Just Life.....

There are many blogs out there that seem to show the "perfect life".  Well, my life is not perfect.  In fact it is far from being perfect.  And, since this is also a blog about my life, this blog will not always be perfect either.  My imperfections are shining right now as I think that I'm in a little bit of a depressive slump.

Take the last two weeks.........

As you all know, Hubby was in an accident.  The accident was on my birthday and overshadowed my whole day! Yet, as irony would have it, he hit the back of a beer truck while he was doing about 15 miles an hour. (If you knew hubby, you would know that he can't drink anymore due to medication and other different factors.  You would also know that the truck he hit was carrying his favorite kind of beer......how's that for irony?) Here's the $2,000 minimum worth of damage that was caused by the hand truck/dollies that were on the back of the beer truck that he hit............

I know it doesn't look like $2,000 worth of damage, but the "aftermarket" bumper alone was almost $500!  And, that doesn't even include the damage that you can't see from this photo.  Hubby is not a "do it yourself" kind of person and I'm no mechanic. (Good news to add........Hubby sold his truck to a "DIY'er" and that person is going to fix it up for half the cost.  So, the money Hubby got from his old truck will go towards the car tax bill that will soon arrive in the mail.  At least I won't have to worry where that money will come from.)

You also know that we ended up with a new truck.  A bright shiny new Ford F-150 4X4.  It is one massively big truck.  I tried to talk Hubby out of it and talk him into something a little smaller, but he wasn't listening to that line of reasoning.  We tried looking at used trucks too, but with all the incentives and the Z-Plan, it wasn't in our best interest to go used.

Well, the new truck went with us on vacation last week.  Vacation you say?  That should bring a girl back into good spirits.  Well, did I mention that the week was spent with my FIL......Mr. Unhappy Grumpy Old Man himself?  Now, don't get me wrong, FIL can be a very nice man when he actually tries to be.  But, most of the time he is just an "unhappy camper".  It is very hard to spend a whole week with someone who hardly ever smiles, constantly grumbles, complains and sighs.  He didn't even help with the cooking or the cleaning up of the dinner dishes.  That was left to Hubby and me.  His version of a "Thank you for cooking such wonderful meals, cleaning up and making me feel like a king" was a comment on the last night that Hubby and I were there.  He grumbled "I haven't eaten like this in years" and then sighed.  To boot, he put us in the bedroom with the two single beds and he took the room with the queen size bed for himself.  See what I mean?

At least Hubby and I had some alone time last week without the FIL.  We spent time on the 4X4 beach with the new truck.  I was supposed to take the truck for a spin on the beach, but I chickened out.  However, the time spent on the beach was quite relaxing.  (Unfortunately, it was not enough to overcome dealing with the FIL!)  If you look at the right hand side of the picture, you can just catch a glimpse of Hubby relaxing in the sun. 

There wasn't much in the way of picture taking this time while we were in OBX, but I was able to get a couple of good shots of some birds.  I was disappointed that we didn't see any wild horses this time.  I was really hoping that Hubby would have gone on one of the Wild Horse Tours with me, but we decided that the $100 was better spent on other things now that we have a truck payment.  I was very frugal on the whole trip and just about all the money that I did spend was used to buy Christmas and Hanukkah presents for friends and family.

I guess I'm just having a hard time snapping out of a "Birthday Gone Bad" and a "Vacation With the Grump".  Unfortunately, this week hasn't been the kind of week to get me out of the slump.  What's the saying?  "When it rains, it pours"  Well, that's exactly how I feel right now!  I'm hoping that once I blog this out (and talk this out) of my system, I can get back on track to my normally happy life.

Any suggestions????

Happy Stitching!