Moving Day

It's moving day! Dan and I are finally moving out of my parents' home and into our new condo downtown! Yippee!! We're very excited. About an hourish to go before we're officially out of here. I'm actually feeling pretty emotional about this...as it's my very first move out of this home - the home I grew up in for 20 years. It's a big deal to me! (Insert sobbing). Of course Dan is overjoyed and eager to be out of my parents' home and into our own!

I know my mom is taking this launching thing pretty hard, since my younger brother moved out a few weeks earlier. So the empty nest syndrome is hitting her pretty hard. She's scared of feeling alone and having the house so quiet. I bet once we're out, she'll probably feel lonely for 3 days and then start to celebrate, once she realizes that the house is actually clean for more than a day!

Ok, time to pack the rest of my room (yuck!) The worst part are my clothes- there is so much, it's overwhelming! I'll have to work out a system - ugh. Not looking forward to lugging it out of the house, into my car, and into our condo either. Blech. This afternoon, when Dan and I were moving some smaller items, the realtor told us that we needed to pick up our own elevator keys (across town!) in order to use the elevator. If that wasn't enough, she told us that we have to book the elevator to reserve it. Like, thank you for telling us now! We ended up carrying some boxes up the 5 flights of stairs, but then I had to go to work for a couple hours, so Dan ended up doing it on his own. What a trooper! He did end up sharing the elevator with the construction workers for a bit (but had to do some waiting time). So hopefully tonight, when we go back, the elevator will be free and hopefully, we won't need a key (we didn't end up getting one).

But I guess sitting here on my ass isn't going to make the move any faster...so see you in our new condo!

PS: Dan and I still couldn't find our camera battery recharger - grrr! So I'm really missing my camera right now! I hope to have pix up of our new place soon (I'll have to borrow a friend's camera or something in the mean time!)

Wow! Long time no post! Sorry for such a huge delay...I still wonder if anyone checks back here! Apparently, they do b/c I've been getting nagged at for not updating the site! Thanks guys! Didn't think it was still popular! We sort of fell off the blogging thing for awhile, and didn't even blog about our last week of our honeymoon, in Hong Kong. We have been so extremely busy since getting back that we haven't had time to update. We'll try to post the rest of the pix and stories up soon!

Dan and I have been extremely busy with our work life. Since getting back from our honeymoon, I've quit the shady agency I was working for. I was a psychologist providing behavioral management to autistic children and their families. I'm now working for a competing agency as a contractor doing the same work, but without the office BS politics, much more therapy hours (i was doing 90% admin at the old job- nothing psych related!), and getting paid quite decently. It's so amazing, I am really happy and it is such a rewarding job. I never thought I'd like it as much as counselling, but I truly do. Meeting these families leaves me in such amazement and awe - there are some families that I work with that have two to three children with autism. Their whole life revolves around their children's needs. I really admire their strengths and resiliency.

The other things I have been doing are counselling inmates at a jail (again) in exchange for supervision from my supervisor (I'm a registered provisional psychologist, which means I am in the process of getting the official title of "registered psychologist"). I'm also volunteering my time working with a group of traumatized children with attachment issues every Friday morning. It is incredibly rewarding to be in the field I am in, and passionate about. On top of all this, I'm also building my private practice in counselling, which is slowly coming along. And I try to make time to study for my EPPP exam (part of becoming a registered psychologist), but it's been somewhat challenging :o)

Dan is also very busy with his work life, so we pretty much only see each other when it's bedtime! That's okay though, we're making it work! He's doing really well. The other good news is that Dan and I will be moving into our new condo downtown (FINALLY!!!!!! After almost 9 months of waiting!!!) by mid Feb! We're still living at home with my parents right now, which is tolerable, but we'd much rather be on our own. We also bought a house in Summerside, and it is being built right now. It will be ready in June-July, so we will only get to live in our condo for about 4 months. We're really excited about all these moves!

That is pretty much life in a nutshell! Hopefully more postings to come! My biggest goal right now (besides building my private practice and working on requirements for registering as a psychologist), is trying to fit back into my pants! I've gained a good 10-15 lbs on my honeymoon (boo! but the food was soooo worth it!) that I can hardly fit into my pants. I've just started fitting into jeans again (yay!) but I'd like to at least lose a few more inches and trim back down to my previous fitter figure. Boy, it's damn hard work I tell ya! I can do it, just have to stay busy (which isn't hard) and away from my parents' pantry (which is hard!)

The journey begins!!!!