I think I answered your post on my board, my bad!
I was in a hurry, Jean was watching and he saw his name got all pissy.
Very windy here!

Hiya, just made a comment about Ben Affleck and thought I`d write on your board, don`t know how many points I`ve got but you`ve got way more!
Anyway, my friend Cindy is doing well and we are too!
Jean replaced the basement door, nice brown instead of white and it looks good. Nice and warm here.

Just dropped by to say HI! How is everything with you it`s been along time since i`ve been on this site but have thought of you often!

tis strange to say that after I went through all that `shit` and had to really turn to God cos I even told Jean `I don`t want to wake u in the mornings` I`ve felt better, I`d continue talking, but to God, through Jesus cos He doesnt interrupt me or `derail` my thoughts.

Anyway, 2 friends have called me to absolutely unload all the things that were happening to them and how they just wanted to run and hide, and each woman feeling better after using me as a sounding board like we use each other - its a give and take!!!

My poor girlfriend Cindy was at that point last night, she started off really negative about how one of her co-workers was awful and ended discivering all sorts of miracles that are actually happening in her life - fantastic outcome of the whole conversation (Father please bless Cindy right now in the name of Jesus and fill her with your holy spirit so that she can shine your light to the children and to the other women working there.)

Wow, apparently it seems like ALL of us women are going through this `black period` but with faith in God we are getting through it whereas my other `friend`, Helen is still lost in the wilderness and hasn`t found God! She is really *()&&^ed up!

So with Cindy its like you and me, we encourage each other and praise each other and realize that our deepest darkest secret turn out to be the same with our friends and God sees everthing!!

On another note, Cindy`s mom......nuring home...Edmonton...wants her back in B.C. can`t afford it.....wants to move to the south and she`s been there twice, can get a pension and take her youngest son (really grandson) with her, he`s the youngest.

Me and you we have our roots and are blessed to have them I just came to realize, the going is going to get tough but we are equipped to deal with whatever life throws our way!!!

God bless you and your mil and Dave and Selena and Luke and your parents and the brothers too!

Karen
(now to try and work with Jean on my back, oh yearh, he made breakfast, I shovelled out our sewer so the meltiong snow can go down there.

Talk soon,

okay, now I read about Luke`s birthday and the antlers, haha.
I`ve been in touch with Jennifers dad again and its so tempting to have him as a friend but I have to be secretive about it and that makes it feel like cheating!
He has offered to be there for me if I need a friend - I don`t have any and he is in Ottawa, sometimes I just want to go get a room and live a simple life but of course the guy wants a relationship. What is it with men? They think with their dicks!
He thinks I want to jump from my marriage into a relationship? I just want a helping hand. Its nice to know he still likes me/loves me and wants to try - he is clean and sober and very active PLUS he just became a born again christian!!! God please help me not be tempted to break the vows I made to my husband!

Geez, I logged in to answer your post and see there was another one but I clicked on board2board and dont see it.
Anyway, yeah what joys of marriage, haha.
Holidays? I gave everyone and I mean everyone a card least year for Christmas, I really had it together, free cards from the Heart and Stroke foundation but still, I put little stickers on them and everything, NOT ONE SINGLE ONE at the church last Sunday night (we didn`t go in the morning).
We had snow yesterday and even more overnight, its only zero though, Jean says its too wet for the snow blower.
I don`t know if I told you but I sent my brother some pictures and all we will get Jennifer and her inlaws will be one of those packages of scratch cards - who knows, maybe someone will win something!
I discovered I had made a mistake writing down our money and we still have 80 bucks so thank God we`ll be able to afford our trip to Ottawa and pay our own meal and hopefully not touch our cheque for January before then, (I doubt it though) Jean will come up with something we need.
How did applying for Selena`s school go?
there is another post but I have to find it where you talk about Dave I think. I find this site very confusing - on the top it says kwhalen and bobcat`s board - so I don`t know if this is on YOUR board! doh!
Did you get snow yet?

Hi, just entered the contests and thought I should send you something on here to earn points?
Sure hope this is your board!
Sacha has not called, yay!
I freaked out on Jean cos all he`s done is be negative about snow blowing. I said you should have put a carport and you should be grateful you have a driveway!
I freaked out and he came and hugged me, amazing, anyway, going on his computer, he has a survey or two.
Now he`s worried about going to Ottawa on the 23rd, like, its his 58th winter in freaking Ontario, what`s new, haha.
Oh, now he`s got out his overalls to go out but they`ve been in the mud room since last winter, I kept asking him, is there anything you want me to wash, like jackets etc. Well now he knows why cos he found a bug, its probably lint, haha, he`s getting itchy already and he hasn`t even put it on. Oh the joys of marriage!

