I hope that everyone here had a wonderful Easter break!  We did a lot of house cleaning, yard work and also we are getting our camper ready for camping season.  Before I forget to mention it, I got my results for that lump they had found... Nothing to worry about... WooHoo :-)  Now we are on to a new mission... the doctors want to find out why I get very tired easily and why I get so cold... to the point where my body temperature drops down to 34.5 degrees Celcius.  I went in this morning for blood work... they want to test my thyroid first, and then take it from there. 

My son, Jesse, will be finishing his Judo classes shortly... I believe that he only has 3 more lessons to go to.  He isn't really interested in Judo anymore, so he asked us to take swimming lessons.  We will be more than happy to let him to this since we do spend a lot of time around lakes in the summer. 

As for work, everything is still going well.  In June, I have to go to Thunder Bay for 2 days so that I can take a course for work. 

In the town that I live in, so many people are dying of cancer that it is starting to make you wonder if "there isn't anything in the water", so to speak.  And the scary thing is that it's starting to be younger people.  With our town being supported by a paper mill, and a couple of gold mines, I wonder if it isn't due to environmental pollution.  I don't know the answer, but it sure makes me wonder.

Other than this, I don't really have much to write about... I don't go out much, expect to and from work, so my life is somewhat uneventful hehe. 

Anyways, to all here at 20six, may you all have a great day and until I blog again :-)

Well, I am leaving tomorrow morning for Thunder Bay.  I have my pre-op tomorrow, and wednesday morning at 7:15, I will be getting ready for my surgery.  I am excited that I will finaly get this surgery done and over with, but regardless, I am still a little scared... only because I am going "under the knife".  Then on Friday afternoon, I have another apointment for an ultra-sound... during my yearly exam, they have found a lump on my breast about 2cm by 1cm....  I seriously doubt it will be anything serious since our family has a history of cysts.

Other than that, I am doing great.  I don't have much time again to sit here and type a whole lot, since I am getting ready to go into work for 9 to 5.  I miss all of you here, and haven't forgotten about you.  So to all of you, have a great day and until I blog again :-)

I know that I have been away for such a long time.  So much has changed in my life since my last entry.  I feel like a different person.  I have purposely made some changes since I started to feel weighed down.  I am still working at the bank, and still loving it.  There was a spell where things were a little tough at work due to a girl that I work with.  This person, that I did not know until the start of my employment, seemed to be like a very nice person.  It was only in December that I started to notice another side in her.  She was being nice to me, but behind my back, started to try and cut my hours down.  You have to understand that she is at the same level as myself, but she figured that she was my boss.  She even went as far as to tell me that I shouldn't do my courses for work, since I wouldn't be working there much longer.  She even called my house, and left me a message that I should apply at the competeting bank and to give her a call back for the information on this job.  I was keeping my mouth shut for too long with her, and just last week, I have decided to bring this up to my boss.  My boss simply told me that what this co-worker was doing is considered to be  harrassment eventhough some of her doings were not made towards me at work.  Needless to say, something will be done about this :-) 

Another aspect that has changed is the need to tell a friend of mine to leave me alone.  She was starting to call me everyday to see if I was working, and the calls started as early as 8am.  If I told her that I wasn't scheduled to work a specific day, she would call my place.  If I didn't answer, she would drive down to my house and see if I was there, and if I didn't answer the door, she would come and check up at my work to see if I was there.  If  I got called in on the day that I told her that I was suppose to be off, she would come into my work place and start to give me shit for going in to work.  I never had any time to myself anymore, and eventhough I would tell her that I wanted time to myself, she was still hunting me down.  One specific day, I was off and wanted to be left alone.  I locked my front door and sat in my basement just so I could relax.  At 8am, the phone started to ring.  I looked at my call display, and of course, it was her.  Since I never answered the phone, in a matter of minutes, she had driven down to my house and was knocking on my front door.  She was even trying to twist the door knob to enter, and eventhough it was locked, she was still trying to force my door open.  After a few minutes of this, and me not answering the door, she left and went to see it I was at work.  The girls at work told me this the next day.  Then all day after that, the phone would ring at my place.  I knew not to answer the phone since she couldn't take no for an answer.  That afternoon, she left me a message on my answering machine... and a very nice one also.  She was almost in tears and told me to give her a call as soon as I could.  Other times, I used to tell her not to come and see me on my break from work, since I would be busy.  She would manage to hunt me down just to see if I wanted to do coffee, eventhough I told her that I didn't have anytime for that.  It took me four years of this to realize that I never had time for myself because I had to devout all of my spare time to her and she couldn't take no for answer.  I finally broke down and sent her an email telling her that I felt suffocated and didn't want the feeling of being hunted down.  I even told her that if my email would upset her, that I was terribly sorry for it, but I simply couldn't do this anymore.  Needless to say, she won't even look at me anymore.  This is very sad and she is a nice person, but I couldn't handle it anymore.  My hubby even told me one day, that she reminded him of a stalker, and I laughed it off, but now coming to think of it, she did hunt me down a lot and didn't like to be told that sometimes I just couldn't give her some of my time.  Maybe the hubby might have been on to something here.

