Well, the end of another year is nearly upon us and I for one am glad to see it go. Health wise, 2010 was not one of my better ones...faced lots of challenges and unforeseen crisis. So we put it all behind us and step toward a new year, with false bravado and bluster, hoping to, if nothing else, bolster our own morale. I'm good at that, it's how I get through the days, the winter and my life...pretending everything is great... and hey, who am I to say it isn't, really. When I compare my life up til now with....say that of someone living in Haiti...well, there really is no comparison... I live like Royalty...but it's all relative really...give them some clean drinking water and tent over their heads and they feel like Royalty too I bet....
Robert and I just watched the other night the movie "The Queen" with British actress Helen Miran...boy did she play that part well.... Robert met the real Queen once, for his 21st birthday his parents sent him to the UK to meet some relatives and see his old nanny, who after her husbands passing had returned to Wales...he spent a few days with her and then with some Makepeace and Summersgill relatives who showed him all over London...and they sat outside the palace gates and I can't remember what the occasion was but the Queen and Prince Phillip did a little walk about and he got to shake her hand....cool....she commented on his accent apparently...and he didn't know what to say to her....because to him she was the one with the accent.... I think his parents had hoped he would meet a woman over there...since his nanny and his aunt introduced him to available friends of their daughters...hahahahah Thank God he didn't meet any one or I would have ended up married to some old drunk friend of my first husbands who had apparently just been waiting for the right amount of time to pass after my husband had died to make his move (according to another friend, this fellow was quite devastated when I up and married Robert)....of course I'd like to think that I would have been discerning enough to have not gotten involved with someone so much like my first husband, who smoked heavily, drank and cheated... Good God, when I think about what life would be like without Robert ....I draw a complete blank... He is my Prince Charming (who dropped out half way through charm school) hahahahahaha NOoooooo he's great ... but let's not tell him quite so much okay, because it is starting to go to his head...his mother and old aunties used to tell him he was the bees knees....how British....it always sounded so cute with their accents....
We just heard yesterday that our premier friends have put their farm up for sale and hoping to move to Airdrie...just outside of Calgary where their youngest son lives....so he can take care of them.... We see their farm listed with the realtor, in the paper...so it is just a matter of time before they move away and life as we know it will once again take a big dip....they are only one of two couples we actually have as friends...but they are the ones we visit with the most.....whaaaaaaaaaaa I hate change...I hate losing friends, it is way too much work to make new ones...
These friends have invited us to their place on new years day so I think they have some news to tell us....that makes me worried.... I only just heard about them selling, and haven't had time to come to terms with that...I hope they haven't already bought a place....in airdrie... they were in Vegas for a week and then spent a few days with the son in Calgary who went to Vegas with them...I think he took them around to look for a place to live....bastard....
Robert and I plan to just hang out at home this evening and watch the year in review on TV. I am recording some cool movies playing on other channels to watch later...and will generally eat bad snacks and be lazy...I am still working a devil of a jigsaw...of a valley in Peru...that is solid orange and yellow flowers...so the whole picture is a sliver of blue sky, a sliver of black mountain and then a whack of orange and yellow....very very challenging...it is one of the Planet Earth puzzles...I love it....
I have lots of Dr's appointments and an MRI booked for the first week of the New year... along with my monthly blood work and such... but surprisingly I am not worried ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone.... let's make it a good one...
Splendor
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Hi Cathy!
I went to Tantec Electronics before Christmas and they had a limited promotional offer on. I ended up going through xplornet wireless (I was told it's faster, cheaper and more reliable than xplornet satelite). The one time activation fee was $49 and I pay $40/mnth for a two year plan...normally that plan is $50/mnth. To get a signal, they told us that we needed a tower ($100 a foot...yeah right) to clear the trees. Instead, T ripped the old free standing peasant-vision antenna off of his parents house and attached it to ours. Haha! He predrilled the holes needed to thread the cable through so that we didn't have to pay for any extra service fees.
I suppose if you were to talk to your closest electronics shop, they might be able to set you up with a decent deal (and hopefully you get a good signal where you're living). I guess these companies come out with promo deals fairly often. I hope you're able to get it! It really is the difference between a water pistol and an M16!
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