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I called my Aunt yesterday to thank her for the Christmas card she sent. Oy, reasons why I don't call her, because she goes on and on about how I haven't found anything to do with my life while her other nieces and nephews (by blood, I'm not actually related to her) all figured stuff out much faster etc etc and she kept telling me about all of these jobs in Sudbury that I'd like and how much is available up there.
First of all, it is WAY harder to find a job in the North than it is in Toronto. Even in a city like Sudbury they still operate like a small town and if you don't know someone it's very very hard to get hired (yes I know a lot of jobs work that way but I found it to be very bad in Sudbury)
Also they're looking for lifers there, they don't want people who aren't going to stay up there, and if I went up there to work it would be strictly for experience and then I'd come back to TO asap.
And why why why would I want to move back there? It's very hard to explain to someone that you don't want to live in their city. I mean she's lived there all her life and that's good, it works for her. For me, not so much. I am not a northern girl. The blatent accepted smallmindedness drove me crazy. I eventually had to stop saying stuff just to stop getting into fights. That's not an environment I'd want to immerse myself into again.
Today I slept in a bit *yay* for the weekend :) Then I went over to Viv's and she and I joined the ranks of the last minute shopper. Seriously I love shopping on Christmas Eve. Everyone always thinks that it's going to be crazy so they shop like mad a few days before and Christmas Eve is actually pretty calm everywhere excepting grocery stores.
Then we got slurpies, honey balls and cheddar chees and herb chips (random food!) and watched Elf! Oh hadn't seen this for a while and I love it. What an instant Christmas classic. It made me all smiley and made me feel much more Christmas-y than I had been all week.
I even had a fairly nice dinner with my parents. Only minimal grouchyness from my mother... Honestly once my brother and I are gone and she's moved accross the country to B.C. she's going to realize she's lonely without family. Especially when she gets arthritus and can't knit as well. I really really hope that as I get older I don't act like that. I don't want to just go through friends and family and try not to hold on to anyone. Weird way to live life.