Yes folks, I've finally started working! It certainly took some time, but now that I've started I'm all booked up until January 9th! Wahoo! It started off with a bang, filling in for my cousin's friend who had the flu one day. And then the next two days I worked at my cousin's clinic. Now that I've seen some income (which is so exciting when you're so used to bleeding yourself dry of money) I'm getting excited! Money is NOT everything, but it is certainly necessary when you have tons of debt :s Haha! Oh yeah, and since I'm only working MWF over the holidays I've asked Lululemon if I can work for them on my off days... I have a one-on-one interview coming up with them! Gotta love staff discounts... hope that still applies to seasonal staff! :s
This week (Halloween actually) I start a 2.5 week locum just west of the city, followed by a 2 week locum in Mount Gambier (fully furnished apartment provided, and a really decent sized retainer! Wahoo!). Then back to McLaren Vale to work at the cousin's clinic while they are at a conference in Brisbane, then house-sitting and working north of the city for my cousin's friend again. AND I'll be covering her maternity locum come April. YAY! So that's finally come together!
Not too much else going on down here. Of course, the weather is becoming very warm, and even with sunscreen on every day I start to notice lines from my shirts when out running for a MAX of 45min... gotta be very very careful down here! I'm headed to the Australia Tennis Open January 14th with my friend Claire who lives in Sydney (another displaced chiro). She and I actually have the same birthday too! How cool is that? I also am looking at an opportunity to head to Africa for a couple of weeks in March ;) YIPPEEEEE!!! Haha that would be so awesome! And even looking at flights, it costs less for me to fly there from Australia (and longer) than it would for me to fly from Canada! Hello Dubai!
Back in Canada my best friend just had her first son.... Aidan! He's absolutely GORGEOUS! I just got off of skype with her (and him, and both cats and dogs), and we chatted for just over an hour. What a treat! He's super cute too ;) Another of my good good friends at home has a bunch of exciting work stuff going on... some terrific opportunities! So I'm thrilled to hear from her as each step occurs... can't wait to find out the result!
Christmas is coming soon (I know tomorrow is Halloween, but still, right after those decorations go down Xmas stuff comes out!). It's really really strange to see Christmas decorations out and about, with pictures of frosted windows, snowy tree scenes, etc, when it's 30C+ outside... eeek! It'll also be a bit strange house-sitting over the holidays. I work Christmas eve, just the morning, so I'll find myself a lovely Uniting church somewhere close to where I'm staying. It'll be my first Christmas on my own! Interesting... I'm sure! Christmas day I do believe I will be spending it with a couple of toddlers, some other lovely Canadians, it should be good times. Right now I'm just trying to get some cards (and itty bitty gifts) put together to send off to Canada. Let's see what we can get done while we're focused! Haha.
Love and miss you all... especially with this weird hot-holiday thingy going on. Beach and Christmas and summer seem like really conflicting ideas when used in the same sentence :s
xoxoxoxoxo Me