You are right, Sacha needs love and guidance, the other part about taking advantage, well Jennifer told me that from the beginning! And yeah Sacha has given me/us problems from the start and we haven`t heard from her since Sunday - phew!
Happy birthday to Luke!
That was funny (sorry), Dave had a meltdown and then ate 6 filled donuts.
Hope you got the immunization records!
Yesterday I was going through some pictures that were sent to me after my step-? died to get some to send my brother, I suppose it affected me more than I thought, me and Jean had a fight and I went to bed. Got up around 3, did some work on here and watched t.v. I had a dream about it and realized I get no support from Jean about anything.
I put together a package for my brother this morning and Jean says how are we going to pay for it? I looked in my bank books, nothing, Jean has cash, how much? $35. and I`ve been telling him it has to get us through the month, we have to get to Ottawa and buy ourselves a meal! The other day right after Jean went out shopping buying stuff that we won`t even use right now, our neighbour brought us a bunch of things instead of taking them to the food bank, soup, cake mixes, kraft dinner etc. I frilling hate having a man, I did so well on my own with money, I always had money right to the end.
It was kinda cool this morning, I could hear all the ice cracking from the trees and ground and grass, its 1 now not getting much warmer but sunny too.

Hello, good for you going for a walk with your daughter, I miss that! Jean won`t even go for walks.
I love Christmas lights! Yup, slippery here too.
Snicks would get jealous and its not good, Snicks enjoys your company so leave it at that, our cats drive me crazy!~
Well I pray that Selena gets through the semester and enjoys her new school.
Sacha hasn`t called since Sunday night when she was talking to Jean and I told him and he agrees that she is probably a compulsive liar, Jean was telling me that she was saying she took her car in the guy couldn`t put the tire back on, something to do with a bushing, she supposedly paid the guy (before the work) and then she said she`d drive it over somewhere on the Monday. Jean didn`t catch it - first: why pay first? and second: if the guy couldn`t put the tire on how can she drive?
This is the sort of crap that comes out of her mouth! She was coming up with all sorts of problems to get here, saying that Tim would drive her cos Peter got a drunk driving charge and Jean told her plain and simple: we are tired of you coming over with a different man everytime, you spend more time with the guy than us, conveniently (this often happens) her battery ran out, she hasn`t called since.
I don`t want her here!

yeah, the other day I freaked out and Jean did a whole bunch of stuff but I feltg crappy, after crying etc. Why do I have to nag him or even ask him to do stuff?
I try to tell him I`ve basically got a full time job plus I have to clean his mess and the cats and he always says how much he does, well to him it might seem a lot but has he ever cleaned the tub, the shower, gone all around the walls cleaning them (I had to do that today cos it smellled like cat spray in the kitchen (yuk). Plus, I don`t get to jump in my car and `get away`, grr.
Last night I was even back to thinking about divorce, going to B.C. its just too difficult to do that what with the house and 5 cats.
Speaking of which DO NOT get another cat, Snicks will not like it!!! I hate the jealousy amongst our cats.
Kiki has been well since he puked up that glob, praise the Lord!
Yeah, the wind chill is bad here too, I`m glad we stopped delivering papers but my body is not!
Happy birthday to mil, you`ve done enough for her I`m sure a phone call will suffice!
How is Selena getting along with the bullying bit?

hi there, Kiki is still doing well! The other cats are driving me crazy what with Bini and Smokey (the girls) being so jealous but at least they are all basically happy!
We keep getting a call from Landmark windows and we had an estimate done but were too late applying for the grant, it ended the day we called - we hadn`t known anything about it.
I called today cos the woman had said it starts up again in April but try getting any government person to know what is available, huh, they don`t know what is and they are earning a pay cheque doing nothing except telling people they can`t help!
It is cold and clear this morning, the graders have been acting like we had a big pile of snow instead of just ice, they keep earning their money too, wrecking the asphalt cos there is nothing to scrape! Jean woke up and thought he`d have to get the snow blower out cos all night long he could he3ar them, not a bit of snow!
No, Jean is being a jerk as usual!

