overdue
Well it's been a long time since I have written here, I still read my friends page every now and again and a few key communities so I don't really expect to get any comments on this because I havent been a good lj friend myself but here is an update on me.
2007 sucked, I'm glad it's over.
Kens accident opened the year with a can of suckage. Generally the summer went swimmingly, worked a lot, worked really hard but felt really happy about life and summer. Fall was generally good too, then in October Ken and I witnessed a really terrible fatal accident on the highway near our house while we were on our way into the city, there was nothing we could do to help the poor couple trapped inside and it was a very tragic and sad event. I felt pretty upset after that and had a hard time sleeping.
About a week after that, at about 10 in the morning I got that terrible phone call you never want to get, where you can just hear in the persons voice that something bad happened. My mom was on the phone from New Zealand, my younger brother Adam had fallen off a 3 story building in Saskatoon during a night of drinking and stupidity. Adam was alive but in a medically induced coma in Saskatoon with serious injuries. There didn't seem to be much hope, in fact, the paramedics told his friends who were with him that he was dead as they loaded him into the ambulance. I was hysterical, with Kens accident it wasn't as bad because I was able to see him right away but Adam was alone, in a different province and I had no idea whether he would make it, not to mention my parent's just had their worst nightmare come true. Living on the other side of the world and something happened to one of their babies.
My grandparents were the closest so they rushed down to Saskatoon and got there first, my aunt from Calgary flew in on the next flight after I told her. Ken plied me with sleeping pills to calm me down and made arrangements for the animals and with our employers and we left the next morning for Saskatoon.
Adam was brought out of his coma by the time we got there, he was combative and had no idea what happened, his friends were camped perminently outside of the ICU doors and not allowed in to see him. He had a bleed in his brain from multiple facial and skull fractures. My parents hopped on the soonest plane and got to Saskatoon within a couple days and by then he was moved out of the ICU and into an observation room in Neurology to better assess his wounds. In addition to the head injuries he had a few fractured ribs and two fractured vertibrae and massive bruising all over his body but for falling 3 stories head first onto cement he fared amazingly well (they say the 2 kegs they consumed that night probably helped to save his life).
Within a week of his accident they released him and he and my dad flew to Winnipeg while Ken and my mom and I drove home to prepare.
5 people in our little house for three weeks was a challenge (there was also about 4 days where my aunt was visiting so it was 6!)
His recovery sped along and by today you can barely tell he had an accident, save a little scarring on his forehead, he lives with Ken and I which is super tough at times.
We suddenly became the parents to a teenage boy (who is actually 23).
"when is dinner going to be ready"
"what's to eat here?"
"can I borrow the car?"
He has planned to go to New Zealand for a year in May but for now is living with us rent free, we provide the groceries and pay the bills which is totally draining us, mom threw us a bit of money to help out for which we are greatful but our bills have grown like crazy and are getting harder and harder to pay.
On to the good news....
Ken and I are becoming parents.
To a bouncing beautiful farm.....and some sheep.
We bought the farm :P
67 acres of forested land 30 minutes east of the city, with multiple organic gardens, two ponds and a couple greenhouses.
The house is a stackwall house, built by the owners two hands, it has two wood burning stoves and is pretty rugged and cabiney but who doesn't want to live in a cabin?!
Now we just have to sell our place by February 28th to remove the condition of sale hehe
So that is what's up with me these days!