Long time coming

Wow...for the first time in a while I'm so happy to say that, I had a great day today! Work went smoothly...I actually had a chance to hide away in my office with very few distractions; I had my evaluation today, which went well and I received a raise today; I attended a gathering at Mom's house tonight to meet all the new members of mom's soon to be step family; and tomorrow is the first of 3 days off in a row!

Ron and Mom hosted a family gathering -which Ron ensured Mom need not lift a finger and therefore hired the most incredible caterer....the food was yummy! And I got to sit around and listen to my cousin Richard jam with one of the world's most foremost classical guitar players, Don Ross (who also just happens to be my future step-brother). There ended up being 45 of us in attendance....small family gathering....the Ross' making up 11 of that number and the rest being my family (Qortnee, I know you understand!) HAHA....good times.

And the past few days at work have been incredible. I met some wonderful people this week - even got asked to go on a road trip to Newfoundland for the weekend by a group of visitors! Gotta love it!

Well, I'm off...to veg, and enjoy my first night of "mini vacation". Tomorrow.... shopping, hairdresser's and drinks with the ladies. Sounds like a good start to me! I've also included a pic of me and mom, the happy new bride-to-be!

Diamonds and Drama

Well...this has been an exciting week for the Dorey family. Mom got engaged this week to a great man who treats her like gold. That's right...Mom's getting married!! It looks like it might be a December wedding, if we can figure out where she's gonna have it....long story short she can't get married in the church without an annulment of her first marriage and that could take over a year. And these two crazy kids in love wanna get married right away. He wants a summer wedding...hello it's July. And I've convinced Mom that a Christmas wedding would be beautiful. We'll see. Either way, I get to help plan my Mom's wedding!! And she's gonna look so amazing. SMILES

The drama portion, is of course the ownership of her house. It's being given to me. That's right - I own my own house now. But, I don't want to move in until my lease is up here - which is May. And have to have the unfortunate conversation with Christopher on what he's gonna do. I know myself, I could never be a good roomate for Chris - I'd smother him worse than Mom would. But, I also don't want my brother living at home free loading off of me - cause really, who could afford that. But, I just keep telling myself...he has about a year to figure his stuff out, including learning how to afford to live in the real world. Afterall, that kid does make more money than I do, but spends 3 times the amount that I do too.

Well, I guess that's it for now. There's more drama - but I don't wanna blog about it. Ask me Q, and I'll tell ya. Toodles