I was realizing the other day that I had talked about getting a new stove, but never said whether or not we did. Well, we did. It has been in for about a month now and I'm in love with it. Sure heats the house better than the old one did. Also I like that you can see the fire. We'll see how efficient it is as the winter progresses.
Let's see...It seems life only gets more complicated as one gets older. I'm amazed on a daily basis with the number of crisis a person can deal with. I assume everyone has issues they deal with on a daily basis as well. I think as a child you are simply sheltered from all the chaos of the world. I don't remember knowing that many people that died or were sick as a kid. I'm sure such things went on, but I wasn't aware of them. Probably a good thing for the kids to be allowed to be kids. One sure would loose faith in the world if you knew all the crap that went on early on. At least kids seem to have an inherent optimism that shouldn't be ruined any sooner than it has to be.
I know this is a bit of a downer talking like this, but it is the simple fact that I'm just damn tired of funerals this last two years. I've told Tom he isn't allowed to have a funeral if something happens right now. Morbid thoughts, but my goodness, I've been to 5 services in the last year and a half and could have been to more had I been able to get to them, or if they had been held. Poor Bear has been to more funerals than weddings. Nuts. I've got to rectify that somehow. Now I've just been told my cousin was shot. I'm just plain tired of death. It would be one thing if it were people who were old and ready to go. Some have been, but most have not. It has been old age, cancer, airplane crashes, and now shootings. Yuck!
Okay, onto a happier note... Bear has decided he likes to be the vaccuum. He lays on the floor and I use him to vaccuum by grabbing his legs and pushing him back and forth on his belly while making vaccuum noises. Meanwhile he giggles. Video below.
I'm trying to remember all the other craziness going on right now. Tom and I are both busy with work. Tom is maybe going back to school next year so we are trying to figure that out. We are trying to plan a Thanksgiving trip, Christmas trip, and January Austria trip. I'm not sure when we are actually going to be home. I love travelling, but don't like planning. Thank goodness Tom likes the planning. I'm beginning to think that for the holidays of 2010 we are going to have to have MT celebrations. Maybe we would have a good white Christmas for it too. Things are busy at work for me and I'm getting started helping a friend of mine out with planning/organizing a fundraiser for next spring.
Whew! There are times I thank my lucky stars we live in an area that is so mellow. I don't know what I would do if we lived in a bustling city. To me that seems stressful. I like the quiet slowness of a small reservation town. I notice the difference within 30 miles of us. The "big" city is fast paced and chaotic in comparision. Makes it nice to come home to where we can go for an evening walk down the street and everyone says hello and waves. And we walk around pretty close to the entire town in a half hour to an hour walk. Funny how perspective changes as you get older.
I was realizing the other day that I had talked about getting a new stove, but never said whether or not we did. Well, we did. It has been in for about a month now and I'm in love with it. Sure heats the house better than the old one did. Also I like that you can see the fire. We'll see how efficient it is as the winter progresses. 
