No more dreams...

...this is reality.

Years of singing "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas" have finally paid off. Our white Christmas came in style and left the Lower Mainland wishing Christmases were wet like usual. In the Boersma household, "White Christmas" has been parodied to a more Vancouver-friendly version of "I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas".

We are never satisfied with what we have. Each year I have envied the East Coast of Canada for their beautiful blankets of snow gracing their lawns and clogging their streets, creating havoc with travel plans. This year, the white stuff fell in the West and already, after only a week, most people are sick of it and wish it would just go away. Attempting to navigate a Honda Civic out of a hilly driveway in the snow makes going out anywhere not even worth it. It can take about 30 minutes to swerve the car up the street. That's a two minute walk people. Two minute walk, 30 minute drive - pick your poison. I would walk, which is precisely what I did today, opting to take a bus to an overcrowded mall just to get some good deals. Was it worth it? The Dutch part of me, so basically my whole being thinks so, but my sanity begs to differ.

When it came time to go home, I discovered my bus had decided it's only going to run on the main streets. I do not live on a main street. Needless to say, everything I had bought was soaked by the time I got home.

"It doesn't show signs of stopping". Safely back home, I sit staring at the window at sheets of snow pouring from the sky to land and add to the snow on the ground which is already well above my knees. According to a physiotherapist, I have "abnormally long lower legs", so the snow is pretty darn deep.

People in the Lower Mainland are terrible drivers at the best of times. Throw in some snowy conditions, and you risk your life trying to get around.

Do I love it? Absolutely! There's something comforting about frolicking in the snow without a care in the world, acting like a 5-year-old, and nobody finds it strange.

I love winter!

Merry Christmas, Blessed Boxing Day, and Happy New Year!

Boersma

Aaaaahhhhhh

Shown above is my sigh of relief.

Classes are over, exams are over, and Christmas holidays have officially begun.

I chose a job for January - I'm going to be working at The Right Shoe in Vancouver, so I'm excited for that. The people there are great. When I went for my interview, two people working were friends of mine from SFU, and my interview was mostly just me chatting with my boss about being a trainer for sports teams - the injury stuff, because he did that too, and about piano, since I taught piano for a bit, and his wife is a piano teacher. It's a great place and I'm very excited to work there.

I haven't yet decided if I want to go back to school in the summer or do another semester of coop and go back in the fall. I'm leaning towards just working till September. I'm sick of taking classes and I really need a break, and I also need the money to pay for the classes I need to take to graduate. Oh the life of a student.

So here goes my first January of not being in School since 1992 when I was 4 and not yet in Kindergarten. That is so sad.

I am also very excited to go back to Mexico with my church. It's been 5 years since I went and I miss it a lot, so I'm pretty stoked to return.

So ya, things are going great right now. I spent about 4 hours cleaning my room today - not that I did that great of a job, it was just that bad :P. And now I'm trying to catch up on lost time and maybe get some reading done - that pretty much gets put on hold when I'm in school. I started reading The Shack at the end of the Summer, and I got about half way when September rolled around and I haven't read any since. I'm thinking I might have to re-read some parts to catch up.

Anyways, I'm just talking about nothing now and this is getting a little long, so I'm going to stop.

Till next time.

Boersma