just a small town girl
Turns out my jealousy of last year’s storms was a little premature. We woke up this morning with a half foot of snow, and it hasn’t stopped coming down. “They” are saying that with the windchill, it’s going to be -20.
Suhweet.
I was over winter after the 2nd snowfall this year. I was excited for it since I hadn’t been in snow in 2 years. But if I had a chance to live in a sub-tropic area for the rest of my life, I would take it.
No regrets.
Since I’m already daydreaming and have spent the last couple days reading old blog posts, let’s look back.
This time last year…
My liver was on it’s way to forgiving me.
I was starting to settle into life as a YWAM-er in Perth, Australia…complete with ashtray tasting shark and 6am morning exercises. My days consisted of going to the beach, tanning, and checking out all the hot surfers learning about Jesus.
It was good times.
I’m a student
My boss enrolled me in the Canadian Investment Funds Course to get my license to sell mutual funds…and my course book came in today!
I was going to take a cute picture with my book while ironically wearing my “I ♥ Nerds” T-shirt, but my battery died and I was too lazy to get up.
Anyway, I’m a little worried about how it’s going to go. I haven’t been to school in like 3 years and I was never good at the whole ‘homeschool’ thing.
First, there was homeschool until grade 4…which was basically mom sticking me in a room with my book and telling me to have 5 exercises done by the end of the day. I would work on it for about 5 minutes, get bored, and start playing ‘office’ with my fake phone and notebook. I only made it through half of grade 4 before mom sent me to public school.
Then there was the German fiasco of 2003. I was so hell-bent on not taking french and hating every.other.course offered, that I thought it wise to shell out $200 to take up german…the self taught version. I don’t think I finished the first lesson.
So who knows how this one will turn out…there is the little incentive of getting a raise when I finish to look forward to. Maybe now, all my sleepless nights will pay off.
things that will get you blogging again:
- quit the job that sucked all creativity and joy from your soul.
- have the kiwi boy you’ve been on the edge of your seat waiting for come up for a month long visit.
- make a 2 year PLAN! so you aren’t floating aimlessly through life.
- get a job that you enjoy and can see a future in.
- dare your little 16 yr old brother to grow his facial hair out for 2 weeks.
- remember how fun making lists is!
I may regret saying this, but I think I’m actually able to start posting more than once every 2 months.
As the above list eluded to…lots of things have happened in the last little bit.
The most important being my kiwi boy came up to visit! We had a really fun month, even though I had to work at that crap job for half of it. But I quit half way through so we got to go to summerland, have christmas with the ‘rents, go to whistler and just hang out!! He left a week ago and it already feels like it’s been ages…life is cruel.
I’ve temporarily moved back to Gibsons. I’m working with M.F. again and could’ve been set up with an office in the city, but for my survival’s sake…I decided to take the position in the gibsons’ office. I’ll be back to the city every weekend so I don’t go crazy but I only have one more month at my place.
Coming back to Gibsons makes me feel like I failed in some way. My goal was to get out of here. Luckily, my job is relocating to Kelowna so in a few months I’ll be moving to a new city where I know no one! It’s going to be awesome!
In the meantime, I get to amuse myself at my siblings expense. Chad has started to grow some sweet facial hair…so I made a deal with him. He grows his hair in a goatee for 2 weeks and keeps it…I take him out for dinner.
