Tomorrow marks the end of my 19 day vacation. I am happy to see it over, but sad to see it go at the same time.

Since the night before my vacation, several, ok, not several, but a few things that SUCK, STINK or BITE, (you choose) have happened to me.

I was in a car accident, that I might add did roughly $3000 worth of damage to my car, and I found out today, damage to me as well....1 Dr. visit and over $100 worth of muscle relaxers later, I found out I am having muscle spasms from the car accident in both of my calves.
If the medication doesn't help, I have to go back and try a more 'aggressive' treatment....great... I guess I am lucky, it could be much worse.

In addition to the car accident, both of my beloved pet ferrets passed away within 5 days of each other. As you read in my previous post, Daisy passed away at home, and after her passing Noel made a sudden turn for the worse and I had to make the difficult decision of putting her down to prevent her from further pain and suffering.

I never thought losing two small pets would affect me so, but it did.. I am still dealing with that.
Time is a healer. That and prayer.

Chris and I have had some rough luck finding a house...we found 1 that we loved, but never got a call back on it, bad business men, no courtesy--- I tell you what... then we found another that won't accept Ebony, Chris's pet cat, so we had to say no on that one, and most recently we found a nice big house, great location, close to the kids school, backs to open space.. has everything we are looking for in a home, but we don't know if we may or may not have it...we will find out this week....I am praying that it goes well.

I still am in the hunting mode for a new job.. I have a little less than a month and a half to find one, and it's not easy.. I still run into the same issues, location, salary, that sort of thing, but I still have faith. There has to be a family out there who would love having me nanny for them as much as I would love doing it!!!( more praying )

I did manage to relax some while I was off from work, my son, sister and Chris with his two kids all went camping near Grand Lake, Colorado this past weekend, and aside from the bugs, bugs and more bugs, we had a great time. It was so refreshing to be away, I truly did relax!!
I do feel bad though about being the instigator of teaching his kids the true meaning of roughing it....neither of them had ever done their business in the woods.. something I am accustomed to from my camping experiences as a child. Their camping experiences included a toilet facility nearby, I have camped that way as well, but this was the first time they ever had to rough it in the woods...and can I just say?? They were great about it, but I sure do feel bad about being the liaison of that oh-so-pleasant task.

Anyway, I sure do feel that it was a blessing that I did not have work to compound all the things I had to deal with the past week or two, but it sure will be nice to get back to work and back to my routine. I will miss sleeping in, and not having the fast pace of my days at work, but I will welcome the steadiness of routine and structure in my life again.

Thanks for checking in, and until the next time..................

Heidi