Hello, I must have sent you a message on my board. I enter the contests and then go to community and friends and click on board under your name but it seems I still have not got it right!
Kiki has been asthmatic and coughs and loses his breath but last night I prayed for him at church (in a group) and when he came to bed he coughed and up came a glob of white stuff - so I am praying that the Lord healed him! poor Kiki, he won`t come on the bed with me if one of the girls is on there cos they scratch his nose so then he`ll yowl to go out early and I get up all grumpy cos I don`t get enough sleep. Last night he came up was fine till Bini jumped up, I pushed her off but not before Kiki left but he was waiting in the hallway and when I got up to go to the toilet he came to bed with me. We slept in. He WILL let us sleep IF he is in bed with me and no other cats except Proudfoot is on the bed. This jealousy thing is too much especially cos I love them all but Kiki is the one who needs to sleep with me and benefit from the humidifier and then I get my sleep.
One of the ladies at church who`s mom goes to church and her daughter and granchildren go there too spoke to me yesterday and really encouraged me. I don`t know if she was talking specifics but she said `don`t be afraid to express yourself, to say what you want, sometimes these things need to be said and its refreshing that you don`t just go along with the crowd`, I was really encouraged - I don`t know if it was about when I had said the Christmas dinner shouldn`t have had that non-Chritian AA guy speak or if it was cos I rebuked someone in Sunday school but coming from her it really did make me feel better!
On Sunday nights when we watch a cd on the computer, we pray in a circle after. I always pray along with just a couple of others cos some of us are scared to pray out loud and if they hear me, an imperfect prayer do it, then maybe they will try too!
Our new dvd series is on `how to pray` so its good! Prayer is so powerful!
We got our Canada pro today, I have to keep telling Jean that our next cheque on the 20th is for January.....he drives me crazy, driving to the store so often, we just went on Friday after the bank appt. and today he was sitting at my desk beside me writing a list, talking and arguing about my daughter... oh, she is supposed to come see us even though her inlaws are staying at her place, plus she is allergic to cats, but they should come all the way out here, says he......he bugs me so much! I told him I have done so much for his daughter and her kids and so has Jennifer why can he even complain? He left his list and left, there were only 3 things on it, then he calls me, its been twice already.
I prayed last night that God would help me hold my tongue cos he can be so frustrating and I can be so nasty with my words. Mind you he isn`t exactly soft spoken himself, in fact I think I lost a lot of my softness and positivity due to his roughness and negativity. However, I cannot blame him I have to change myself!
Yup, Jean doesn`t want to go to Jean B`s for Christmas dinner and I doubt Sacha will be here even though she`s been talling Jean she`s got this, that and the other for me and him for presents, so we will probably have a quiet Christmas day ourselves. Mind you, I could always pop over to Jean B`s myself, screw Jean if he wants to be antisocial!
I`m not even prepraring for Sacha cos last year she didn`t come after promising she would.
Yup, I`m happy to be home alone without all the glitz of commercialism, it the birth of Christ we are celebrating!
Freezing rain here overnight, schools cancelled but its 0C. what a bunch of wusses!

Hi, hope these are on your board! Anyway, are you busy doing surveys? I haven`t stopped since we got back from the bank!
Hope all is well there.
Notice all the kids contests are for after Christmas?

Hiya,
did you see, Priscilla Presley thinks The Simpsons should be banned, she obviously has NOT seen That family guy, which is totally disgusting for adults even! At least the Simpsons are like an `ordinary` cartoon family, the family guy is awful!!! Anyway, -1C here and just stayijng busy on here and in the house. How did Dave`s c go? Did you find out when ou expected at your parents?

It is what it is!!
Yup regroup, it did have me on edge. I called Lucinda, our ex-pastor`s wife today and we had a good talk, she is so lovely!
Christmas brings out a lot of stuff in people, you are right and it can become so different, like with you and your kids and less decorations, more relaxation!
We`ll see Jen on the 23rd and then go out to eat and we`ll see whats hapening with sacha, she called today, I told her I was busy with surveys so she said she`d call back.
I had more surveys today and do you do the tasks on clixsense? I always seem to try early in the morning and can`t think and by the time I go to do them Jean is anxious for my attention.
The cats are all in, Kiki went out twice to do his business, Bini once but they are getting older and I think they prefer staying in.
At least your parents are fun and nice so even if its not the right timing you`ll come home with nice stuff!
Have a good night, my dear friend!