Fire anniversary

Well two years ago today our world changed. Our quaint, unique little shit shack started on fire...and we are now forever changed because of it.
You never come out of an experience like that the same...one of the major changes that we had to make was that we are no longer living our dream of living in a forest in a cabin and topless gardening for the rest of our lives. I had a dream, I lived it for five years, and now I am moving on with a new life.
I think about my dream home....it was not everyone's dream home, it was mine...it was a shitty old log house that had so much character that it truly felt like it represented everything about me and I fell in love with it the first time I saw it....the hubster...well not so much...but I have a husband who loves his wife so much that he to learned to love it the way I did.
We have times where we sit here and we are sad....wish we were still there...but one cannot wallow on the past of what was...ya gotta move forward and this is what we are doing.
We still have the property and the burnt out house....not sure what we are gonna do with it....but we just can't give it up just yet.....we will be heading back there this spring...and I know the second we are back there it will bring it allllllll back....as it always does....but I feel so incredibly blessed to have lived my dream for five years....that's more then a lot of people are able to say in their life time.
So...today I am grateful for a roof over my head...running water, a bathtub...electricity..a furnace that I just push a button and it comes on...a good paying job with a vehicle that runs to get to it....and a husband who loves me and understands his crazy wife and he desire for weird homes lol. Happy Fire Anniversary to us.

The journey

 

Oh the journey of life for everyone is different of course.....but what thing that seems to stay true to course is this one fact....in order to be happy WITH someone...you have to be happy by yourself first.
I had this journey experience and I am so grateful for it....one is never appreciative of it when in it...no one likes being alone...most people sob, and wallow in self pity..."why can't I find the right one"...when instead....one should be saying "yeah..I am the one....and why wouldn't any one want me".
When your ready...it happens.
Being a single parent for many years....I longed for a partner who was equal, who could take on the challenge of my extrovert personality. I had a few relationships that did not work....and at the time...was devastated and lonely and thought no one was ever going to be what I wanted.
But after while....instead of being "needy"....I took the road of  "picky"...and by picky I mean....I'm gonna start seeking what I WANT...and not just "oh hey, I'll deal with what's out there".
When it's a choice and not a situation of convenience....wow....so much better...and this is what they call "the one"..where you "just know"
I see so many people in miserable relationships...and I get why they are in them...I've been there done that...I just wish I could tell them to get out cause the future is so bright their gonna needs some shades!

Unexpected day off

So I was up at 4:45 this morning....showered, packed lunch...all fresh for the final work day of the week.....and then I started the car with the remote car start...it started.....for 5 minutes...then died.
Well.....lets just say the non morning type person that my hubster is was NOT impressed with having to meet his hubandly duties THAT early in the morning lol
So we found out it was the alternator...and so thankfully for me....one of the people at my work lives a wee bit closer to me then the rest of the world lol....and a guy at work had an account at a place that had ours in stock and he gets a discount...so he went and picked it up for us today....and the lady that I work with is gonna drop it off here for us....so tomorrow we can get it put in and be all good again....so thankful for great people at work....weird to...since the guy who offered to help us out is the same guy who ALWAYS fights with me and calls me an effing idiot....I just don't get it...that guy is so confusing lol....he prides him self on being an asshole (his exact words to me....I'm not making that up...he actually said that to me) and yet he was the first one this morning at 6am to say he could help us out...wow.
So by 9am this morning the hubster was really wanting me to go to work cause now all this much action this early really messed up his work day at home lol.....his routine got all turned around cause now the wifester was here to mess with it lol
Happy Weekend!

Stimulating, stylish, skillful Sunday

Hubsters good morning fruit plate

Hubsters new wall hang for his office...the stick is from our first road trip to the Cariboo when we bought our first home :-) 

Garden signs still coming along...lots of work still to be done.

I hate those creative days when you have SOOOOO much you wanna make but you just don't know where to start or which one you wanna try....this is how it is for me today....I have my sewing machine out, my paints and wood out ( lol..wood out....ummmm no....I don't have morning wood LMAO) and every other crafty tool that I own is out lol....should be fun to see what else I create today....HAPPY SKILLFUL STYLISH STIMULATING SUNDAY TO YOU ALL!

Weekend wisdom memes

Plant lift off!

So from last weekend to this weekend I have lift off on my cabbage and kale....and the hubster has lift off on his lettuce and some of his herbs.
This weekend I have started three different kinds of peppers to be kept in my green house once it's complete. But at least they need about 8 weeks inside the house so I'll have time to get my butt in gear and get the green house done lol.
All of our snow if gone here in our Southern Alberta flat land home...and at one point today before the sleepiness took me for a three hour nap, I even raked part of the lawn....CRAZY...since back at our farm in BC there is still 5 feet of snow everywhere lol. I DON'T miss it one bit..although it's very beautiful there, and I thoroughly enjoyed my five years of beauty there...I really really really like not having snow in the middle of March.
Happy Spring Growing Madness to you all!

Dysfunctional work family

This actually happened at work today....as I witnessed the whole thing.

REALLY?  Someone actually made a quiz for this LOL...if you have to take a quiz to find out if your work is dysfunctional you are part of the reason it is!!!

When you spend 40 or more hours a week with these people...they become your "work family"....as terrifying as this is to me, it kinda is the truth. I mean...I sometimes feel like I see more of them (regrettably) then my own hubster. And when I do get home, I just talk about them to my real live hubster lol....how insane is that lol.
So last week I had a little "issue"....that's what I have decided to call it okay, leave me alone lol.....anyways....one of the guys at work stated this "when your husband comes to work to kick so and so's ass, I'm gonna hold all the rest of them back and just let em at him".
So I told my hubster this statement....he laughed...and said "why would I have to go in there....they should be more terrified of what your gonna do to them" lol
He's right....you see....what they should be more afraid of is me getting into their "heads"....and I have started this...on Monday in fact...and it's freakin them all out...some of them know I am doing it, but for the most part most of them don't....they know somethings up, but they can't pin point it...and this makes me gleeful :-)
I have in fact been able to crack three of their "domes" (and by that I mean....get into their heads ).
So they should never fear that I would come in and loose my mind and start screaming and fighting...oh no...what they need to fear the most is what I am going to do to them over time mentally, and to do it with a smile on my face :-)
I love how when I really start to get into their heads and they have the realization of this...they try to change the subject immediately...cause they just realized how vulnerable they just became to me and they get all freaked out by this discovery as they are standing right in front of me...again...I just smile.
Today I had one guy even say..."stop it, don't go there" to which I responded "stop what? You allowed your self to go there, why are you afraid of it? Do you still need to work on that?"
Yup....that's right....I will get them all gathered up....one by one....and I will find out why all of them are the way they are lol. What will I do with this information? Arm myself with this knowledge of how each one works so that I can better utilize them for a more functioning work place.....and maybe for personal gain....ya never know LOL.
I am looking forward to after work beers again this Friday, where I will have the opportunity to dive a little deeper into a few of their domes, as they make them selves vulnerable with beer LOL.
Cheers to work place insanity!