6 months and 6 really good things

.1. A cool and dark day after so many days of brilliant sun

.2. Remembering that dreams only stay dreams if you let them

.3. Doubt. Introspection. Looking for truth. Finding nothing. Then realizing that searching in all the wrong places will find all the wrong answers

.4. Growing and enjoying ones favorite tea with honey, maybe even a few strawberries on the side

.5. Only 3 more months of treatment left

.6. Finding solace in silence, enjoying no restrictions in it

Happy December!

Only 23 days till Christmas, very exciting I know, but lets recap November due to my blog-slackage!

The list of pre-req's for my soon-to-be job as a resident care worker is nearing it's end. I'm praying that this job is worth all the effort, if nothing else it'll be nice to work in an environment where my beliefs are encouraged instead of sneered upon. Not only did I get my drivers license, I also endured a needle; unfortunately they had to stick it twice, it was terrible, especially considering my phobia. Thankfully everyone I've met has been very pleasant, and I've only heard very good things from people who work there! It's been nice having my soon to be sister in law (Eeeee <3 her) on the inside, letting me know what to expect and in general easing my nerves.

On my way to my drivers test

My creative side has been flourishing again, I've been reading, crocheting, painting, taking pictures, beading, and listening to lots of music! I wish that the library here was larger, but luckily I've been able to get almost every book ordered in that I've wanted to read (I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and before that I was on Elizabeth by Alison Weir, both very good reads). A certain special friend of mine sent me an entire box of beautiful yarn, so I have had ample supplies to fuel my crocheting hands. I've finished all of the painting that needed to be done, and my favorite part is our bedroom! Photography has been on my mind constantly, from taking to enjoying others (Frank has a good eye). I'd love to get in deeper again one day, it was just a refreshing and fun thing to fill some of my time. Beads and music go well together, it's been interesting to see how my taste in beading has changed from when I was younger to present.

My beautiful wall lotus

We, (and by we I mean, my dad, the hubby, and myself) decided to rip out the flooring upstairs and start laying the new stuff before Christmas. Yes you read that right, before Christmas! The ripping out was the easiest part by far, learning how to place it all down and do all the cuts has proven quite difficult. After we ripped it all out we began work on the floor, oddly enough the squeaky culprit was none other than two measly nails. Once resolved, we added a few more screws all around, and whallaah, our base is ready to go. We have a one week deadline, otherwise we (the collective we I spoke about earlier) will be on my dear madres chopping block - we're holding off the decking of the halls so to speak.

Daddy and the hole in the floor

Daddy and Chris working on the new floor

I love Christmas, from people being generally nicer and the yummy food, to all the pretty decorations. It's more than all of that though, it's what all Christmas is centered on! I can't wait for the family to be together, it makes everything more special. I wish that the entire family could be together, but that'll have to wait till next Christmas (and there'll be a beautiful little addition there that I'm already excited to meet).

Near the river

Our suite is set up, and we're living quite comfortably now. We even have a piece of greenery, a voluptuous fern from some friends of the family. Hopefully I'll be adding a cutting from my grandma's peace lily, and a cutting from my mums philodendron. Though we're settled, once we both have jobs and I'm registered for school I'll be able to breathe a bit easier. Normalcy has always eluded me, and it will continue to I assume.

Busy Bee

Good Morning!

It's just after 2am, and I'm still unable to fall asleep. Thankfully, I'm able to get plenty done in this time while sleep eludes me.

Earlier today, err I guess yesterday now, Jared and I fixed his car. You heard that right, I helped fix a car. To be honest I didn't do much, but I go a bit of dirt under my nails :). Be proud of me! I've also been getting paint in every pore of my body!

I'm slowly getting unpacked, though it's looking better and better after each box. I'm working on a wall collage of all our picture frames, and it's been a lot of fun to create! I can't wait to go through our pictures, and finally have them displayed properly, instead of sitting in a dark box in the closet. OoO, and the roll top desk looks great, I'm so glad that it didn't get damaged from the move.

I've been getting all nostalgic looking at all my grandparents things that I got after my grandparents passed. It's funny that the more my life progresses, the more I look back to them. They hold so much of what I claim as my identity today, and I'm proud to be their grandchild. I just wish that they could have seen me get married, and when I have kidlets of my own.

Now a few prayer requests if you will! I have a job interview on Monday, and I'm really praying that this is the place for me. Chris will be traveling from California back to Canada at the end of next week, just that he would have safe passage. For my sister, just that she will give everything up to God.

Wall Mural

I am doing a mural wall in the bedroom, and I am taking my inspiration from this picture below. If anyone would like to contribute ideas - or a skillful hand, , I'm open for advice.



