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July 2009 
What was the biggest adventure of your past year?
Posted on Dec 31st, 2008
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Gemstar
Gemstar
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for December 31, 2008:
I had two big adventures:
1) Purchasing and moving into my Condo.
2) Going to Florida to take the Certified Trainers courses for the NGH and NFNLP.
The Condo has continued to be an adventure, most of it unpleasant. I was, and still am to a certain degree, contemplating eating my losses and selling. With the major index finger injury, I am going to have to put that on hold because it will be another month before I can do some of the small fix-its that will need to be done in order to make it more attractive to buyers.
However, there has also been developments towards removing the current Board of Directors and also finding a different Property Manager/Management company - apparently I am not the only person here who is having major problems. Questionable accounting and exceptionally high pay increases for building Supervision/substitute supervision, and a lack of return on outpout are other issues. So perhaps having to wait on my finger to heal will allow better management and perhaps getting at least the major issue - the awful stench in my master bedroom, looked at and hopefully fixed. If that could happen, then I could probably put up with the other issues, at least until housing prices start to go higher again. I made the decision before I found out about the "mutiny" that regardless of what happened, I was not about to let that bee-yotch of a Property Manager interfere any longer in my intentions to work from home.
The trip to Florida was a major coup for me over my agoraphobic tendencies. It's not a huge issue, but I tend to avoid crowds and crowded places, preferring to shop on "off" days, and I rarely go without having a list, and return home immediately. It took lots of personal hypnosis to keep me from going into panic mode in the airports, and I used techniques I know to get myself "legally" high in order to do the plane trips. I also found that I was a heck of a lot stronger than I thought I was (lugging close to 30 lbs. with me on the way down, and close to 20 lbs. on the way back - I checked the second bag on the way back - through 3 airports between 10 and 7 hours respectively).
I still think that they could have allowed me to bring my jam I bought in Florida home with me - had packed it so I could have a snack on the plane - but it fell into the category of "gell", so I had to give it up to some over-bearing, over-zealous American customs inspector. He probably kept it for himself. Should have opened it up and spit in it - I was ticked off enough to do that!!! Sheer freaking paranoid idiocy!!! So I didn't get anything to eat for close to 10 hours, and by the time I got back to my daughters place in Mississauga from the airport, I was shaking from low blood sugar and massively high adrenalin. A few candies and a soda pop had kept me from going into shock on the final flight. I don't think I would ever fly down to the States to do a course again - if it's in the mid-year months (May thru October) I might drive.
Anyways - those were my big adventures. Lots more could be said, but I've probably already bored everyone to tears as it is.
1) Purchasing and moving into my Condo.
2) Going to Florida to take the Certified Trainers courses for the NGH and NFNLP.
The Condo has continued to be an adventure, most of it unpleasant. I was, and still am to a certain degree, contemplating eating my losses and selling. With the major index finger injury, I am going to have to put that on hold because it will be another month before I can do some of the small fix-its that will need to be done in order to make it more attractive to buyers.
However, there has also been developments towards removing the current Board of Directors and also finding a different Property Manager/Management company - apparently I am not the only person here who is having major problems. Questionable accounting and exceptionally high pay increases for building Supervision/substitute supervision, and a lack of return on outpout are other issues. So perhaps having to wait on my finger to heal will allow better management and perhaps getting at least the major issue - the awful stench in my master bedroom, looked at and hopefully fixed. If that could happen, then I could probably put up with the other issues, at least until housing prices start to go higher again. I made the decision before I found out about the "mutiny" that regardless of what happened, I was not about to let that bee-yotch of a Property Manager interfere any longer in my intentions to work from home.
The trip to Florida was a major coup for me over my agoraphobic tendencies. It's not a huge issue, but I tend to avoid crowds and crowded places, preferring to shop on "off" days, and I rarely go without having a list, and return home immediately. It took lots of personal hypnosis to keep me from going into panic mode in the airports, and I used techniques I know to get myself "legally" high in order to do the plane trips. I also found that I was a heck of a lot stronger than I thought I was (lugging close to 30 lbs. with me on the way down, and close to 20 lbs. on the way back - I checked the second bag on the way back - through 3 airports between 10 and 7 hours respectively).
I still think that they could have allowed me to bring my jam I bought in Florida home with me - had packed it so I could have a snack on the plane - but it fell into the category of "gell", so I had to give it up to some over-bearing, over-zealous American customs inspector. He probably kept it for himself. Should have opened it up and spit in it - I was ticked off enough to do that!!! Sheer freaking paranoid idiocy!!! So I didn't get anything to eat for close to 10 hours, and by the time I got back to my daughters place in Mississauga from the airport, I was shaking from low blood sugar and massively high adrenalin. A few candies and a soda pop had kept me from going into shock on the final flight. I don't think I would ever fly down to the States to do a course again - if it's in the mid-year months (May thru October) I might drive.
Anyways - those were my big adventures. Lots more could be said, but I've probably already bored everyone to tears as it is.
Happy New Year 2009!!!!
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