I haven't written a word in here in a long time, but perhaps it's time to do so again. Instead of the daily posts of the past, it will be more like a weekly re-cap. And, in my old fashion of uncensored, blunt and very straight-forward manner, this is how it will be done.
Since my last post in November things have changed and things have stayed the same, and some things, well...
I'm still working at Communications Nova Scotia as a communications officer. The two-year term is split between CNS and the Public Service Commission, but as of yet, I haven't seen the PSC.
I can actually say that I am enjoying it. Given the lack of writing jobs available in the city, this was an easy, yet intimidating switch. I suppose any new job is intimidating at first.
The hours are great, the pay is better than I've had in the past and the few weeks of vacation and flexibility it affords me is a little odd. I'm not used to having a job where I'm entitled to 3 or 4 weeks off a year, sick days, etc... Before it used to be, work and get paid or don't work and be poor.
I'm hoping that it pans out in the end and ends up being a long-term career move. It would be very helpful as I'm looking into buying a house with my brother come this fall. It's about time I get on it. I'm not getting any younger and finding that it's time to make an investment.
We've been looking at buying a duplex, with a basement that we can fix up into a one-bedroom apartment and make some income from it as well.
In other news, I'm seeing someone from Amherst, which was mentioned in my previous post. I've changed my life around from running wild.
At the time, I wasn't looking for anything serious, but you can never know who you will meet and that's what happened. We met at the end of August here in Halifax and she ended up moving back to Amherst in September. Since that time for the last 7 months, we've been doing the whole long-distance thing. Something that I told myself I would never do again.
But, looking back, I'm glad I made the choice. I spend every weekend traveling down to be with her and she will soon be moving back up here.
I'm surprised that it lasted this long to be honest. I figured that it would end, or turn into just another short-term fling, but it hasn't.
Given my insecurities and things that have happened in the past, I was very hesitant. But, I think that seeing each other for only 2 or 3 days every week, and talking nightly, has given us a chance to learn more about each other than had we been living in the same city. It has forced us to be open, even when we didn't want to hear things, but it's caused us to communicate more.
She understands what I've been through and what I feel and I can understand her situations as well. For once, I can say that I'm with someone that I truly care about and see a future. And, that she shows me that she cares as well and often, it is with the little things she does.
She understands my wants and desires of the future, my goals, and hers, for the most part, fall in line with mine. We have a similar outlook for the future and we are both willing to sacrifice the things that we want to make it work.
In June she moves up to live with me for two months before she finds an apartment, which she's been looking at a place close to where I live. If the house deal goes through, then it won't be long before she is there. Something that she says she is looking forward to.
I guess my only problem are her pets: the cats, dogs and the horses - yes I said horses. But, I suppose that I have to accept them all if I want to be with her.
While we've had our share of problems, arguments, fights, we've overcome them. What kind of relationship doesn't have problems?
I don't know if anyone actually reads this anymore. A few months back, just after she and I got together, someone had sent her a link to my journal, from an anonymous account.
Why? I don't know. Perhaps because they had wanted her to read what I was doing and how my life was in the past, in hopes that she would change her mind?
I never told her about my livejournal as it was something from my past. But, when she found out about it from someone, she chose not to read it, even though I gave her permission to if she wanted. Everything in my journal, was talked about in conversations. She knows what I was like. That anonymous person forced us into talking about it.
Should I be mad that some one tried to break us apart, if that was their intent? Perhaps. But, the truth is, it brought us closer together by getting things out of the way early on. I was afraid of what she would think of me before I had a chance to show her that I wasn't so much the person now that I was before. Perhaps a thanks is in order.
And now, as this is getting too long it's probably time to stop writing. It's going to be a slow week at work from what I can tell, the next two weeks will be a little busier and then back down to Amherst again on Friday night, hopefully, if her dad is in the city to give me a ride down.
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