12/4/03

It’s supposed to snow here this weekend. And yes I have a complaint dammit! This always happens, it starts snowing on Friday, snows through Saturday and Sunday then clears up by Monday. This happened a lot last year, it only snowed on the weekend. How am I supposed to get snow days if it only snows on the weekend???? See, on the weekends I don’t WANT to be stuck in my house because it’s snowy, I want to be stuck in my house because it’s snowy during the WEEK. *pouts* The only good thing about possible snow this weekend is that it could get us out of a gathering at my sister in laws house. She lives way the fuck out in the sticks so if the roads are bad driving to her house could be a hazard.

*does little dance* The loan check has cleared. I get to get my car fixed now. Hubby still has to call. The place does body work and engine work so we’re going to have them give us an estimate on the body work it needs while they have it for the engine work. It doesn’t need much, the paint is still actually in decent shape, my dad just painted it in ’99, right before I left for CT because some idiot rear-ended me. But there’s some body rust, a little up in the wheel wells and some by the gas tank. Gotta stay on top of that before it gets bad. I’m going to have them fix that and give the whole thing a paint job. Being raised practically in a body shop, I’m very picky, so I never just have touch up work done, if one panel gets painted, the whole car gets painted. Otherwise it never quite matches, and it drives me nutty when one panel is slighly off!!!!! lol. I’m going to e-mail my dad to find out exactly what paint he used, I like the current white, it’s really nice and bright. My dad got the brightest white he could find, Ford’s white, I’m pretty sure. 🙂

I’m hoping to do some birthday shopping this weekend. This is what sucks about having my birthday in December though, I have to do my birthday shopping while everyone else in the world is doing Christmas shopping. All the stores are busy. I’ll probably do some shopping online off my Amazon wish list but the rest I’ll have to go to actual stores for. Birthday shopping is the only time I’ll brave the crowds. This will be my last trip to department stores though, until Mid-January. 🙂

One thing I love about winter is the snow (on weekdays especially, lol). *sigh* I love the way it covers everything in a nice fresh layer, the way icicles hang off tree’s. I hope we get a lot of snow this year. Sara loves the snow too, I’m looking forward to watching her romp around in it. She was adorable last year when she was just a puppy.

Sara, March 6th, 2002:

She’s much bigger this year and I’m sure she’ll have a blast running around in it. I’m sure I’ll take lots of pictures. Only problem with like when it’s actively snowing is it’s hard to keep her task-oriented when it’s time to go pee. We have the same problem with falling leaves. Given the chance she’ll chase birds and bee’s in the summer too. *shrugs* She has doggy ADD. 🙂

This loan thing has been a dream. I paid bills last night and it was nice to only have utilities for once. We’re not quite as well off as I’d hoped but that’s alright, the refinance in a few months will solve that. We’ll be able to make it through the winter now. I wasn’t sure how we were going to do it, running the heater eats a whole in the pocketbook, let me tell you. Heating oil is a lot more expensive than the additional electricity it takes to run an A/C in the summer. The best thing though is that all the work that needs to be done on the house can be done. We’re going to do as much as possible so we can raise the value of the house before the refinance.

*does little dance* Life kicks ass right now. For once it doesn’t feel like life is against me. Yeah, there’s shit going on but there’s enough good shit to make the bad shit not seem so bad. Feeling good all over like this is even making my AS symptoms easier to deal with. I don’t get overwhelmed so quickly, I’m doing better socially and stuff. I feel like my head is screwed on and everything is moving in the right direction. It’s weird to not be stressed. It really is amazing what stress can do to a person. I’ve been somewhat depressed for the past year and a half and now it’s just gone, but it doesn’t feel like just a high. It feels like the stresses are really gone, not masked. It’s hard to describe really. But the important thing is, I’m happy. *does another little dance*

Now, if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go dig around for file folders.