It's almost vacation time again....
I am the type of person that lives to travel and even I am amazed that it's time to plan the next vacation. Maybe because I went back to work and school has been truly stressful this year but, for some reason, it kinda snuck up on me. So where to go has been the question floating around the house the past couple weeks. I knew it was going to be the Caribbean but which Island, I wasn't sure. Then as fate would have it, I found a photo of an airport that has a runway at the end of a beach and you can watch planes as large as 747's landing 30-60 ft above your head. Way too cool for me or Alex to pass up. Elizabeth even likes this idea. The place is St Maarten, Antilles (the Dutch Netherlands). Half of the Island is Dutch, the other half French. We will be landing on the Dutch side but staying in a private villa just over the border on the french side. The homes (villas) are just as reasonable in price as the hotels but much more privacy and room. Our villa is a 3 bedroom 3 bath with a pool and private beach. I paid more in Ocean City for a 2 bedroom condo than for this villa. Awesome.
The photos are of the airport and planes landing over Maho Beach in St.Maarten. If you want to see something really cool then go to Youtube.com and look up st.maarten and you can watch short clips of 747's landing over the people and of other's being blown into the water..Way to cool.
Merry Christmas and Happy 2008
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and the happiest of New Years. May 2008 be the year to bring each and everyone of you what your heart most desires.
Love and good health to you all.
Its been a bad couple weeks....
It has surely been a bad couple weeks and each day continues to stress me more. No big secret, to those closest to me ,that I am not a Holiday person. For some reason (the phoniness maybe) or another I have always struggled around this time of year. I would be very happy skipping over Thanksgiving and Christmas and moving right onto January 2nd.
Where to begin: Too make a long story short, my cat that I adore (Tony) was diagnosed with feline leukemia about 2 weeks ago, (which there is no cure); my old girl(16 years) Popper died yesterday morning at 7:50am.; and in the middle of the night last night my brother Patrick called me because his cat was falling over, crying and foaming at the mouth. I spent alot of time at 4am looking for an all night vet. We found one and they kept "Fuzz" to try and figure what happened to him.
That was the cat saga of the stress, the work stress comes in the form of me now working the overnight shift (10:30pm until 7:00am). Not hard work but hard on the body. I finally finished school this semester and not a day too soon, I completely over scheduled myself and my grades took a slight beating (2 A's and 2 B's). Fortunately next semester I only need 3 classes to graduate.
What else is bugging me: I had to go to court again to settle my hand injury case. We agreed on a settlement but United Airlines really dragged me through the mud. Even though I stopped working there in July and started at the Maryland Aviation Administration in August, they wanted me to sign a paper saying that I voluntarily resigned and that I wont try to work for them again in the future. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside when your are treated like you did something wrong, when in fact it was them.
And my poor cousin Randy is still in a coma after falling off a chair on Thanksgiving and hitting his head. He has two little girls and my heart breaks for them. Maybe a Christmas miracle will occur.
So now, aren't you glad you read my blog? Hopefully my next post will be a little more cheerful.
