23 days later...

I know, I know, I've been terribly neglectful of my blog and it's no coincidence that it coincides with my going back to work. I'm so sorry you've been having to put up with the sight of the same pink card for all this time! But I swear, I come home, make dinner most nights of the week and then am absolutely exhausted for the rest of the night ... ugh. And my job is certainly not strenuous at all ... maybe it's the getting up at 6:45 am each day instead of my usual 7:30, those extra 45 minutes of sleep are apparantely very important to me!

So in point form (truly one of my favorite forms) I'll fill you in on me and us from the past 23 days -- and perhaps a bit earlier too.

-Everyone turned back their clocks this weekend but, no, not us Saskatchewan-ers, um, Saskatchewan-ites. We stayed just the same, thank you very much. So for all you BC-ers and my brother in California, please no more phone calls after your 7:30 pm ... it's 9:30 here and we're in bed! I need my sleep... {Ok, on weekends we might live it up and stay up til 10pm or something crazy like that.}

-It's starting to get cold here. -9 C while walking to work this morning and so I broke down and finally put on my scarf. Now believe me, I love wearing scarves when it is in fact cold {I am my father's daughter} but paradoxically I loathe to bundle up and hate wearing socks the most. I was wearing bare feet and my clogs for most of the winter in Pullman, WA last year. And that was even a winter with snow! So if we're just going from the house to another 'inside' I've just been wearing sweaters still, but know the winter coats are going to have to come out soon. Sigh...

-And speaking of walking to work.... We're small town folk now (not too small, 16,000 is the population here so don't knock us!) and so the car is kept in the garage all week. My walk to work is a whopping 7 minutes, while Sam's is 12 minutes. We love it and you can bet that we hardly have to fill up on gas anymore.

-My job's going good. I feel part of 'the gang' now, can easily talk to any and all of the ladies, and have definitely made friends with two of the girls close to my age. I work in the Lending Support Department of the Credit Union here (7 minutes away!) where I am the one and only Imaging File Clerk, scanning and organizing all the paperwork online. I have my own desk, my own corner, my own phone, my own computer, and my own huge window, which is more (the window) than Sam can boast of!

-I didn't end up making an entire Thanksgiving dinner last month, but I did make a homemade pumpkin pie, so 'certain people' in the house were very happy! {and that would include me!}

-Less than 4 weeks til my family {Dad, Mum, 2 brothers, sister and her hubby, and Sam and I} zoom off to Maui for a week for an early Family Christmas! We've never done such a fancy holiday before so it's really quite a treat! It's tragic how white my legs will be though...

-Sam has put up some white lights on the front of our house "before the freeze sets in", ha! (well, it's true.) It's such a big house that even 2-50 foot lines don't do that much, but I think it certainly looks much more cheerful so I'm very pleased.

-We might have our first "We're driving through and so thought we'd stop in" visitor soon! I mean, can you believe it, someone is actually going to be "driving through" this part of Saskatchewan! It's very exciting. I really hope that works out, Cheryl, Mike and Elsie!! We'll even turn on the white Christmas lights for you ... am I making this more enticing?!

-I've stopped drinking coffee. It's been almost 3 weeks so far and frankly, I'm quite proud at how I've fared under these wretched conditions. {Especially with a lovely new modern coffee shop just opened up across the alley from work --- what irony! Well I've been enjoying lots of London Fogs and Hot Cocoas instead.} Turns out I have an insulin resistance where my insulin spikes too high and then my pancreas is not able to deal with the excess. I've been doing some reading and am convinced that coffee is actually making that worse, or is certainly not helping any, so I'm testing my theory and keeping off coffee for awhile. So sad, as I really love coffee!

-No pictures to post. We really haven't taken any. But we did buy a much larger capacity memory disk for our camera for when we head off on our Hawaiian holiday next month. Believe me, pictures galore! (Ha, my siblings love that! And yes, "love" definitely in italics!)



That's all I've got. Will that satisfy the Plum and Posy fans out there?! And do leave a comment, would you? - I'd really love to know who actually takes time to read this...

'Cause if you had a blog ... I'd read yours!