds etc….. then about 2:00 had to crawl up on the garage roof and help with the shingling.  By then I was starting to feel hungover – and I hadn’t had a drop to drink!!   But, we did half the garage and finished it up around 7:00 that night.  Of course, there was a little hockey game that I HAD to watch…… and was not disappointed this time! 

 

About 9:30 that night, feeling like I’d hit a truck, I went to go run a hot bath – but for some reason I had to go downstairs - and thank God I did! ……….I found a nice little treat down there!!

The sewer was backing up into my laundry room!!!

 

Nice!!

 

I’ve been awake for far too long to deal with it, so I filled the bathroom sink with warm water, crawled up on the vanity and soaked my feet…… then went to bed!

 

Sunday morning – I had to deal with the sewer situation!  I was more tired than I was on Saturday, I was dirty, I was sun burned from the day before, I hadn’t done the dishes, I needed to do the laundry, and the house was a disaster.

 

Once everything got figured out and the water started draining normally and the toilets could be flushed….I set out to do all the laundry and cleaning and blah blah blah……

 

I did get some time to sit down yesterday between 7:30 and 8:00 while waiting for a load of clothes to dry……. Other than that, I basically came back to work this morning so I could get a rest!!

 

Problem is: Work is fricken busier than you-know-what and I still haven’t had a chance to pee since I got here this morning!!!!!!!!!  

I know there was a little hockey game on tonight, but I had other places to be.....

        Tonight we got a real treat!! 

We saw the "RCMP Musical Ride":

It was pouring rain, there were umbrella's and wet blankets all over the place......

But how can you resist a man in uniform???

It truly was amazing!!

 

And to kick whole evening off, we were entertained by this young man......

 

 

It seems like such a long time since I've posted anything.  Life is a whirlwind on a tornado!  I should be used to it by now.......

Life goes on - in spite of the horrible loss of a loved one, life does go on.....

I have been involved in a fundraising project the past couple weeks too. On Friday I am participating in a Relay for the Cancer Society.  Both my girls and their boyfriends and I are on a team where we have to walk for a continuous 12 hours. It runs from 7:00 Friday night until 7:00 Saturday morning.  I've done this before and it was fun, but I'm really dreading this year's relay.  Its supposed to be raining and I have a ball tournament to be at the next day - which won't be fun!!  Oh well, it's for a good cause, right??

As well, I've been attempting to be a gardener once again!  I buy a few plants every day - and I have a pile of planters to create.  Maybe next weekend I'll get all that stuff done.  I have a patch of ..... land.... that I'd like to lay sod in.  Currently it's the spot that separates my garden from the deck - and it's just a bunch of rocks........ I want to pull the rock back and lay sod there so it's all grass in the back yard.  A lot of work - but it would be SO nice!  I did get the entire garden planted last week - and ran out of room!!  I've never run out of room in the garden before, I have half an acre  - you'd think that would be enough! 

I do love the yard work though.  I hate when it starts feeling like a chore though - it's nice when I can set a day aside where all I do is yardwork.....and I can enjoy it.  Kinda like sex - sex is GREAT - but when it starts to feel like a chore, it gets old REAL fast!! 

And that is all I have to say on that...................

GO SENS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

I should write when I have a chance. It's Monday night and everyone has somewhere to be tonight, except me!! And that almost never happens for me. 

Today was the queen's birthday - or someone like her - which means we get a day off today. Our May Long Weekend. 

Well, it snowed, it rained and the sun only came out yesterday for a couple hours.  It has been a weird weekend, weatherwise.  Today has been rainy and drizzly and now foggy - I think we've had almost any kind of weather you can have - rain, snow, sun, fog, hail, wind and humidity! 

Friday, the day of the funeral, it was 88 degrees - the church was so hot and sticky.  And later that night, we went back to the farm of our relatives, sitting on the deck, the temperature dropped to 6 degrees - in a matter of minutes!  Crazy!

I'm sure glad this past week is over.  What a long week!  There is so much that I could write about, and so many thoughts have been swirling around my head. But I just can't seem to find the right words - or complete my thoughts enough to have a conclusion.  So many questions, so many stories, so many broken hearts.......

In my extra time to be alone tonight, I was able to finally cross off a couple chores from my to-do list.  The list that got put off to the back burner last Sunday after we heard the tragic news.  Now I'm feeling almost guilty for getting our lives back to "normal". Like it's disrespectful to just move on.....and get on with life as though nothing ever happened.  It did happen - and we will miss him forever...... but our lives must go on and it's going to be hard to pick things up this week ..... I can't imagine how his parents are feeling.