Winter Wonderland My A**

I have lived in Cleveland, Ohio for almost my whole live.  You would think I would be used to the snow and ice and cold that comes with the wonderful season of winter.  But in all actuality I HATE WINTER!!!  I don’t like the cold and I don’t like the snow.

So I move to Virginia where I was hoping it would be a lot warmer and there wouldn’t be snow.  Guess what, I was wrong.  On Monday we had a snow storm.  Last night we had an ice/snow storm.  It is cold and the roads are icy.  Now the kicker is this place isn’t prepared for this type of weather.  They put sand and dirt on the roads to give you more traction but nothing to melt the ice.  I am staying in the house until all of this stuff melts (or until Brett stops driving the truck to work).

The only thing winter is good for is hot chocolate and sitting by the fire.  I am going to make sure we relocate to somewhere where there is not snow in the winter!

Irony

I should be working but this day just seems to be dragging.  Right now I don’t have anything creative or depressing to write about so I will rely on my Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Calendar to get me through.  Here is what wonderful information I got today:

• An 87-year old man dropped dead while waiting in line at a government office in Bogota, Colombia.  He’d been applying “for a certificate to prove he was still alive.”


• In August 2000, a 44-year old woman named Angel Destiny fled for her life dressed only in pajamas after half of her house in Cardiff, Wales, collapsed into rubble.  Destiny, who makes her living as a psychic, told reporters, “I just didn’t see it coming.”

Amazing how ironic life can be, isn’t it?

Breakdown

It happened again.  We were having such a great evening and then one of my emotional outbreaks ruined it and now he is barely talking to me.  I am not sure what to do to fix any of this and even if I did I am not sure it would work.

Last night he asked if he could go on a trip with a few of his friends.  “Sure, where are you going?”  Daytona….”Well I guess so.”  Now most people would be happy about their significant other goes on a trip and normally I would be to but not this time.  The reason – I wanted to be the person he went to Florida with for the first time.

I know that is a stupid reason but it is true.  We have been talking about going for months and then we decided to put it on hold due to losing the tenants in the house in Texas.  Now all of a sudden the boys are going to watch cars go around a track (which I really don’t understand) and it is okay to go without me?

I think another part of the problem is that I am jealous.  I don’t have friends here to do things like that with.  Actually I don’t have any friends here at all.  This is starting to be a big problem for the both of us.  He is starting to feel bad about wanting to go out with the guys because that means I will be sitting at home alone.  He keeps saying that is why he wants me to find a job here.

I have been trying to find a job but it is so hard to work into the daily routine.  I am also afraid of starting a new job while I am planning the wedding and need the flexibility to go home and do wedding stuff whenever I can or want.  If I start a new job they are not going to be so willing to let me do this and also I will be leaving here in about a year and a half due to his tour being completed.

So I guess it all boils down to I need to find a way to make some friends down here and quickly.  The big question is how I go about doing that!!

A Weekend with My Mom

My mom and I went to New York City this weekend. It was my first time there. I will write more about it later after I catch up on all the work I missed on Friday.