In January, my back got so sore that I had a hard time walking, standing and even sitting down.  After being checked by a doctor and the chiropracter here in town, they found out that my pelvis was tilted right out of place, I have an SI joint problem and that a disc in the L5 section (which is the lower back) was herniated.  The pain would start in my lower back, and then shoot all the way down to my rigth ankle.  There were times where I couldn't move and would lie down on my living room floor in tears.  Luckily, with anti-inflamatories of 500mg twice a day for a month, seeing my chiro and drinking plenty of water and walking, my back is better now.  I still feel some pain, but nothing compares to the pain I had before :-) 

Now I am in the process of waiting for a call from a specialist in Thunder Bay to let me know when my surgery will take place.  No, not for my back, but to get a tubal litigation done.  It took me 5 years to finaly convince the doctors that I didn't want to be on birth control anymore and didn't want anymore children... YaY! 

Anyways, I know that I have missed some things to tell you guies, but in this short amount of time, this is all that I could think to write about.

So, to all here reading this entry, I miss you all and never forgot about you.  May you all have a great day and until I type again :-)

Only a couple of weeks left before Christmas!!!  Luckily, we have our tree and most decorations up and most of our shopping is done hehe.  I have to admit, that for some reason, I am not entirely in the Christmas spirit.  I wish I knew why.  Regardless, I am doing my best for my son's sake.  The way I see, Christmas is for the children, and New Year's is for the adults... Woohoo hehe. 

Work is still going great, and so is the family life.  I'm still running around (as usual and nothing new!) with work, family life, house chores, studying, and also the holiday preperations.  It might sound like I am complaining, but trust me, I am not.  I prefer this, than to be totally bored out of my mind :-) 

I don't have to opportunity to sit down at my computer that often, and when I do, most of the time, is just for maybe 10 minutes.  Just enough time to check my email accounts and do some banking online. 

Since I have to go and do more running around, I will leave you all with warm and best wishes for the Holiday Season to come. 

It's amazing when you think that you have all the time in the world to do what you are supposed to do, and then you start to realize that time has just slipped right through your fingers!!  Not one day goes by that I can say that I am bored or have nothing to do.  For the past couple of months, I've been running around like a mad woman, trying to get everything done that is "supposed" to get done.  The funny thing is that I am still happy! 

Last Friday morning, while having a so called "huddle" at work, before the opening hour at work, our manager was discussing our profits and also how our 2 loans officers had done a great job and were tied for sales, he also announced that the number 1 teller in our district for referrals for our new campaing was ME!  At first I thought that I was just in first place at our branch, but then I clued in and realized that it was the whole district... to be honest, I was in shock!  I never expected to be aknowledge or even to win a prize for this... in my eyes, I was just doing my job.  It's very amazing to me how I have only been working there for just under 5 months, and I still love my employment.  Never have I had recognition and such great support from the whole staff from any other positions that I have held at other work places. 

Even the life at home has improved by a long shot!  The relationship between myself, the hubby and my son is so much better now.  We still have the usual ups-and-downs that every family goes through, but the way we manage to surpass the "downs", is just so wonderful.  I may have neglected coming here on a daily basis, but my focus was much more needed in other aspects of my life.  And by doing this, it has brought more satisfaction into my life.  I am not saying that I will stop coming here :-)  It was by coming here and reading your blogs that has given me the inspiration to focus my energy where it was greatly needed. 

To all here at 20six, may you all have a great day!! :-)

This past weekend passed by very quickly.  I have done so much around the house... cutting the grass one last time, before winter comes, cleaning, doing laundry, removing old tint from the truck windows and just plain re-organizing my house.  I told myself that I would take this weekend off and just relax, but I guess that sitting still just wasn't good enough for me LOL!  We had a power outage last night, and curious lil old me, went outside to see if all the houses in my neighborhood was in the same situation.  This was at 11:30pm at night, and I found out that it was pretty darn dark outside, down my street.  With candles lit on my window sills, I was awaiting for someone to drive or walk by and ask me if my power was out since this has happened before.  Only one person asked me that question last night, and all I could reply was "No, my power isn't out... I just felt like putting lit candles all over my house just for the hell of it" LOL ;-)  I know that I was being sarcastic, but it amazes me how people can ask a question as to where the answer is just so darn obvious hehe. 

I am not scheduled to work today, but I have decided to go in anyways, just so I can get one of my courses done.  I know that it doesn't have to get done right away, but I am one of these people that doesn't like to have unfinished business.  Lately, I have found myself having the attitude "why put off to tomorrow what you can do today"!  I have to admit that this attitude can be both positive and negative.  It is great to have things done right away, but on the other hand, sometimes, certain things could be put off, especially when you already have to many activities on your plate for that day ;-)

I hope that all is well for everyone here.  I wish you all a great day!

Ta ta 4 now!