Not too much new here. I had reading week last week and it was blissful. There really is no other word for it! Even though I was sick for most of it, it wasn't this debilitating sickness, just a general blah-ness. I can handle that. I did things just for the fun of it! I started reading Mansfield Park (which I am now almost done), I cleaned, wrote a little bit, watched movies, ran errands, practiced piano. It was wonderful! I didn't want to go back to school today, especially as it meant getting up at 6am, but I knew I couldn't skip today because I'm going to be missing classes in 2 weeks and I don't want to fall behind.
Oh, yes, that's something that's new. I'm going out to Calgary to see Julia! I'm wickedly excited to go, I've never been out West and I get to see Julia and Ron's apartment and everything. I'm so excited that it's taking a lot of restraint to not use an excessive amount of exclamation marks, but I shall resist (PS-that last, "I shall resist," was spoken in the voice of that cleaning guy from Finding Nemo, Jacques I think. Just so you know!)
Getting up this morning was hard and I was still disoriented when I got to school. I actually went to the wrong class. Not the wrong class as in I just walked in the wrong door. I mean the wrong class where you think it's a totally different day and you walk in the door, sit down, unload your things, look around, and wonder why no-one else is there. Then you think, "did I not get some message saying class was cancelled? I was on Sakai this morning and there was nothing there..." and then you realize that when you were on Sakai that morning, you printed off notes for a different class - the right class - and then you get up all embarassed. It was quite the blunder.
Matthew is having a sale this week with his website, and it's doing surprisingly well. His last sale he was hoping for 50 sales overall, and he had 150 sales on the first day alone. It was amazingly exciting, and he was hoping that this sale would be able to do at least as well. The lead-up seemed very promising - by yesterday he had more than twice the number of people signed up on his pre-notification list, so we were hoping that it would mean twice the number of sales. Matt hoped that today he would get 150 sales and 400 sales for the week, and I estimated 25o sales today and 500 for the whole week. Well, so far, 6 1/2 hours after the sale began we're already at 326 sales! It's thrilling, to say the least!
Another thing that's slightly new with us is that we called our CAS today asking some questions about when we might expect to adopt. Our adoption worker is on educational leave until June and I was a little worried that we might not be remembered when it came time to find a family for a child up for adoption because we don't know any of the other workers. I was assured that this wasn't the case, so that's a relief, but the woman I talked to said that it's been really slow in the department and everything lately, and that, although they're trying not to fall behind, the estimate for adopting right now is 1-2 years. I thought it was 1 year max, and that The Call might come any day, but now it could be as late as December 2009!
This news really upset me at first, but I looked down at my Mansfield Park book, and I thought of the heroine, Fanny Price. I don't like Mansfield Park all that much, but I do think that Fanny is great heroine. She's very brave, and despite the moral degradation of pretty much everyone around her, she remains strong. She also never complains, gives people the benefit of the doubt, and tries to look on the bright side of things. That helped me, because I realized that it's really not a big deal if we wait a little longer than we thought to adopt. It still could be any day, but if it's not until next Christmas then I'll definitely finish my semester without any major distractions, I'll have a lovely peaceful summer break, we'll be more financially prepared, and we'll be able to go on some vacations this spring and summer. Realizing all of this brought me a lot of peace, and helped me to see some of the gains I've made in my outlook on life in general in the last 3 1/2 years.
Anyway, I've made this post ridiculously longer than intended. If you've stayed with it till the end, then congratulations. Your prize is bragging rights! When people ask you about your accomplishments, you can tell them that you read until the end of Holly E. E. G's blog posts and survived to tell the tale!
Monday, February 23, 2009
Long Awaited Photos of the Ugly Dresser
Well folks, here are the pictures you've been dying to see. They'll change your life. They are... (drum roll please) my camera-phone pictures of the ugly dresser!! I didn't mean to take so long putting them up, but our camera is also the business camera, and it spends more time at the office than at home. The one time I did have the camera at home, I couldn't get the light settings right anyway. So, to make a long story short, I broke out the camera phone (which, I might add, is not bad quality!) and took some photos today. Here they are!
[caption id="attachment_517" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="White drawers, painted pink swirls for handles. I don't think the picture does justice to how dated it is! Notice how the top drawer looks different than the rest? In real life, it looks like a box that has been placed on top of the drawers and painted the same colour. When I first saw it, I tried to lift it off. It didn't move, much to my chagrin."]
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[caption id="attachment_521" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Pink swirls, chipped drawers. CLASSIC"]
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[caption id="attachment_522" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="One with my little dog, Pippin. Oh, and the chipped bottom left corner! All in all, pretty funny-looking. I'm excited to refurbish it though, and even if we never get to that stage, I have the one consolation of my ugly pink swirly dresser matching the equally ugly pick carpet!"]
