New Years Steve.

Today is New Years Eve eve, or as we call it ( because we're weird like that) New Years Steve.  Only 2 more days left for the Christmas tree, decor, and outdoor lights as well which is actually kind of sad. It's always sort of sad to see them go. Tomorrow is the last day and then they come down. We also order-in Chinese food for New Years but get it the night before because it's always so busy on New Years itself we can never get thru. It was also sooooo icy and windy yesterday all the roads and sidewalks and streets were covered in a thick layer of ice and Beja refused to even go out to pee all day and one of our light-up snowmen fell over and we lost power for a short while as well but some 60K people had it knocked out  for a long time and trees and power lines were down. It was baaaaad. 

 Today, just like last week, we're also the only ones who have our garbage out for pick-up, and today is *supposed* to be the revised day for this week......so either we're wrong again or the only ones this week that will get the pick-up and everyone else will miss it like we did last week....

This is also some gourds left-over from the fall we still have pictured above that lasted this long until it started to get really cold and are now starting to get spots on them and I'll have to throw out soon.

I also love this ring(shown here) and dress(shown below) and I almost posted my Wordless Wednesday today,too, thinking today was Wednesday at first (duh!)as both this week and last week is just a big blur and I never know what day it is between Christmas and New Year holiday season and esp. with my hubby off work, and the 31 YR old is eager and excited to start his new course and new path in life and to meet new people and he might also do really well with his eyelash business on campus as well and get lots of clients and he can set it up right there in his dorm! I also finally found out what happened at his old job with his ex-boss and it's wasn't his fault at all and I can't say anything as there's an ongoing lawsuit but let's just say that the ex-boss turned out to NOT be the good guy/nice guy that we all thought he was(which is actually really disappointing) and just more proof again that people aren't as they seem and that you really can't trust anybody.

My friend S( from grade 8) also got a cute Bulldog puppy  for her and her family(she's always loved dogs for as long as I've known her, just like I do; it's what bonded us) and the 31 YR old calls Beja "Rat Thing" affectionately as well and I wish he could love me more so I could bond with and love him more but it's hard when he only bothers with me  for food and when there's no one else around; I feel so used,  and for the past 2-3 weeks or so I haven't had much appetite and only eat half what I used to so it must be my liver acting-up again as it makes me not have much appetite, and my hubby says the second-oldest takes her eggs out of the container "wrong",too; that she just randomly picks one out instead of "in the 'correct' order" whatever that means. I just randomly grab mine,too. Maybe it means that we're just "disordered" or that we simply colour "outside the lines" and "think outside the box?" Or, maybe we're just NOT OCD like he is?

I also can't wait for this year to end and it can pretty much be summed up like my life: just trying to survive.

It feels very unnatural to let yourself suffer like that in a conscious way.-Martine Hendrickx