Silent No More!

hey! it's ian! i know i haven't blogged at all in weeks, so here's some updates!

Yay!

not much is really going on. we have to move out so we are kind of looking for a place to live. we don't know for sure if we want to buy or rent, but finding affordable places to rent or buy is a challenge in this city. especially if you make a combined income of just under $50000. i am leaning towards buying, for a few reasons: 1) its our place, so we can do with it what we want. 2) we can have our dog (99.9% of the places that are out there for rent say NO PETS. the other .1% are on the north shore *yuck*) 3.) renting just stinks, because you're throwing your money away.

those are all the reasons. there is one duplex we are/were looking at but haven't actually seen yet, which is only like 130,000 (believe me, that's good for a half duplex) but it's been a real challenge to get in to look at it. also i saw this one house that is 135000 and has a nice yard so maybe that would be nice. i don't know. sometimes i panic about it, but then other times i could really care less. mostly i am just kind of looking around and if there's something that interests me then i will think about it a lot. but i'm not panicking.

speaking of work (oh, i wasn't speaking of work? whatever), i've been working a lot lately. longer days mean longer hours. it's good and bad. lots of money rolling in on payday, but i'm tired and dirty and won't get to see my wife very often. but it is a lot of fun running a machine that eats aluminum and poops gutters (for those of you who don't know, i work for Continuous Gutters, we build and install custom lengths of aluminum gutters and downpipes). in the sun all day, different location every day, what more could you want? more money. a new tool belt. ladders that work. a cow-orker who shows up every day, never hung over. a radio. that's about it.


well this has been fun, hasn't it? we've shared some laughs, we've delved deep into my personal life. good times, good times. have a great day!

ian

On My Way to CDA!!!!!

Today is the deadline for having all my school work finished and being registered for my practical evaluation on April 22. I wasn't certain that I was going to finish in time but I did!!!!!!!!! I finished it all. 11 tests in less than 3 weeks. 6 months-1 year to finish this school work and I did it 4 weeks. I'm exhausted and oh so happy. The rest should be a breeze, or so I'm told. No more tests, that makes me want to sing for joy. God is good, sometimes freaks me out with last minuteness but I knew that me and Him could do it.

Thanks for all the prayers and thoughts and support!

~Kristin

Tragedy

My little Gilligan didn't make it.

Yesterday afternoon Gilligan was cold and he wasn't moving so I freaked out and called my mom and she said that I should take a warm face cloth and wrap him up. I did this and within a half an hour he was back to normal. Well at night at about 8:30, he again wasn't moving so I did the same thing, but after two hours he still wasn't movingand he was stiff. I put him back in with his mom and decided to wait until morning to see if anything had changed and it had not. My poor little bunny is no longer with us. Its just so silly. I know its only a rabbit, but it made me so sad, I just cried and cried and cried. I was so excited to save him and now he didn't make it. He was just so small and cute and his little eyes couldn't even open yet and his little ears were so sweet. How could I fall in love with something so small that isn't human and that I only knew for one day? Maybe I'm just crazy emotional right now.

~Kristin

More Bunnies?

Yesterday was a wonderful, beautiful, sunny, and warm day. In the afternoon, Ian and I played some frisbie with some friends, then we came home. It was such a nice day that I needed to be outside more, so I fed the two bunnies that Ian and I have and decided that it was time to go get the bunny cage from my parents house and clean up the sundeck(where the bunnies were roming free). In the short 20-30 minutes that we were gone, Thomas(our girl bunny) had had 3 more baby bunnies. However, they were not all snuggled warm in the house, they were lying all over the place. We were very sad about more dead baby bunnies.

So we went out with a broom and shovel and garbage bags to clean up all the poop and dispose of the deceased baby bunnies. We cleaned up the first two and they were definitely dead, but the 3rd bunny kept moving his legs a little when we touched him!!! Ian and I decided that we needed to try save our little baby, so we took a tupperware container and put some shavings in it and took him inside to where it was warm. About an hour later I went to check on the bunny and he was wiggling around looking for something to eat! Our new bunny survived!!!!! We named him Gilligan ( a good survivor name).

We then decided that Thomas needed to be with her baby, so we took her inside and made her a cozy little home in a rubbermade bin and with a cardboard box where she could hide and keep Gilligan safe. This morning I saw her feeding him!!!! I am so happy that at least one baby is still with us. I show pictures of him when he is a little less ugly. He is alot cuter today than he was last night.

Also, I am bunnysitting Anyssa Gill's bunny, Cairnie. That means that yesterday morning I had 2 bunnies and last night I had 4.

It's a zoo in here!!!

~Kristin

Tests

So here is the update on my tests.

I wrote them all including my final. I passed all of them except for one, dental reception. I have to rewrite this test on monday when schools are back from spring break. I will not find out the results of my final exam until that test is written and marked. I am coming very close to my deadline. That test will be written on the 2oth, received by the school by the 21st and then marked. My deadline is the 22nd of march!!!! So I better have passed that final exam, which I am thinking that I did. And if all goes according to plan, I will be done my school work and just need to go to Edmonton for my practical courses and then I AM A CDA!!!!! Oh, that sounds heavenly. My brain and body can't wait, this is taking way too much out of the two.

Well I'll try to keep you posted on what's going on in this house.

~Kristin

P.S. I got 99% on my prosthodontics!!!! (that is crowns and bridges, etc) Woot honors!!!!

Lack of Blog

Sorry for the not blogging lately.

I've just been so busy with school. That is all I have been doing. Seriously, yesterday I left the house for 20 minutes to go to the chiropractor and that was it. The rest of the day I just stayed home and studied. My brain hurts. I have to get back to it now. I promise I will talk to you all more on the weekend because I have this weekend off!!!!

~kristin

My Strength Comes From The Lord

My head is just spinning!!! I needed to come blog just to give my brain a few seconds of no dentistry. I have been doing school non-stop lately. It is tough because I feel like I cannot keep going but I know that I must persevere because I now only have until the 22nd of March to get all my tests and assignments sent in to school and marked and passed. What is really stressing me out though is that the school where I write my test has spring break not the next week but the one after that.

This all means that I have 6 tests to write and then my final all before next friday!!! I'm really stressing out about all this. I have a fear that I am not going to finish. I'm not sleeping well at nights because my mind just will not stop thinking about all the things I have to do in a short period of time. I just spend my days praying to God and studying and I know that He will see this all through. Right now my brain and test are all in His hands. I persevere because He gives me the strength to. I still need more strength though. Please keep praying for me. I need it sooooooo much right now.

Ian and I also decided not to buy a house right now. We stopped looking and trying to get mortgage stuff in order because I just could not handle it. It was too much stress with the amount of school I have to do right now. As well as, we just don't have the money right now. We are going to wait a few months to a year to find something to buy. That way I can focus on one thing at a time.

Oh....feels good to vent. My head is feeling a bit better now. Well, time for more studying, test writing, and assignment doing.

Love Kristin