Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Today marks the end of my second week back to work, and let me tell you it has been the hardest adjustment period of my life.  Before Washington, DC, I was up every morning at 4:45 and went to the gym, and then would head back after work probably 2 or 3 additional evenings.  Since being back, I can barely drag myself out of bed at 7am, and my arrival time into work has been later and later.

I had tried to leave my job before we left for a few reasons.  1) We would be away for six months all in, and I was sure my employer would NEVER agree to that since I was barely there for 3 months.  2) I really didn't enjoy the job that I was doing.  It was over advertised, and someone with a high school diploma could do my job.  Not something I spent 5 years in University and endless hours in night classes for.  3) I was looking for a career change, and was hoping to go back to school/switch careers upon return to Calgary.

This didn't happen when my employer would NOT. LET. ME. QUIT!!! Which was ok at the time because there was SO much else to focus on.  Now that I am back, I am stuck here with no end in sight.  I think I am becoming midly depressed over this, to the point that I am having a hard time sleeping becuase it keeps me up at night thinking about it.  Which may be contributing to my inability to get up in the morning.  Hmmm.

Needless to say, I am on an agressive hunt for a new job to happen asap.  I think my sanity and happiness depends on it!!!

Not too much planned for the weekend, dinner plans tonight, gym with Joon tomorrow, and a whole bunch of cleaning and organizing the house since I have been to exhausted to even attempt any kind of straightening up this week!

Hope you have an awesome weekend,

xo
L

Happy Birthday to my baby sister!!!

My baby sister turns 22 today.  22!!! I can hardly remember that age, what I was doing, and what business I was up to!  It seems like ages ago that I was 22, but now I am way older, and my youngest sister is 22.

My youngest sister, who will always be about 4 in my mind with a dirty face, wild hair, and totally fearless, has grown up, and is having a birthday today.

Happy Birthday Jackie.  Hope your day includes cupcakes, sprinkles, sparkles, and whatever else your heart desires!  You deserve it.

xoxo
L

It's a random Tuesday in January...

Yesterday was my first day of work after SIX months off... I was granted a leave of absence from my job to go with Joon to the states, which was a dream come true!!!  However, going to back to work has been as awful as I thought it would be, and I have come to the conclusion that work is really not all it is cracked up to be!!!  I wasn't expecting to go back to work when I left six months ago, so it has been a bit of a tough week and it is only Tuesday!!!

To top it off, it is January, the month of drear, and yesterday was officially the most depressing day of the year.  It has warmed up here in Calgary, but all the snow we have received are half melted ice piles, the roads are practically impassible with ice groves, and it is a depressing brown outside.

In April, we are going on an all inclusive holiday to the Dominican Republic, and I wish we were leaving next week.  That would mean I could be getting this:

While getting ready to go here:

I am also having a bit of a career crisis, and am really not happy with the job front.  It's only day two, and I already don't feel like I can get out of bed and face the day...  But it is Janurary, and so no one is hiring and there are virtually NO job postings out there...Le sigh...

I will tough through and hope for bigger and better things... fingers crossed that something comes up QUICK!!! 
xo
L

It's the New Year, and a new decade to boot!!!

So this is really quite late in wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years, but I really hope the holidays were great for you and your family.  We were extremely busy with moving back to Canada, getting settled into our house again (still hasn't happened- I have 4 suitcases still needing to be unpacked!), dealing with a small flood in our basement again (We totally Tim the tool man Taylor'd it and dealt with the flood relatively quickly and easily), spending Christmas with my family (we did Christmas with Joon's family in DC when everyone came for a visit (Dec 5-12), getting our dog back after spending 4.5 months with family, and just adjusting to life in Calgary again.

It has been a big change moving back home, a bigger one than I ever thought would be possible.  In 4 months, we made lifelong friends, travelled, and enjoyed life as an American.  I am proud to be Canadian and glad to be back, but I certainly miss being in DC.  It is truely a beautiful city with amazing things to offer!

Now that it's the new year and a new DECADE to boot, I have a few things that I am hoping to commit to for the new year...

• Stop trying to control EVERYTHING around me... I have realized that after travelling to a completely new environment to live that I don't do well with change and become of a bit of an anxiety case.  I want to be more relaxed and not stress when things don't go exactly as I had planned...
• Stop getting parking tickets... ridiculous I know, but the amount spent on paying my parking tickets last year could have bought two, count em TWO, LV Speedy's... le sigh.
• Enjoy my husband... We had a great time in the states and we spent the last few months just being the two of us... now that we are home and back to our everyday life, I don't want to lose the connection that we had established... it's easy to get lost in the everyday.
• And of course, the gym... my never ending struggle!  I had commit to this last year and really did well until DC.  The gym's in our area was less than desireable, and combined with a crappy apartment gym, endless sicknesses and then a slew of visitors and travel I have fallen off the wagon.  I have a few sessions with a personal trainer and hope that will be enough to kickstart my drive to get back in shape.
• Blog a bit more regularly... I was on a kick for a while, and then totally fell off the wagon.  le sigh.

I hope the New Year and New decade will be good to you - I certainly have big plans in the works!!!

xo
L&J