12.18.09

A bit of change and trying to get back on track

Posted in News at 00:51 by nikki

First things first: HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAT!

Well, I’ve let the website (the blog) go without updating for a bit…gotta get back to “normal”. I’ve been a bit out of sorts of course I’m sure people understand. Yesterday was my Nana’s funeral and I had sent a poem I wrote about her, I don’t know if people want to read it or not. No doubt I can post it if anyone wants to read it but it’s just my thoughts, memories of my grandmother and don’t know if it will make so much sense to others. My Dad said they used it as the eulogy so I’m a bit happy that it turned out well enough that they wanted to read it out loud. My Dad actually told me yesterday that he thought I had a talent for writing and for those who know my Dad that is the greatest thing I could have ever heard from him, he never has been one to give compliments or say he’s proud of anyone so it brought a tear to my eye to hear that from him. Maybe he’s just getting softer in his old age.

My cousin flew to Cambridge for the funeral with her family and I both envy her and at the same time a bit relieved I didn’t have to be there as I know I wouldn’t have stopped crying with all the family in one spot. My brother Chris (lives in Vancouver) talked on MSN the night before the funeral and I know he was really down as well. It was great to hear from him, hardly ever do. Also remarkably caught my sister on MSN just as she walked in to my Dad’s to get ready to drive back to her house so I had a great couple evenings with a few friends talking to me on Facebook chat as well as my brother and then last night talked to my Mom, my Dad and my sister. I’ve heard from everyone how much they loved my cousin’s little family and how happy they were that they were there.

We went to the store and bought a candle holder with a saucer for oil and a bottle of lavender scented essential oil. We burned a candle for my Nana with the smell of lavender which was her “scent” and one of her favourite flowers. The best we could do but our hearts were there.

Yesterday I went to get my hearing checked in the morning and it took an hour and afterwards he showed me the chart and said that I was below normal, had some obvious hearing loss but not enough for the government to pay for a rebate on a hearing aid. He said he had a couple types that might help with the constant ringing too but that the ringing would come back as soon as I took it out again so wouldn’t help me at night. I asked the price and when he showed me I said I’d be just fine without one thank you!!! Kr.300.000,-  or the equivalent to about $2.500,- . He did tell me to make an appointment with an ear and throat specialist though and maybe he can help me to figure out what is causing it.

What else have we done lately? We’ve held our course or should I say Rúnar went last Sunday on his own and I stayed home. We then went to see what people were doing in the clicker training group that meets once every two weeks. They decided to meet on Tuesday at 6 p.m. so since Rúnar is off we decided to take the trip to town to see. Well it ended up that a couple people there want to come to our next course, and speaking of courses Rúnar is starting to put together a new slide show for the future courses so we don’t have to use my old one because it was way too long, designed for an 8 hour seminar and we have to do all the talking in about 3 hours in the new courses. From what we heard from our friend and one student after the clicker group meeting is that there are a bunch of people waiting for the next course that she has heard from and we haven’t even advertised anything yet. We want to put together a couple different types of courses, have I talked about this before? Well, probably but we’re spending some time over the holidays to organize and get things ready for that.

Decided to change the look of the blog because this particular setup allows for “pages” and that way I can put up new pages when I feel like it. At the moment I have the litter plans and it’s good to finally have that in an obvious place where people can just click on and look instead of having to read the blog to find something about it. Still miss the look and ease of a real website and I’m sure people might visit more if I had the website the way it was, I used to be able to see how many visitors came to the site but I can’t do that anymore and let’s just say for me (who inherited my Nana’s curiosity) it sucks to not be able to find out how many visit anymore.

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