I'm still hopefull for 2011

We're only a month and 5 days into the new year...and i will say it started out well, better then the fish dog episode of 2010..we hung out with some good friends and went to portsmouth for the first night festivities, which was pretty fun! We've had some pretty intense snow storms already this year, which always seem to fall on Wednesdays. Those have been exciting...and also a little overwhelming! So much snow! Everywhere! It's hard to see out of the driveway, kind of like a guessing game where you hope for the best as you back out! Anyways, what else. oh yes! Baby Mia has arrived! January 21st, 2011 at 3:25 am she came into the world! And she sure is precious! I'm also happy to report that Mia and hare are doing very well and very healthy! :) And also, it's such a wierd feeling to be an auntie, but it's a feeling i very much enjoy! more than anything really! John and I have had quite a rough couple of weeks...with all the snow he hasn't been having work as much which kind of puts a strain on our finances. and it seems like our house is just falling apart at the seams! Our pipes froze last week and we had no water, and thankful my dad, bill, and my grandfather helped to fix the situation. i don't know what we would have done without them, we don't know anything about those kinds of things. and now apparently we need new heat tape...and also, the hot water heater just broke and started leaking everywhere! and now there are lumps in the floor. which i feel is probably a bad thing for the future. I'm envisioning the bedroom floor rotting out or something terrible. But actually, as we speak, john and bill are working on putting in a new heater and getting some new wood to put around it. bill to the rescue again! he's awesome. Oh and i also forgot to mention that we ran out of oil during the last snow storm, and the oil people weren't sending trucks out that day due to the weather. The big storm day was the day we were due to get an oil delivery! gah! feels like everything just keeps going wrong. like we're going up the river without a paddle. i just hope everything starts to chill out soon. i don't know how much more i can handle! Anyway. It's only february 5th...so i'm hopeful we just had a rough month and now things will start to get better. I try to stay optimistic but sometimes i just start feeling really sad about stuff you know? And I also feel like a let down a lot of the time...but whatever. things are bound to get better, right?