Just a quick note

I don't really have time to post much here. I just thought I would give a quick update. In the last two weeks we've been to my parents 4 times, Dan's parents once (sorry it's not more, really). Christmas has been a good time for me though. I've had lots of fellowship time with my sisters, not much working, and tons of eating. Good eating though.
We're in Ingeroll for the moment at a party with our good family friends here. Dan just finished playing pool. The two guys playing both put their wives on the line for the game and it turns out we'll be taking an extra person (and her baby boy) home with us. :) Tanya is the one who wrote the anonymous comment about our hick life. Boy is she going to have fun at our place. ha ha ha.
We're listening to Ridley Bent (!!!) playing with eachothers hair, playing pool and keeping quiet for to keep the babies upstairs sleeping. Sounds like a party to me.

Look at my sisters hands!!

Sarah came home looking exotic!! She got her hair braided (obviously with extensions) and her hands colored with henna. How cool does this all look?

I just downloaded all the pictures off my camera and thought that it's about time I post some of them. Usually this is a long frustrating process so I'll post a few and the rest I'll be putting on my flickr site with comments etc. so go there too (when I get them up)


Sarah and I at Hannelle's wedding. I love this shot. Hannelle and I will be doing the same thing for Sarah's wedding next summer.




Some goat pictures. This is when we first got her. Compare to later pictures of her now. She's gotten fat!

Mozzerella then

Mozzerella now. It's an odd angle.

And here's a random picture of me. Check out the flickr site. I've got pics of Christmas tree hunting, my latest kitchen creations and other stuff. Oh, and leave comments on your favorite pictures too.

Enjoy!!

Boy am I excited for some quality internet time. I have some great pictures to share with you all. And stories.
Dan got a deer from his deer hunt and I helped cut it's head off. After hanging it in the garage (and skinning it, etc.) I'll be cutting it up, deboning it, and getting it ready to be turned into burger. Isn't that exciting? What a new experience. Sometimes I wonder if people think that I live a wierd hick, backwoods, life but then again, this morning, my boss said that my life definately isn't boring, now is it. That's what matters right? I do have fun. I love adding adventure to it all.
Would the deer cutting pictures be to gross for you all? I just think of it as cutting up any other kind of meat in the kitchen.
I met a great little lady today. A couple of weeks ago Hannelle showed me this book she found in the McMaster library. It's a book exploring native women's dreams. The book seemed super interesting to me as I'm attracted to dream work, especially Jungian influenced work. This book definately was. So I flipped to the back of the book to read about the author, and low and behold she's from my town!! I didn't think anything educated came from my town (no offence but sometimes my town is even more backwater than I am). That was so exciting to me. I wanted to get a hold of her but was afraid of sounding like I was stalking the author. I looked her up in the phone book (living in the same town helps) and left a message on the machine. She called back twice (!) and on the second time, she got a hold of me. What an experience. Her name is Sheila. She also got her MA at the same university and program that I am looking into. Isn't that neat? What a good source to use when looking into it (and maybe applying). So it turns out that this book was a volunteer experience for her and she was never funded for it. She had only a small number of books printed and had given them to the libraries in the area and had left it to experience. It was only published in 2001 but she hadn't thought of it for a while so when she had heard that someone had found, read, and used her book in a presentation she was really excited. So we talked on the phone for almost an hour! And then, this morning, I went to her place. She works with youth and has a huge heart. She runs a camp/afterschool program. She almost seemed to heartfelt for real life. Here's the kicker: she uses animals and her small little hobby farm (all donated animals) for working with the kids. She's got 2 pot-bellied pigs, 2 pygmie goats, chickens 4-5 horses (one is only the size of my dog; it's the smallest in Canada) and lots of cats. And she's lives so close to me. Isn't it so bizarre? Too much of a coincidence? There probably isn't a paid job there that would be available for me but but I can see volunteer work being a possibility. Oh, and she gave me a copy of the book. I'm really excited about this. It will be interesting to see what comes out of it all.

I'm back

One chapter of my life, a short one, is over. I just finished my last day of this course at Tyndale. I have decided that, although this course has been interesting and I do like the program, I am not going to continue here. Should I get into it? Do I want to share all the why's and when's? Do you want to know? Here's what I will say: I am not finished with education. I really like this program but it is not very practical for my life right now. I'd like to think that one day I will return to it, or at least take those course that I thought I would like. In the meantime, I'm going to work a regular 40 hour work week, like everyone else. I'm going to start/continue with a few other private projects that are bouncing around in my head and I'm going to be doing a lot of research about where to go next. I have some great ideas but maybe I'll share them later. I don't want to set up goals and standards if I'm not going to follow through, so I'll just keep them to myself for now. There's a class at Redeemer that I think I'm going to either audit or take. It's a super interesting course on spirituality. Stephenson has been planning this course for a couple of years and I even did some photocopying and research for her for the course. I've got to do some research on that one, for now though.
Oh, by the way, I did get my haircut and it looks great. I love it. It's not really that different or crazy but it does make me feal fresh and new and ready for Christmas. I want to go to some parties now. Instead I'm going to home, make a couple of lasagnas and bring them to Dan's hunting party. yep, that's right, Dan's is hunting this week. He's looking to shoot Bambi's dad, not Bambi, he's too young. So maybe we'll bring some deer meat home for christmas!! Close enough to a party, eh?