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Woke up this morning wondering if it all was a dream but the award was in the kitchen with the flowers Erin gave me next to it. Realizing it wasn’t a dream. Opened my Facebook and saw a link to Terrell Daily Photo with the picture from the meeting yesterday. Me in the middle, Chief of Police Jody Lay on my right and Mayor Hal Richards on my left. Surreal but true. For those of you who has known me for many years (7+) know why this is a big deal for me. If I say that nothing has really gone my way, it has been a lot of work against the stream and many obstacles to pass. So it is just amazing to get an award first of all, a recognition after 3,5 months is also amazing and this picture from last night with Chief and Mayor tells me that it is in Terrell I belong. I don’t care what people say about this town, I am home and I love it!

We had a nice time at Applebee’s after the ceremony:

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Now it’s Wednesday and back to normal. I will probably be smiling a little bit more today… ;)

Proud

It is not easy to express how I feel right now! I am proud, happy, overwhelmed, tired, in one big mix! Chiefs speech is still going in my head, I have read it over and over again just trying to get that this is happening to me! It is just crazy! Half the room in City Hall was filled with my friends and volunteers! That support was amazing! It is hard to grasp that it was me they were there to celebrate!

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12 people joined us to Applebee’s after the ceremony! That is also so fun! And I think everyone had a nice time! I had an awesome evening! More pictures to come tomorrow, now sleep time!
Cilla

A lot on my mind

So much on my mind right now… don’t know if I should laugh or cry or maybe both…
Had to mowe the yard today… well it is 25 acres that had to be done before we put the tractor up for sale. Got most of it done, have 1/3 left to do. But mom will put the tractor up for sale today since I got the most important done at least. Hopefully we will still have the tractor in the weekend so I can do the last then… here are some pictures of it if anyone is interesting in buying it

Gosh, I will miss that tractor. But our economy doesn’t let us have it anymore… :( Need the money to the property taxes since they didn’t allow us to be a farm last year and our property tax raised in the sky. But it was sad to know that this might be the last time I used it…

Have to go to Terrell this afternoon to start on my taxes. The lady who was supposed to do it has just disappeared and I am late with that too. Everything right now is just a mess. I have been working so much lately so things at home has fallen behind, nothing has been done as it should have and now I have to deal with it all. I really hate it! So many hard things to get done, so many bills to get paid. Trying to get everything back on track, but it isn’t really easy all the time.

In the same time you have lights as the successful jubilee. I will also receive Certificate of Merit at the City Council meeting next Tuesday. That is kind of big for me. That proves for me that the work I am doing is actually pretty good. We don’t really have Certificate of Merits in Sweden or any awards for that matter that are work related like we have here in US. So yes, I am proud and extremely happy about it.  And it encourages me to keep on working as I do! Just try to combine everything as good as possible.

One thing that is kind of interesting. I wanted to get some pictures of me as I did last year… I asked my friend who took last years picture if she was interested but never got any answer. I assume that is a no then… asked another friend who also is a photographer, she was going to look in her schedule… that was two weeks ago… asked again a couple of days ago, still haven’t got any answer… guess that is another no… ok… I guess I will have to try to take my own pictures then. The other people I know are professional photographers and I can’t afford them. I want the pictures to be taken here because I want some horses in the pictures… So I guess it won’t be any pictures of me…
Called a vet the other day to get a pricing for BAER-tests for the puppies. First when I called I was told “I don’t have time for you right now, I have people up front…” ok… I am apparently not an important customer anywhere… not at a photographer or at a vet clinic… the vet clinic did call back and told me that the testing would cost $56.00 PER PUPPY!!! Are you freaking kidding me? And I have five puppies. Sorry folks, my puppies is not going to be tested this time. Last time I tested my puppies it cost me $25.00 per puppy!!! I will NEVER pay that much! But I at least got them registered in AKC today!

Well, guess my lunchbreak is over for now, Terrell here I come…

Cilla