Sithean

I only have a few minutes, so this will be short. What can I possibly have to say at 04:12 anyway?

WE'VE GOT THE HOUSE!! Sithean is all ours! WHOOO HOOOOOO!!!! This is our Sithean. "Sithean" is Gaelic for "Fairy Knoll". My in-laws love it (the house and the name) and I'm going to have a sign made up for it. Hee hee. I'm just SO happy!

It's kind of strange that I'll have to go through two small towns to get to WEM, and I'll still get there a little faster than I could from here in town. Damn city driving anyway. Getting lost is more interesting in tle country anyway.

I expect Lynne, Wayne, The Shepherd, and every body else to pop by and help out - either with the move or with the clearing. There's stress release involved with helping witht he clearing, you know. Although, I'd worry about giving a couple of you an axe.

More later.
Sweet Dreams!!

Sweet Dreams! (or A Well Placed Alien Abduction Can Be a Good Thing!)

First and foremost, we might have found our acreage at last. It's a bit farther out than we were hoping for, and we'll have a LOT of yard work ahead of us. (Not to mention the clearing of many a tree for a barn and paddock.) But it's going to be worth it.

Just got a phone call ... we are presentling an offer for the acreage. Jade says that somebody else is also presenting an offer and ther may be a small bidding war, but, well, we'll see what happens. Cross your fingers, light a candle, think happy thoughts ... whatever. Any help is good help - it's just hard to find!

Only a month and a half to go with Thoroughbreds, and then I can relax. And play D&D! *wails* I wanna play it now!!!!

If anybody from the standardbreds calls and asks for my help, then by all means, I'll be happy to work the Fall Meet, but I have little to no intention of working through the winter. I'm not big on driving on the highway in winter and I'll be damned if I'll brave it just to face more bullshit from the people I work for and with. Not. Jade is perfectly happy to have me stay home and work on my stuff and keep his mom company if she needs it. Besides, if she happens to fall or something, then at least I'll be there to hear.

Or I may be out making a snowman ...who knows?

My mom keeps sending me her own input on the houses we should look at. She's not looking anywhere that we haven't looked, but she does manage to send us the strangest choices. Today was a two bedroom house with one bath ... only 1098 sq ft ...
Is she trying to get me killed? Or helping me to inherit faster? You can't squish two couples into a place like that! Especially when the other couple is Jade's parents!!

The other property that she sent today was for a shop. No beds, no baths, on .53 acres. Now what the heck is going through that poor woman's mind? Sludge, I think. Somebody turn the hose on her!

Hmmm ... things must have gone well ... somebody is coming to pick me up! Whoop!

Sweet Dreams!

Don't Tread on Me

Free To Good Home

Unfortunately, my 1 yr old Great Dane has decided that he does not like my boyfriend. He is never aggressive toward anyone but him. He never quite forgave him for the reaction he got when he chewed up all his video games.

He is a beautiful Dane. House trained, neutered, good on a leash, great with my cousin's kids, the other dogs, the cats, and even the bunnies. So with a heavy heart, I must make a decision.

I must re-home my Boy Friend. I think I like the dog better. So...

One hot 25 yr old stud-muffin - free to good home. 6ft2, 190lbs. Weight trainer, runner. Very Flexible. Slightly neurotic, comes with additional baggage. Responds well to firm handling.

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If this is a true paper ad, then GOOD GIRL!!!! Men are replace-able! It might not always be easy, but it's not impossible either! Ha!

Jade is taking a trip with his Dad to golf up by Athabasca on Friday. I found out by accident. I wonder when he was going to tell me? How can he afford this when he keeps telling me how broke he is? S.O.B!

I'm not in a happy mood today at all. Maybe it's PMS. Maybe it's the fact that the person I do evening shores with at work likes to smoke and chat more than help with the chores. I was told today that if that happened again, I get to pull rank on her. There's something wrong with a person who can't perform an hour and a half worth of chores (less if we actually worked together!) without a smoke break. Or two. Once, she took three of them.

Damn, I work faster by myself.

I'm also stressing over the fact that the realtor my in-laws hired seems to be an idiot. Won't show us a home without a coffee, (Second Cup Coffee!) and he won't show us anything in the daytime. Last night he was supposed to show up around 18:00 - 18:30 to take us out to view acreages. He showed up at 19:30. We got lost twice finding the two places we were scheduled for. The last one was seen in the dark, so I have NO idea what the land looked like.

The in-laws are trying their best to get me something with a barn ... or room for it. Which is nice of them, because they don't care about my need for horses. Two figs is two figs too much. (If you don't understand, don't ask.)

So anyway, we always get home late ... which means I waste more sleep time trying to make myself something to eat, because I rushed through work, came home, changed and we ran out the door. At least I was smart last night - I took snacks. So when I came home, I had some raisin toast and left Jade to his own designs for supper.

Jade keeps asking me if I think I'll be happy with his parents. To tell the truth, I have no clue. It'll depend on the size of the house, I guess. I have no delusions that it'll be easy, and that we'll get along. In fact, I'm pretty sure that his mother and I will butt heads often. I'm not sure if I can really deal with all this, but I'm willing to try it. As long as Jade and I are on the same page about what's going on and what we expect out of all this, then I can do this. I just need to know that Jade has my back and that I'm not standing alone. I have no intentions of spending the next forty years fighting wit his mother because she thinks that I'm trying to take over. Right now it's just driving us nuts because she keeps trying to put us in the basement all the time - even when it's usually better for her limited movements to be there herself. Problem is, she sees the basement as a hole-in-the-ground-jail. Well, if it's so horrible and sub-standard, why is she trying to shove US into it?

Weird woman.

Just talked to Jade ... he's very much on my side. I'm still going to let him handle his mother though. So there.

I feel a bit better now.

Today's quote - "I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats

Sweet Dreams!

Going and going and going ...

So I attempted to make an entry on another site. Well, that's not entirely accurate ... I did make one ... butI'm not sure I like the set up. It's not obvious as to where the 'blog itself is on it. I don't think that I'll be using it. It's just as limited as this site, but at least I know things will get read if somebody actually looks here.

Today is going to be particularily busy for me. I leave in a few minutes to start my day; I'll work my butt off and maybe get to sit down before getting ready for a race I have a horse in today ... then I'll be going directly to view some houses west of the city. I almost hope that we like them. Driving into the sun in the morning and again in the afternoon ... not to mention facing an hour's drive to get where I'm going ... bah! Anyway, with all the looking we've been doing, I've only been getting about 4 hours sleep for the past couple of nights and I'm wearing to a thin edge. It's a good thing I don't actually like to use guns ... I'm good with them, I just don't like using them.

And my mother-in-law had the nerve to tell me that I don't work all day just because I sometimes have a chance to catch a quick nap in the afternoons. Bitch.

If you are buying school products this year, boycott Papermate. I've been doing this for about 5 years now. I can't remember the last time I bought one of their products. Join me in this rebellion! (evil laughter)

Hey, I told you ... thin edge!

I should get dressed and go start my day now ...
Ugh!

Sweet Dreams! (For those who are actually allowed to sleep!!!)