I just LOVE moving...

At this point I don't really know what to say, but since I'm moving in 3 days (kinda 1 but I'll explain that in a minute) I felt I needed to post. I've had lots on my mind that I could post about but whenever I sit down to write anything it all disappears.

Basically, I'm stressed. I haven't been this stressed since August 11th. We had a plan A for moving transportation, but unfortunate circumstances have caused us to go with plan B... Which was about 6 or 7 hundred dollars more than plan A. However, J's dad found us a moving truck that is only $79 dollars BUT we have to move on Thursday (aka tomorrow...) to get those savings. We planned it all out - we'd travel together in the truck on Thursday, and then come back to get our cars and still move officially on Saturday as planned. Well, we spoke to our new landlord and the tenant in our place isn't moving until Saturday. So that put us back to our expensive plan... Unless we could find a place to store our things until Saturday. Praise God for families, because J's cousin is letting us store stuff at his place.

So technically we're moving everything we own to Kamloops tomorrow, but we aren't moving until Saturday morning. It isn't the ideal situation, since we technically have to move twice, the first of which is just us two - I should start pumping iron now so I'm buffed up.

Anyways, I'm sure tomorrow will be an interesting day, so I'll try to remember to post. :) Keep us in your prayers as we go through this crazy transition.

You ain't cuz you not.

To the guy in his bright yellow Hummer H2 , dancing like there's no tomorrow to "This is Why I'm Hot"... .... ... This is why you're not.

But they couldn't get the puck in...

Last night the announcer on the horrible Canucks game while the Canucks were desperately making their attempt to get just one goal:

(With much announcer enthusiasm)

"Bodies and sticks flying everywhere!!!!!"

That was my favourite part of the night.

Birthday Wishes!!!

Happy Birthday to my husband!! I love you more than a billion dump trucks full of lovely things like friends and chocolate and spring! You're my favourite. :)

Here's to another 26, and then another after that, and then some more years too, because I wanna live a long time.

No more Grumpy!

Ok I guess I should post so people don't think I'm always grumpy. I'm not, just a bad day... too bad I don't really have anything to blog about...

News... hmmm, let's see... well we've officially moved in with J's parents. Things are going well so far but we are only a week in...

Today is Adventure Day... 7 months of marriage, it's flying by! I'm loving every minute ... ok maybe not every minute, but it is fun being a wife. I'm just waiting for J to get home so we can go for an adventure stroll.

Just over a month until J's done school. I'm happy about that, but the move is looming... Although in talking with some friends on Sunday I did feel the slightest glimmer of excitement, so I suppose that's a start.

There's really not much other than that. I know, I'm boring. Sorry. At least I'm not grumpy today.

Grumpy.

Sometimes I can't wait to move to Kamloops.

My Day at a Glance

I'm really tired tonight so it's going to be point form...

- Got up at 4:24 this morning, went outside to warm up my car, found 6 inches of snow and a frozen door. Had to climb in passenger side to actually drive to work.

- Drive took about an hour, it took about as long to get from Abby to Mission as it took to get from Mission to Maple Ridge. There was practically no snow after Mission.

- Had shift, drove back to Abbotsford to clean house because our landlord was showing it this evening... on the way though, there was a spider on my dashboard and it freaked me out. I had to get rid of it so I reached onto the passenger seat and the first thing I grabbed was the banana peel from my morning snack. I smashed it onto my dashboard. Made a bit of a mess, but I killed the spider.

- Cleaned my house... It was a disaster, but I managed to clean every single room in the house, AND keep things organized for the move, all within 2.5 hours. I was impressed. And sweaty, housecleaning is a workout!!

- Drove back to Maple Ridge for the rest of my shift. No snow on the road anywhere this time, and it was sunny.

- Saw a tree with 7 or 8 bald eagles. In the one tree! I've never seen that before.

- Worked. It felt long.

- Had a good talk with people close to us. I think things make sense now.

- Went to Bible Study and learned how not to be complicated. It was good.

