Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Life Continues...




















Hello friends... and fiends...
Well, life moves on... and next Monday, I am officially moving into Adrian and my new apartment!
(without Adrian of course... heh heh...) And aren't I just pleased as punch about THAT!? I am. If you see the above pictures, it is a lovely little place, right on St. Mary's (the north end, close to Tache). We are in love with it, and I am so excited to make it my new home! It is sad that I have to make it my new home almost THREE MONTHS before Adrian can join me... but we love the place so much, that we were NOT willing to let it slip out of our fingers... so we jumped!
The picture of Adrian and I was taken last week by Kerri Woelke, our photographer! She is doing our wedding pictures, and last week we did our engagement shots... They are all so fantastic... and it just made me MORE excited for how lovely my wedding pictures will be... Kerri - you are SO GOOD!
So life pushes forward. Church is good - always a challenge! I have realized that this last year has been such a challenging one... it is amazing: is it always this rough your first year working at a church? Just wondering... because it seems I am really experiencing a wide gamet of things... and most of them - You got it! Challenging. I feel God has somehow created me for the challenge (hallelujah!) - however it does make you wonder... could I do this for a long time...? God truly, only knows...
I find lately, the time to carve out for reading, and quiet elusive. Mostly because I become impatient with it - or else when it is available to me, I don't seize my moment, and do it! I am quite ridiculous actually. And yet it is such a necessity! I have such a longing to just be a hermit sometimes (which is ironic, as I waste the quiet time I do have...) - so that I can sit and drink tea all day, reading, and writing... and being "contemplative" - not that any of my thoughts are profound, new, or un-explored... I just enjoy doing it! Rethinking what has been thought, and re-reading what has been written. How am I creating something new? What am I doing that the world hasn't experienced?
Really, if I think about it, everything I do is new, creative, and never done before. It doesn't take something unusual. I am quite positive that I have never written this sentence before, or sat here, in this moment before... and I am the only one who will do it, most likely... so I think I have quite good odds, that in every moment, of each day, I am creating history...
Makes me feel a little better about myself. Anyhow. Oh the universe and it's axis...

This will be all!
Enjoy your days... unfortunately, in the lovely city of Winnipeg, a slight cold chill has come upon us today (I think there is a high of 8) - so we are grinning, and bearing it! It is true we have been spoiled with the recent warm weather (the weekend was 22!!!! WOAH!) and so I will not complain about a nippy 8 degrees... it would be unnecessarily pessimistic, and whiny...

A holy kiss!!!

mariajane.






Monday, April 10, 2006

beep beep beep beep

I am alive.
Just to ease anyone's concern. I thought I would just quickly drop an "unofficial hello", which might encourage me to follow up with a sincere blog tomorrow... will I? Will I though...?
Ahh... life...
tis' all! For now...
will I think of thee tomorrw sweet blog...
Only that blessed 'morrow will know. he he...
cheers.