Today the Hubster and I celebrated our 7th Valentine’s Day together, and I think it was one of my favourite ones ever. I think it’s safe to say that I had a rough day yesterday. After a long night (during which time little actual sleeping occurred) I awoke to supportive comments, emails and messages offering help and encouragement. Thank you for that. On a day were love is meant to be celebrated and shared, I certainly felt yours. And it meant the world to me. I  have more to say on this, but that’s for another post. Today was just… perfect. I didn’t end up working, and spent a lazy…

As I was thinking about which TV shows I would include in last night’s post, I realized just how much my TV habits have changed. To begin with, I am watching significantly less TV than ever. I’ve really cut back on what I’m watching, and I’m not wasting my time with shows that I don’t absolutely love. Some of my favs that made the cut are Hoarders, Glee, and I’m testing the waters with American Idol this year. So far I am hearting the Steven Tyler  + Jennifer Lopez combination. I’ve also changed the type of TV shows I watch. I used to be obsessed with any type of “crime”…

I love Saturdays. While I was working my crap part-time job, having a Saturday free was a rare treat. My manager didn’t like working them, and I almost always had to. If I wanted a weekend off, I had to book it weeks in advance, and it was bad form to book more than one off in a six week period. When I finally quit in August, it took me a long time to get used to having my Saturdays free. I’m terrible at sleeping in–my internal alarm clock is always set to 6:08am–but it’s so nice to laze around in bed until 8am and not feel like I have…

This week has felt incredibly long. It was busy, stressful, hopeful, then it was just plain exhausting. I’m so ready for this weekend. So, I mentioned yesterday that I didn’t get the job I interviewed for on Tuesday. I spent most of last night shifting between moods of utter disappointment and anger, and I really just didn’t want to write about it. But here is what happened… I actually taught at the same school yesterday afternoon. It was a great day, and of course I poked my head into the office to see if I could spy on the principal, but her door was shut tight the entire time I…

Today I had my first “real” interview. Last Thursday I applied for an English LTO position (Long Term Occasional–until the end of June) at one of my favourite schools, and like the other 150+ applications that I’ve sent out over the last two years, I didn’t expect a response. I had long ago accepted that my resumes were being sent out into oblivion–being lost in the shuffle of the 300 applications that could come in for one job. So, naturally when I got the call to come in for an interview, I was a little overwhelmed. I spent all of last night and this morning stressing myself out preparing and…