We're finally settled into our new place. We are very grateful to have been given the opportunity to live in this condo. We step outside and are surrounded by trees, right beside us is Blackmud Creek and we are a very short walk to MacTaggart Sanctuary loop. The air smells amazing here. I hear at minimum 5 different bird songs as I leave my place in the morning and my one cat is obsessed with watching a squirrel that lives right in front of our place. We've named him Peanut.
I start school again very soon. I took a bit of a break due to moving. School's still quite a challenge, I have to work pretty hard, and there's a lot of self discipline required to do the condensed courses and succeed. Plus, work got busy again and I have to still do the same amount of work I was doing as a full time employee in 3 days a week. No wonder I'm mentally exhausted at the end of my days. The goal is to work really hard and be finished school by next summer.
With my hours getting cut and now going to school and Josh finishing school and not yet working in his field, things have been financially stressful the past year. I have to say though, I've learned the difference between need and want and have a different view of how to spend my money going forward. Once I am working full time again, I am going to focus a lot more on experiences rather than things. I look at all the crap I've needlessly accumulated in the past (like, seriously, who needs 30+ shirts?) and realize my favourite memories don't really lie in the stuff I have, but in the stuff I've done. Once work is stable for us, there's going to be a lot more doing things and a lot less buying things. For now though, there won't be much of either...stupid school...
...Still haven't made it to the Monday class...like I said I would...in February...I don't even know what to say about that...
Well, that's my life in a nutshell.
See you at the kwoon!
