The Number you Have Dialed has been Disconnected

I was woken up this morning from a lovely sleep by the phone ringing, it was our neighbour telling us that some of our cows were out and were in his yard..... oh yes...it was going to be one of those days....

Have you ever had one of those days when you give serious thought to pulling your phone line out of the wall. I know right now some of you are giving yourself whiplash by your head having reversed direction so fast to re-read what I just wrote...Me, the person whose phone rings so rarely that R and I both look around sometimes trying to figure out where that annoying noise is coming from, actually got phone calls today, yes in the plural form. Uggghhh, why couldn't they just be good ones...like " Mrs. Makepeace we would like congratulate you on winning the super 7 loto"  or My bank calling " Mrs M, we made an error on you account balance and you are not 30k in the red but 30k in the black....yippppeeee... but alas, I never get calls like that... I just get the ones where someone is yelling on the other end about their life being a shit hole blada, blada blada aaaaaaaaa. What the hell do they want me to do about it...I have trouble keeping my own life out of the crapper most days...  I want to be perfectly honest here...I have....seriously.....given thought to ....not having a phone...seriously...R uses his cell phone outside so that I don't here him talking to his friends, long distance during the day....and I am fed up with having to pay for a $100. per month land phone bill when the land phone only rings maybe 6 times in the month...hahahaha  I guess I am not as nice a person as I like to think...or more people would call me...

Don't be confused...I hate my cell phone too...if I could work up the nerve I would toss mine out the window of our truck as we sped down the highway... I hate paying the bills, when we barely have the money, for something I never use.... actually that reminds me...have I ever written about one of my favorite dreams ?

oHHHh you'll like this...  See, up until very recently one of my fondest daydreams was me and my hubby (this includes the first one since I used to have this dream even before I was ever married)  would buy a piece of property back in the wilds, there would mountains within sight and a river..

lots of trees and maybe a lake....  we fell enough logs to build our own huge log house with all the appropriate outbuildings to accompany it. In the summer fishermen would fly in to stay at our lodge.

 We would live totally off grid, using solar panels and wind turbines but we would be healthy and happy...lots of hard work but it would be all we had to do..we, no, I would hunt for food. My dad and I used to talk about this place...he would be our fishing guide. I would write the book that has been floating around in my head for years now and paint when I was tired of writing... BLISS....

but then reality steps in and now I sometimes think about my dream but shake my head and let it go...I have to let it go...I am not healthy enough to live in the bush...R would have to do all the work...and that's not fair... besides where can you go that "LIFE" wouldn't find you... sounds like I want to run away...doesn't it...maybe I do, maybe I do...or I did...huh...interesting...

 So R and I are watching a movie on Pay Per View tonight..."It's complicated."....we didn't think it looked good enough to bother going to the theatre...but okay for PPV... we do that a lot...  and I am shutting the phone off so I don't have to take anymore of THOSE calls.

Time to go make the snack plate for our movie experience...hahahaha fruit and crackers...and maybe if we feel really risque a diet soda....