Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Been a while this is a long one!

Hi all or maybe the one or two that read my blog.
It has been a long, long time since I have blogged. Made it thru the holiday season though we are probably one of 4 families left in the US with their tree still up. We went from holidays to the cold, flu and repertory distress season. Seem to be just surfacing from that so now we can look forward to the more positive.

The bride and I have been in discussion about our yearly trip to the islands. By now we usually are paying for our fake bake tans to prepare us for out April trip. This alone sometimes gets us thru the end of January and all of February before the longest and to me worst month of the year MARCH.

Tangent…..why Rob doesn’t like March. I don’t like March for many reasons. In the planes states the weather goes crazy….snow, sleet, ice, hail thunder storms return ….strong winds and 50 degree temp swings are just a few of the crazy weather issues. Oh yeah 31 calendar days of this mess with no vacation days involved. It usually is the month we are trying to get thru so we can head to the islands too so I pretty much am not a big lover of March. Now for the good parts of March….march Madness, the ST Pattys Day beer tour at Old Chicago and at least a day or two where Rob and a few others can wear shorts outside without freezing your proverbial backside off. That’s about it!!! Tangent over….

On a 3 hour car trip that the two of us recently were on we discussed great things like the economy and our jobs as we both are working for a company that is going thru a merger. This led us to the decision that we both simply despise. Time to postpone our trip….Noooooo. As of today I have officially been given back my shoe laces and even belt and hear rumors that the Rob suicide watch may be cancelled. (ok folks I know that wasn’t in the best of taste but I do try to add a bit of humor in my posts).

We have settled on the month of our return to the island but still need to pick out a week.

That is being hampered by our fantabulous new timeshare company…seems that they think a 40% increase in fees annually isn’t much of an issue and of course they are due the same time our car tags, Christmas and worst yet property taxes on the house are due, so bet you cant guess who gets the last check!!!! And on another sad point, the money tree that we planted in the back yard has either gone dormant or gulp..died! So the timeshare will just have to wait their turn cause we settled on a new plan in September…no more credit card usage. This means we will use what we have at hand and spending will come from our debit card for major purchases like airline tickets. Ok, that was tangent #2, back to regularly discombobulated ramblings.

So we know we will be going back to the island in November. Have been there before in Nov and though a bit wetter than in April, the water is warm and everything was very green so we have tentative dates set…at least in our heads for Nov. Woo hoo now I know that previously discussed watch has been cancelled.

So here comes the lists……

1. we want to bring at least one couple with us….but who
2. pay timeshare fees no matter how exorbitant they may be
3. book room
4. watch flights
5. see what friends will be on island (this will lead to decision making on activities we will do during our visit)
6. my small (ok at this point microscopically small) business is off the ground so will be time to see where we can get some of my items in some of the boutiques’ there on island
7. prepare samples for island visit

There will be more listing I am sure. I do go out of turn on my list as I will as you know from previous posts follow airfare between Feb and probably summer time when I will eventually pull the trigger.

My resolution to my blog….I will post more frequently than once a month ……ciao!!!