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I haven't posted in a while. Whatever... :) Lots of good things happening around here for sure though. I'm done my Christmas shopping, since I only bought for Colin anyway it wasn't so bad. I did it all in one day, and spent waaaay too much. We had a nice little budget made up, and Colin blew it by about 70 bucks, and then when I went I blew his by about 70 bucks. (If you can do the math, I went 140 over what I was supposed to.) Whoopsy! I kinda had to. Maybe he'll go again and get me something else :p I don't need it, but who doesn't love presents? I can't wait until he opens his though.
Oddly enough I'm looking forward to Christmas here by ourselves. I've already bought our meat, pork roast and turkey breast (microwaveable, unless santa fits an oven in here, it has to be) It's going to be out first Christmas away from home completely, but I feel bad for Colin. I got to see my family in September, he hasn't seen his since last Christmas.
But!! Moving on to some good news, and secret cause I'm not sure if I want to tell my mom, or just possibly show up at home one day as a surprise. After hearing nothing from his job applications for months, in the past 2 days Colin's heard from 3 potential employers. Two of them are in St John, NB, and one is up here at the power plant in Chalk River. I'm so uber excited! I'm of course hoping for the maritimes so that I can pop home more often, and the fact that my teaching cert. is for NB helps... Plus I have friends teaching that that will call me to sub... But, anything will be wonderful! He has an interview in Chalk River on the 18th so we're going to make a trip out of it and drive up (it's only about 2 hours from Ottawa). This Monday coming he has to call one of the New Brunswick ones back and see what that's all about. I really really hope it works out...
If you're wondering why I'm so excited about Colin getting a job when I decided to stay here in Ottawa, basically I've canged my mind. If Colin ends up going to NB, why would I stay here in a grocery store, when I could almost immediately get a job subbing there for 140 a day? I couldn't really see why either... So while I feel slightly bad about leading them on a work and getting a nifty new name tag, I'd much prefer to be called Ms., instead of a drunk guy say "Merry Chrishtmas, beautiful".
Plus, since we have no furniture, before we move we're going to Ikea. We'll get the U-Haul, drive to Ikea, buy desks, bedroom sets (Queen baby!), living room sets, bookcases etc... (I made a list last night) Then we'll load up our small amount of crap and haul out of here. Our lease is technically up at the end of December and we haven't said anything to our landlord about staying, so I hope he won't old back our deposit. That coupled with the last pay with the vacation pay on it should help pay for things. If not, there's credit. (I'm not kidding myself here, I know the Ikea shopping spree will be quite costly for that much)
Anyhoo... Enough bragging and being happy! Nothing is final, but oh do I want to get out of here.
Oddly enough I'm looking forward to Christmas here by ourselves. I've already bought our meat, pork roast and turkey breast (microwaveable, unless santa fits an oven in here, it has to be) It's going to be out first Christmas away from home completely, but I feel bad for Colin. I got to see my family in September, he hasn't seen his since last Christmas.
But!! Moving on to some good news, and secret cause I'm not sure if I want to tell my mom, or just possibly show up at home one day as a surprise. After hearing nothing from his job applications for months, in the past 2 days Colin's heard from 3 potential employers. Two of them are in St John, NB, and one is up here at the power plant in Chalk River. I'm so uber excited! I'm of course hoping for the maritimes so that I can pop home more often, and the fact that my teaching cert. is for NB helps... Plus I have friends teaching that that will call me to sub... But, anything will be wonderful! He has an interview in Chalk River on the 18th so we're going to make a trip out of it and drive up (it's only about 2 hours from Ottawa). This Monday coming he has to call one of the New Brunswick ones back and see what that's all about. I really really hope it works out...
If you're wondering why I'm so excited about Colin getting a job when I decided to stay here in Ottawa, basically I've canged my mind. If Colin ends up going to NB, why would I stay here in a grocery store, when I could almost immediately get a job subbing there for 140 a day? I couldn't really see why either... So while I feel slightly bad about leading them on a work and getting a nifty new name tag, I'd much prefer to be called Ms., instead of a drunk guy say "Merry Chrishtmas, beautiful".
Plus, since we have no furniture, before we move we're going to Ikea. We'll get the U-Haul, drive to Ikea, buy desks, bedroom sets (Queen baby!), living room sets, bookcases etc... (I made a list last night) Then we'll load up our small amount of crap and haul out of here. Our lease is technically up at the end of December and we haven't said anything to our landlord about staying, so I hope he won't old back our deposit. That coupled with the last pay with the vacation pay on it should help pay for things. If not, there's credit. (I'm not kidding myself here, I know the Ikea shopping spree will be quite costly for that much)
Anyhoo... Enough bragging and being happy! Nothing is final, but oh do I want to get out of here.