It's been a while so here I go.
The biggest news is that a year ago today I quit smoking!!!!!! It had to be one of the hardest things I have ever done! But I am so happy I did. Not only did I save $2000!!!!! Yep that's right 2000 dollars!!!!! $5.50 times 365 equals about TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!!!! But I feel better and smell better, I never realized how much smoking smells! I can't even be around it now! Yeah, I pretty much rock!!!!
I never did a year end recap so here are my thoughts on 2008-
It pretty much sucked!!!!!!
Last winter Dennis and I barely had a job, we shoveled snow to pay the rent, If you're saying, well, it's good exercise you clearly have never shoveled snow for 12 hours strait. It pretty much sucked. I had the brilliant idea to quit smoking during all of this, Yeah, that's a sure way to put a damper on a relationship! Oh! and on top of shoveling I decided to get a part time cleaning job that required me to drive all over the
friggin state of Maine! Yeah, Good times! (I really do have a degree from
RIT, I swear! I just worked these crappy jobs to entertain myself)
Eventually summer came along and I quit the part time jobs and started painting... again!
One day I looked in help wanted section and saw a really cool job, I had applied to this company before but it didn't work out. the strangest thing happened... they called back and I got the job!!! Holy crap! I now had a job that I didn't have to take a shower when I came home from work and I could actually use my brain!!! Oh! and someone else signs my paychecks and gives my health insurance (first time in 4 years!) So I've been there for almost 6 months and it's going great! We're breaking records with sales, I like to think I played a role in that!:)
Dennis worked at Public Works in Cape again last summer, they treat him like shit even though he's the hardest worker there. Then that ended and he got a even crappier job stocking shelves at
Hannaford....at night! This was while I was working nights at weekend at LL Bean (which sucked, no need to get into it, just be nice to the people the next time you make a catalog order)
But after a couple months at that job he got a new job at Time Warner!!!!! It pays well, good benefits and....free cable!!!! I haven't had cable since college! He has to do training in
Waterville for 6 weeks, I miss him so much, I really didn't think it would be this bad. But he's home all next week then 2 more weeks of training then he's done!!!!
After I had dinner with Alicia on Christmas Eve I came home and watched It's a Wonderful by myself and cried because I was sad that Dennis was working that awful job and he wasn't here with my but mainly because it really is a wonderful life! I am so grateful for everything I have! I have a crazy puppy that kisses me when I'm sad. I have awesome friends, most of them are far away but they're still there, I have a family who drives me crazy
and most of all I have Dennis who I am so in love with it brings me to tears!
Then on January 21st an amazing thing happened. This country elected a normal person. Never in my life has en election affected me so much. We watched the
inauguration at work and I cried, well, I did the oh, my nose is running kind of cry you do in public. Things are going to change! This nation is going to go back to the country my grandparents worked so hard for.
So the moral of this story is. Life sucks sometimes! Suck it up and deal with it!!!! I
truly believe that good things happen to good people, you just have to get through all the bad stuff! It just makes you stronger!!!!!
Tomorrow at this time Jack (my parents dog) will be gone. He's had a bad couple of days, he can't walk very well and he can't keep anything down. Poor little guy. It's so hard to watch him be in so much pain. My mom had a long talk with the vet and they made the difficult decision to put him down tomorrow. I think my dad said it best "well, it's been fun!"
