My Imagination…

Time is zipping by, we will soon find ourselves at the end of June! Guess it has been a while since I blogged. I don’t gave as much access to the internet any more, so I find my blogging time and energy less and less. Dozens of times I meant to and just it never happened.

At work we are not allowed to visit websites such as blogs, facebook and such. So I pretty much can look at the news and weather when I have any down time, so I spend most of my time writing snail mail. When I am home I am often sleeping or on Facebook and I keep putting things off in blog land… Sorry!

Lots to say and update you on… Where oh where to start… Well I am still at my job. It’s still hard on my body, but I need the money, so I endure it as best as I can. Having a lot of lower back pain that when I get home from work and lay down I cease up and can barely move. My sciatic nerve is bothering me again on a daily basis. Oh the joys :(

I finally have some freedom with my own set of wheels. In early June I went back to PEI to take out a small loan to get a car. I got a 2006 Pontiac Pursuit G5. It is a 2 door car, my first time with just 2 doors. It’s iridescent plum purplish grey. Depending on the light and angle my car changes 4 colors and I love it. It has been turning a lot of heads when I drive on a sunny day! I may have to get Eric to drive it and I follow so I can see what they see when I am driving lol…

So I now have a car loan expense every 2 weeks and my car insurance is much higher now , over triple than before. The joys of having a sporty looking 2 door car I guess. Time to win a lottery ;) It’s cutting into my income but I love having my freedom back! No more being stranded when Eric is at work and vice versa, no more taxi’s. I can just go out and wander for a drive on a sunny day if I feel like it… Love it!

We are in the process of getting some boxes to pack up our stuff. We gave our notice to our landlord. The leaking moldy bathroom ceiling issue has not been resolved yet and we’ve been here since mid march! Our sanity and our health has had enough! So we found a new 2 bedroom apartment very close by but in a much better neighborhood. We get the keys to it mid July and cannot wait !!! I dread the packing and moving though :( Fourth time moving in one year… This better be the last!

Eric started a new job last week and loves it. It’s better pay, much better hours, he will get benefits as of the middle of August, the list of benefits goes on and on! So we are very happy that he is doing well at his new job and hope that he gets to stay there a very long time :)

I am having some blood pressure issues off and on. Hoping it is nothing major and just attributed to stress… If it continues to be a problem I am going to be medicated. I went for stage one of allergy testing last week. They are trying to find out the root of a 12 + year never ending back to sinus infection after sinus infection… Stage one showed allergies to tree pollens. Stage two of testing isn’t until around Christmas! Blah!

Summer is slipping us by already and I feel like I am going to miss it all. Working til 7am and sleeping during the days sucks some times. You miss out on sun light hours, you don’t have much of a social life… I really miss getting out with my camera.

Going to try to find some time to do that soon, but it looks unlikely. For example I work the next 5 nights, then 1 night off then work the next 5 nights in a row after that. 10 nights and 1 night off. I’ll be too tired to do anything but sleep…

Well I am going to go for now! Hope to see more of myself here soon ;)

Hello out there… I have returned to try and rebuild my empire once again. Out with the old, in with the new, celebrations all around!

Life has been nothing short of interesting since the new year… I made the decision to make some big changes and decisions in my life and as a result my whole world has changed…

Last winter I met someone wonderful, his name is Eric! We met by random chance which I call fate :) Even tho he says it was love at first sight, I chose to take things slow in the beginning and was very cautious because starting life over can be a little overwhelming…

He was not from the island, he was newly living in Moncton.  So he came to PEI for a long weekend visit and then I started going to Moncton to visit  very frequently  and test the waters…

Well it obviously went amazingly well super fast because  I made the ultimate big decision to pack my belongings and move off island for the first time in my life and move to Moncton to be with him! ;)

Eric came over to PEI and loaded up a U-Haul towards the end of March, with my nearest and dearest belongings and we drove off into a snow storm to bring me to my new home, an apartment we chose together in Moncton!

Mom and Dad were sad but happy to see me go, Eric was given strict orders to take care of their little girl ;) It was a bitter sweet moment that I will likely never forget. I left behind my parents, family, friends and precious cat Moe.

I miss them all alot, it’s been very different adjusting to having next to no one in this town that I can call up and hang out with… I went back to PEI once already because I had a specialist appointment, was a whirl wind 24 hour trip, got to see Leisa while there and go shopping with her. Wish I had time to see more people. Hopefully next time!

Honestly, I am the happiest I have ever been. Life is finally feeling like life again emotionally. I finally am happy the minute I wake up and the minute I go to sleep. Life feels complete and it seems to get better every day that I am with Eric.

Words cannot express  how caring, supportive, attentive and wonderful he is. Some say oh it’s just the honeymoon phase, but I truly believe this is who he is and how he will always be and that we will have a long and happy life together. I am glad I robbed the cradle ;)

It took me about 3 weeks but I found a job over here that didn’t require french. I am working at a local hotel doing audit (11pm to 7am) and evening (3pm to 11pm) shifts.  Since I took Hotel & Restaurant Management back in 1996 to 1998,  I guess it is suiting that I am back to my roots per say!

I am still in a training long term learning process as there’s waaaay too much that training could ever prepare you for per say but it’s going well. I work my first audit shift alone tonight. Should be a long night! I hope things go off without a hitch…

It’s been a huge adjustment going back to work. Physically it has been hard on me. I am always exhausted and in pain from rotation of 8 hours of standing and sitting and a lot of walking and climbing stairs. My body hates me the entire time I am there and for countless hours after I come home.

Over the counter pain meds and anti-inflamitory pills become my candy of choice to try and dull some of the pain.  It sucks but I have no choice but to go to work and support myself because wcb has closed my file. Physio therapists and specialists deemed there’s nothing more that can be done for me.

Physically I will apparently always have to live with my lower back pain and sparatic sciatic leg pain. I have medically plateaued and this is as good as it gets they say. I still am in a constant state of pain. Thank god I have a high tolerance for pain, sadly it is endless pain that has given this to me. It’s always there, it always will be, but I will find a way to live with it as I have the past few years…

I am hoping that money issues will sort themselves out now that I have a job. Financially it has been very hard and I am looking forward to a regular decent paying paycheck.  I am guarenteed 40 hours a week, subtract lunches and thats 37.5 hours pay a week.

I am still carless and sharing Eric’s car with him, however our shifts too often oppose and I have to take a taxi, which is $9.95 one way. I dont want to be losing an hours pay every shift just to pay for a taxi. So I have to look into maybe taking out a small loan to get a second hand car. Blah! The joys of life :P

So all in all… Life has changed dramatically in a very short period of time, however I like my life and am looking forward to seeing what the future has in store for me…

My old website and blog was lost and I  am starting over from scratch. Seems suiting since my life is starting over too… Stay tuned for upates on my new adventures in life and for my website as I rebuild it! :)