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the massive slow-down

wow…so I guess my life has experienced a bit of a slow down. no. more like slamming head first into a brick wall.

It’s been almost three months since that fateful day at the end of July informing me that there isn’t any work for me.

Since then it has been a bit of a roller coaster of emotions and moving. And now there are only a few boxes left that I’m not sure what the heck to do with and a myriad of stuff I want to sell…but don’t want to sell?? I’ve applied to as many jobs as I believe that I could do above and beyond, I’ve applied for jobs that would be ridiculously boring and I’ve applied for jobs that I have no chance in hell of getting. It is tough out there. Some of the responses that I have received have mentioned “thanks for your response to our advertisement. We had over 200 applications for this position…”

It’s been difficult to stay sane, busy, and motivated. Not to mention injuries. My recurring, pain-in-the-ass shoulder injury.  This has slow-downed the running movement. Gosh, I wish I wasn’t injured so much. 10 plus years of crazy childhood athletics would do that to a girl. Now nothing works correctly. It’s very frustrating. But the shoulder….the shoulder is borderline “frozen” and that is not a good thing. So now I”m going to have to cough out money to go to physio so I can return to running/walking/volleyball/anything active what so ever.

For now. I sit in front of my computer, trying to move things forward on a website and other projects that aren’t really that exciting for the most part.

It’s a massive slow-down right now and I”m doing everything in my power to resist the urge to ditch all my stuff into storage and take off and be a bum. [although appealing, there are pretty good aspects of my life on the go right now]. I also know that NewMan wouldn’t be too thrilled if I just up and left and if he wasn’t coming with me, it wouldn’t be as fun.

Giving Thanks

NewMan and I were lying on the bed with the dog reading last night and he said “I’m thankful for our health.”

His statement just didn’t come out of nowhere. He had just spent the better part of his day attending movies at the Vancouver International Film Festival one in particular called 65 red roses about a girl living and fighting her battle with cystic fibrosis.  It apparently is a very emotional movie that depicts the battle this girl is having and the outpouring of love surrounding her. But it reinforced the perspective for NewMan of us having our health.  I also gave pause to think about what I am thankful for.

I am thankful for my health and that I have food in the cupboard and a roof over my head. I am also thankful for the love that I have found with this incredible man and the laughter that he brings me every day.

What are you thankful for?

patience

I am working on patience. But I must say that when the departure time to go to a pretty big event is 10pm and you are ready to go at 9:45pm, why is that the cue for NewMan to start getting ready? When I say start, I mean, Step 1 is having a shower and shaving for the big opening night.

Yeah.

I’m learning patience.

Oh and the shoes I was going to wear…very cute black and silver polka dots with a black bow….are not condusive to a stand up and chat gala. Therefore…red patent leather peep toe steve maddens it is!

WHOOO HOOOO

THE COUCH IS SOLD!

This means that I can actually sit at proper chair while on the computer. I might actually get some work done too. It’s amazing.

Now…who needs a kitchen table? Anyone?