Make It Happy

Over the past few weeks, I have had more than one person tell me I seemed sad. One was referring to my first post, and one was someone who might not even know what a blog is! To the first: I suppose my first post was a bit down... 2010 was rough. To the other, she caught me at a time when a large amount of stress in my life had finally been lifted, and I was a bit overwhelmed by the release of stress (zombie-effect totally).

So I made a decision- whatever griping, bitching, moaning I do write about, I have to make a positive point about my day in every blog. Find SOMETHING little that either made me smile or brightened my day when I post. The positive for today? I realized that my week off between classes for my master's degree falls during my trip to NY in March; so I won't have to do any work while I am out of town! YAY!

In other new... I guess the cleanout of my father's house (SOLD, DONE, HURRAH!) gave my husband some motivation to start on ours. We inherited A LOT of stuff from his parents (we bought their house from them), most of which is GARBAGE. Also, he is a keeper and collector of stuff. But this past weekend, he spent a large amount of time cleaning the garage out (only about 1/4 done) and we took about 8 bags of trash to the road tonight, a desk, a bookcase, and about 300lbs of cardboard. Yay him! Hoping it keeps up so we can get the house renovations back on track and MAYBE have a place for a baby in a year or so.

Until next time- there is no snow in FL at this time, and I wore no coat today!

To begin with...

It is January, 2011. Last summer I said I would start a blog to document how things in my life are progressing. 5 months later, I am finally getting around to it. So let's sum up what the 5 months would have contained before getting to the current. 2010 was a shitty year. I lost my mom to cancer in March (she was 59), my husband had surgery for kidney cancer in March, my father moved to KS after losing my mom in April... hmmm yeah, 2010 had not much to offer to me early on.
So then I go to Illinois to visit my best friend, who was pregnant with her first child at the time, and decide that, it is time to put the baby plans on the calendar for me, and wouldn't it be interesting to blog about life leading up to it. Well, No, I am not pregnant, and am not currently trying... but it is on the calendar.
So who am I? A teacher, heading on 30 (ewwww), married for 4 1/2 years, stuck in a state I don't particularly like because there is no way on Earth we could sell our house. No kids (yet), 2 cats (crazy), and ambition to make a somewhat interesting entry regularly. Maybe about life, maybe about the oddities of FL, maybe just a rant about some dumbass celeb's idiocy...we shall see.