A New Home - well temporary home

I was offered a house-sitting job for 4 months that started Nov 30th. I'm so very happy to be out of where I was living as it was a communal place. Now I have peace and quiet, a cat, and my OWN space. One thing I really like is being able to spread out my stuff on the kitchen/dining table and not have to tidy up at the end of the day. I know a silly thing but after living in a communal building for over 2 years, you realize what sort of things are taken for granted.... but maybe not for granted.... maybe just lack of freedom and 'own' space.

My new kitchen. (No dishwasher though) There is lots of cupboards but I just leave my non-perishables on the counter.
A dark picture of the living room. There are 2 couches back-to-back.
Check out the view! As you can see, the deck is huge....it wraps around 3 of the 4 walls of the house! There's also a hot tub but it's been turned off. That's fine, I'm not a hot tub type of person anyways.
Smedley, the cat I live with. He's such an oldy!
The front entrance of the house.

Now It's Really Snowing!!

This was taken yesterday (Saturday) morning. Looks so peaceful eh? It's the view from my bedroom window...yes, that's part of the hospital I work at. This is taken today about 2 hrs ago (5:30pm) on Sunday evening. Of course when I use the flash at night time, all you'll see are the 'dots' falling from the sky. The area I live in has a snowfall warning of 15-20 cm of snow...that's 6-8 inches for you Americans that read this. I'm sure we'll get more than that though.

Here is my co-worker/friend, Crystal, shovelling the stairs that go down to the parking lot at the hospital.

This is the crab apple tree outside my window....also refer to the first picture in this blog entry.

Let it snow....

We may not have pigeons up in the north but we do have the crows and ravens that ravage the crab apple trees outside my bedroom window. I wonder if they have that sort of sense of humor as well??

Today is our first large day of snow. It started falling after 7am and it's now 2:11pm and still coming down. In the morning it was first alot of blowing snow but it sure has settled on the ground, nevertheless. The weather network says no snow for tomorrow and that's a good thing because I was hoping to drive 1.5hrs to Smithers to do some last Christmas shopping and to pay for a course at the scrapbook store. This may be the last time I can get up to Smithers or even PG before Christmas....it all depends on the roads. The highways up in the north are never 100% clear after any substantial snowfall so it makes getting errands done a chore that needs to be planned almost well in advance. At times like this I miss the lower mainland where you can go anywhere at anytime of the day without really worrying about the weather and road conditions. I'd take the rainy season over snow...there's no shovelling rain, scrapping rain off the car windows, trudging through the rain, slipping and sliding through the rain. Sure snow looks nice at first but then the cars get driving through it and it's brown and ucky. What a downer I'm making this blog entry to be....oh well...it's reality. If I were more of an outdoor person in the winter season I'm sure I'd appreciate it alot more.

So here's to 6 months of white stuff....

Being Comfortable in My Own Skin

I'm starting a book called "Comfortable in Your Own Skin: Making Peace with your Body Image" written by Deborah Newman. This book is affiliated with Focus on the Family. It's a devotional book that takes about 6 weeks to complete. During my first bit of reading of chapter one, the book encourages answering the questions by writing them in a journal....I need to get a little book to write in.

A couple weeks ago at church I felt a burdon to be prayed for and a lady named Bonnie came to me. After the prayer she talked to me that I need to diligently pursue what's in the Word and adapt it to my life. I know myself to not be able to understand what the Bible says and be able to adapt it to my life so I thought I'd get some help. I found the above book and thought it to be a great find from http://www.amazon.ca/ as it addresses what one of my issues are.

I've also been going to counselling for my depression and other issues in my life but am finding it to be very 'hollow'. I know where my answer is to feeling fulfilled but I'm the type of person who wants quick answers. What I should do is show my counselor the book I found and let her know that my answer is from above not on earth. Wonder if she'll get that?

Loomis is back home

I took Loomis back to PG this past Friday. She just wasn't adjusting well to the BL home. Oh well...we gave it a try and it didn't work out. During the drive she wouldn't shut up unless she came to sit on me while I was driving and look out the window. She loves to sit above the back seats at the window but she didn't stop me-howling the whole time!! I didn't see a reason to put the radio on as she was my entertainment.

Here is Loomis on her scratching post.

I was playing with Saibry and trying to get some interesting pictures of her when I decided to go for a self-portrait with her in it as well...and when I leaned in for the shot she leaned in and put her forehead on mine...so cute! Yum Yum!!

More of my little niece.

Saibry, at almost 8 months, with her new little kitty, Bella. Bella likes to play in the exersaucer while Saibry's in it too.
Messy face!! What a cutie though!! My sister said she took the spoon and hit the high chair with hit and the food splattered....notice her forehead!

Chillaxin' in the laundry basket....this is a new discovery for baby and mommy.