Christmas #2
Dec 13th 2012, 12:21 am
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Christmas #2
Well, I have been here 15 months and the OH has been here nearly two and a half years.
This is my second Christmas and it is shaping up to be a much happier experience than the first one.
This time, we have our own home, which we love, in a great neighbourhood where we can relax and enjoy everything.
No more renting, subsidising the habits of the woman downstairs who couldn't leave her dog all day without all the heaters and lights blazing and the television on via the shared hydro bill ($900 hydro bill for two months!!!), having to put up with pot smoke drifting up into our bedroom, repeatedly picking up her garbage which she left out for the raccoons to rummage in or being woken up by drunken door-slamming and snoring in the early hours as she returned from the casino.
No more being blasted out in the evenings by her lazy boyfriend playing shoot-'em-up games at full blast on their surround sound TV or having to shut the windows on sunny days to keep out the rancid stench of her dog's mess or the fat flies from that and her disgusting , filthy barbecue.
No more being at the whim of landlords who employ incompetent electricians who find no fault with electric heaters which turn themselves on, spark like Roman Candles and almost set fire to the curtains.
All GONE!
So, time to forget that and make like it never happened.
This Christmas, we can do as we please; be peaceful when we want and be noisy when we want, kings of our own castle and masters of our own hydro bill (same period this year - $60!).
This is how our first Christmas together in Canada should have been.
Peace and Goodwill to all men
This is my second Christmas and it is shaping up to be a much happier experience than the first one.
This time, we have our own home, which we love, in a great neighbourhood where we can relax and enjoy everything.
No more renting, subsidising the habits of the woman downstairs who couldn't leave her dog all day without all the heaters and lights blazing and the television on via the shared hydro bill ($900 hydro bill for two months!!!), having to put up with pot smoke drifting up into our bedroom, repeatedly picking up her garbage which she left out for the raccoons to rummage in or being woken up by drunken door-slamming and snoring in the early hours as she returned from the casino.
No more being blasted out in the evenings by her lazy boyfriend playing shoot-'em-up games at full blast on their surround sound TV or having to shut the windows on sunny days to keep out the rancid stench of her dog's mess or the fat flies from that and her disgusting , filthy barbecue.
No more being at the whim of landlords who employ incompetent electricians who find no fault with electric heaters which turn themselves on, spark like Roman Candles and almost set fire to the curtains.
All GONE!
So, time to forget that and make like it never happened.
This Christmas, we can do as we please; be peaceful when we want and be noisy when we want, kings of our own castle and masters of our own hydro bill (same period this year - $60!).
This is how our first Christmas together in Canada should have been.
Peace and Goodwill to all men
Dec 13th 2012, 2:16 pm
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Re: Christmas #2
We've been here the same length of time as you - just in a different part of Canada.
Second Xmas here too and we moved. We lived in town last Christmas, now we're in the middle of nowhere, overlooking a lake which seems to be getting more beautiful with every passing frosty day...
Here's to our 2nd Christmases!
Second Xmas here too and we moved. We lived in town last Christmas, now we're in the middle of nowhere, overlooking a lake which seems to be getting more beautiful with every passing frosty day...
Here's to our 2nd Christmases!
Dec 13th 2012, 9:38 pm
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Wish you a wonderful christmas.
This year is the first year that my wife and I will be celebrating with our foster children and we are thinking of ways to make it a little more special.
This year is the first year that my wife and I will be celebrating with our foster children and we are thinking of ways to make it a little more special.
Dec 14th 2012, 4:29 pm
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Re: Christmas #2
We've been here the same length of time as you - just in a different part of Canada.
Second Xmas here too and we moved. We lived in town last Christmas, now we're in the middle of nowhere, overlooking a lake which seems to be getting more beautiful with every passing frosty day...
Here's to our 2nd Christmases!
Second Xmas here too and we moved. We lived in town last Christmas, now we're in the middle of nowhere, overlooking a lake which seems to be getting more beautiful with every passing frosty day...
Here's to our 2nd Christmases!
You may not be able to "eat the view", as they often say on here, but it does feed the soul to live amongst natural beauty.
A toast to living in the sticks!
No need to wrack your brains on that one - it will be super just being together!
Dec 15th 2012, 10:19 pm
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Re: Christmas #2
Congrats helcat12, having your own space is great and have a great Christmas 
Dec 15th 2012, 11:06 pm
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Dec 18th 2012, 11:23 pm
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Re: Christmas #2
Have a great Christmas Helcat cant wait for our first christmas when we get out there
Dec 19th 2012, 2:28 pm
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Re: Christmas #2
Well, I have been here 15 months and the OH has been here nearly two and a half years.
This is my second Christmas and it is shaping up to be a much happier experience than the first one.
This time, we have our own home, which we love, in a great neighbourhood where we can relax and enjoy everything.
No more renting, subsidising the habits of the woman downstairs who couldn't leave her dog all day without all the heaters and lights blazing and the television on via the shared hydro bill ($900 hydro bill for two months!!!), having to put up with pot smoke drifting up into our bedroom, repeatedly picking up her garbage which she left out for the raccoons to rummage in or being woken up by drunken door-slamming and snoring in the early hours as she returned from the casino.
No more being blasted out in the evenings by her lazy boyfriend playing shoot-'em-up games at full blast on their surround sound TV or having to shut the windows on sunny days to keep out the rancid stench of her dog's mess or the fat flies from that and her disgusting , filthy barbecue.
No more being at the whim of landlords who employ incompetent electricians who find no fault with electric heaters which turn themselves on, spark like Roman Candles and almost set fire to the curtains.
All GONE!
So, time to forget that and make like it never happened.
This Christmas, we can do as we please; be peaceful when we want and be noisy when we want, kings of our own castle and masters of our own hydro bill (same period this year - $60!).
This is how our first Christmas together in Canada should have been.
Peace and Goodwill to all men
This is my second Christmas and it is shaping up to be a much happier experience than the first one.
This time, we have our own home, which we love, in a great neighbourhood where we can relax and enjoy everything.
No more renting, subsidising the habits of the woman downstairs who couldn't leave her dog all day without all the heaters and lights blazing and the television on via the shared hydro bill ($900 hydro bill for two months!!!), having to put up with pot smoke drifting up into our bedroom, repeatedly picking up her garbage which she left out for the raccoons to rummage in or being woken up by drunken door-slamming and snoring in the early hours as she returned from the casino.
No more being blasted out in the evenings by her lazy boyfriend playing shoot-'em-up games at full blast on their surround sound TV or having to shut the windows on sunny days to keep out the rancid stench of her dog's mess or the fat flies from that and her disgusting , filthy barbecue.
No more being at the whim of landlords who employ incompetent electricians who find no fault with electric heaters which turn themselves on, spark like Roman Candles and almost set fire to the curtains.
All GONE!
So, time to forget that and make like it never happened.
This Christmas, we can do as we please; be peaceful when we want and be noisy when we want, kings of our own castle and masters of our own hydro bill (same period this year - $60!).
This is how our first Christmas together in Canada should have been.
Peace and Goodwill to all men
Hope you have a great 2nd Christmas
Dec 19th 2012, 5:28 pm
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Dec 20th 2012, 12:29 am
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Re: Christmas #2
Onwards and upwards! Have a great Christmas - we're all looking forward to a good break too - our third Christmas here.
Dec 20th 2012, 2:17 am
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Re: Christmas #2
Hope you have a great crimbo Hellcat 
One day, in the far far far distant, almost uncomprehensibly distant future, you'll look back and laugh
One day, in the far far far distant, almost uncomprehensibly distant future, you'll look back and laugh
