So.
Life's busy.
My sister and her husband got a Kinect set, which is like a wii, only better. So I get to use it for free. Yay! It's good exercise.
I sent my application in to the bank the other day. We'll see what happens there. I very much doubt that they would hire me, especially since I made a typo which makes me look ignorant. (don't instead of doesn't) but now I can go and apply other places, 'cus I'm not using that for an excuse any more.
I finally forced myself to buy a map, after driving for an extra two hours looking for the skihill the other day. I figure it's probably worth the twenty buck, because I ended up using about that in gas when I was lost...
Other than that, God is good, my boyfriend is super, and my family is irreplaceable.

Life, in general

So...
Life's been interesting.
Last week Saturday I went to West Edmonton Mall's Waterpark by myself. They had super cheap rates that evening, for some charity or other.
So, I'm walking through West Ed, and this fellow stops me. He's like, "Do you wear makeup?" "Nope, I don't" "Really????" "No, never" " No eyeliner, either?" "Nope!" "Do you have a boyfriend?" "Yup" "Well, I can make you look prettier for him" "Well, I think my boyfriend likes me the way I am"
Hehehe, he looked so nonplussed. I'm pretty sure most girls would have stopped to try whatever he was offering, and I might have, just for fun, but I was going swimming! I for sure did not in any way need any jazz dripping down my face in the water!! So he eventually just gave up, and I walked on my merry way...
Work's been interesting recently. It's really weird to work in a place where basically nobody gives a rip about the job. I ended up putting my back out, because nobody really cares what happens, so they weren't doing their jobs... So, I'm REALLY looking for a different job now.
Oh, and now I picked up some nasty bug from my little nephew, so I'm not going to work, either. At least I got a raise recently, so I'm earning more in the hours I do end up working...
So my family were planning to visit, and they aren't going to, because of us being sick, and my boyfriend can't come either, I for sure don't want him sick...
I read an awesome book I'd recommend to any girl who is even starting to think about relationships and stuff, called And The Bride Wore White. I think I'm going to let my sisters borrow it... There is a boy version, too, written by the lady's husband, called Who Moved The Goalpost? It made me think a lot. And that's good, right now especially...

Happy New Year.

So.
Laura and Henry and my nephews are in Mexico.
Which means I am home by myself.
Having been raised in such a large family, this is a new sort of experience for me.
But it's only the first day, we'll see how tomorrow goes, at church...
I would definitely be open to someone phoning now and again.
Meanwhile, I have to compose a cover letter for the job I'd like to get at the bank. The plan so far is to work there full-time and a few hours at Mcdonalds every day as well. Let's just say the road is stretching out long ahead of me, but I can't see it. And I don't really know what I should or even want to, do.
Maybe I should go someplace else for a while, I was originally thinking Australia sounded pretty good. I know several people who have gone for a while. And it's supposed to be easier to get a job there, too. Not so much do about visas and permits and such. Not that I would know. But less fuss always means, for me, a larger chance of doing whatever it is. I don't really know, though. Even though I love the sound of going and doing something like that, and I've really been enamored of Australia for several years, it still sounds like something somebody else can maybe do, but not me.
I asked my Mom for some of my favorite muffin recipes, so I should be able, if I end up having the time and inclination, to bake sometime this week. But I'll probably do some cooking, anyways, or I'll end up eating leftovers and bread. Maybe I should take a cooking class or something. It would probably be fun.
I just finished watching 'Julie & Julia'. It was actually recommended by a pastor, and now I know why. The relationships between the ladies and their husbands is amazing to watch. I loved it!
But I'd better go and finish the laundry, and a few other things I've put off too long already...
Ta ta for now!

On moving

So here I am at last. I've moved!
Also... I dropped by my new mcdonalds on the way here, and they told me I can have a shift tomorrow. So I'm working at 8 tomorrow morning. Then I was thinking what time I'd have to get up at, and realized that I only have to get up at 7 instead of 6 or something, to make that time!
And in a week, Jessica and I are heading out to our cousin Paula's wedding to her best friend, Joel. Should be pretty exciting. We've never been in that part of the U.S. before. We get to go on a day-long cruise to the Bahamas as well. We'll see how that all works out. I haven't seen my cousin for quite a while, 'cause last time I went to Holland, she had already moved to Florida.
Other than that, I can't think of too much else exciting going on...
So for now, I'll just post this. I think it's not to bad, considering my record so far...

The years been complaining? ~ U snědeného krámu

CD COVER 1 - Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 - Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. (make sure you hit the new random quotations button at the bottom). 3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together (http://www.picnik.com/) works well, online. 5 - Post it with this text in the caption and tag the people you'd like to participate. (If you don't want to I won't force you to.)

All quiet on the Western Front

Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see that you are a man like me. I thought of your hand grenades, your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Rorgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony? Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother just like Kat and Albert...

...Comrade,...today you, tomorrow me. But if I come out of it comrade, I will fight against this, that has struck us both down; from you, taken life and from me? Life also.

~Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Sometime, I plan to read this book, I think it's probably worth-while... I found the reference in one of my old school books, which I found while going through stuff on my desk in preparation for moving. Of course I had to find the book back and page through it...

Kind of thought-provoking, anyways.

i've let this blog have too much down time.
perhaps i should actually have a go at making it existant...

recently, i have been learning some stuff about cars. they are actually pretty cool, and knowing how they work is definately no longer just a 'guy thing'!

i'm planning on moving to St. Albert in the near future, living with my sister, her husband, and two amazing nephews. should be fun.

i've been gleaning small dog jobs here and there (the dogs were small, not necessarily the jobs), and i'm excited to open that back up next year, hopefully. oh. i was cutting their fur... not stealing them or something.

i love the weather right now, amazingly sunny and bright. the sky is soooo blue and the leaves are super brilliant and glisten yellowly in the sun. the one's remaining on the trees, that is...

so... this'll have to be it for now...