Comfort

What's the first person/place/thing/activity that comes to mind when you hear that word? Often times it's a cup of tea, a hot bath with a good book and a glass of wine, laughter with your best friend, silence with your best friend, the sound of the ocean and the sand between your toes... or something unexpected...

My comfort arrived this week in the shape of a 40' steel box!

Our home (minus the four walls and ceiling, etc.) arrived and it's all in perfect order. I now have other clothes, other shoes, toys for Lloyd, blankets, UGG boots, CREATURE COMFORTS!!

Bliss.

A Butterfly Again?

Social butterfly that is. Things are picking up and that makes me very happy! We house-sat again this weekend for friends from Thursday to Monday and entertained on Saturday and Sunday. We were in our element and loved it! It was great to see friends and catch up.

Playdates are being scheduled and a coffee group I initiated last Friday was such a success that we're getting together at another moms house this Friday AND the Friday after that is already scheduled too!

Nice.

How he got the job

Because this is too amazing to not tell.

So, we have these friends. Matt and Vic. Greg knows Matt from working on boats. Greg saved Matt's job once, in a big way, and Matt always has said to Greg over the years, "I owe you for that".

Time goes by.

Vic has recently been hired for a job about 5 hours from here so that means the family is moving for said job. Matt resigned his position at Alloy about a week ago. As he did so, his boss asked him if he knew anyone appropriate to take his place... Matt replied, well yes, yes I do!

Greg's name and contact details were given. Two interviews and two references later... Matt has made good on his promise and Greg now has his job!!!!

How cool is THAT?!?

Gainfully Employed!!

Greg got the job he was going for!! He'll be a project manager at Alloy Yachts working as liason between the Yard (Alloy) and the owner/owner's rep/captain. Fantastic! Now we can find the perfect house and buy it!! And move in and live in it and make it home.

At long last, the container is due to arrive Monday evening. It has already cleared customs somehow and MAF (Ministry of Agriculture and Farming) has already marked on the inventory what it is they need to see (wooden stuff mostly) so they'll go through all that and then the contents are ours! I cannot wait to see what condition it's all in. It's been on a very very long trip...

Pictures

I have updated my shutterfly site with some new pics... have a look!

Choices

We are presented with so very many choices every day, aren't we? Coffee or tea? What to wear? What to do first on the list? What's for dinner? Trouble is we get caught up in all these choices and forget to make the crucial ones first and next thing we know we're so involved in the everyday that another day goes by without having made a conscious effort in it... The first choices we should be making upon waking are what really matter.

I choose to be positive today.

I choose to make this a productive day.

I choose to be more patient than yesterday.

I choose to enrich the lives of those around me today in little, meaningful ways.

Try it. Before you even get out of bed. Make the positive decisions that will set the tone for the rest of the day.

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A Heart Divided

I wonder if I'll ever get used to calling cookies "biscuits". Or french fries "chips". Or undies "knickers". I wonder if I'll ever stop wincing when I go to turn right because I think I'm cutting someone off behind me! I wonder if I'll ever stop longing for just one more day at Second Beach with my friend. I wonder if I'll ever stop missing spur of the moment activities with that same friend... I KNOW I'll never stop missing my favorite breakfast spot and all the good times I've had in there. It was in that spot, over breakfast, I saw the man who would become my husband, over ten years ago. It was in that breakfast spot I found out our house had been sold, gulp! That seems so long ago now. I wish there was such a thing over here as an affordable cell phone plan so I could actually use the phone I have to make the occasional phone call. I wonder if there will be family friends we make over here where we'll go for sleep overs. I miss sleep overs in Richmond and Tiverton. I want just one more night on the town in my town. I wonder if I'll ever stop watching Desperate Housewives reruns just to hear their accents... I've got to stop getting annoyed when someone passes me on the right on the motorway (it's not a highway anymore) because it's actually okay; that's the high speed lane now!

Be very, very glad your house is insulated. These aren't and they are COLD!

I've made great strides, I know I have and I remind myself of that and the fact that we've only been here just over two months. There are certain things about home and best friends I can't even think about because it's too painful. I still get a lump in my throat when someone asks me how I'm doing. Wonder when that will stop.

The thing is, I'm kinda glad I'm having these struggles because it's keeping it all real. And that's me -- keepin' it real! Really really real. Sometimes heartwrenchingly real.

LOVE this Pixar short...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHgahrjsqmY

If you can't view it by copying and pasting that link, enter Boundin' and you should be able to see it...