Two months in
I've been working both jobs for two months now, and believe it or not, I'm still enjoying myself! Admin work will always be boring and monotonous, but the people I get to work with make up for that. I have to struggle to keep up with the news so that I don't head into my weekends blind, but being able to sit in front of a computer and track stories for several hours on Saturday and Sunday makes for such a change from my weekdays that it's almost relaxing. And according to my employers at both places, everyone likes me and thinks I'm doing very well, so this all-work, no-fun experiment is so far a success.
Really I shouldn't say all work and no fun because I do still have time for that. I've just started yoga classes two days a week, which I like more than I thought an inflexible person like myself would. I've also signed up for Spanish classes, which will start in a couple months, and some coworkers and I are talking about having a craft night, in which we would all contribute our unique skills to teach each other how to knit, sew and scrapbook.
I went to the museum with Irf the other weekend and we watched a lame movie about whales, played mini golf and filmed a stop-action Powerpuff Girls adventure. In November Rebecca and I will go see the Nutcracker at the Royal Theatre, while Matt and her boyfriend, Kendall amuse themselves with a monster truck rally or some other such suitably testosterone-fueled event.
Despite all of that, however, I find that I'm lonely. Matt and I traveled to Harrison Hot Springs last weekend to attend Briana and Will's wedding. It was a fantastically beautiful event that I'm so glad I could share with them. There were people there that I hadn't seen or spent much time with in years, and it made me realize how much I miss my Vancouver friends. So much goes on in their lives that I only hear about or read about on blogs, and I wish I could be there with them more often. My oldest friends are there, and we rely on each other to get through crises in our lives, and sometimes it hurts that we have to do it at such a distance.
There are so many wonderful things about living on Vancouver Island, but homesickness and loneliness take their toll. How do you stop feeling sad when the place you live is supposed to be home? How do you balance out life so that you don't feel like you're sacrificing the past to have the future you want?
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Really I shouldn't say all work and no fun because I do still have time for that. I've just started yoga classes two days a week, which I like more than I thought an inflexible person like myself would. I've also signed up for Spanish classes, which will start in a couple months, and some coworkers and I are talking about having a craft night, in which we would all contribute our unique skills to teach each other how to knit, sew and scrapbook.
I went to the museum with Irf the other weekend and we watched a lame movie about whales, played mini golf and filmed a stop-action Powerpuff Girls adventure. In November Rebecca and I will go see the Nutcracker at the Royal Theatre, while Matt and her boyfriend, Kendall amuse themselves with a monster truck rally or some other such suitably testosterone-fueled event.
Despite all of that, however, I find that I'm lonely. Matt and I traveled to Harrison Hot Springs last weekend to attend Briana and Will's wedding. It was a fantastically beautiful event that I'm so glad I could share with them. There were people there that I hadn't seen or spent much time with in years, and it made me realize how much I miss my Vancouver friends. So much goes on in their lives that I only hear about or read about on blogs, and I wish I could be there with them more often. My oldest friends are there, and we rely on each other to get through crises in our lives, and sometimes it hurts that we have to do it at such a distance.
There are so many wonderful things about living on Vancouver Island, but homesickness and loneliness take their toll. How do you stop feeling sad when the place you live is supposed to be home? How do you balance out life so that you don't feel like you're sacrificing the past to have the future you want?
Filed under: life, rebecca
posted by Rebi at 10:49 a.m.
6 Comments:
I don't know. But I understand what it's like to have lots of friends and miss a certain connection. The friendship you and I have is unique in its depth and character. Since moving to East Van and going to SFU - I have made a lot of friends, but I still want to go bike riding in those fields of buttercups with my high school friend. Why couldn't the two of you just live in White Rock or something? Oye!
At least there's reassurance that friendships like ours will never die.
well that's good, at least. I'm trying to meet new people, and to make new friends, but I haven't found anyone as wonderful as you yet!
It was really great to have you at the wedding. It's annoying to live so far apart - each time I see you I wish we could hang out more!
Ah well, life is long. Who knows what's in store for us next eh? And as more of my friends move away I learn that it doesn't necessarily sever the connection. We keep each other in mind and heart, and until circumstances let us share the same space that will have to do!
But what is Rebi doing now?
Happy Canada Day!!!
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