A warm saturday eve...

I was about to begin and I realize I was just going to re-iterate May 20th...

My husband's family is crazy - I love them, but the DRAMA - wow.

Older bro is here tonight, hails from BC, in town for weekends over a few months. Youngest and eldest are arguing about middle...he's lost for the time being, not returning calls, not really connecting with any of them...some are angry, others are more patient and allowing him space. Funny how we are quick to judge in others the same things we have already worked out for ourselves.

I can see both perspectives but really, we don;t choose our family, but we can choose to be blessed or cursed.

My job rocks

Really, what other job would consist of hanging out with some of the most unexpected and coolest folks who live in our town? Wine at the Hacienda Sarria, not a real hardship. A fabulous venue, an even more fabulous host who is so down-to-earth and unassuming - it kills me. More people should be as relaxed. It would do them good. Perhaps they are just waiting to be looked after by one of our fabulous cardiologists who spoke this evening.

Hopefully Sleep

I'm exhausted, and it was only a 4 day week! It's been too hot to sleep comfortably, though it's finally cooled off this evening. I have to get up and golf tomorrow, I really hope I do just slightly better than my first 2 attempts out this year. My hubby's gone to the cottage with his brother so some peace and quiet might be in order. I would look forward to playing in the garden when I finally have time on Sunday, too bad they are calling for thundershowers. 'Night.

Sobriety offers a strange perspective

My husband's family is crazy - I love them, but the DRAMA - wow. Keeps life interesting. I can hear 3 of them playing poker, 2 went home in a huff over who knows what, and won't remember tomorrow. Life is too short for all this silly-ness, or is this what keeps us young?

treasure

http://www.tchevalier.com/unicorn/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn

I would post a picture here of the great framed prints of the Lady and the Unicorn I picked up at a garage sale this weekend, but this damn computer shuts me out of explorer every time I try this evening.
Yes, crazy I realize, getting up at 6 am on a Sat to go sift though junk and treasure, be this time is was very worthwhile. Some bombay tables, some curtains the colour of my kitchen, still in packaging, a fake plant for the wicker set I have on my porch, a lime pashmina...things i would have actually paid good money for. Strange how you are motivated to get out of bed when the reason doesn't involve work. I actually like my work, but usually I figure it can wait for me to have a coffee first.

It's cottage season

Off we go to the north...my parents have suggested we should 'learn' how to open the cottage for the season, in case they are travelling another year, or something. I don't want to think about them not being around or capable of things they have always done, but I suppose I had better prepare myself for the possibility. Every day I interact with many who are much younger and less mobile, it is a real eye-opener and sad.
Anyway, finally glad that the summer, or hints of it, are upon us.
Cheers! Go mix that margharita and locate some firewood...

Distance really sucks

Just had a deep conversation with my new sister in law, her and my eldest bro-in-law live in Northern BC with my one year old niece. It's really not fair, one of my most kindred spirits so far away - neither one of us ready to leave our home provinces behind. Neither one making the kind of money (as a family) that can manage to visit often... we are lucky if we can see each other once a year. It's really too bad. But maybe it would just be too hard on me to see so much of my adorable neice...I am really jealous, is that so horrible. There are just days that I presume it will never happen, and if it does it will be so riddled with problems that I wish it didn't - what if my potential child had my husband's seizures - could I really watch it go through that?