Aw Shucks

 Today was pea shucking day.

my fingers turned green 

everything got wet

I dropped a LOT

Lulu likes peas

Pea shucking day was good to me.

First of all

  It's official. My first year away from home is done. That is so crazy to think about. Only in looking back do I realize how much things have changed. I've had so many new experiences. I can see why I had certain challenges and how I grew from them. I'm definitely a list kind of person so all year I wrote down the things which I did for the first time and I wanted to share a few of them.

First time...

- Donating blood (not the first time I've passed out :P)

- Making bread by myself

- Going to the Legislature building 

- Asked to be a bridesmaid 

- Toilet papering

- Catching a wild animal! ( it was a baby bunny but feral non-the-less)

- Being a visiting teacher

- Being in the stampede parade with Kate and Will (dare I say the last as well)

- Going to a YSA ward

- Living with roommates

- Selling something on eBay (I never wish that on anyone)

- Cooking a meal for the missionaries (also something I never wish on the missionaries again.)

- Gone to the Edmonton Temple

- Getting flowers 

- Gone wedding dress shopping (the order of this and the previous have nothing to do with eachother!)

- Got an acceptance letter for school

- Gone on a double date and blind one

- Went for a polar bear swim

- Taken engagement photos

- Made a T-shirt (refer to the Charlie Brown t-shirt from my previous post, Model: Arland Hudkins)

- Driven a truck

- Driven in snow

- ....Fishtailed

-Writing a blog

Beginning With the End in Mind

     Life has been full of goodbyes and endings lately. I've said goodbye to my beautiful cousin who I won't be living with anymore. It's a strange thought to not come home to family or to not have someone who is so close to me that we can read each other's thoughts.

     I'm leaving my apartment that I've called home for this past year, why is it so hard to part with inanimate things?

  

     I didn't even get a goodbye with my little Kitty that I've grown up with. She's gone to that field of catnip in the sky. And I can't believe I'll never hear her purr at the end of my bed again. 

    I shook hands with my best friend as he left to serve a two year mission in Santiago Chile. It's unreal to think we'll never have another unexpected snow day to come up with ways to break into your own car or explore small shops along Whyte Ave. It's scary that life will find us at very different places when we meet again.  

  

      My job is finishing tomorrow and friends who I have come to love in such a short time will be distanced from me, some quite possibly forever.

And I'm being separated in a completely new-to-me way with friends going where I can't follow. 

    But I suppose there would never be sunrises without a sunset. Sometimes though, it's the hardest to remember how lovely morning is when the last pieces of vibrant red disappear to a charcoal sky. So now I'm just waiting. Dawn must be coming soon. This night air is getting to me.