The walls are blue at the moment, and I want to do the detail in chocolate brown and accents with tan; maybe a few accents in a persimmon colour I have around also.

Lucky Wishes

I need all the good thoughts, magic voodoo, prayers, in-thought-of-you candles, etc I can get. I have a job interview tomorrow - whether I get a job offer is all that stands between my husband and I.

On Tuesday it'll have been a month since I've seen him.

"Tears are the words the heart can't express"

Turkey Day

Happy turkey day to my fellow Canadians!

Gobble gobble :)

Día de la Lluvia

It has to be said, that the smell of rain before it falls is divine. I didn't realize I'd missed it so much until today.


On another note, I haven't quite found a job yet. I'll hopefully find something soon, I miss having mi amore around. I set the limit that if I haven't found something suitable at the end of this month then I'll start looking in the other less desirable areas I have experience in.

I have been thinking of what courses I'm wanting to take, and how I'll be able to coordinate working full time and doing schooling at the same time. I think I'll have to meet with an admissions/course counselor to make sure everything will work out. I'm looking at a BS in Computing Sciences, and eventually I'll go for my Masters. I figure I'll have to do everything slower, but oh well, schooling is schooling.

I've been painting up a storm since getting here, which has been quite fun. I'll post pictures of how good it looks once we have the furniture up. I also rejuvenated a pair of frames that mum bought awhile ago - now they're a sleek and sexy black, I can't wait to find some cute b/w photos to go in them.

Time for me to go to el mercado!

O'Canada

I are home! 18 grueling hours later, I arrived in my little slice of paradise.

It's been really refreshing being here. I can't describe it other than a sigh of relief to be back. It's quite different from the last time I was here but it's still the same in a lot of ways.

Pray that I find work soon :)

Picture Update

Home sweet Nomad

We have moved 6 times in two yrs. A bit excessive no? The big shocker - due to the economy we're thinking about moving again. Where? Who knows, I sure don't. Nothing may change...another job, another boss, another soulless twittering away for someone whom doesn't even respect how much blood you pour into their company.

I'm emotionally over my previous employer - they truly didn't know what they had. Enough said.

So I'm looking for work in several different places, and kinda looking for housing in several different places. Sometimes I wish that things were a lot more laid out, and that I didn't have to think about it. But then again..there goes human nature and choice.

Whelp, I'm going up to the cabin and spend the day with little boy blue and a friend of his since Chris has to work. I'll be sure to take a few pictures of the lovely day we're having. Hurray for getting out of the house.

Goodnight Moon

I don't have a job anymore.

I can't sleep, and I can't turn off my brain.

I hate what they did to me.

I've lost hope in human decency and trust.




A few tylenol pms should do the trick, lets hope.

Terminated

ter·mi·nate [tur-muh-neyt]
-nat·ed, -nat·ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
2. to occur at or form the conclusion of: The countess's soliloquy terminates the play.
3. to bound or limit spatially; form or be situated at the extremity of.
4. to dismiss from a job; fire: to terminate employees during a recession.
–verb (used without object)
5. to end, conclude, or cease.
6. (of a train, bus, or other public conveyance) to end a scheduled run at a certain place: This train terminates in New York.
7. to come to an end (often fol. by at, in, or with).
8. to issue or result (usually fol. by in).

Enter - Wine, stage left.

Finis

Video Vuesday

Two great vids stolen from MetroDad because lets be honest, his blog is a candy store, and I am a 5yr old.


First Video Savante - Rejected Olympic Sport


Rejected Olympic Sport: Toddler Tossing - Watch more free videos


Second Video Genius - Where is Mike?


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Kitten Shenanigans

So, I put the kittens out in the yard as I typically do on a weekend morning as it's cooler and they like to play out in the fenced yard. I go to let them in at noon, and only miss Chloe is there waiting. Hmm, where's Abbie I wonder. I call her name a few times, but she doesn't come. Usually I can say it once and her bushy little self will bounce out from behind a plant. I throw on a pair of flip flops and go looking, in a robe no less. I crawl behind the trees to get to the side yard. Lo and behold there's a break in the fence, so I figure the little fury devil must have escaped. By this time I'm panicking, thinking she's probably gotten run over by a car or eaten by a neighbors dog. I race inside and throw on some jeans and a shirt, I run back outside, climb through the fence, and begin sneaking around my neighbors yard whispering her name. I wasn't able to find her, so I figure I'll check around the front of their yard - I creep back into our yard, back into the house, and swing open the front door ready to run and search - and there she is, meowing, wondering where I've been this entire time. I don't think I've ever hugged that kitten so tightly.

Needless to say, the kittens are not allowed back into the yard without the fence being fixed.

I think it's time to put the collars onto the kitties with their registration and what not. It's just that they go completely insane with the bells attached to them, but the bells won't come off :P

We'll see.

