It's been a busy but thankfully relatively quiet couple of months.  I did do an update on my website, but I figured it was time to update here too.  So let's see.

School so far has been pretty good for little guy, no major incidents (knock on wood) so far, and for that I am very thankful.  He pleaded to take swimming lessons again - he swims in the summer at his grandmother's cottage - and wanted to so badly he loaned me part of the fee from his allowance so we could pay for it.  He has also had a major accomplishment in that he has finally learned to ride a bike!  His wonderful worker helped him with this and he practiced practiced practiced until he could do it.  Now all we need to do is keep checking Freecycle for a bike being offered that's more his size than the garage sale one we had bought a couple of years ago.

Genève Blue's book "I Ching Jukebox" is now editted and up for sale on Lulu.com; it will shortly be available through Amazon.com once I approve the proof copy.  I'm going to be editting "Off Air" shortly.  That is book that I am very proud of and hope it will do well.

As for money, well, yes that's still a problem.  The fellow I'd been renting the garage to I had to tell him he couldn't use it any more after the huge hydro bill I couldn't pay; I came right down to the last possible day before my electricity was cut off and that was tremendously scary - I did get help but not from him.  I'm not holding my breath on the $1250 he still owes me for electricity.  My other source of frustration in terms of people owing me money should be solved soon so I am hopeful on that account.  I'm still cleaning at night and am still having trouble because of these bills I was helping other people out but now that the well is dry (I had to cash everything I had in this year to deal with this) they're just going to have to look elsewhere while we build back our finances again.  I won't be so helpful in future I'm sorry to say; I don't like to be mean but when it came down to literally days before I lost power, well that was too much.  There's no reason for me to be in this situation and with the prices of everything skyrocketing - I hope I can fix the mess this helping has caused me.  I really do.  One of the fears I had, which was that they wouldn't renew my mortgage, didn't come to pass.  It was renewed and though I had to take the variable rate option because my 5 year fixed rate had gone way up, at the moment this is to my advantage since the rates are being cut due to the huge economic crisis around the world.  One thing has worked in my favour at least

The house in Mississauga is finally up for sale.  Soon I hope daughter will be close by, but not with me like I hoped.  She still feels it better for her dad to stay with him.  I guess she has a point, though for us it will always be a little sad she isn't with us.  I've missed the bulk of her teenage years and her brother has missed all that sisterly day to day stuff, but that was the path we followed and life moves on.  I prefer to look forward, always.  There is no point in looking behind, the past is done and that's all there is to it.

There's been a lot of breakups of couples I know but thankfully we're still doing fine and that's nice.

I haven't much else to say except that I honestly hope people in my riding don't vote the incumbent in.  She is arrogantly assuming she'll just get back in, avoiding public debates and public appearances.  I don't know if she's under a gag order by her very controlling party and I don't really care, I just really hope people here use their heads when they vote this time.  But I am just one voice in a very big wilderness.

As I watch the rest of this year wind down I watch the world in turmoil.  Are we on the precipice of a major change for the better or are we on the verge of a change for the worst?  Only time will tell.

And now with that, it's time to make lunches. 

More later,
Cathi

Hey Cathi....We had our water turned off this month, it was for less than a day but you are not alone...it's not easy to make ends meet and Tom makes pretty good money.( and some bad financial decisions ) Congrats on your boy learning how to ride a bike.... Jack does with the training wheels, not looking forward to the day i am chasing him down the road though...lol.He is like a different child since returning from Summer holidays...that is way to long for him to be off school. He is doing really well though... he had been playing games online until yesterday when he lost his cool and broke my mouse. It's off limits now. As for the world...boy, what a mess ! I'm trying to work myself up to heading for the mountains and living day to day off mother nature...I just need salt and pepper, I'm adaptable..haha! So good to hear from you last night.:)

Boy those results were disappointing last night. And the margin for our idiot of an MP was just crazy.

Don't get me started on the results. I can't believe people voted for someone who refused to be a part of debates and isn't even allowed to voice dissention, much less represent our riding properly by having a voice that may or may not be the party line. That isn't democracy, that's autocracy, and the one small democratic thing her constituents could do and they voted her back in. Sheesh. :(

hi cathi, I hate paying for the water bill myself, the cost of water is rising.

BMW San Diego Repair z4 wheels x5 used turbo tuning San Diego BMW Parts touring cooper smg schnitzer sales BMW Service San Diego sale motors oil change transmission m3 hamann z3 San Diego BMW Mechanic m5 e90 dealer csl compact fix BMW Repair San Diego discount e46 cheap service center m5 BMW San Diego Parts dealerships cabrio car coupe m6 convertible hardtop BMW San Diego Service cars z1 wheel touring escondido auto alpina 850 528 330 BMW Mechanic San Diego for sale brect county dealers brecht harloff Sunday, May 3rd 2009 @ 3:04 PM