Ahhhhhhhh....

That's how I feel right now....got a grin from ear to ear, and my outlook is feeling brighter than it has for a while. I just got a call for a job interview at a chiropractor clinic next Wednesday at 11:30am. I am a little nervous, because I haven't had very many job interviews in my life, but I think it's different now that I actually have education and a career. I hope it goes well, and that I get the job. I have been fairly unhappy with my job as of late, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high for this one. Please pray for me, that I would be confident and make a good impression. :)

Busy Day

So it's been a busy day. Started out this morning by applying for a new job at Market Mall Chiropractic clinic, there was an ad in the paper for it on Saturday. Then I went to work to do a massage. We had planned to go further check out the car we have been eyeing up, but I got called into work so that got postponed for a while. But then we went. Jay had planned to go for a test drive with me, but after a failed attempt at getting into the car, I ended up going by myself….well the salesman came with us. His name is Ryan Derksen. I called him Ryan DORKsen and it just kinda stuck, well behind his back anyways. So Jay and I call him our little dork. He is a young guy…..maybe about our age, yeah, I could never be a sales person. After I got back and we talked, Jay haggled a little, and they wouldn’t budge on it, but I guess that’s their job. That’s how they make money. By making us believe that they just CANNOT come down any lower or else they will go out of business or something :P I really like that car, but maybe we were looking a little beyond our means when we found that car. It was nice to drive, well except for the fact that I am used to driving an old car, where you can see everything around you. In new cars you really have to depend more on your mirrors than just being able to see around you. Then to top off such an eventful day, we used one of our wedding gifts, a gift certificate from The Cave. It was the best restaurant meal I have ever had. Jay and I both had steak and shrimp. The filet mignon was soooo tender, and the shrimp was better then the stuff I had at Red Lobster for mom and dad’s anniversary. Mmmmmm, I think I am going to go let it digest and watch Corner Gas!

vroom vroom vroom

For the last little while I have been keeping my eyes peeled for a better car to come along than the one we have. I know most of you are thinking, could there even be a better car than 1983 Buick Regal?? Well it has served me well so far, well except for the crappy defrost and lack of traction in the tires, but it has got me from point A to point B since the beginning of December when we got it. We agreed when we bought that car that it would be a super temporary one, just because I can't be driving Jay's van on a regular basis, and I REALLY did not want to take the bus from this end of town :P So lately I have been watching the Auto trader website looking for something appropriate and in our price range. A couple of weeks ago I found this one car. I thot it looked like a good one, and so did Jay, but we weren't super committed to looking for a car yet, so I bookmarked it and kept on looking. Well today we decided to swing by that dealership and it is still there! I did a walk around and only found one small scratch on it (not bad for a 1998), and could not see anything else really wrong. I have done a lot of praying about this car, and as long as I don't have work tomorrow morning, we are going to go check it out further and maybe see about taking it for a test drive. Please pray for wisdom in this decision. We would like to find a car that we will have for probably about 10 years. Something that will be reliable and not money hungry. :) I am excited, but I don't wanna get my hopes too high because it might have some horrible fatal flaw.

Springtime is near!

So life has been carrying on the way it always seems to. Not too much new in this girl's life. I am still enjoying married life (which is good after just about 2 months, cause I think we have a while left to go until that 'death do you part' thing comes into effect). Work has been picking up a little bit lately, but still is slower than I would like.

It has been a good year so far. I think that it will be a year of transitions for a lot of people. Some people have already blogged about the changes that 2005 will bring, but it just amazes me. Two of my close friends and their husbands have purchased houses that they will be moving into within a couple of weeks of each other. I am so excited to see those houses!! I got married, that was a pretty big transition.....it is good in every way. I like living in a place that isn't my parents house. Not that living there was so bad, but I just felt that it was time to move on. I am wondering if this may be a year of getting pregnant for some of my friends/family. I don't think it'll happen for me, but we can't have babies in this condo anyway :P Leyton told us that women tend to really start getting maternal instincts once they have their own house......hehe, hmmm.....

Tuesday

So on Tuesday, I journeyed out to Carrot River for the funeral of my gramma. It was a lovely service and an appropriate time of saying goodbye. I didn’t realize that there was so much ‘choreography’ associated with funerals. The family all had to go downstairs, then we got lined up in a specific order, then seated in specific places. I got to sit right at the front on the left hand side because I was asked to read the scripture. My cousin Cindy was supposed to join me in doing that, but she said if she got up in front of so many people that she would probably pass out! So I did it. I sat there feeling sick to my stomach with nervousness and trying my best not to cry. I know it’s okay to cry at a funeral, but it was a pretty long Psalm that I had to read, and I didn’t want to be up there any longer than I had to be. But I managed to steady my voice and made it through. Later my aunt Margaret told me that the Psalm that I had read (Psalm 103) was one that she read to gramma just before she died.

I got to see many aunts and uncles and cousins that I have not seen in years! There were actually 2 of my cousins there that I had NEVER met! Gramma had 28 grandchildren and who knows how many great grandchildren. It was good to see those cousins again, though it’s too bad it couldn’t have been under better circumstances. Seeing all of gramma’s children (there are 8 left of 11) with their spouses, her grandchildren and most of their spouses, and greatgrandchildren (some of which are also married) I just think of what a great heritage that is. Looking at that room of about 70 people, thinking that they all were there to celebrate the life of a woman who touched them all in such different ways, I know gramma was definitely smiling down on us from heaven.