I'M SORRY!!

i have been so busy. like crazy busy. why is it that my life is always a juggling act? i always think, 'i just have to make it through this week and then next week will be dead' but no matter what the following week is always just about as crammed full as the one before. i am always driving driving driving (i suppose that's what working in two different cities will do to you...). its amazing how much time a drive from vernon to kelowna and back for work will take out of your day.

anyway. where do i start? i have had more than a few of you on my case to write again. so i am writing. i should be doing show prep for my afternoon on the air... but... i am writing.

i'm going to try and just write about the highlights of the last two months.

it was nice coming home from our very long vacation and sleeping in my own bed and having my own clean shower to shower in and all that. but we came home to some not so nice things too. tyler found out that he was jobless. tim shut down his company because construction has slowed down A LOT in the okanagan and there just isn't enough work for him to keep things going. luckily i had a whole ton of work for the first bit and tyler had applied to ei before we even left so we had things all lined up. but it was tight. tyler eventually found a job doing the same thing (he is a sheet metal journeyman) working with his friend matt (who he did all his schooling with through his apprenticeship - matt and his wife are really awesome) for matt's dad. so that was a lot of stress of my shoulders.

my birthday was also two days after we came home from europe. i really wanted new clothes. so i asked for the same thing that we had done for my mom's birthday. everyone contributed some money and then all of us girls went shopping together for some stuff. it was lots of fun AND i finally got some new clothes. i felt like i hadn't gotten anything new in a very very long time. probably because, i hadn't. that's what saving for a wedding and then saving for a 5 week backpacking honeymoon does.

not that things are much different now... now we are saving for an engine rebuild on my car. agh.

so as a result of our backpacking trip and tyler's coming home to no job for a bit... we can't go on the big family trip to mexico. dean is turning 50 in january and the WHOLE family EXCEPT me and tyler is going to mexico. i'm really bummed about it. i don't want to hear about them planning their trip at all. i'm so jealous. i know i shouldn't be because we went to europe for 5 weeks. but it wasn't with my whole family. and now they are all going without me. i feel really left out.

another reason i shouldn't be jealous - i got to go to disneyland december 6th. i was a media rep for sunshine dreamlift. meaning... i got to go to disneyland with 62 severely physically disabled or terminally ill kids from the interior of bc. it was, needless to say, the experience of a lifetime. not only did i get to see disneyland for the first time, but i got to do it with a very cool group of kids. i spent half of my day with a girl who faced some physical disabilities that made it difficult for her to move around (although she faces this with an incredible determination and drive). and the other half of my day i spent with a group of deaf/hard of hearing kids. i had so much fun!!!!!

although... this one day that i went to disneyland for dreamlift was the most hectic day of my life. i had to get up at 3:15 to get to the airport for 4:30 (they put me up at a fancy hotel in kelowna the night before and the night after). and we didn't land that night until midnight. it was a very very very long day. but... as if that wasn't enough, my entire week was hectic like this. i am surprised i made it through alive and without even getting sick.

i have decided i am making all my christmas presents this year. so i have been doing copious amounts of baking and crafting in the last week. with more still to do. we have a measley $15 limit for gifts, and no stockings (because everyone - but me - is going to mexico). and we're doing dinner at mine and tyler's house.

i don't know how many of you have been to my place. so... for christmas dinner it will be me, tyler, my mom, dean, kaetlyn, nadia, andrew, rhiannon, layne, and martha... AND jordi and ollie. my house is really small. and we don't have a kitchen table (nevermind a table that would fit all those people). so... we've been joking about how we're going to have christmas dinner indian style. there will be a lot of eating on the floor. but... it will be cozy and fun.

okay.... so there you have it... an update on my busy-ness. i will try to be updating more regularly (i promise). hopefully this will tie you all over until then...