New challenge!

Well, Darcy has another week in his 8 week vacation to go...today he went into the Gescan office and completed the signing of the paperwork for his new job which he starts after Spring Break. A new challenge and something new to look forward to. Wages and benefits are good...commute is great and he feels very comfortable already working for his new boss who really was an old boss from the Texcan days.
So...nice to breathe a great sigh of relief that we are back on track...a little ahead with the severance package taking care of some of our debt...we now only have the mortgage. Whew!!
Meeting at the school again for Chrissy where things are still not going terribly great...another emotional breakdown in the meeting with the support crew. There is no doubt that things are rough for her and going through the issues with the "so-called" friends who don't have a clue what she has gone through and go around saying evil things about her...if they only knew the trauma she has had to go through they might feel a little mean.
We are thinking we will drive up to see Caiti tomorrow since she is stressed out about her computer issues....we will take the laptop up and if needs be swaps hers and come back and get hers fixed. She has tons of papers and finals to study for....
Life needs to swing upwards for us!

Rain

Could it have rained any harder today....we were completely and totally drenched as we walked the dogs along the dykes. Despite the gore-tex jackets and all we were very very wet. Of course, we had to stop at the store on the way...we hardly ever go to Superstore but we wanted to stock up on the Montego Bay President's Choice Jerk sauce...and Sharon had a nice ham the other day and so we wanted to pick one up so we could make a nice pot of soup with the leftovers too. My feet were soaking wet so I squelched my way through the store.
We have just been snoozing on the couch...nice rainy and wet afternoon...so peaceful without Chrissy around.

Crazy Week!

This was a crazy week...with Raye in Winnipeg I was at Dogwood full-time and it was awesome. No evening shift and just a regular although busy work week!! Chrissy has settled into doing her distance ed courses...the soap opera at school has made her resolve to not go through all the drama that kids seem to find themselves engaged in.Tonight Darcy and I have the whole weekend to ourselves. Chrissy off to visit Alicia in Victoria. We went out to Antons for dinner so feel rather blotto full at the moment. While he snoozes his dinner, I thought I would try and catch up here. He had a good meeting with Chris MacVitie at Gescan...so we shall see if an offer comes though next week. We don't want to get too optimistic seeing how Darcy hasn't even really gotten out there with his newly revamped resume....in fact, he feels like he needs to do more soul-searching for that perfect job he is seeking. However, I would appreciate some certainty and security....but we are actually managing suprisingly on my lowly income proving that we had too much waste happening and we can actually live without too many frills...we are way too spoilt. We are starting to think about retirement...feels like it when the girls are both not at home...Tomorrow...well, hope we get a good walk in...and then we have Genelle's Pub night to go to which means more slips from my WW plan...Busy but all in all...things just keep on going...plus...guess we are springing forward this weekend too!!!

March already

Where in the world did February go?
Thia last week was extremely busy...living in the aftermath of the wings onslaught from Brian regarding the financials and knowing that soon I would like to move on from running that club. No one seems to realize how much time and effort I put into that organization. Work was pretty busy too and going to get even more with Raye going to see her Mum in Winnipeg again. It will be nice to have a full consistent week at Dogwood and its been great being able to juggle in Judy's work as well which has been nothing short of interesting.
Chrissy has been racking up the mileage and again another soap opera with Luis the other night causing her a great deal of strife. She did start back up swimming in the mornings when she drops me off to work before school and is trying to make some changes which we hope will stay in the positive direction. She can get ugly when she is in a funk and just too emotional to be rational.
It was such a snowy/rainy/chilly week weather-wise. Was not a great work-out week and didn't move the scale in any direction. Darcy has made a few connections but hasn't really gone gang-busters puting himself out there yet....still enjoying his stress leave.