Our New Year

Here are 2 pictures from the dinner I just made for jon and I
and here is the nice presentation i made!so yesterday I went to the synagogue here to pick up a challah, and the woman asked me if someone called. but I had been out all morning, she said someone was calling to invite us to dinner! So when we got home, we called, and we went for dinner. They lived in a big beautiful house, and all their family was there. They were so nice and friendly to us. The husband is a lawyer, and good friends with the Dean of the law school here. By the way, jon is still not back at school! this is the third week. and no school tomorrow, so we could have been home for the holidays. oh well.
Today we went to the synagogue, we went for an hour. There is not a big jewish population here, so it was sad to see it so empty, there were many many empty rows.
yesterday I had my interview, It was a group one, me and 2 others. One lady had 15 years experience working with seniors. thats all!

Life In Windsor

Jon swimming at pelee island


On the ferry to Pelee Island, 1.5 hours!

On the river, Peace Fountain (claims to be biggest fountain in the world, shoots up 70 ft)

Jon taking a nap

Glo Golf mini putt

Great discovery yesterday

yesterday I made the great discovery of my new favorite store: Bulk Barn. Its canadian, but not in Quebec yet. its a grocery store, but everything is in big containers, and you fill up how much you want in a bag, and they weigh it. Like at candy stores. but its amazing, they have everything! Every type of flour, sugar, pasta noodles, cake mix, falafel mix, garlic powder, baking powder....theres so much! so cool! So i enjoyed that finding.

Jons school is still on strike. its been two weeks now. So he had only one week of law school so far, and he is left to learn everything on his own. hopefully it will be back on monday.

tomorrow we may go to Pelee island for the day, not quite sure what it really is yet.

Today i went for a walk along the river, it was really nice! you can walk for hours, and the path is nice and clean. Was very sunny today!

I'm touched

I just went down to check the mail, and I got a letter from one of my clients from when I worked at the CLSC! This is a woman who has MS, and I visited with her twice a week for a few months. We did card making together. This made my day.

Other than that, I have a job interview next monday, its to do activities with seniors, perfect for me. Its a group interview, never had one like that. Besides that, NO ONE is hiring in windsor!

I posted this on the SC site

So last night, I went to a crop in my new home town of Windsor. And let me say, that it really made me miss everyone! It was like a complete repeat of my first crop at SC, walking in not knowing anyone, and sitting alone. Its so awful! The owner introduced me, and then they started calling me the 'new girl'! not in a mean way... but come on!
One lady couldnt understand why I didnt have a french accent!

After the owner who is only a few years older than me sat down, and she was very friendly. I think I impressed her with all my scrapbooking knowledge. So that was that, I dont think I will go again too soon, not to mention, their prices are through the roof!
So I just wanted to say I miss everyone.


Jon and I just went to see the Batman movie, I loved it! We were lucky to find it still playing. This afternoon we went for a long walk along the detroit river, it was really nice! Its called statue park, and there are huge statues and interesting things to look at.

My sister is having an engagement party on October 26, so jon and I are heading home! We will drive to toronto and fly from there. I look forward to seeing my family and friends, and going to scrapbook centrale!

Ohhhh boy
not a good day today
i was going to the loblaws superstore, about 15 minutes away, when i noticed the battery light was on, so when i got to the parking lot, i turned the car on and off, and then it wouldnt turn on. so... what am i supposed to do? i dont know a soul in this city. so i noticed a canadian tire across the street, they gave me the number to a tow truck, and they towed it back to the canadian tire near my apartment. (let me just mention, that when we moved from quebec, our CAA expired)
so.. we needed a new alternator, whatever that is. I had no choice but to take it, I dont know any other places to start comparing prices , so there goes 500$!
Jon knew what happened, on on his way home from school, he bought me a huge bouquet of flowers! so nice!

tonight we will find out who the father of kellys child is on the new 90210, it better be dylan!

scrapbook withdrawl

hello all
i have been here 2 weeks, and i only went to the scrapbook store once, the first day. \i didnt get a good friendly feel, so i never went back. I feel so sad not to have a store that i love, even when i wasnt working at sc, i would still go in quite often. i think i will go to back to see the store, maybe even go to a friday crop.
So far i havnt really made any friends, jon has at school. so far i havnt met anyone who has a lot in common with me. Other than my no scrapbook/no friends situation, all is good. My parents left this morning, we had a good time. it rained the whole weekend! yesterday we went to troy michigan, to a HUGE mall. very fancy, all the nice stores, nothing i can afford! haha out of the four of us, no one bought anything except jon. my mom and i were looking for outfits for my sisters engagement party, and for the holidays. not sure if im going to go to synogogue here, i will check it out.

First house guests!

My parents are coming! they will be here in 1.5 hours, jon and i just cleaned the whole apartment.
We have now been here 2 weeks, i cant believe it. Yesterday i bought a new laptop, it has a 17 inch screen, quite large. i hope its good, i had a stressful situation at best buy, so i ended up at staples, with a HP.
thats all for now!

Apartment pictures!

some of our 31 boxes

Big Leons truck with our bedroom set and couch

Our bed, it doesnt look it, but it is so BIG. I have trouble gettin on and off. There is supposed to be another tall armoire on the the left, but it didnt fit! People at Leons didnt measure correctly.

SO we put it here...

My messy scraproom. The desk is really much bigger than it looks, and it took me 5 hours to put it together! I thought I would die knowing Jon had the same one. But we did it together and it only took 2 hours.

Our living room. we were looking everywhere for that big frame, and just found it yesterday. I think we need a bigger tv, it looks quite tiny there.

If you look closely, you will see my 90210 and OC dvds, they look lovely all lined up.

Not sure what to put here, big open hallway. ( the apartment really isnt this dark, I am just not a good photo taker!)

The kitchen

I loved decorating the bathroom, this picture is not great, but its pretty! All matching.

Lovely day

SO far a lovely day. Got to go grocery shopping! Very exciting for me.
I went to Loblaws and Costco. Was such a pleasure to take my time and but whatever I want, no need to worry about it being kosher!
Last night we went to a social orientation thing, made some friends...

We arrived!!!

We are here, in Windsor!
so far so good.
Some little surprises, but everything is under control.
We got here, and the place was very dirty. The stove was filthy, the bathtub was bad too. But Jon was great and cleaned most of it. Now the plave is clean clean! Our furniture arrived, and just today we got our 31 boxes, and cable internet and phone.
Jon went to his first day of school and I am unpacking!