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[caption id="attachment_517" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="White drawers, painted pink swirls for handles. I don't think the picture does justice to how dated it is! Notice how the top drawer looks different than the rest? In real life, it looks like a box that has been placed on top of the drawers and painted the same colour. When I first saw it, I tried to lift it off. It didn't move, much to my chagrin."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_521" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Pink swirls, chipped drawers. CLASSIC"]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_522" align="aligncenter" width="225" caption="One with my little dog, Pippin. Oh, and the chipped bottom left corner! All in all, pretty funny-looking. I'm excited to refurbish it though, and even if we never get to that stage, I have the one consolation of my ugly pink swirly dresser matching the equally ugly pick carpet!"]
[/caption]Thursday, February 5, 2009
Starting Out
Recently I've been noticing how many people have these cute little blogs where they keep people posted on their family and the funny going-ons (goings-on??) that happen in their lives. I've tried to keep a fitness blog, but I found that when I DIDN'T work out or eat healthy, then instead of feeling accountable to my 'readers' (who, after all, probably only amounted to 2 or 3 people!) I just hid and never posted, coward that I am.
I think this will be easier AND more fun because it's a no-strings-attached way of posting and having some fun. Also, I am HORRIBLE at keeping in touch with people, so maybe this is my lil way of keeping people informed. If you want to be, that is! ;)
So what's new with Matt and I? Not a whole lot, and yet a lot at the same time! I'm still in school and he's still working on the business, and we're still waiting for "The Call" which will make us parents. This status hasn't changed much in the last year or two, or even three, but it FEELS like it has, because we've changed so much personally over the last little while. I think we've really grown closer together through our struggles, and that's a comforting thought.
It also feels like a lot has changed because it feels like a lot is ABOUT to change. Then when people ask me 'what's new?' I feel like I should have something to say but I don't. I will soon though! We've been waiting to adopt for 14 months now, and 'they' estimated that you're only on the list for around a year, so we're overdue. It's very strange though. We got a dresser today and we put it in our future baby's room. It's so hard to picture using it though. I've never been in shock before, but if I could picture it any way, I'd picture it as being close to the way I feel when I say, "Hey, 2 months from now, and you'll probably be a mom..." WEIRD!
At least I have school to keep me preoccupied. I've really thrown myself into this semester, more than I ever have before, and I can't put my finger on why. Maybe to keep myself distracted? I think really I just want to do really well so that if I'm faced with the chance to drop down my courseload I'll think twice about it, after putting so much time into what I'm doing. It really WOULD be hard to drop any courses now, and that thought puts a smile on my lazy face. Well, maybe I'm not lazy, just an under-achiever. Okay, so under-achiever is another word for lazy. I'm lazy!
Anyway, I should wrap this up...I have a presentation in 20 minutes, and it's my last one of the semester! Woo hoo! I'll post a picture of the tacky "new" dresser later on when I get home from school.
I think this will be easier AND more fun because it's a no-strings-attached way of posting and having some fun. Also, I am HORRIBLE at keeping in touch with people, so maybe this is my lil way of keeping people informed. If you want to be, that is! ;)
So what's new with Matt and I? Not a whole lot, and yet a lot at the same time! I'm still in school and he's still working on the business, and we're still waiting for "The Call" which will make us parents. This status hasn't changed much in the last year or two, or even three, but it FEELS like it has, because we've changed so much personally over the last little while. I think we've really grown closer together through our struggles, and that's a comforting thought.
It also feels like a lot has changed because it feels like a lot is ABOUT to change. Then when people ask me 'what's new?' I feel like I should have something to say but I don't. I will soon though! We've been waiting to adopt for 14 months now, and 'they' estimated that you're only on the list for around a year, so we're overdue. It's very strange though. We got a dresser today and we put it in our future baby's room. It's so hard to picture using it though. I've never been in shock before, but if I could picture it any way, I'd picture it as being close to the way I feel when I say, "Hey, 2 months from now, and you'll probably be a mom..." WEIRD!
At least I have school to keep me preoccupied. I've really thrown myself into this semester, more than I ever have before, and I can't put my finger on why. Maybe to keep myself distracted? I think really I just want to do really well so that if I'm faced with the chance to drop down my courseload I'll think twice about it, after putting so much time into what I'm doing. It really WOULD be hard to drop any courses now, and that thought puts a smile on my lazy face. Well, maybe I'm not lazy, just an under-achiever. Okay, so under-achiever is another word for lazy. I'm lazy!
Anyway, I should wrap this up...I have a presentation in 20 minutes, and it's my last one of the semester! Woo hoo! I'll post a picture of the tacky "new" dresser later on when I get home from school.
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