Is Pace!!

Well people I am here and have been here since last Monday but today is the first time that I have even looked at my blog or that of the rest of all my great blogging counterparts! Needless to say...I have alot of catching up to do!!

But I just wanted to wish all of you out there a great but safe Carnival!!! See alluh on de road!!

The Big Question

So yes I know that it is countdown to carnival but I found this article so important that it was worth mentioning.

The article appearing on www.msn.com and couple of days ago and now ah trying to go back there but can't find it for nothing. Essentially though, it is about finding out what it is we are meant to do in this life career wise. To me that is so very important. I think one of the most important lessons that I have learnt while living, working and going to school up here is that at the end of the day it doesn't matter how many degrees you have handing on your wall, what your title is or how many people make more money than you (cause not that money is not important, but there will always be someone with more money than you). It is if you are happy doing what you are doing.

I could go on forever about this topic but the article asked one main question though, "What would you do with the rest of your life if you won the lottery tomorrow?"

So I think the answer to this depends on a lot of factors. Age is a big one. If you are retired like my father after having given 40 years of service to BWEE you will most probably say something like build the beach house in Toco that he say he going to build for years and spend his days relaxing on his porch and reading papers like he studying for an exam.

For my husband, he said that he would just coach football for the rest of his life. He has been coaching up here for the last 4 years or so and I knew that that was what his answer was going to be. Me on the other hand, I know that I would work in something service oriented. Start up a non-profit that helps people in some way to better their lives or make their lives just a little bit easier. There are so many people out there who could use a helping hand with things that we take for granted everyday.

So, what would you do if you won the lotto tomorrow?

De Dance on Fire!!

SO! It is almost here people and everyday there is more and more soca to listen to!

So far I have so many favorites it is ridiculous! These are my current favs though:

Be Mine Tonight - Blazer

Caribbean Girl - Nadia Baston

Higher Than High - Machel

Carnival Stort - KMC

We Are D'Boss - KMC

One More Time - Machel

Open D'Gate - Shurwayne

No Chorus - KMC and Fireball

And soooooo many more. Lemme know what I miss!

What a Way to End 2006

Vacation Day!! Thank the lord it was a good one. But settling down to do some writing I started thinking about the next few weeks and the preparation to be made before coming back to that place that I oh so miss.

I have about 6 weeks before I am back home and a lot of stuff to do before then. Getting in to an accident last week (I know...great way to end off the year same thing my mother said) did not help cause now I have alot of things to do concerning that too.

Yes I know....didn't mention that me and the husband was in ah lil collision but we are o.k. We were hit by...get this...A 93 YEAR OLD MAN IN A TRUCK. We had to swerve to avoid him and he still ended up hitting the back of our car and we hit the front wheel against the curb. So of course...he was at fault...I was like okay....his insurance will give us a lil something at least to make sure that the car could drive...something where!!?? These bastards...and that was not the original word that I used...called back my husband to tell him that cause the cost to fix our car is more than the car is worth...they can only offer to give us what the car is worth and they will take our car! WHAT!!?? What de hell sense that make!!?? So after several inquiries I heard that that is the custom and our only choice was to take whatever they give us and allow them to take the car as I do not think that our car in its current state will last three months until my husband has to come home at the end of March.

When ah tell yuh...that old man and his insurance company well put de nail in de coffin for me last week eh! I only now kind of cool down about it so I can tell alluh de story now but I was livid to say the least! Now we have to either rent a car for the next three months or I can oblige my co-worker who has so graciously offered me one of the cars that she and her husband have. Not sure what will happen but that was how my 2006 ended.

Now I am only trying to look forward...saying thank lord that the accident was not worse and hoping that everything moves smoothly and without incident until I land at Piarco on February 5th and the husband arrives in March. I have faith...yuh cah end the year and start it off bad right??

For all those Resolution Makers and Breakers

Well it is about that time of year when some of you begin to think about your resolutions for the new year.

I can say for myself that I have been a habitual resolution maker. Sometimes, I have been able to keep to my resolutions, but more often I do not. I think many of us try to make resolutions for ourselves that are unrealistic, that we do not really want to make or are not that serious about.

So next year, I have one main one that I am going to try to work on and that is just to be happier with myself and who I am and where I am in my life.

So, with the big '08 approaching...what may be some of the resolutions for the new year that you are considering?

Happy New Year Everyone!! See you all in the '07

Tis the Season to be BUSY!

So from the slow blogging of my other blog partners as well as myself, I knew that we are really into the Xmas/Carnival Season. People busy yes, myself included! No rest till Ash Wednesday!

Who costume ain't book praying that by some miracle they find somebody who selling a costume in their dream section their same size. Flight not book...well yuh looking at spending a good chunk of change on that one! If yuh anywhere close to Atlanta yuh might want to check out Delta though. After work yuh rushing to get a good space in that 6.30pm Tae Bo class at the gym all the while jamming out yuh soca on yuh car radio or Ipod trying to get motivated to sweat up a storm.

In de midst of all this frantic excitement about the upcoming Carnival though, there is still the Xmas tree that yuh ain't put up yet. Not a light is strung up in my poor apartment. Gifts are very few this season as people need to remember that you have a 400US costume to pay for. Then there is all the fruit cake, pastelles, sorrel that you will either be missing or have yet to make. Pressure!

I know I am not the only one. But have no fear, before we all know it, it will be Ash Wednesday and yuh will be wishing that you could do it all over again!

Transition Time!!

So this weekend I actually started some preliminary cleaning and throwing away to get some idea of how much stuff I will actually need to ship back home when we move back next year. It is amazing how much stuff you accumulate when you have your own place boy and this is in spite of the fact that my mother calls me the throw away queen! If yuh lie down too long in my house I will throw you away! I just don't like clutter and I think it came from having to move so many times since I have been up here, I just like to have as few things to move as possible.

All the cleaning and sorting led to a discussion between me and the husband about what we thought would be the hardest thing about moving back. I could really only come up with one thing.....my cell phone. I am so accustomed to just calling and spending how much ever time on my phone that I want and not worrying about minutes or anything like that. Not sure how easily it will be for me to adjust to a pre-paid or post paid phone.

From my peoples at home and even my people who live abroad...what other big adjustments should I consider?