A social life..at last

This week has been a great development in the "code operation: begin socializing" movement that I have been trying to force myself to do. Since being in Red Deer, we mainly have been worried about, living here, money and living here…let alone trying to have a social life. Finally our lives seem to be calming down after the storm that raged through our lives, so I thought it is finally time to socialize. 

I asked Lise and Ghislaine at work if they wanted to go out for dinner one night and while I was talking about East Side Marios some of the ladies were like..well why not go there? Especially since they had not gone to East Side Marios in a long time. Anyways since I knew that it would be super busy, I decided to make a reservation..normally you would have to wait 20 minutes otherwise. We were all saying how it feels like an expensive nightclub where you need to be "exclusive" to get in and everyone else looks at you like "you b*tch" because you got in first without waiting at all. But we all laughed, we indulged, laughed and indulged some more. It was so much fun. 

The next day we invited Lise's daughter Danielle and her boyfriend over. We were initially planning on going to a movie but it just didn't work out. So we changed it to a movie in at our place. It was so nice doing it that way first though because we never got to the movie but we got to get to know them first. It is interesting because Matt is a chef and went to culinary school so he told us about some of the food how to make a good stock stuff like that. Its nice since he said he could give me some tips like how to make better pasta sauces and such. Danielle also has a degree in Anthropology so its cool because she told me about different cultures and the respects/disrespects of a few. It was a very enlightening conversation that I enjoyed with both of them. They both are super smart, super down to earth people and both Jesse and I enjoyed their company very much.

Then last night Jesse went to Guardians of the Galaxy, and that movie was very well made. Very funny and I would recommend this movie to anybody. 

But that has been just the last three days. For not socializing a lot since arriving in Red Deer, We sure made progress and I am happy about it! 

Moving..scams..and mom coming to visit

So our perfect little house in Red Deer turned into a real nightmare. On July 12th or something like that Jesse told me that the guy we were renting from..who we thought owned the house really actually was only renting. Not only was he renting, but his landlord has NO idea that we were staying there. He told us if we were to stay there we had to rip up our lease agreement and agree to stay there as "just friends". So I started to panic..any normal person would and we finally agreed that we had to move. The following monday I told myself that I needed two things. 1. Meet the original landlord, and 2. get a new agreement, Rob could not deliver either so we decided to move. Luckily we found another place a lot sooner, in a good neighbourhood and basically now we love it here. Took a lot to get here but now we are here. 

But when we moved in mom decided to come down to help us unpack. It was so much fun when she came down, she motivated us to pack and we got to spoil her. And man did we..we took her to East Side Marios and let me tell you..best food ever…and did we ever hoard food into our bellies for that. We had to wait 20 minutes to get in but we got our food right away, it was amazing. 

Then we took mom to the Collicut centre which was fun, we did the steam room, hot tub, mom went down the water slide a few times (I think she really liked that) and just swam. It was sooo much fun. 

But I am so glad I got to spend some quality time with my momma even due to the circumstances. I am truly grateful for my mom and everything she does for us. She truly is the best mom ever and I wish I could do more. 

But that has been my life for awhile, we love our new place, we have an awesome kitchen, huugge living room, huge bedroom, walk in closet and the best shower ever with an adjustable shower head. It truly is great and I feel like this truly is where we are supposed to be, even through the hardship.