Guess what? 4 day work week and 4 day weekend coming up. Squeek squeek - I are happy.

Chicken Night

Some weeks are harder than others. Some make you want to dance or sing, and others make you want to tear our your hair and stomp on teddy bears.

This week was the week of 'the change'. It hasn't been bad, but it's been quite a handful getting into a new routine. And as anyone who lives in the states know, with the economy being what it is, I'm lucky to still have a job. Which brings me onto the newest change during the week of change - they decided that instead of heave hoe'ing one of us, we're each going to work 4hrs less a week in order to help alleviate some of the economy woes that we're currently facing. /breathe of relief, I still have a job. For now. On a positive note I spoke with my office mgr and she said that if things changed and my future here was less certain that she'd give me a heads up.

Needless to say, not going to lose sleep over it just yet.

Onto more important things - there's this kitten I know..she's extremely hairy and evidently doesn't know how to clean herself. This resulted in her being ceremonially dipped in and out of the bathtub that was filled with water. Now to the question - in order to prevent some of the kitten dirtiness should I: a) wash her more often b) cut off some of that hair or c) ignore it and it'll go away. In an attempt to keep the princess'sssss cleaner we got some long haired kitty litter to help sort out some of the other dirty issues :).

Chris is encouraging me to start classes this Spring. I really want to start working towards my degree but at the same time I feel like I have zero time as is. Sure I could cut things back a bit, but as is I'm spread thinner than butter on a dieters piece of bread, I don't have any time to even figure out what I'd cut back on! I'll add that to my weekend todo list. /furrows brow.

I've been craving meat all week - knowing me, this is an extremely rare event. So behold...Tonight is chicken night - the best night of the month or whenever we have it. I must explain. Chicken night is not just eating chicken - it's an assortment of chicken. We cook up three + recipes of chicken and snack on them as finger food over the evening with wine. And by we, I mean Chris, because lets face it, I ain't the shiniest pan in the cupboard. I'm salivating with the mere thoughts of chicken night.

Oh! I have officially moved into my office, and am making it home. I have a little wall of quotes, and have sanitized every inch of everything. It's nice, I can put my ipod on and listen to some tuneage as I work, and hum without anyone hearing - unless they walk by of course. My filing is set and in motion, my printer prints, and best of all it's mine. Still not quite done but we'll get to the little things like setting up my voicemail later.

I'll finish this up later.

Happy tgif peoples!

Anniversary

It's been two years today, that yours truly got married.

In celebration, behold a new background/layout.

Enjoy, and celebrate.

Perfect

Sitting.

Updating my ipod.

Laying on the floor.

Drinking wine.

Eating cheese and greek olives.

Barefoot.

Kitten purring next to me.

Pj's and pony tail.

Loving the moment.

G'night.

Dream to Disaster

As everyone knows by this point, I'm changing positions at my work. This was supposed to be quite exciting but has turned into a chaotic misfortune for me. I would go into detail but I'm trying to keep an open mind. I'm giving it all next week to try this new situation out, maybe even the week after - unfortunately I'm already feeling a great amount of dread in anticipation of Monday and the week to follow. I just want to have a full platform to request a change - not just burst into tears after the first day and say I hate it as I'm sobbing in a pool of my own schlept.

Enough about that, as it has already commanded far too much attention as is.

This weekend has been quite calm, nothing amazing or shocking happened. Our tv stopped working, which isn't bad, just a nuisance. Hmmmm nothing really else has happened. I have to get some dr appointments set up, but finding new dr's is more of a hassle then I first thought. It's not just as easy as closing your eyes and swinging your finger around on a page and stopping - I tried it. What else shall I write about?

MmMmMm. I know! I can steal something from someone elses blog. BEHOLD! A square about Me:


This is stolen from Jennifer, aka http://thewordcellar.blogspot.com/ . She has all the guidelines should you want to make one yourself.

I'm currently reading a book called Sybil - about a girl and her multiple personalities. It's quite something, definitely not a light read. If anyone has any suggestions of books to read feel free to post or email me. I always have a book on the go, and I like reading what other people read.

I'll leave you with a quote....

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing"

-Marcus Aurelius

Sister, Sister

For those of you who know my charming sister, her blog is linked to the left at the bottom. If you're too lazy to find it, here's the link!

http://dancingbarefootintherain.blogspot.com

Happy Blogging to all.

Tomorrow, Tomorrow

I'll love you tomorrow.....only a day away. I adore Annie. Never the less, sorry about not posting "tomorrow" as I said I would. Instead of updating I waited and added the blogs to the side bar. Let me tell you, these are amazing women - word warriors if you will. Give them a visit - there's something for everyone, all you have to do is look.

Be kind :)