time flies

wow. I know that I don't check the blog that often, seems like I don't have a lot of info to put out there. I could be on here everyday with a complaint or two, but who likes a complainer. It is good to vent, but if you do that often enough - to the person on the receiving end it becomes the same thing.
Well, last blog I was excited about spring and looking forward to summer and renewal. Well , we had a summer with great weather. It was too short, the days went by too fast and here we are, with fall coming and leaves already starting to turn color and harvest under way.
We have had a few friends and acquaintances over the past year who have been struggling with illness. Some are still going through it, others haven't made it, so when one keeps getting dismal news reports about the persons around them any thing positive is great. It could just be a certain age that you reach when all this starts to come to the fore front of your life.
What are the positive things in your life? Mine would be my pets/dogs. They are always so happy to see you and be with you and the simple things in life, like a walk makes them happy.

Spring & Income Tax

It is spring here. The water is running all over the place. In some places they have way too much and it is causing havoc with the roadways. The last two days have been cloudy and a bit rainy, but when the sun does come out now, it is really going to turn green. I live in a part of the world where we see definite changes in seasons. Now the dead grass from autumn and winter will turn to a new, fresh green and the flowers will start to bloom. We already have the pussy willows out and in the garden in front of the house the siberian squill ( a little purple flower) is blooming. Many of the earliest of songbirds that migrate are coming back and pretty soon the frogs will thaw out from their muddy winter homes and begin their endless chorus in the pond out back. It is lovely.
Now that being said, how wonderful the world is, the downside to spring is the fact that income taxes have to be figured out and sent in to the the tax centre before the end of April. For years I used to always forget that the deadline was April 30, I would think that I had to have it done by the end of March, so I would struggle through my forms and papers (or rush them in to the accountant) and get them done just in the nick of time before the end of March - only to realize that I was a month ahead of the deadline. Now that I have finally got it in my mind that the deadline isn't until April, I (the great procrastinator that I am) now keep putting it off, working at it slowly, gathering my information then panicking the last couple weeks because I have to get this done. I am definitely going to have to go back to the old method of panic in March!!! I use a tax program and it is very easy - all you have to do is answer the questions and it figures the rest out for you. The hard part is keeping track of the stuff you need throughout the year. Yes, it is easier to do it throughout the year - but I am not organized enough and also, once I have sweated over it for a month in the spring - I just forget about it for awhile. But then the 'awhile' turns into the next 11 months and so the cyle continues.
So, I had better quit procrastinating and get back at it before the weather turns beautiful and I want to go outside and take it all in.

travel

It's cold here. I have a cold, which makes me feel miserable. But ever since the new year, whenever I here from friends or family, their news is that they have just returned from or are just about to leave to some sunny beach on some island by the equator or Mexico. And it depresses me. Why? Because someday, I too, would like to just lay on the beach and party away the night drinking rum or tequila or just touring around seeing the sights and the different lifestyle of the locals. And what is holding you back you may say. Well I suppose nothing really, other than the fact that I haven't travelled and on my first excursion or so, I would like a travelling companion to share the wonderfulness with. My significant other doesn't want to travel with me.
Oh, yes, there are thousands of other persons out there who would stick their hand up in the air and say "I'll go with you" "Pick me, pick me" - truth is, I think I have said that on occasion myself. But, really, shouldn't you know the person you are travelling with and shouldn't you share some of the same interests in order to make it a great experience?

Yes, I could go alone, but I figure I spend a good percentage of my time alone. No really, when you think about it - I do have people around me at work all day and my companion when, I am not at work, is around, but mostly doing their own thing - so I feel if I were to travel I would like to have my companion share the joys with me. Not only the joys, but the disappointments and the hassles as well.
Travel with someone else, other than my 'significant other' is for when you have done these things together enough so that my desire for this lifestyle may be satiated and I would be able to enjoy the experience with someone else should I want to do it again.
So, for all of you out there who have a husband or wife who says they do not want to do the things you like to do with you - how do you handle it? How do you encourage them to share this aspect or your life with you if you feel that in the end they really would enjoy doing it with you even if they make out that they wouldn't!