Mellissa met my parents a week ago tonight. It went about as planned: lots of laughing and crying and hugging and things. Dad scooped up Emily at about the first opportunity and seemed extremely reluctant to return her. We saw them again at Gramma's 85th birthday dinner on Thursday and again on Saturday when they came over for lunch and Sunday ( Read more... )

Well, my last entry - almost 3 months ago! You'd almost think I was on Facebook! - was about the proposal, so it's curiously fitting that this one's about the wedding too. At work today I had some time to myself and began writing my wedding vows. Mellissa started hers the other night, and I'd been thinking a lot about it over the last few days, ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a really good day. Actually I've had quite a run of them. Yesterday I got hired as a TOC (substitute teacher) by the Chilliwack school board, who described 3 days of work a week - roughly twice what I've been getting in Coquitlam - as "conservative". I also got called by Coquitlam for 3 days of work (music at PoMo Secondary, what ( Read more... )

I have a new favorite word.

It is: Daddy.

That is all.

I'm working again, from yesterday until further notice. And yes, it's music. Which means that 11 years of university, three degrees, $50,000-ish in student loans and a raft of knowledge of history and literature are effectively going to waste, and the fact that I've played trumpet in brass bands at church since I was 10 is putting food in my ( Read more... )

A lot of people wish that God would speak to them: tell them which way to go, which option to choose, what to do, what things mean and why things happen. I think sometimes we don't hear God's voice, and sometimes God shows us that we need to be patient to find our answers. Sometimes God gives us our answers through serendipitous events or through ( Read more... )

I just got my fourth work call of the week. This does not mean I'm on scale tomorrow, as I turned down yesterday's work due to illness - I kind of wish I'd turned down Tuesday's too, since on Tuesday I was feeling so poorly that when in my fevered state I hallucinated Death striding into my classroom, he held a hand over his nose and mouth to ( Read more... )

More Meme-y Goodness, Shamelessly Ganked from Sheila ( Read more... )

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1. WHAT COLOR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING? Pants?

2. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The droning of various fans in my computer, the dog next door barking, the landlord's kids running around upstairs.

3. SOUPS OR SALAD? Broccoli-Bacon and Caesar with fresh parmesan. Yes, and 4. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? McDonald's - no, not a store. A ( Read more... )