The Last Time We Had A Recession....

Arrrgh, I don't even want to think about it. My husband and me almost got divorced. Not for financial reasons mind you, it was simply because he didn't have enough outside work to keep him busy and spent most of his time looking for "make work" projects at home.

Well guess what, we seem to be at that point again. Steve is a renovator who has been as busy as he wants to be since the early 90's but all of a sudden finds himself without work. He's been walking around the house the last couple of days eyeballing walls, ceilings and I got a little nervous.

Today the shoe dropped, just now he said "honey, I think we'll paint the upstairs bathroom tomorrow". Horrors for me, yuck... it means organizing that darn room, taking everything out and maybe throwing some stuff away, and I don't feel like it, I've got knitting to do...

Most people would envy me this man, in fact all the husbands in our bridge group hate him (just kidding) because things always get done around here and the wives are always making comparisons.

I'm also busy trying to find a doctor that will fix my foot. Now I've been told by two of them that they can't/won't operate and I'm really not sure if it's because they can't fix my foot or if it's a money issue. Orthopods get more money from the government for a hip or knee replacement for example than they would get for operating on a foot. And since we can't buy/pay for private doctors here I'm really at their mercy. A doctor in Germany told me the foot is fixable so I'm on a crusade to find a doctor to do so here in Canada. If not, I might have to go to the U.S. to have it done and pay.

I'm not prepared to spend the rest of my life not being able to walk without pain, after all, I still have a mountain to climb...

As for the bathroom, well it really could use a little work.