All in all, a long but decent day. I'm happy I don't work at 6 tomorrow though. I get to wake up at 8!!! That's 4 extra hours!! Praise God!!!

Thank You!!

I just wanted to say a big thank you to whoever left the save-on gift certificates on my car the other day. The last two months have been really hard, but what a reminder to have faith! And even when my faith lacks, God still takes care of us. Why do I worry? As J says, it's a waste of time to worry when you could be spending that time having faith that things will work out. So to you, whoever you are, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts (and our stomachs, since we won't have to eat kraft dinner this week) It truly meant a lot to us.

Praise God! :)

Weekend

My weekend showed much promise - a trip away to Pender Island in a nice, quiet cabin with some close friends and family. Last time J wasn't able to go but he was able to this time and I was quite excited to spend some quality time with him, since it's always go go go during the week and we really haven't spent much time together. Unfortunately the weekend didn't exactly go as planned.

Friday we got to start our weekend off with some bad news. J isn't getting E.I. like we had hoped. He had gone to the office in the beginning of January to ask the obvious questions, basically asking "Am I eligible?". They assured him he was, even with his situation and so he applied. A month and a half later they tell him he's actually NOT eligible due to some new rule or something. Anyways, point is, he asked them a long time ago and if they had told him no then he could've found himself a part time job. Anyways, I've really been trying to have faith that everything will work out, and I know it will, it's just that things keep getting more and more messed up.

The weekend was pretty fun, had it's down points with J being sick the whole time and anytime he felt up to doing something he was usually reading for a test he was supposed to have on Monday (but didn't end up having)... The drive home was spent with someone who doesn't think it makes sense that we're moving to Kamloops and thinks we're both super happy and excited about it. For the record, we're excited to see what God has in store for us, but we're not excited to say goodbye to the people who mean the most to us. I don't want people thinking that we can't wait to leave. If I had my way we'd buy a house in Maple Ridge and raise our family here, but as Pastor Derrick said in a sermon a few weeks back, we have to factor in the "Divine IF". IF it's God's will, maybe we'll be back in Maple Ridge someday. But right now it seems that God wants us to go to Kamloops.

Anyways, so the big news is that because of our new financial situation we'll be moving in with J's parents as of March 15th. We're very blessed that they are able to have us, but of course I have mixed feelings about it. I know lots of people do this at some point in their lives, and it's not for a very long time - just 6 weeks - but I still feel kinda crappy that it came down to that. We were really hoping we could've made it through these 4 months, but I guess, again, God had other plans. Plans to prosper, right?

So enough about that, today marks the first day of Lent! I was thinking about giving up coffee, that would be stinkin' hard though... but maybe that's the point. Is anyone else giving up anything?

Valentine's Day

Alright, where do I start? I haven't posted since Valentine's Day, so how about I start with that. I wanted that night to be special, since it's our first Valentine's as a married couple. I worked until 5 so I didn't have a really long time to get ready and I wanted fancy hair. But of course I took too long and missed the appy's... Oh well, my hair was hot! Our table was really fun, 3 out of the 4 couples were newly married so we ended up winning for the table that had been married for the least amount of time. 31 years, but only from rounding up!! At first we weren't allowed to count half years (ex. if you'd been married 20.5 years just say 20) but when Pastor Steve came back and we asked him if that meant we can't count ourselves into this he went back up and told us all to round up. If we didn't round up we would've had 4.5 years between 3 couples!

Then... well not then, as in immediately following, there was quite a wait actually.... we finally received our food. Mine looked like this:















Looks fancy, but picture pulling that out of the fridge and eating it without putting it in the microwave. Yep, it was cold. Although the asparagus was luke-warm... I would describe my rice-can but I think Scott's face says it all...
















All in all I had a great time at the event, I laughed a ton!

Unfortunately my DH was sick that night with a bad fever so we left right away, and he has been sick ever since. So Valentine's Day itself wasn't exactly what I expected or planned, but it won't be one I forget anytime soon!