2009 - GO AWAY!

I am typically excited when it's time for a new year. I jump on the wagon with a slew of resolutions and promises to myself about different things. And like just about everyone else I jump off that wagon a few weeks later, (usually for me I am diving into a bottle of gin and a bag of chips since those seem to be the two things I attempt to stay away from with every new year ;p). This year I made no resolutions, except to save a little more money, which actually had nothing to do with the new year, and just decided to be optimistic about the coming year.

I had a pretty crappy last part of 2008. Sure there were plenty of good things, and plenty to be happy about, but all the good and happy things had this black rain cloud hanging over them like the little blue Care Bear. I got sick and tired of being in bad moods and being depressed, so I vowed to start new for 2009 and make it good despite whatever was going on in my life and the world. (And by world, I mean the inauguration of Barack Obama as our 44th President. I already knew I was probably going to be in a bad mood that day.)

Well, the first month of 2009 will be over in about 36 hours. And just about all of it has SUCKED. Now let me first say that I am not blogging about this to whine or complain. I decided that I was going to start blogging again and the crappy things that have been happening have really been weighing me down lately and I hope blogging about it may make me feel a little better. But, now that I am actually blogging I don't feel like getting into all that crap!

Here goes...

My sister and I were leaving Target one night when I felt a crumbling sensation in my mouth. It was my tooth. The one I had just finished paying off an $1100 bill to the dentist for a root canal. Just as I was grabbing my cell phone to call Jake and tell him, Jake called me. He wanted to tell me that our water heater had just died. Some pipe fitting corroded and burst and there was torrents of water shooting out of the hole and flooding the back room of the basement.

Missy ran away. The tie-out is old and in need of replacing, but I figured it could wait until spring since when I put the dogs out there I stand there and watch them so I can get them right back in after they are finished. Apparently Jake doesn't keep an eye on them, or her rather since it was just Missy he had outside. He put her outside and an hour later got a phone call from a lady 3 streets north of us that our Beagle named Missy was sitting on her back porch with her dogs. Thankfully we got her back. That should have been a clue to me that I needed to get a new tie-out, but I still decided to put it off. Until last night when Jake called me as I was getting back into Dekalb County to let me know that Peanut's life was just saved by Wetzel-the-world's-most-wonderful-neighbor. This time it was Peanut that got put out on the faulty tie-out and he was wandering around the parking lot next to our house. I guess Wetzel, who's a big guy that drives an even bigger truck, pulled in and almost ran him over because he's small enough that he can't even see him from the cab of the truck. He told me his wife was home and he stopped before pulling up as far as usual just in case their dog was out and there was Peanut chewing on a dead bird and having nothing to do with moving out of the way. I went and bought a new tie-out last night. Thankfully both of my beloved dogs are in my possession and alive.

Our furnace took a crap too. Last week we had Larry Spade of Spade Heating and Plumbing tinkering in our basement 3 different times in a 5-hour time span. This week I forgot to pay the electric bill on time and it was disconnected. I am notorious for writing out the check for that bill and carrying it around in my purse for weeks until I get a disconnect notice before paying it. That is the only bill that we can't pay online, and you have to take it uptown and drop it off at the main office, so it's more of a pain in the winter. When it's warmer out I have no problem getting library books returned on time, getting to the post office, or paying my utility bill before the pink disconnect notice gets mailed out because I am out walking with the dogs anyway. I was so embarrassed because I have never actually had it turned off. Jake was furious. I told him that it can be his responsibility to take it uptown from now on. He stopped bitching at me then. I think it will still be up to me to get it there.

Jake was laid off. I hate my job and blame my constant bad mood on that. We had plans of getting married this winter that we decided against for reasons I am still not clear of. I can't figure out what two people who have been together for 5 years can possibly be so freaked out by marriage over, but as long as we are happy so what I guess. I take that back, we are not really that happy. And we won't be until people stop asking us when we are getting married. I swear the next person who asks I am going to act like I am going to whisper it in their ear and then just scream really loud into it!

Jon Sassanella has moved in with us. At least I think the plan is for him to move in with us. He doesn't really talk to me much, but he and Jake have pow-wows and from what I have been told from Jake and my brother both, that is the direction we are moving in. That's not really a crappy thing. I guess it is a little weird, and I do get sick of video games and music going all the time when I am so used to a quiet house, but it has been fun. And interesting.

Jake and I went to Jeannie and Justin's last week to visit and catch up and to play with Summer the world's cutest baby. It was the first time that Jake had ever seen her other than in pictures. From the first time I saw her I was hooked on her. I was so happy for Jeannie, and that's what made Summer more special than any other baby, but the more times I was around her the more I just wanted to take her home with me! I told Jeannie, Jake, my mom, and my sister time and time again that I would have kids if I could get some kind of written guarantee that it was going to be just like Summer. Well, now that Jake has met her he has jumped on the baby wagon. Only Jake isn't just saying he wants to take Summer home, he is saying he wants kids of his own. Oh boy! We can't even stick to plans to get married...and now he wants to have kids!?! I am still not sure what I think about that one! I think I am perfectly content with the way things are. And my offer to Jeannie about how she can give Summer to me once she's decided she's tired of her still stands.

One more quick thing I wanted to add. Last night I was sitting in the bathtub trying my hardest not to break down and cry because I am so stressed out because if everything that is going on and about my lia sophia business sucking ass, and everything else. Jake came in and I was spilling my guts to him and I said "This is an abomination!" He said, "Oh babe, it's worse than an abomination. It's an Obamanation." Way to make me feel better there! If 2009 is not going to ge tany better, I wish it would just GO AWAY!