I'm feelin old

You know when you start getting older and shit starts hurting.....that sucks.  The other day I got chest pain and shortness of breath, isnt that awesome?!  I was sure I was dying of a heart attack.  Went to the ER. Had an EKG, chest X-ray and cardiac enzymes done.  Nothing. Heart is fine. The doctor gave me Vicoden and sent me home, still with chest pain. Said I was having stress pains. Stress. Uh. I always have stress, the chest pain is new. I went to a cardiac specialist and will have a stress test tomorrow. If I pass it then I will go to a Pulmonary specialist and have my lungs examined. During all of this I'm falling behind in school. Shit. No real damage yet but I need to catch up. Feeling crappy this weekend so I havent done alot of work. Guilt. More stress. Welcome to my life.

Anyway, time to go. Toodles.

Feb., my least favorite month

This morning Sydney had her audition for PAAS, which is the gifted music program in Prince George.  She was so nervous I was sure she was going to choke.  She had to sing two songs in front of two judges that she didnt know and it was closed, I wasnt allowed in.  She came out dazed and I asked her what happened and she said " I froze after the first song" I said what do you mean you froze? You didnt sing the second song?  She says "Oh no, I sang it but the judge had to yell at me to unfreeze me after I finished the second song." Oh well.  If she doesnt get it this year she can try out again next year.

We were supposed to get snow this last week but it never materialized (thank goodness) and the lowest temp we had was 9 degrees one night. Since then it has stabled out at about 35-45 during the day and 25-30 at night.  Its funny, last month at this time we were wearing shorts.

We finally made the decision to stay in the house until next spring (08).  It makes sense, even though I really want to get out of here.  I hope it's the right decision.

School is kicking my ass this semester.  It stresses me when I dont get perfect grades and I know that's unreasonable.  I just wont be good at everything, it's a fact of life I guess. I definately know now that I wont major in history or religion, I suck at both. 

Joe is doing pretty good these days, his mood has definately improved since the holiday.  He's starting to save up money to buy a motorcycle (waste of money) and I try to understand why he needs to have one.  He wants a boat too. Oh yeah, and an RV.  Pretty expensive tastes.  I wonder if he would show the same understanding if I demanded a $5,000 purse or a 10,000 computer.  I'm pretty sure he would just laugh.

Anyway, I gotta run. Alone again today and there are kids to beat. Toodles.

Yay, the snow is gone

I'd much rather have rain than snow.  At about 4 pm yesterday the snow stopped and it began to warm up. Now there is no snow left, well, except maybe on some areas in the woods around us where its still cooler.

Had class today and will be working on homework all weekend. I am semi-worried about a history test I have on Monday, the dates are kicking my ass.

Joe has been trying to talk me into staying in this house for another year. ( Sound familiar?) Yeah, so 10 months ago he told me "This house is killing me." and now he wants to stay. Not permanently, just until we've lived here 2 years so we dont get hit with capital gains taxes. We moved in March 06 so that would mean we will be here until March 08.  I dont know anything about taxes so I'm not sure how much capital gains will be.  Will it be worth it to stay another year? He says they only tax the profit you make on the house, is that right?  So if we bought it for 199,900 and sold it for 240,000.....would we be taxed on the 40,100 we made? What percent?  I dont want to stay here but he's bullying me into it.  I dunno, I was planning on putting the house on the market this April. Now I dont know.

Anyway, I gotta run.

Yikes, I guess it is really winter now!

    

Started snowing at about 1 pm and is still snowing now.

 

January 30th was Joes 40th birthday.  He got some money and a lovely motorcycle cake.  We've found out that the black icing retains its color even after digested.

Happy 40th!