Catch-up

It seems like a long long time since I last wrote anything. Funny how quickly time can pass. I spoke to my former roommate last night. Neither one of us can believe that it's been almost two years since I lived in this city, and one year since she started her new position, and it's soon heading toward one year since she left to go back to Montreal. Ah nostalgia. I miss home sometimes, but I know that I can't live there right now. Besides that, I'm super super happy with how things are shaping up in my life here in Ottawa.

Long story short - I got a new job. I've been off work from the store for about a week or more as I got a call about a temp job through one of the agencies and they needed me to start "right away." As things go, I stressed myself out to the max with my what-ifs about the new job, got rid of all my shifts at the store, told people about my start date, and then was told by the agency that paperwork didn't go through so I wouldn't be started until this week. If the paperwork goes through. Ah government. It has been nice to have some days off to relax, clean a little bit, go biking and generally wonder how to fill my time. Evenings and weekends it's not hard. I will miss having days off through the week but I think it will be great to have the whole weekend to myself to spend with P and hanging out with friends and going out on Saturday not worrying about having to work on Sunday. If I don't sound super enthused with my new job it's because it's only admin, and although it's with a government agency, it's not what I want to be doing with my life, and I had hoped when I left the store it was going to be because I had some really great high-paying job to go to. Not the case, but it is a "toe" in the door and that's better than nothing. Yesterday I worked my last shift at the store and the gang got me a card and baked me a cake. It was the last day for one of the other girls too. Despite all my complaints, I'm going to miss working there, at least a little.

Saturday some of the girls from my MA program and I got together for drinks and supper. It was so nice to be together again. It's hard to see some of them very often, what with work, and living in other cities, etc. but it was like old times almost.

Watched Finding Neverland last night. What a great movie. I'm all sappy these days, so it made me cry, but it was what I needed.

I haven't written anything about my trip away with P over the long weekend. Perhaps more on that later. We did have a great time, despite the rain. A friend who I've seen a few times over the last week told me last night that she has never seen me look so happy and that on Saturday I looked positively radiant. The thing is, despite all my stress and uncertainty, the one thing I am certain of is that I am so completely happy with P. It's gooey and gushy and gross, I know, but holy have I waited a long time to feel this way about sometime. So there you have it dear reader(s), my life so far. Not terribly interesting, especially coming from one who calls herself a writer. This is going to lead into another topic, so I'll post for now, and hopefully go on a bike ride while the rain holds off.