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February 13, 2008 ( Wednesday, February 13, 2008 )  I am now a gimp. And on top of that it was from doing one of my favourite things...running. Damn.February 10, 2008 ( Sunday, February 10, 2008 ) Free Free Free! So as we are moving, I'm trying to get rid of things that I either don't want or don't feel like packing and then unpacking. If you live in Cranbrook, I'm offering to you..for free any of the items mentioned below! If you're outside of Cranbrook but would still like something, I'm sure we can work it out. CDs Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding A Mosaic Hot Hot Heat - Elevator Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back The Killers - Hot Fuss MSTRKRFT -The Looks Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled Grey's Anatomy Soundtrack - Volume Two Melissa McClelland - Stranded in Suburbia Matt Dusk - Back in Town (autographed even!) Tara MacLean - Passenger Veda Hille - Field Study Holly McNarland - Stuff Jann Arden - Blood Red Cherry DVDs Project Alf Alf- The Alf Files The Matrix Reloaded The Simple Life 1 & 2 have at 'er! February 06, 2008 ( Wednesday, February 06, 2008 ) So we are moving in about 20 days. A few weeks ago on way home from Kimberley, we received a nice phone call from a realtor informing us that the apartment we've been renting for the past 1 1/2 years was now up for sale. WHAM. In one evening we went from normal January to rushed, stressed, panic stricken. We looked at listings online and we were intimidated at what there was...not a lot for under $200,000. We contemplated buying the apartment we're in...but did we like it enough to spend $175,000 on it? We spent some time wandering in and out of open houses, private showings, and came up empty handed and disheartened. It looked as if we were facing a cold truth...either buy this place, or spend a quarter of a million dollars on a house that would leave us broke and trying to catch up. Well, one day our realtor out of the blue suggested a condo that she had just listed. We went and looked and before we had even got back to our place, we had decided. We were buying our first house.  Mountains of paperwork, signing and intialing, offering and counter offering complete, we are now in the final stages of owning a condo. So with this huge step ahead, we've started planning what we want it to look like inside. There isn't much to do, as it's been mostly redone, but one of the first things is painting. Neither of us are too keen on the "margarine yellow" walls. I spent about 20 minutes today looking at paint swatches and aside from being overwhelmed I was also amused by the completely bizzare names that some colours have. I've included a list of the best below. -Barge -Ointment -Smeared -Not Boring -Possessed -Buzzard -Medicinal -Tofu -Happy Stress -Boohoo -Frog Spawn - Spinach Dip - Kermit - Sneeze - Blue Mayonnaise -Miss Hussy -Yak Skin -Packing Nut -Frog's Breath January 31, 2008 ( Thursday, January 31, 2008 )  we're moving!
October 18, 2007 ( Thursday, October 18, 2007 ) I hate waiting. I had a job interview yesterday at Laurie Middle School which was...weird. Weird because when I went to school there I NEVER would have imagined that one day I would be working there. It was weird because it looked like nothing had changed in the 7ish years since I'd been there last. The hallways seemed a bit smaller but it looked untouched, I even noticed the same pictures hanging on the office walls. It was weird because I was being interviewed by a former principal (who was my principal at St.Mary's and Laure for a total of 9 years). The nice thing is I think the interview well really well....now Iwait for the call. Everything in life just seems like a carton of eggs. Every day something new just seems to be cracked open and it needs to be figured out. I am nervous about getting this job and how to leave my current one. I am nervous about not getting this job and having to go back to my current job. I haven't been happy with my job since returning from my bike trip, with good reason I believe. A few weeks ago I attended a meeting where all my coworkers and bosses sat around a big table and spilled out everything that needed to be said. I had to sit there and have people tell me to my face that I wasn't a nice person and that I was rude. After everything that I went through, all the name calling and rude comments that I heard said about me, they had the guts to call me rude. Their reasons? Apparently I didn't seem to talk too much around them, and that made them feel ignored. The meeting was a total disaster. I lost all desire to try and sort things out and keep working there. But the clincher was what happened after...all of these people called me or talked to me later and told me that they didn't actually mean any of it, they were just so hurt that I had been "sucked in to something I didn't understand". So first they call me rude and mean, and then they tell me that they didn't actually mean it. Well, I don't trust them as far as I can throw them, and that's not too far. I can't wait to start new somewhere else, to crack open a new egg. . . . . . October 14, 2007 ( Sunday, October 14, 2007 ) blogger, i haven't forgotten about you....massive summary post coming soon.... August 10, 2007 ( Friday, August 10, 2007 ) Birthdays get weirder as you get older. Weird in the sense that you never really feel as old as you are turning. It feels like I just got used to being 22, thinking 22 is a good age and the *Bam* welcome to 23. I think I will just refer to myself as being in my twenties. So the work situation is, well, it seems stagnant. I talked with union representatives, with my boss and with her boss. I've told all I've had to tell, I said how I feel, how I think it's all wrong and what I think should be done. I wiped my hands clean of it all, there isn't anything else I can do to make them come to a resolution faster. Apparently I am supposed to be receiving an apology from one of my coworkers but I think a Coldplay concert happening in the living room is more likely. I'm having Otesha flashbacks...it still doesn't really feel like I did it. Was I actually gone for 2 months, biking across this province, standing in front of hundreds of people acting as mother earth? I look at pictures to remind myself that yes, I was there. I want to bike more. I wish that I didn't have to work so that I could bike from one end of this country to the other. I already have balloons of ideas floating in my head for next year's adventure. 
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