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Well happy birthday to ya!

For my dear birthday celebrating friend aithine who likely thinks I have been eaten by polar bears here in the great white north

( A short birthday story )

So, found out I got the job last Friday. Got a phone call from new boss yesterday (Wednesday). New boss says "Can you start next week?" I say, of course. Cool, says she, you'll need to be in London, Ontario for training, intakey stuff on Monday. Gah!!!!!!!

Things have been a bit hectic here since yesterday. Had to reschedule father's day stuff with my dad as I'll be driving to London on Sunday. Had to find a hotel to stay at. Still have to find someone to drive Thing 2 to guitar lessons on Monday night. Then, looked at wardrobe only to discover that I no longer own much of anything that could be described as "business casual". Ack, must shop tomorrow night. Good thing I like it when things are hectic.

*superseekrit message to ancarett: barn is changed to late Sat. afternoon/early evening that work for you?*

So, um, yeah, we bought a horse on Saturday. She's a four year old, bay mare. Green broke. Thoroughbred. Her registered name is Majestic Jet. We changed her barn name to Maia. Pictures under the cut.

( Our horse, let me show you it )

Gather Round Children ...

( And listen to my tale of woe )

So, I've been meaning to make this post for, oh, about three days now. But, with one thing and another (work, work, driving all over Ontario for work, and making the icon to grace this post), I hadn't quite gotten to it yet.

However, I am now doing it. I am posting gushing praise (and pictures) of this past weekend's horse show.

( Here there be horsies )

Okay kids, we got more pics.  The first three are from yesterday, when the weather was fantastic and we spent six hours beside the pool.  The last two are from today.  The wind picked up a little and we had some cloud cover.  Made for a beautiful sunrise and some nice little white caps foaming over the reef.

Nothing but blue sky	Kids plus extra
Sunsetish	Sunrise
Windy day today

And look at me making the rich text work.  Yay me!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN BERMUDA!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111!!!!!!!!!

Okay, seriously have NO inclination to go home ever again. We landed to a beautiful day with light cloud cover and a temperature hovering around 20 C, that'd be 70s to you fareheit folks. I have used the word balmy before. I even thought I understood the word balmy before. I was wrong. This place? Is balmy. And beautiful, did I mention beautiful?

The roads are narrow and twisty, with stone retaining walls. The houses and hotels are pastel coloured with white roofs that are used to catch the rain for drinking water. The palm trees are decorated at our hotel with literally thousands of mini Christmas lites. And the view? They upgraded us to an ocean view room with a balcony. This, my friends, is heaven.

I already killed a set of batteries on the camera. *snerk* But I shall try to figure out how to upload photos to the gallery later tonight or tomorrow. Without aithine to help me, I might just be screwed. Oh, wait, I don't care ... I'm on vacation in Bermuda.

For the record, the kids have already been in the ocean at the beach. It wasn't quite intentional, but hey, the footing was treacherous what with the fact that they were giggling and shoving each other.

I'm sure I have much more gushing to do, but I'm arm wrestling the kid for computer time. She has to keep all her peeps updated on MSN. Sheesh, it'd be much easier if she had LJ. Dear lord, pretend I never said that!

Wish me luck with the gallery thing! Oh, and by the way ... Bermuda is beautiful.

Dear self,

Driving to Toronto, sitting in the passport office for over three hours, then driving home again in one day is a BAD idea. It is an even worse idea if they are forecasting snow in the Barrie area. Keep this in mind when it is time to renew the passports.

Love (in a very tired way) me.

I am deader than a dead thing. Remember how excited I was that my sister could take some of the work load? Bwahahahahah! I crack myself up. By my calculations, I'm about 25 hours behind on paperwork. And I'm running to stand still. Eeep!

So, I have caved. We're having dinner with our future employee on Monday night. It's the first night we're all free. This means I should have an employee (holy shit! I'm gonna be a boss) in about two weeks. This may mean I'll get to have a life outside work again.

This also means I'll get to write again. I wrote some last weekend, but I finished nothing. I promise I'll have the crack fic finished this weekend, cmk418. And I'll work on that prompt, blade_girl. No, really.

In other news ... in exactly 35 days, I will be parking my ass on a beach in Bermuda. But who's counting?

To aithine who deserves much love, and maybe some porn.

So, my darling, (and anyone else who reads this journal), leave a request in the comments and I shall write porn. The request can be in the form of a specific pairing (um, John/Rodney?), or fandom, or just a couple or three words as prompt for pornfic.

Let there be birthday porn!!!!!!!