GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE 2007!
Not that it's been an entirely bad year, its just been a very difficult year. There have been plenty of great things about 2007 but I will be glad to see it go just the same.
Early this year Whitewidow and I went through a very difficult loss, and living the first 7 months of our marriage apart wasn't very easy either but we still managed with trips both up to and down from Canada. Fighting with the detailer for my next posting and having an ideal posting pulled out from under me turned out to be not such a bad thing after all, but the hassle of Field Med school put a lot of unnecessary strain on our relationship. It made taking care of a lot of the little things here and there an ordeal, and anything that was of significant importance turned into a major undertaking. We're still working on the whole immigration problem, but we've had a significant break in things since Whitewidow is now eligible for a temporary visa till things are made permanent.
I'm still going round and round with the cost of housing and the housing allowance, and just to throw things in my face one more time in 2007 I still haven't gotten the proper allowance and am going to have to pay out of pocket once again. On the flip side of this when it all finally gets sorted out I should be looking at a nice chunk of change to set aside for something special... I'm thinking that it may have Disneyworld written on it, or at the very least a round trip ticket to Australia. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. We should also be getting a nice kick back on our taxes this year too so maybe we'll be able to do both. Or maybe some riding lessons for two might be in the future along with a pair of matching motorbikes, gas prices make this kind of easy to justify.
Christmas this year kind of sucked in a big way, I did my best to make sure that it wasn't too bad, but I was only able to do so much... hopefully next year this won't be a problem since we're having it down here with both sides of the family. I know that some things can't be planned for but knowing what I know now I really wish that we would have been able to set a little something aside and have made a trip up to Alberta.
Now I'm sitting here on New Years Eve wondering to myself when it was that it became not such a big deal to ring in the new year. I remember some pretty crazy ones in the past, and I don't mean years and years ago back when I was a kid... (sigh) Oh well there is always next year. At least I was able to get a bottle of bubbly and some strawberries. No drunken craziness or wild parties this year... OK maybe we'll get a little tipsy and some wildness will ensue >wink< >wink<
Not that it's been an entirely bad year, its just been a very difficult year. There have been plenty of great things about 2007 but I will be glad to see it go just the same.
Early this year Whitewidow and I went through a very difficult loss, and living the first 7 months of our marriage apart wasn't very easy either but we still managed with trips both up to and down from Canada. Fighting with the detailer for my next posting and having an ideal posting pulled out from under me turned out to be not such a bad thing after all, but the hassle of Field Med school put a lot of unnecessary strain on our relationship. It made taking care of a lot of the little things here and there an ordeal, and anything that was of significant importance turned into a major undertaking. We're still working on the whole immigration problem, but we've had a significant break in things since Whitewidow is now eligible for a temporary visa till things are made permanent.
I'm still going round and round with the cost of housing and the housing allowance, and just to throw things in my face one more time in 2007 I still haven't gotten the proper allowance and am going to have to pay out of pocket once again. On the flip side of this when it all finally gets sorted out I should be looking at a nice chunk of change to set aside for something special... I'm thinking that it may have Disneyworld written on it, or at the very least a round trip ticket to Australia. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. We should also be getting a nice kick back on our taxes this year too so maybe we'll be able to do both. Or maybe some riding lessons for two might be in the future along with a pair of matching motorbikes, gas prices make this kind of easy to justify.
Christmas this year kind of sucked in a big way, I did my best to make sure that it wasn't too bad, but I was only able to do so much... hopefully next year this won't be a problem since we're having it down here with both sides of the family. I know that some things can't be planned for but knowing what I know now I really wish that we would have been able to set a little something aside and have made a trip up to Alberta.
Now I'm sitting here on New Years Eve wondering to myself when it was that it became not such a big deal to ring in the new year. I remember some pretty crazy ones in the past, and I don't mean years and years ago back when I was a kid... (sigh) Oh well there is always next year. At least I was able to get a bottle of bubbly and some strawberries. No drunken craziness or wild parties this year... OK maybe we'll get a little tipsy and some wildness will ensue >wink< >wink<
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schiavona:
Goodbye to 2007. I hope only good of last year visits you both this year. And only the best happens here on out.
whitewidow:
