A Long Time Away

This post marks the end of a two month long saga in the journey that has been getting wireless internet to our new home. We’ve spent countless hours on hold with various customer service agents, purchased a new router and called on more favours from our tech-savvy friends than we will likely ever be able to repay. But, as of about an hour ago, we have internet throughout our entire home… and that is a good thing.

There were more reasons than just no access for the lack of posts over the last month. December was an intense, stressful and very busy month. By the time Christmas came I was quite ready for the welcome break from the hustle and bustle. I think part of the problem was that I got sick the first weekend in December and I just never felt like I caught up again. I took a couple days off work which got me behind and sleeping for three days straight just really messed up my internal order. Things seem to be starting off better in 2009.

I’ll try to give a brief re-cap of the last month. Eric and I went to the Canadian Youth Workers’ Conference in TO. It was four days of speakers, sessions and lack of sleep. I learned a lot from the various sessions and God brought out some interesting things during the worship and the teaching. It’s been a struggle to adapt to sharing a ministry this fall and I think it was good for Eric and I to spend the weekend together away from all the pressures and stresses of everyday life. We also got to stay with our good friend, Jenn, at her sweet apartment… that was very neat.

My beloved friend Timmy (he’ll love that I’m referring to him that way in a semi-public space) moved back to Michigan. I took him half-way and met his mother, whom I love. Since then, all of us have been adjusting to life without him… he spent so much time at our house before he left that I had jokingly started referring to him as ‘the man of the house’. His departure has left me without a walking partner so we’re talking about replacing him with a dog… but we’ll see if that actually happens.

I spent four or five days at my parents’ house over the holidays. It was nice to get away… to spend time with people who hold my history… but I was ready to come back to Hamilton and who I am now. It’s been a good week back. Our house hasn’t been all together much this week but we did spend most of New Year’s Day doing stuff around the house before having dinner together that night. I love my house and the girls that live in it… it’s been good to remember that.

Other random things that happened over the holidays include; bridesmaid dress shopping for Christine’s wedding, witnessing a high-speed police chase, new year-ing with a small group of friends, bowling in this incredibly amazing, retro-fab bowling alley and a great visit with Darda and Brad. That pretty much brings people back up to speed. I’ll try and be better with posts now that we have internet but sometimes I just don’t feel like I have anything that interesting to share. Maybe I’ll just need to get a more interesting life.