So 2009 really sucked. The beginning of the year was hard as we lost clients to death, clients lost lots of family to death, friends lost family to death, and amidst all of that we lost one of our own. The economy here in town went into the toilet later in the year and struggles ensued. Work became near non-existent and trying to nail a second job proved pointless. Right before our trip to Florida a snowstorm hit that ended up causing damage to our car. We left it at the mechanics while we went out of town so they could repair it. We got it back this past Wednesday.

Normally I don’t do anything for New Year’s Eve. We will let the kids stay up but I am usually in bed by 9 or 10 like any other night. Well last night the inlaws decided to take the grandkids and that meant a night for us alone. Wohooo! Right? Yea, so I thought. We quickly decided dinner and a movie. Then we heard about a party that we could go to and hubs (aka Mr. Anti Social) actually thought we should go. So we head out to the inlaws (45 min away) and when we get there smoke is pouring out from under our hood. We check everything and it’s coming from the transmission fluid thingymajiggy. Hubs calls the mechanic and he suggests that it’s possible some fluid got spilled and our engine just didn’t get hot enough to burn it off until now. Sounds pretty legit considering we hadn’t really drove much until NYE. So we drop kids off and head back into town. Only to find that smoke is STILL pouring out of the hood when we get to the house. So hubs decides to check fluid levels. There is NO tranny fluid. I mean not a drop! He calls the mechanic back who asks us to get some fluid in it and get it to him today (he is open, yay!) and he is going to personally fix it instead of one of his people (it’s been an issue lately). In the meantime he will get us a car. Ok, great. SO hubs wants to run to a auto parts store last night, we get to the nearest one and they are closed. By now the transmission is shuddering and I decide we are going back home and not moving the car AT ALL! So I figure ok, we can’t do a movie and we can’t go to the party. It’s ok, we are still gonna have fun. We start walking to a Burger King right around the corner for dinner. Fortunatley a new mexican place was right by there and open, so we mosey on over. The food was wonderful. Oh Em Gee. We got chorizo dip even though chorizo doesn’t like my body. We get full and head back to the house to find a movie on the free On Demand. Hubs recommends we celebrate by making ice cream floats with Rasberry Burst Smirnoff Ice. Oh man, it was sooooooooo good. I couldn’t finish mine because I felt pretty full. But then the downfall happened. We were watching this movie and it really pissed me off. I don’t really want to rehash it but it was almost right up there with Zeitgeist Movie on the bullshit meter. So when I get pissed off pretty bad my stomach gets into knots. I decided not to finish watching and headed to bed to read Bhagavada Gita (good choice considering I needed to chill lol). And true to my normal self I fell asleep by 9. However, at 12:30 am I woke up feeling so nauseaus. Now I first thought it was the alcohol despite the fact I really wasn’t drunk. However, I never puked. I just spend the last 8 hours racing to the bathroom with horrible bowel movements and cramping. It’s totally the chorizo. I don’t think the Smirnoff Ice and Ice Cream helped either. So I am tired this morning but I can’t sleep. We are hoping to find an auto parts store open this morning, or a gas station, so we can get the tranny fluid and get the car to the shop. If we manage it, 2010 is going to be the improving year. If not, it’s a bad bad sign. Ok probably not, it just feels that way.

Oh onto the blog theme stuff I gave thought to. Here is what I am gonna do. I am NOT going to do a theme each day. I need to have some spontaneity. But I am going to have some theme days. Starting tomorrow. So here is the days:

Saturday: Blog of the Week (someone had blog love so I am not using that). This will feature blogs I follow in my reader. Each week I am going to highlight someone. I follow lots of really great blogs and maybe you will find one that you connect with also!

Sunday: Crafty Day. I will discuss what projects I completed that week, what I am currently working on, and upcoming projects planned.

Wednesday: Witchy Wednesday. This will be an eclectic range of quotes or passages from various books and religious texts. Maybe a spell or two and discussions on upcoming Sabbats and Esbats. If it’s pagan it will be here lol.

Friday: Twitter Follow Friday. I kinda don’t enjoy doing Follow Friday on Twitter anymore because I feel like the tweets get lost in the mix. I also find I can’t keep track who I recommend each week because I don’t recommend everyone lest I spend all of Friday tweeting about people. No, I will do a blog post on 5 tweeters and why you should follow them.

That leaves Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday as my days off or to use as my spontaneous days. I think it’s a pretty good schedule and not to rigid.

Ok I need to go lay down a bit then get on the phone. Have a wonderful day!

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