living la vida loco.... no seriously, LOCO!

ok so this is going to be a funny post. most people (on blogs that im looking at anyways) are putting up all of these great pics with their weonderfull blogs of their beautiful homes and decorating and blah blah blah.
WELL,
welcome to MY life.
ill post some pics before i write my blog.




here are some pictures of our disgusting hotel room at the beautiful ramada inn in medicine hat where we have resided for the last two weeks of our lives.
(the hotel is great (nice rooms, pool, breakfast, awesome staff) paid for by jobens new company for the last two weeks which has been really helpfull) the room started out quite nice but we have managed (in our hectic two weeks of joben working min 10 hour days, average 12-16 and me finding places to live, have them fall through, finding more places to live making dinners and lunches and doing laundry and all that wife stuff in that little kitchenette and room and looking for a job and both of us keeping busy at a new church we found here and meeting people, playing vollyball with said people, etc. this room has gotten pretty bad.

i just thought it would be funny to start out this blog with some pics that arent quite so typical.

ive said it once and ill say it again, we live la vida loco.

well about a month ago now we packed up our little blue car and left abbotsford, bc (my beautiful hometown) for calgary, alberta. joben landed a great job doing pipeline x raying which he is going to be jumoing into as a new career and starting up a company with his ex treeplanting boss rod hoel in jan. first though, he has to get a certin amount of hours in (like 300 or somthing) and then take a one week course and take a government test and pay lots of money to the gov.
SO
we found a great company out here in medicine hat and joben has been working for the for the last two weeks....
we spent about a week in calgary at joben's cousin heather's house and had a great time hanging out with them, seeing some barkey uncle and aunts and cousins and spending some time at my favorite place in calgary... the chinook centre mall!!!
it was a good time.
two weeks ago tomorrow we took off from calgary and headed east to medicine hat. joben's new boss put us up in a hotel for two weeks while we got settled and figured out living arangements.
THAT was a nightmare in itself. joben started work the next morning and scince then has only had two days off in two weeks. he is a very hard worker and a trooper and i love him to peices for making this new endevar a reality and working so hard to be the best in this industry and everything. hes awesome. so anyways, that left me to try to find a place to live... we dont have any furnatre since our first year of marraige was basicly a travelling year (we were kinda like gypsies!) we travelled through europe for a few months, visited north carolina three times, spent some time in the fraser valley and also spent some time living in one of our favorite places costa rica for a few months and then went treeplanting again. it was a busy year of travelling and thus we have collected NO furnature or things other than the attic full of wedding gifts that we have accumulated at my parents house. so we were looking for a place that was fully furnished and cheap (cause im a menno, duh!)
SO i found a place (well joben actually did through a guy at the church at drop in basketball the first day we were in medicine hat!) it was small but fully furnished and clean and everything and only like 400 bucks a month for rent and we were pumped... well, a few days later the guy calls back and said his wife rented the same place out to another couple so we were out of luck.
great.
so i franticly started looking again for a place. i found a basement suite this time, again fully furnished, nice landlord, clean and bright for a basement suite. rent was a little higher but we were getting desperate so we decided to take it. i called the guy and he told me to leave it on his voice mail by 8 oclock that night if we wanted it and thats just what i did. so less than 12 hours later the guy calls me and tells me that he rented the suite out to someone else.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
needless to say i was getting kinda stressed. luckily though, after phoning about 30 people i found in the classifieds and viewing about a dozen places over the last two weeks i found a great lady, a single mom with a 7 year old daughter (and the cuttest puppy you have ever met... even joben loves the dog) offered their basemet suite, nice neighborhood, big recroom/ dining area, nice bedroom with huge closets (as you can see from the pics that is very importiant to us!) and very cheep rent. the only problem is is that we have a shared enterance and kitchen and the luandry room is through the recroom downstairs so it is a very shared space but at this point we are only hoping to be there for less than three months and we DONT CARE ANYMORE!!! we are happy to be in a place. it will be really nice when we have a home of our own in a few years... we are definitly deserving of that let me tell you!!!
other than house hunting craziness we have been having a great time here in medicine hat! its too bad that we arent planning on sticking around because there are some GREAT people here. we are getting really invloved with things at a church here, co-ed rec vollyball, drop in basketball (for joben) bible study, haning out with friends. we just had a great dinner pary at a couples place last night. its been really easy to intergrate here so we have been enjoying ourselves and settling in quickly over the last two weeks.
medicine hat is quite beautiful too in its own way, its kinda like kamloops or kelowna, very deserty. and there are these amazing mini vallies that go through the city and brautiful golf courses (ive seen 3 and i havent even been looking!) nice trails and a river that runs through the city.
im planning at this point to return back to bc in december and i will probably stay there while joben goes and works out oftown for a few months from jan-april. i cant go with him because he and his boss are going to be busy developing contacts for their new buiness and stuff (apperantly they are going to be working "37 days a month") yikes. so i will be able to go visit him once or twice but it doesn make sence for me to tag along and never see him anyways so i think im going to hang around vancouver area for a few months. in the spring joben and i are planning on settleing in a bit near three hills, alberta (thats where rod and his fam live and the buisness is going to be based out of)
its been and is going to be another crazy year but its in preperation for a life that is going to be worth it all. and its been a GREAT adventure. im not going to lie, i am practiacly a wanna be marthastewart so i AM very much looking forward to our "5 year plan" of owning property (hopefully in costa rica) and building a house here in alberta and having babies and all that jazz but for now im happy with our crazy life and our messy hotel room.
we are moving tomorrow and after settling in i can really look for a job hardcore (long days without joben around to play with get pretty boring!) ill post more interesting pics as they come and blog more next week!
i hope all is well on your side of the computer screen!