Here I sit.....infront of my laptop wondering what to write about. I miss writing and if I wrote on this blog everytime I thought about writing on it.....you'd have a lot more to read......and I'd probably find this easier to write, since practice usually makes things easier.
It's been quite a year. I could ramble on about each event endlessly....cuz I'm talented like that, but I won't. What I thought I'd do is make a list....cuz there is beauty in a nice list.
* i was off work for a month following surgery...and during this time decided to go back to school
* emily broke her arm
* i started my med lab assistant training and commuted into the city early every morning....and I don't 'do' mornings.
* we got a new puppy - a not so little 3ish month old American Bull/Boxer cross with one blue eye, one brown eye and two ears that do not hear that has grown into a not at all little one year old pup with an appetite for destruction
* tyler broke his arm (almost exactly 6 months after emily)
* i went completely out of my comfort zone and left my family for an entire month during my clinical practicum in Thompson.
* i loved almost every single minute of "single life", living on my own for the first time ever for that month.
* i totally completely absolutely loved every single minute of the time i spent working at Thompson General Hospital.
* al & i decided this spring that financially we'd hit the end of being able to salvage all we'd built the past 15yrs and we got ourselves a legal trustee and are working through the steps of bankrupcy and moving forward.
* emily & 3 other girls from our bowling centre qualified for the provincial bowling team and represented Manitoba at Nationals in Regina....and placed 3rd!!!!
* tyler attended a hockey officials training camp for a week in June and received an offical NHL jersey from one of the officials for his dedication and attitude (he got hurt the first day and sucked it up the rest of the week without giving up)
* aarica graduated from highschool....looked so beautiful in her gown.....and took her brother with her to the grad party after the ceremony & dinner.....and they stayed out all night and had a blast!
* i quit my job at Sobeys and went across the street to work with Al & Ty at Macs.
* i wrote....AND PASSED....the national certification exam and am officially a certified med lab assistant....whoohoooo!!!!
* we experienced the most amazing summer weather wise this year and even though i spent a lot of it working, at least i was inside an air conditioned store....it was a good summer
* ty got himself a car...and all the joys car ownership brings
* ty's still convinced he can pull the money together for another trip to europe next year.....i'm not as convinced but hope he can because warsaw/poland and tours of WWII concentration camps would be an intense, amazing experience for him.
* even though the weather was amazing....our pool got set up be never filled with water
* all the kids...aarica included, are back in school..
* i'm networking, sending out resumes and hoping to find work in a hospital soon.
So there ya have some of the highlights of the past 12 months. We've survived one heck of a year and I'm looking forward to what the next few months have in store for us....except the winter part. I could do without that. We've registered for a few activities to keep us busy (but not too busy) and are trying to get back into the routine of school and activities....and one of the 'activities' I'm hoping to work into a routine is blogging on a regular basis...and this includes reading a few of my old favs too.
~K
