Ah...a holiday!

ok, so i'm not as good with updating this thing as Steve is, so apologies up front, but i'm going to continue as I am…sorry.

We haven't been working the past week and a half since Suz and Avigdor went to Tasmania for a few weeks on a retreat and I have to say, I thoroughly enjoy the life of the semi-retired. In fact, I think I'm spoiled rotten and don't want to go back to work. Our time off has coincided well with the arrival of some awesome people at the hostel. We've formed our own little family, getting up, spending the day chatting, eating, and hanging out at the lake or beach and it's fantastic. At night we either have movie nights or board game nights or a combination of both…and I'm learning to like board games slowly but surely. I actually played my first game EVER of Scrabble last week and won it by 60 points….although i then followed that epic win by an epic fail, but then that's just how my board game abilities go…it's either one extreme or the other.

I finally made it down the beach to the Headland and climbed up to look down on Lennox. It's gorgeous up there and I timed it just right to watch a rainstorm roll in over the town.



I got some packages from overseas in the last 2 weeks which made my week off of work even better. Steve's Chrissy prezzy for me came and he got me a KINDLE! so now I don't have to lug around books when we're moving from place to place. It's really neat, but I'm going to have to get used to not having actual pages to turn and dog-ear, and in general, mistreat. And I don't think I can take it out to the beach…I'm not daring enough for that. And a day later, a surprise present came from Belgium! from ellen. She got me a day calendar thing that I write down the day's events in…that's why i can tell you what's been happening since I last wrote. Otherwise, me and my horrible memory would just come up with… "um, yea, I've been going to the beach and um, hanging out." haha…this is slightly better than that i think.

In the mean time, my faithful secretary, Mom, has been working behind the scenes helping me get all my application stuff ready for the mail so I can apply to the post-baccalaureate program for Communication Sciences and Disorders at Western Washington University. That program will get me prepared for a master's in Speech Language Pathology. The app is due April 1st (April Fool's Day, which makes me a little leery) so I should know sometime in April where I'll be come September. Wish me luck!