somehow it always works out

So this is going to be a speedy catch up since I have been MIA for a few weeks.
Things are going well and we have started out on our adventure down south:

• T and I managed to get just the design part of the job we were offered which means we will work on the road and set up a little apartment in Mexico until June. Once we get final approval on the design work we are free to travel with a bank account that will be a little fuller :)
• I am kung-fu chopped my student loans and am officially debt free HIIII YA!
  
• I finally signed up for Skype
• T and I managed to make all our possessions fit into the spaces offered by my parents
• We also managed to pack the car without everything exploding
• I actually managed to pack my clothes in a bag the same size as T's (I know I impressed myself)
• We left Calgary in a blizzard and managed to hit the highway just as it was opening
• I got a job working for a travel blog that actually pays me to write about our adventure
• And I love Vancouver

So we are on our way and will be heading to the States tomorrow. I am praying that the border officials are nice and that T doesn't provoke them as he often does when faced with figures of authority. I did explain we might need to kiss butt a little to which I received the evil eye and a lecture about "how it is none of their business where we are going..." I am pretty sure they will think otherwise.

the count down is on

so here is the scoop we are planning to drive from canada to the tip of south america stopping where we choose along the way. i know...yes we may be crazy. travelling to central and south america was my idea but the driving part was all t's, so there..he can't try to push this insanity onto me. the plan is to leave mid-january which is good timing because it should be about -40 here (for real).
since arriving home about 4 years ago i have been itching to leave again. don't get me wrong i love my hometown but i just feel there is so much out there to see and learn about that i would be cheating myself if i did not step into the unknown again. and one of my biggest fears is waking up at the ripe old age of 80 and realizing that i should have gone for it instead of spending my life being too chicken to risk it. that being said sometimes i wonder if it is a good plan career-wise to leave at the young age of 26. it does mean a whole swack of resume issues...but i am going to have faith that i will either be able to find work down there or that my next interview will be with an avid traveller who will hire me and pay me $80k a year because i am so well-travelled. ha ha ha i make myself laugh i really do.
so there it is...the countdown is on 4 months to go.

genki des

finished up work on friday and am happily hanging out in the house. actually i am trying to clean it up as it is a mess and we have a guest coming to stay! it is a friend of ours from Japan. he was the second friend of T's that i met. he super cool and let me stay with him in Tokyo even though he did not know me and he could only go on T's word. i think i won him over with my burping ability....c'mon guys love that. (i became a burping champ in school as all my close friends were guys and well...i had to be able to keep up) so i am busy being domestic and relaxing. i have some time off so i am hoping to have a clean house, use my sewing machine and read the latest Harry Potter.

bad things x 3 = change of luck, right?

Ever have one of those days? I sure did yesterday, here is what happened:

• I quit my job after much deliberating (about 3 months worth)
• Told my boss right after a meeting where it was mentioned that we have so much work to do and not enough people (in my defense she pulled me aside as i had asked to speak to her when she had a minute)
• T met me for lunch in a foul mood and we proceeded to spend the lunch hour arguing
• Had to chat with the managing partner on why i was leaving
• Played rec volleyball when i did not really want to
• Got smacked very HARD in the face with a team mates elbow / shoulder / ??? not really sure since i got hit and did not actually see it
• My eye swelled up and i cried in front of about 12 strangers
• Woke up this morning with my eye being crusted shut and super swollen

Yep good times anyhow i am sure i am due for a change of luck now. i look like i got into a brawl last night, fortunately i am covering the swelling pretty well with makeup and my bangs, i flipped them to the other side. there are definitely days i when i wish i could see the future because if i knew what was going to happen yesterday i would have stayed in bed.

quote

"Find out what you like doing best and
get someone to pay you for doing it."
 
- Katherine Whitehorn



hi katherine?  yeah....call me.