MY FIRST POST OF THE NEW YEAR...

Brought the new year in by cleaning my house Jan. 1 [as Blue put it on her blog] "I swept it with a glance"! Normally I bust my butt trying to have the house clean by the end of the 1st because of an old saying my step-mother followed. Don't know why it always stuck in my head but I had always figured it was worth the effort? She believed in the Scottish tradition of "Hogmanay" which part of it consisted of "sweeping out the old" preferably with a new broom and your home will stay clean the year through! Every year I tried this and every year it never worked so this year I refused to let "old customs" get me down and rested instead. I must admit I preferred the resting way better! Hopefully it won't get any messier!

I've been slowly removing the Xmas decor from my home and at work. Normally I leave it up until Jan. 7 [for Ukrainian Xmas...to honor my sister-in-law and friends] but not this year. Seeing as it's been up at work for two months I've already grown tired of it and seeing as I'm not Ukrainian myself...why bother they will celebrate it whether I do or not. So the red part stays and I'll be the first one to put up my Valentines!

I don't know if you've noticed or not, but I've changed my blog picture to include both my fur kids. Suki stands out whereas Thumber would rather not be noticed. I should have made my figure wider but I guess this is how I see myself. I'm allowed to dream!

Things a work here, has been fairly slow, but I've been busy designing signs and working on the stage set design. Now PoD and I have 2 weddings that we've been asked to decorate for, which also means coming up with fantastic ideas...so right now the brain is full! Blogging will be done sporadically!

Over the Xmas holidays Trebor [PoD worked a bit...her job was mostly kid watching] and I have been working on the renovations upstairs. We've managed to lay the wiring for the new plug-ins and moved some switches in preparation for the electrian to come in and hook them all up. I would show you pictures of the progress only PoD borrowed my down-loading cord for her camera at home and I haven't seen it since. Hopefully she or I will remember to remind each other to get it here so I can?

So now you know what I know and now I should get to work...times awasting.....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

I'm sitting here with just my fur kids, waiting for the New Year to roll around, thinking of the past year that I've just been through....

Last year started off not to well with lots of illnesses relating to my Diabetes and Bronchitis...thankfully the breathing became easier when I moved out of my leaky place! The Diabetes was supposed to have been controlled by the medicine change and it might have worked if hunger hadn't taken it's place. The change in medicine did stop the uncontrollable diarrhea!

I gave up on dating and decided to live my life alone...too stressful worrying about what crap I might tie myself up with!

Held my first garage sale and managed not to fill my new living space back up with "bargains"...I only went to one sale all year long...not bad for a "Junkaholic"!

Decided to repair my old living quarters after I had moved out of them in June. We roofed the place, fixing the holes to "Dodges Indoor Falls" and have gutted most of the interior of the upstairs! Mold is now all gone!

Went on a holiday to Edmonchuk with Pod and the kids...in their new car! Stayed with one of nieces in her new house and got to see a new niece, plus visited with my younger sister!

One of my fur kids, Thumber, experienced falling out of one of my upper windows...thankfully surviving that! Had another bad scare with Suki and her stomach ailments...medicine helped that! She still has a "up-chucking" problem!

PoD and I got to go on TV for our town's "15 Minutes of Fame" and show the world how nutty we are about our belief in the paranormal about the town's courthouse!

I also figured that I hadn't enough to blog about so I started up a new blog [Aug 24]speaking through my cat Suki [Baby Doodie] ...the sad thing being that she now has more hits than mine?

I volunteered to act/stage manage/set decor, in this year's play that we did for the "One Act Festival" in Kamsack [Nov]...we won "Backstage Technical" Award! I also sprained my ankle badly 15 minutes before going on. Found out that I could handle acting...just as long as the lines are short!

Made it through one year without the help of Maryjane!

Forgot to blog about my 20th Anniversary, Dec 18, of making signs...who knew that a hobby would have turned out to be my livelihood?


So that's how my year went...

Hopefully I manage to make it through many more.....?

As for resolutions........


So to all of you out there reading this I wish you a very prosperous and HAPPY NEW YEAR

WELCOME TO.....2008