Author: Saille

Who am I? On the surface I'm a nature-loving dirt worshipping hippy in search of a good adrenaline rush. That's all I have for now.

The parental visit was great. It’s kinda funny, given the past, as to how we are becoming more a family and having more fun together. The amusing part, was how the Pastry managed to pull my dad away from the women’s basketball final for dinner at the table. I loved it, even though I was a little late, because my TV show download had a hiccup. We also went and did a lot of stuff. Usually our visits include Dr visits and shopping, this time was a lot of socializing and looking at stuff. I think the next one will be, too. I really hope my brother and his family can go with us, too.

As for me, Surgeon appointment has been scheduled, so one thing down. Next week I’m going to start working myself into my new schedule, so Teacher training won’t be such a shock to the system and a struggle to do everything I need to get done. Better to work into it so the kinks won’t be as detrimental. Also, doing a full “spring cleaning” next week and going to start working on the front closet, so it will be just as useful as the sunroom. Also need to stock up on the summer foods, already starting to experience the issues with eating less per meal. Pastry also noted the fact that our issues resolved in Texas, as my mum makes more vegetables with the meals than we do when we are at home. So….fresh veggies here I come….now to just make sure I’m home at decent hours to make dinner.

I have decided that it’s time for this journal to evolve….I just don’t know what it will evolve into. Reasoning is, it was started to give me space to explore myself, resolve issues and move forward. At this point, I’ve worked through almost everything that caused severe imbalances. Going forward is a different chapter and I need to move towards that.

So….let’s see….I’ve been accepted by Peachtree Yoga for the fall course of their teacher certification class. I’m excited about it, and am willing to wake up before dawn on the weekends to make it to class. I’m hoping it will allow me to turn more into an early morning person than a late morning person. I really hate not really being awake till around 10ish. It’ll also get me on more of a schedule and will also force me to move my work schedule to the one that I want (haven’t done it, because I haven’t had a need to do so). It also means I’ll be back to a Mon-Fri schedule. Yay weekends!!!! Downside, need to find another female therapist, which has always been a bane for me. I know very few female therapists who meet my expectations in both capability and work ethic. Maybe it’s just a therapist thing, namely in who is attracted to the field and their expectations on how the field works, who knows. Anyway, I’ll start working on that stuff soon.

Now, on to hunting down payments due from clients. Fun!!!

I don’t think I’ve ever been this nervous. Of all the stuff I’ve done, I have never actually felt the need to toss my breakfast as much as I did this morning.

But hey, I got to nail his lawyer on his “you got a great deal on this property” question. Yeah, I got a great deal, if you call paying $5k over only to find out there are electrical issues and the so-called functioning HVAC (according to the receipts and the appraisal) wasn’t functioning. I also got to watch his agent squirm and run away from me, yet again.

The verdict? Against me, but I won the counter-claim. The judge also said that it sounded more like I had a potential fraud case against the agent, as he continued to pull the “the warranty will pay for it” assurance, then proceeded to guaranty that it didn’t by turning in an appraisal that said it didn’t work.

That said, I agree with my lawyer. The agent was contracted to represent the seller to me and my agent and act as a go-between for him and me/my agent. Anything he said made the seller responsible for what he said, kinda like a salesperson saying something untrue about a product and when the product fails the store is responsible to the consumer to “fix” it. Oh well, I’m looking into other means to follow up with this against the agent. And from what it looked like, the seller is going to be seeking restitution for this trip against his agent. If that’s the case, I’ll gladly testify.

But it’s over. Finally.

In a little over a month, I will have owned my business, as it currently stands, for 2 years and will be moving into the 3rd year. And finally, we are moving into a bigger location so I can get my ass moving on the other stuff I want to do with it. I’m actually looking forward to this year. One of my previous contracts is trying to get me back, with the new limits, there’s a better chance that it will be more lucrative than it was last year. As a result, I’m going to have to learn a new balancing act. It also means, all new clients will be directed towards the guys. My goal was to have 4 hours of work a day, for 5 days a week. Right now, I’m working 6 days a week (more often than not, it’s just 1-2 clients on my “day off”). I figure, if I have 2 clients in the morning and 2 in the afternoon/evening, I will be able to accomplish everything I need. Still waiting on the yoga school to contact me about the upcoming certification classes. Fingers crossed that I can get in on this year’s class.

On the house front, I just finished ripping up all but one patch of carpet in the bedroom. There are deep cracks everywhere!!! Going to talk to the JewBrit about filling those in, and waiting for the _gothfather_ to let me know if I need to prime and prep it. Goal there is to put heated tile in, after I get the doors installed. Bathroom is coming along, I’m going to pick up the new mirror on Tuesday – so if anyone needs/wants mirroring, you’re welcome to it, free to a good home. Still waiting on the courts to send me my court date for the HVAC issue. Once that is resolved, hopefully in my favour, I can get the sunroom windows fixed and finish that room. Also need to get an electrician out here, but I think I’ll delay that till I’m ready to finish up the bathroom renovation.

Personal front, Orthonatic appointment is set for Feb 2, parents are coming to sit in on that. Once I get the timeline, we’ll be off! Hopefully, this time next year I’ll be able to train again, which means I’ll need to figure out what I want to do there. As much as I don’t want to move teams, that seems to be my only real option, unless the in-town location has another main instructor. So, we’ll see.

