f u t u r e

It’s 1pm and I’m procrastinating like a champion!  In fact, for the past 3 days I’ve really done nothing but goof around on the net and watch tv.  Ofcourse, yesterday and the day before I was feeling pretty bad- massive headache and just sooo worn out.  I woke up today feeling much better, and full of energy!  I’d planned on just coming online for a minute to check my e-mail, but then Kurt showed up on MSN and ofcourse we had to chat..then play tic tac toe, and then chat some more.  haha.  I’ve become fully addicted to this http://www.hi5.com  website, where I now have pictures and a little journal.  Most of my friends have joined, so it’s kind of fun to see who’s left me notes or posted new pictures and things.  Anything to kill some time before going back to Uni at the end of the month.  I’m sure once that starts I won’t have the time…but then again, I always find it some way or another.  This year should be interesting to say the least.  I’ve registered for 8 classes- a full course load- and decided to do a dual major.  This term I’m taking Representing Crime, Creative Non-Fiction, Intro. to Psychoanalysis, and Poetry & Poetics.  Anything will be better than the Politics I had to endure last term- which, incidentally, I’ve failed and will have to repeat probably during summer session.  I was very hard on myself after this happened, but the truth of the matter is I’m just not into that sort of thing and had a VERY difficult time with the fact that it was all Australian and I knew none of the history behind it.  Well, one fail never killed anyone and I know I’ll do much better this year. 

Steve and I had a long talk on Monday night about money and savings, our plans for the next few years and so on.  It felt good to get some things off my chest about feeling “stuck” here and not knowing when I’ll get to visit home.  It was hard saying goodbye to my parents after they left.  They seem to have aged so much in the past 2 years, I guess it comes with the sickness and so much weight loss as well.  Anyways, we’ve decided to seriously start saving money towards a trip home and a deposit on a house.  For the past two years we’ve just been having so much fun, and time has passed so quickly we never really talked about what would happen in the future.  In anycase, we’re planning to visit Canada in the summer of ’06.  When we left Winnipeg, Stephen promised that when we went back to visit we’d take a trip to Disney World too.  I’ve wanted to go back since I was a child, and he’s never been.  It’s something that we both want to do before we have kids, just so that we can basically take advantage of it and run around like kids ourselves!  Today, when I was talking to Kurt he said that he and Christine each have a free trip anywhere in North America (from when they flew to Aus. last year) and they were thinking of going to Cali. or Florida in summer of ’06.  They never knew we were planning to go then too, so now we might be able to travel together- which would be awesome!  We’d save heaps of money on accomodation plus I’ll be able to spend more time with my brother that way.  I know it’s still quite some time away, but it’s exciting for me to have something to look forward to- I can cling to the fact that eventually I WILL get home and will be able to go swimming at my lake, see the new cottage, see my friends and family, etc.  Speaking of family, we also talked about looking into private health insurance for me.  Since the healthcare system is more similar to the U.S. here than it is to Canada, it’s important to have private health care before any big medical issues occur.  Steve is covered through work, but I’m not.  I’ll be finished school in 2 years, and while we’re not ready for kids just yet, it was good to talk about the fact that the time to start a family is approaching sooner rather than later.  Steve is big on the whole “not for another 5 years” thing…however, he’s already been saying that for 2 years, and approaching 24 (in just over 4 weeks time) I think it’s time we start atleast talking about it and planning for it.  Kids are expensive!  I have no idea where we’ll be in 3 years time, we could have moved by then and Stephen was talking about asking for a posting to the U.S. eventually.  I would absolutely love that.  The thing is, if we don’t atleast start saving for it and thinking about it, by the time we do decide to have a baby we’ll have no hope.  We’re moving in the right direction now in my opinion.  I’m glad we’ve finally had the time to just sit down and talk.  2004 was completly chaotic…maybe ’05 will be a little more reasonable.

Anyways, before I write an entire book I suppose I should go.  I have to get dressed and head to the post office to mail my Mum and brother in law’s birthday presents.  They’ll be a bit late, but I do believe I have an excuse for being so ill yesterday. 

Have a good one, everybody ;o)

.xox.

Kristin