Quiet Morning

Good morning, blogosphere!

Lately, I find myself blogging whenever the house is empty. When Chris isn't around, and so I can't voice all the craziness that bounces around in my head. This morning Chris had to leave just as I was waking up (in fact, I fell asleep somewhere between the moment when his alarm went off and when he got out of bed, and so I had this whole dream about Chris sleeping in and being late for his interview). He has a second interview with a company that has a tech support-type call centre: with this, there is the promise of better (and more) hours, better pay, work that doesn't end in November, and possibly even a signing bonus. And he likes it a lot there.

Our quandary, as voiced by Chris last night, was that he also applied for a cool job where he'd be a park naturalist, and would do interpretive work, and they were looking for a teacher who canoes. But the competition for this job ended just yesterday, and so who knows when they'd be getting back to him? What if he gets offered this job today, and it really is as fabulously stable as it sounds, but then he gets a call about the naturalist job?

I'm glad that God has this all figured out. Because I sure don't.

I haven't done this for a while:
I am wearing: pink satin pyjamas and a green fuzzy zip-up bunnyhug.
I am feeling: contemplative.
My plans for today: finish reading my chapter for German, do the practice exercises, and maybe even fill out those little flashcards with vocabulary words. I also have some definite plans of starting that book review that's due next Tuesday. But every day starts off this ambitious. Maybe I should eat and shower.
How am I adjusting to the new surroundings? It's getting better all the time. I'm starting to make a place for myself, where I can be me and not self-consciously attempt to "fit in." I've started back into wearing whatever I want to wear, only regarding the weather and with little care about what others are wearing around me. I've also started peppering my conversation with references to "bunnyhugs."
I smile because: I hear songbirds outside, and not just crows! You don't know what a difference that makes for Chris and me.
Favourite word of the day: "inquiry," but where you accent the first syllable and make the second "i" a short vowel. INquiry.