25

yesterday was my birthday. i turned 25. yup, the big 2-5. how do i feel about that? well, quite mixed, actually. okay i think most adults feel this way about birthdays. i'm quite silly though, as i am sad that my "early-20s" are definitely over. why does this make me sad? i don't know. i guess i just wonder if i made/am making the most of my 'youth'. but there are things that i am longing for - to be done school and to be a nurse, to buy a house, to have babies, preferably in that order -things that are often done in the mid to late 20s, things that come with time. and i want those things so badly, so why shouldn't i want the time to go by? Oh I know, you think i'm silly, as you're probably older than 25 and 25 sounds so young. and it is. and it isn't.

i don't know.

but now i must go and spend my lovely birthday giftcards.

no more twentieth-grade-nothing

after 20 years of school, R is done!! his parents flew out here on monday to stay for a few days. first, R gave us all a tour of the school where he's going to be a teacher next year. and then we went to my parents' house for dinner and the evening. it was a busy few days!
the next day was R's graduation!! finally.... he is DONE! I am so very proud of him. the afternoon was filled with me giving them all (both sets of parents and all our grandparents) a tour of the nursing building where i have just one year left. the skills lab was open so they got to walk around in there and check it out which was pretty neat (until they all got a little weird and started poking and playing with everything. that's when i started to wonder if it really was a good idea to bring them all there. i suddenly felt like i was at day camp, with 7 campers, feeling responsible and not knowing if what they're doing is really a good thing. good thing the 'narcotics' drawer was locked up. or was it....?).
we spent the evening watersliding and hot-tubbing at the hotel. that was wonderful. it was really great to see R's parents again and i'm glad that we could show them the places that we talk about all the time.

i'll get some grad pictures on here once i've got time to put them on the computer....

just go.

our romantic weekend was absolutely wonderful. it was just what we needed, although i'm not sure that either of us knew that we needed it. but like i said, it was wonderful. we went out to jessica lake lodge, in the whiteshell. man, do i ever LOVE the canadian shield!! with all the rock and all the lakes and the forest in the springtime with its different colours and the foxes and deer and baby geese and pelicans.... there was great weather on saturday. it was cool and rainy all day. like i said, it was great. a great excuse to stay in and hang out, play games, watch movies, try out the hot tub, the sauna, the fireplace. we did go for a teeny hike in the woods and on sunday (when it really was nice out) we hung out at rainbow falls.
you know, you really should do this. get a sitter, and go. go somewhere and just hang out with your spouse. it's wonderful. don't go to DO anything, just go to hang out together. (there's nothing to do at rainbow falls but sit and look at them and hang out there, but it was still amazing). so even if you don't think you need it, just go and do it anyways.

these last four years have been pretty amazing. i love you, hunny.

i love my hunny.

today's our anniversary. yup, we've been married for 4 very short and wonderful years. we went out to celebrate tonight and we just got home. let me back up a bit. after R got back from subbing today, he picked me up from work and took me out to a romantic dinner at BK. and then we went and saw delirious tonight! they were amazing!
i had never seen them in real life before and i was very impressed. R likes to brag that he saw delirious 10 years ago in a warehouse in vancouver before they were famous. whatever! afterwards we met the band, shook their hands and told them that we loved them. when i told martin smith that it was our anniversary and that we thought this was a great way to spend our day, all he said was "Alright." in his amazing english accent. i don't think he really could have cared less. haha! i found that pretty funny. okay, i was a little giddy inside when we were meeting them, because it was the whole "what do you say to them? do they even care? i'm going to sound retarded but i don't care, i want to talk to them anyways." i don't think i've ever talked to a band after a concert, besides at local shows in high school. oh wait, there was that time i got Valu Pac to sign my t-shirt back in gr. 10. yeah, that was pretty rad.

well, anyways, i need to get packing. R's whisking me away tomorrow after work for a weekend getaway at an undisclosed location. oooooooooo!

crazy news

our future looks a whole lot clearer lately. R graduated from education and he already has a job lined up for the fall!!! crazy crazy! he's going to be the art teacher (amongst other things) at a private christian school. i only have 1 year left of nursing and then after that we'll move closer to R's school. wow. crazy. we found out last week, but i'm still amazed that it happened so fast. after his friends started getting jobs, and after he didn't get the job he thought he would get, things got really frustrating and discouraging. but God knew exactly what was going on, and brought R to the right place. thank you, thank you Lord.
crazy.....



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this is what we do during our lunch break....

Demetri Martin Standup Comedy

are things going well? ummm, i think so!

i started work on monday and i keep getting asked how it's going. well, it's going..... well. it's weird because never in my life have i had a job like this - so unstructured (or maybe it's that i'm not waiting on customers/patients/campers right now). i have been given an office, 2 months and the instructions "Make a Leader-in-Training program." okay! will do! ....but where to start? how do i do this? i've spent a lot of time at work reading books (mostly "the Christian Camp Counsellor" which is a phenomenal book which most camps are using these days), reading handbooks and guides from other camps, and praying prayers like, "okay God, you've given me this passion and excitement to do this this summer, when my own personal agenda included a whole lot o' relaxation instead of this. now please give me some direction as to where you want this to go." but i'm not a very good listener. i find it extremely difficult to pray a prayer for guidance and then sit quietly and listen for an answer. so i just keep scribbling down brainstorming ideas on looseleaf and keep reading, hoping that God is guiding me to where He wants this program to go. today was the first day that i actually started typing out these ideas into formats that other people will find legible, with titles such as "purpose of the LIT program". so we're getting there.

anyways, things are going well. are things on track? are we going to be scrambling at the end of june? i don't have a clue. most likely. but we'll deal with that later.