I need to start writing more. I say that quite often. I should do a write up of my trip to France, but I will say, there was not much soul searching on this trip. I can also say, I really need to work on my french, mostly in untangling the American method of language learning. I speak Danish and Portuguese better than French (and that’s not saying much, outside of the fact that those two were learned via immersion type situations).

Merry Christmas from a not-so-snowed in France!

My apologies for those who have called, as it seems my phone has been taken out of the system (found this out as I was trying to add minutes to it), so no returning of phone calls. Delta almost didn’t give me my bags, apparently the bay door was frozen shut and it took 30 minutes to open.

The flight itself wasn’t bad, outside of the fact that the main attendant was right, lots of first timers on the flight. Mainly ones who didn’t realize you could check your bag for free, thus there were lots of folks without places to put said bags. One ended up next to me with no leg space because she didn’t understand “bring your bags to the front, so we can gate check them.” The food sucked, I’m spoiled by Air France and KLM, that’s all I can say. I missed my wine, as I wanted to try the other choices this time around. Delta has gotten overly cheap, but they sent me a survey, so I’ll mention it.

Anyway, I hope to have the phone issue settled by tomorrow, otherwise, you can leave a message on my regular business mail, since it’s online I can listen to it, just too expensive to call back.

So lesson for this round, as much as I like the direct flight, I won’t be doing that unless it’s being run by Air France. I’ll settle for packing enough underwear to tide me over till my bags arrive. Unless they allow me to gate check for my first flight.

I received a response from my Statement of Claim, regarding the HVAC issue, what looks like the original one. Not sure if the guy faxed it in (if he can) or if he sent a duplicate copy to the court. Guess we’ll find out soon, as to when we go to court. Though, from a quick read, I guess HVAC only consists of a thermostat and a furnace, to him.

I was really hoping to be able to post pictures of my super cool steam-punk-esque chandelier for my dining room. Unfortunately, bad wiring – or something – occurred and I cannot. The positive side is the new switch is working beautifully. I was worried last night, but this morning I got the bug in my head to try the kitchen light, which does turn on, so I know the circuit issue starts at the dining room light. Tomorrow, I have a friend coming over to test the wiring and see where the issue is, and if he can patch fix it, it’d be great. I’m getting the name of my other friend’s electrician contractor today in the event it’s something bigger. If that is the case, and one does need to be called in, I’m going to go ahead and have this circuit split up (goes on the list for the purchase of the next house – how loaded are the breaker switches?).

Right now, this one has the kitchen overhead light, dining room fan/light, foyer light/outlet, all the living room and sunroom outlets (about 10-12 total), sunroom fan/light and an apparent “after market” outlet addition in the floor that was badly wired to begin with (possibly a DIY given the fact I fried it trying to stabilize the receptacle). Oh yeah, at least one of the living room outlets doesn’t work. I haven’t tested them, but I think they were the original “lighting” outlets that were disconnected for the floor outlet.

Also, all of the above was on a 15 switch. The dining room outlets (3-4 total) are on a 20 switch. Someone fucked up.

Minor update, of sorts.

Had my appointment with my Orthodontist yesterday, got the x-rays, molds, digital movement models taken care of and have the follow-up for a treatment plan scheduled. The basics, I have to have surgery on both the pallet and and the mandible to widen them and level them out. There’s another procedure that he thinks I’m a good candidate for, that will help out the gum issue (they’re healthy, but receding at a horribly fast rate) and possibly save the front teeth. Either way, the teeth will stop hurting, hopefully the headaches will go away, along with the TMJ. Won’t know the recovery time till I talk with the surgeon, but I will get the opportunity for a vow of silence. Should be interesting.

My hope, is that I won’t be out for a year from training. I know I won’t be back to doing tournaments for that duration and possibly longer, but I really hope they’ll allow technique training.

And yes, I will have to gain weight before hand. Will be shooting for 15-20lbs, so lots of carb loading and good fatty foods, with little exercise. Good thing I have a wonderful group of people surrounding me. Love you all.

I need to get back to writing, as evidenced by the lack of posting here. After spending several days wondering why, it’s mainly because my main thinking time is at work, where I don’t have internet (yet) and the fact that a few situations has stilted my desire to speak my mind (that whole, people must drum up drama from what someone says, and not take it and leave it at face value). What I write here is normally what I’m thinking or feeling at that given moment about whatever subject I’m writing. In the past, that resulted in overt interrogations about what exactly I was talking about and how that involved certain people that weren’t even part of my mental discussion. I need to get over that.

The other part, is that I’m pretty involved in business stuffs, which is my focus and not necessarily the poetry and stories of my life. I need to reverse that and find a nice balance between the two, I miss poetry. I think I need to just fill up my 8×11.5 notebook, so I can invest in a smaller one that fits in my messenger bag. Maybe I’ll leave that one at work.

I’m also spending a decent chunk working on my house stuffs. I’ve fixed 2 walls, and tonight I’ll start working on the next one. After that, the ceiling joints of said walls. Fun stuff, actually. Once all of that is done, I start on the new base molding. I’m considering ceiling molding on the basis that it will save me from having to re-seam the living/dining room joints, as those are the ones in the worst of shape. We shall see, but it will be beautiful. Keeps me busy in my free time, too.

Been working on my culinary skills, as well. Not going as well as the house stuffs, but at least it’s going. Occasionally, I get a bug to cook something “European”, least, my version of a fancy lunch/dinner. Still loving the Thai cooking, but that’s because it involves shoving everything into one bowl. Maybe I’ll just focus on lunch, since I have time to cook it, as dinner comes right after I get home.

So that’s the update.