Dreams... That's What Getting On With It Is All About

Tonight I am surrounded by thunder and lightning. Well actually I think the worst is over for now although I do hear rumbles off in the distance. Mom and Dad showed up a little while ago... their power is off at their house and so they came here for a little reprieve. I am printing a bunch of documents that need to be printed and all is quiet except for that thunder I keep hearing. Last night I went to bed just as the power went off and it was off all night. That was not a pleasant thing since it meant that the fan in my room was not able to keep me cool and so i sweated my way through the night. This morning I woke up and got ready for a day in FSJ since I had to go get my new glasses. My old ones which Narmin somehow had gotten a hold of, were chewed and scratched so badly that there was not much point in keeping them. My new glasses make me look more professional and serious... I was going to post pictures of them but I can't get a good picture without a whole lot of glare and these are no glare lens too. I will wait and tomorrow if I can get a relatively flattering picture then I will post it then.

For a while this morning I just played on the computer while I was eating my breakfast. Daughter #2 had decided to stay in bed and so the perfect opportunity to do a little surfing arose. I have had on my mind this move to Nfld and while I am anxious, I am also excited. I am a little worried about becoming the new head of this family. But at the same time I am thinking forward thought to what might possibly be. I am buying a new house and while I haven't got my heart set on one I do have a couple in my mind. I have hired a fellow there in the area for a commission to find me a house and he is on the job if you know what I mean. Some of the houses have been refurbished and renovated so that they look like modern new homes. This is not what I am looking for. I am looking for an older style home that I can put my stamp on. I like renovating and while I won't have lots of money I will try to do a few things to make it more my own. I don't want anything that is too run down... it has to have good bones. But I don't want anything that has been so renovated that it has lost it's old world charm. I have found one house that I think might work. I have all kinds of ideas for it but everything (and everyone) tells me that it won't work. I will wait a bit because there is another house coming up on the market that the guy I hired is going to look at and take pictures of it for me. I will know more on Saturday. Meanwhile what I started this paragraph to say is that I found a painting of a house that I would really like to aim for...

Of course I am not going to do this over night and I am not sure I am going to be able to do this at all but we'll see what the pictures return. I already know I could do it with the small house ... well sort of. But I'll show you guys soon what I have in my mind... meanwhile don't stop me from dreaming by giving me negatives... yes I want the best outcome with not buying a house that's rot up to the thighs but at the same time I don't want a sterile environment either. I can see a rose trellis all around my door. I can see plant boxes under each window especially under each bedroom window.I can see the ocean beyond my house. I can see a pleasant place to sit and drink lemonade on a hot summer day.  But I can see a cozy fireplace (probably electric) to huddle by in the winter with a rocking chair and some chocolate and some warm mittens on a set of knitting needles.

Reality will probably be nothing like that... I'll probably be tongue out shoveling snow... and I will probably have to work day in and day out and I probably won't get a chance to plant my posterior at all... well, maybe I'll look forward to retirement.  Either way, all I've ever wanted is an oasis that I can call my own... a place that I can walk into and sigh and think this is a really nice place to be. I had it here or so I thought... at least we were working towards it... but then look what happened. Dud!

Still a gal can dream can't she...?