It always gets better at the END....

Today I had a rough day...(and sorry this may be a bit long)....but in the end it turned out amazing...That's what I learned today---that you need to just ride it out....and it always turns out in the end!!! Days might just have some rough kind of crazy points you might even say 'emotional' moments in between the beginning and the end....but in the end it's always better!!

I've been having some 'phone line' issues...some of you might know that there were times when I called that I could hear YOU but YOU couldn't hear me and vice versa... well with the crazy snow we had on Sunday... my phone line decided to just have a huge 'roar/buzz'... so no phone....and living in the Arctic... I wasn't sure WHEN the technician could come to fix it---could take days or weeks or months... so I nearly lost it last night while on the phone with my phone provider..... I mean I hadn't talked to my mom for 3 days..so who wouldn't? My neighbours lent me their phone... and I called my mom so crisis had been averted.....

During the same time--my Internet had been 'suspended'... I thought I had made the payment...(I'm a newbie to Internet banking AS well as the Arctic it seems ;) but I came home from my road trip sans Internet.....SOOOOOOO that made me a bit sad as well.... I mean NO INTERNET.. NO PHONE.... not so fun.....it was almost enough to break me.....

THEN at coffee break I found out that the office was planning an IQ day... fishing on Friday---I was scheduled to be away from the community on a trip..... so that was like the last straw.... and I was upset..(I mean ice fishing...who wants to miss that?!) I was able to re-arrange my travel plans and now am able to take part in this day---I'm so excited!

I made a few calls about my internet.. and found out the payment was received... and my modem was turned back on...and have set up a 'scheduled payment' 2 days BEFORE it's due so that I won't be cut off again!

My day was starting to look so much better---then I got a call from someone asking me if I could come home bc he wanted to check my phone... had already fixed something at the pole....(it was 11:55 so I ran home a bit early for lunch..) but he needed to check out the line inside to see if it was working.... and it was so now I have phone service...

I was thinking to myself my day is pretty good........ then I go to check my mail around 4pm...and I've received a package from my mom........ EVEN BETTER!!!

I've been told this box was coming---sent on the 20th and arrived today 7 days later(wow that's fast)....My sis-in-law also told me that I'm going to laugh when I open it....My mom has told me to OPEN it at HOME.. not at the office.... so what to do? can we say TORTURE?---for the last HOUR at work... I sat there and wondered what was in it? it didn't rattle? or make noise....hmmm with a box that size you'd wonder too........

I got home..at 5:03pm. and finally opened it....... see all those goodies....

LOTS of new books, 2 curtain panels, a toilet brush AND cleaner, scrub pads for dishes, 3 rolls of paper towel AND 1 roll of toilet paper....and a partridge in a pear tree?(not this time!)

I can honestly say I've NEVER been soooo HAPPY to see a toilet brush!! (they cost like $20 or something here---and I forgot to grab one to ship before I came north...) was just going to pick one up when I come south on holidays...but oh no... now I don't have to wait to have a sparkling clean throne(on the INSIDE as well as the OUT)...bye bye gross boy college dorm toilet!!!! (yes I promptly cleaned it at 5:05pm)....

...the curtains look pretty snazzy too!!!! Gotta luv the awesome curtain rod I have String with 2 tacks!!! (never been sooooo happier!!!)

All has been put back to the right in the Arctic!