Thank you Bill Gates for Clipboard!! I wrote this whole thing out once in the Blogger site, but then copied it to Word to do the spell check. I closed Word and went back to publish this and guess what? Page cannot be displayed!!!! Arggggg. So I went back to Word, hoping that it would have created a temp document as I had not saved it at all, and of course there wasn’t one. I thought I would have to type it all out again but before I did, I opened a new Word document, hit Ctrl+v and my whole blog appeared! Seems that when you close Word, it doesn’t erase what is on the clipboard. Hurray!!!

Well, it's Friday and it's raining, which sucks cause it gives me no excuse for getting out of cleaning the house. Except that I have to do an entry for my blog of course....

I’ve been reading some other blogs lately and it seems that this is not a good time of year. It seems that everyone is stressed, or sad, or just unfulfilled. I think that as we all get older we realize that life is moving on around us and we still have so much that we want to do. Long term goals are tough to accomplish when so many little roadblocks come up along the way. They come in the form of jobs that pay the bills but are in no way related to what you wanted from your life, they come in the form of children who, although you love them without condition and would not trade them for the world, force you to put your priorities in order and place them before any of your own dreams, they come in the form of missed opportunities. The ones that you found out about too late, or never had the time to pursue them due to other roadblocks. Regret is a strong and sometimes debilitating emotion. I think the most common regret is wasted time. Time wasted on a job that you never liked, time wasted on a relationship that never worked, time wasted just sitting around instead of making a plan and putting it into action. We all think "if only I knew then what I know now" and that is, simply put, "I wish I hadn't wasted so much time".

Maybe it's the Libra in me, maybe it’s experience, but when I read the blogs of people I know and consider to be friends whose lives are in turmoil, I hurt for them. I just want to tell them that everything will work out the way that it's supposed to. To the ones who are having to deal with illness in their family, my heart breaks for you. I know first hand the responsibilities, not to mention the fear that goes with having terminal parents and trying to raise your own children at the same time. To those people, my only advice is "one day at a time".

Soon it will be back to school time! My only conflict is do I want to continue the Marketing program, or do I want to change direction and go toward teaching? Aren't I too old to not know what I want to do? As for the teaching, I don't think that Fanshawe offers anything, it would have to be Western which is mucho dinero.... and it's a full time course so I wouldn't be able to work full time at the same time, which means that I would have to move (as my daughters put it) to a cardboard box on the side of the road. So the conflict continues. I really don't want to waste the time, energy and money on a course that I am not going to finish and if I do, not want to work in that field. Remember? The biggest regret is wasted time.

On to other topics.... Does anyone know how to get a cat to stop biting? Not only does this one bite, unprovoked, but he stalks you to do it. If you punish him, he will just wait until you aren't expecting it to get even. He certainly doesn't forget. But just like a little child, "he's so cute when he's sleeping..." which is during the day so that he can torment everyone at night. Everyone who lives here of course, never anyone who visits. To them he's adorable and docile....
I'm trying to set up a photos link so that I can post some of the pictures that I have....

Well, tonight is the big opening night for Alien VS Predator. Seeing as how I have never seen an Alien movie or a Predator movie you will have to forgive my lack of interest, however there are some out there that are really psyched for this. I'm not sure if it ranks on the same level as Freddy VS Jason or not, I never saw any of those movies either....

Well, I think that's all for now, I will keep working on this photo thing. Has anyone out there ever used this Hello program before that Blogger uses for photos? It just doesn't seem to want to log me in... If you see photos later, it means that I managed to get it working. If not, I am probably still cursing at it (or playing Roller Coaster Tycoon). Maybe I will even have done my housework... HAHAHAHAHA.

Anyway, kids, got to go. Have a great day!