Saturday, May 13, 2006

And I'm bored

It's 11pm on a Saturday night, and I'm the only one up right now. I'm lonely. I never thought this would happen, but here I sit.

I came to BC for a girl. Things between us are fantastic, but I get almost no time alone with her. I spend more time with her parents, her Grandma, and her brother's girlfriend than I do with her. In fact, I don't even think I've had an hour alone with her since Thurday night. She fell asleep before 9pm tonight in bed, which gave me about 10-15 minutes with her, most of the time her eyes were closed. I got a little more time on Friday night, but once again, she fell asleep extremely quickly. Of course my brain is thinking I've done something wrong.

I know she has to get up at 5am to go to work. I know her daughter is more important than everything else, and I would never think of interfering with their limited time together. But, once everything is said and done, I am left with the remains of the day. Lately, this has usually been less than an hour before she falls asleep. I do get to spend days with her when she's not working, but there is never any alone time there.

I love her daughter. I'm not getting the same feeling back, despite what everyone else says. She responds well to me sometimes, but other times I just don't get a good response from anything I do. It's tough when I want to be able to help more, but my attempts usually result in more tears, instead of calming the situation down. I seriously thought I would be good at this, but I just don't know any more. I guess only time will tell.

I'm not sleeping well at all anymore. Sennen has a habit of not sleeping through the night. I have a habit of not sleeping through the night. My schedule is different than hers. The result is very little sleep for me. I actually moved to the couch last night so Nat could cuddle Sennen back to sleep in our bed. I think I'll probably sleep on the couch tonight so I don't wake Nat up since she's got an early morning.

I got a rejection letter from one of the companies that I applied to. I haven't heard from my follow-up letter to another company. The job that I was supposed to land quickly once I got here fell through. Miscommunication somewhere along the way. I have another resume out that I'm really hoping to hear back from, but I'm kind of losing faith. I had an opportunity for a sales job with a cellular company, but the drive was an hour (not including the ferry). I seriously thought I should take it in order to have something that gets me out of the house, pays me something and gets me socializing, but everyone else expressed negative thoughts about it solely because of the drive. I wish I took that job.

Mostly, I'm just having a "down on my luck" night. Feeling negative I guess. I suspected things were sounding too good to be true when I hatched this damn scheme to move out here. Everything fell into place quite easily. It seemed like I might have made the right decision for once in my life. Now, I'm not so sure. The girl is right and I'm sure that her daughter will warm up to me more in a while. Other than that, nothing else seems to be right. I'm not miserable, but I'm certainly short of being happy, happy, happy.

I need a cuddle. I'll go curl up with The Di Vinci Code on the couch and hope to fall asleep.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

Alive

I survived the trip.

I'll do a better update on everything once I get time to compose my thoughts. For the moment, I am very tired and have not been sleeping well. I'm still job hunting, and shouldn't put so much pressure on myself since I've been here a week now and I'm the only one that is bothered by it. I just applied for a cell phone sales position that opened up so that will cover me until I can get something a little better.

On the more positive side, I am very happy. I step outside and am constantly blown away by the unbelievable beauty of where I am. I see mountains in every direction I look. I see the ocean every day that I leave the house. The smaller island that I live on is similar to a nice lake resort where people live all year round... except the people are a little more colourful. It's wonderful.

I'll update again soon.