JFF - What Do You Look Forward To?

Hubby is working in town all week.... so does that mean I am looking forward to next Monday when he leaves again, lol... No! Not at all.. I am actually excited to have him home all week. That means I have motivation to clean and pick up house all day so it is "perfect" when he gets home, it means that we get to have family dinner every night this week, it means a little extra "Luvin" wink wink..hehe (as I blush...), it means kids have the biggest smiles on their face b/c dad is home every night this week!

YAAAAA~~ Can't wait till he is home tonight.

Winter. <grin> 3-5 days of snowboarding a week with my son!!!

Nonna-weekends. I've just started sending my husband away for 2 days a month, and my son gets a double sleepover at Nonna's. I have all weekend to write & work!!! Yay!

Christmas. 'Nuff said.

Moving. It'll be several years, but the next house (if all goes minimally according to plan) will have a pool, and cost about 1/4-1/2 of what our house does now (can ya TELL I'm talking about moving out of state? Ha! I am soooooooo looking forward to selling this house and moving somewhere with real, honest to god, seasons instead of 5 and a half months of fall and 5 and a half months of spring and mere nods to winter and summer. I'm currently thinking NJ or PA or MA. Boston's a nice town. Maybe an hour or two by train away from Boston. I've got time to figure it out. I want seasons OR heat... within 2 hours of mountains suitable for snowboarding, and close to beaches for surfing I haven't done in 10 years, and sailing I'd prefer to do in nicer weather. That is NOT the west coast, midwest, or south. The south, bless it, has alligators anyway... which crosses it rather firmly off the 'list'. I've spent too many years with the watercourses blocked for swimming by demented dinosaurs to intentionally return full time)

Working. With a paycheck! And with that paycheck I shall hire a maid. Period. Maids are a C.O.D gift from god.

Losing weight. Mostly because it means I can do more schtuff. Hard to bend when the flubber gets in the way.

An excuse to wear heels and a pretty dress. (I do this maybe once every 3 years)

School starting back up again. (we homeschool, and have been 'out' of school for nearly 2 months with kiddo's respiratory issues having us in and out of the hospital). Huzzah for HS'ing, poor kid would have to repeat 3rd grade if we didn't.

School starting back up again. (My school, I've had to take the past year + off for money reasons. Thrilled to get back in gear next fall & spring! I take winter quarter off).

My new tattoo. I've waited a year, that means I can get it any time now.

Taking my son camping at Lake Chelan and renting jetskis / lazing about all day on willows point reading books.

New health insurance (yay!)

A massage by my favorite LMP (haven't seen her in months)

The next really good, spine melting, vision blurring kiss.

The next kid-kiss from my son.

Deciding what the heck I'm going to do with my hair. Let it grow and relax it? Or chop it all off again for a cute short style? I have delusions of Eliza Dushku hair. Don't get me wrong, I can do it, but blowing long -very curly- hair is a pain in the tucus. 1 hour from start to finish. It's almost nipple length at this point (straight, just past my chin curly... I have *very* curly hair). I'm seriously considering bringing it back to my jawline (straight). Or relaxing it out so it's collar bone length curly. Decisions, decisions. I've been dithering since LAST summer.

Not hating my kitchen.

<grin> And soooooo much more.

At this moment: lunch!

;-)

the obvious spending time with my daughter and then after that

sleeeeeepppppppp and sex!!!

5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday
and leaving for FL on Friday! Beach here I come I hope you are ready.

I am looking forward (way way in the future) to when my daughter graduates from high school (15 years from now!!). Our plan is to sell our house and all our excess stuff, buy a beautiful boat, and TRAVEL!!!

Rain! It has been months since we had rain. I think the last time anything measurable fell it was around Thanksgiving. I love it when it rains...probably becasuse we dont see to many rainy days here in the southwest.

I am looking forward to our family vacation :)

October! Its my fav month. Its extremely hot here and for most of the yr its stifling! I love fall, the smells, the not 100+ weather, halloween and thanksgiving! I love thanksgiving with the yum food and family and not the pressure of presents and all that. I hate this heat! Come on football (cowboys) and cooler weather!

My hubby getting home from work!!! Vacations. Working out. My son's gymnastics meets or soccer games. Eating yummy food! Travel of any kind. Hanging out with a girlfriend. Weekend plans like going to a festival or going hiking together. Right now I'm really looking forward to our family vacation to a beach house in July. We are meeting my husband's whole family there so all the cousins will be able to play together. It's going to be so much fun and relaxing! hooray!!!! And I'm looking forward to a 2nd trip we are taking. My hubby and I are celebrating both turning 40 this August and have decided to do a quick trip to Tulum Mexico! Grandma is watching the kids. I'm both nervous and excited - our first time to get away together without kids!

Near future, rain!!

Further down the road, I am truly looking forward to Tuesday, November 6, 2012!! Election day!

I look forward to vaction every summer! We go for a week with my parents and we always have a wonderful time! Everthing is within walking distance and we just relax for the whole week. Beach, pool, playground, ice cream shop, bowling, good food...

There are countless little daily and weekly things that motivate me. But the BIG thing I'm beginning to look forward to is Medicare! Only a year and a half to go.

My private insurance policy, which I've maintained for over 25 years just to prevent losing my home in case of a medical catastrophe, now costs more than half of what I earn – even with a $6000 yearly deductible, which means ALL of my actual medical care is out of pocket, and it has multiple exclusions. I halfway expect that if I were actually diagnosed with cancer or had a major injury, this company would rescind my policy, as it has done to so many other policy-holders.

As a result of this crippling expense, I have not been able to afford a pelvic floor repair that I've needed for 30 years. Over the past 15 years, it has become a chronic, painful, socially and physically handicapping problem. It's so severe that my husband and I have talked about dropping our medical plan so that I can actually have funds for the needed surgery. What an amazing system health care for profit has become – I'm one of many dozens of acquaintances and small business owners who pay a lot and get back very little to nothing.

RANT ALERT: My friends and I who complain about insurance company profits have been called 'socialists,' and worse. That's just political spin, and untrue. We don't want the gov't to take care of all our needs; we just want a fair break. My associates are hard-working, skilled professionals, often self-employed, who pay taxes AND happlily take care of as many of our own needs as we possibly can, AND make many generous contributions to the welfare of society as a whole.

But folks, the fortune we have to pay to get a measure of health 'security' that may be nothing more than a mirage is criminal – if we can afford private insurance at all. And I have some some acquaintances who are employed where they get generous health plans, take them for granted, and use them without a thought for what looks to me like frivolous care, driving my premiums up even higher. For example, I know a guy who had the bags under his eyes cosmetically removed, and paid a $45 copay, and complained about that. If there's a sense of entitlement, it's among those folks, seems to me.

I've been in quite a lot of pain for the past 4.5 months, am very nearly confined to my home, and am feeling pretty crabby about it. (By the way, S., none of my rant is directed at you. I'm just fed up and feeling furious and hopeless at the moment. There's no way I can afford to get relief for my physical miseries, being wrung out as I am every month by a 'for profit' insurance company, which is about to increase my premium another 8%, even though I've never had a single claim paid by them in over 25 years.)

End of rant. Thanks for listening, anybody who cares.

Every other weekend when our ex's have our kids and we get a much needed break! :o)