Hi, I’m still Alive.
Peter handed in his thesis project this morning. That means the rest of the semester is downhill from here, and then come August 17 he’s done!!! DONE!!! My wonderful husband will be wonderfully graduated!!
What a long road this has been. For so long this has been LIFE. When Peter and I started dating he hadn’t even applied to university, and now, four and a half years later we’re married and he’s almost finished his degree!
Ten months of marriage hasn’t been all that tumultuous. It’s a beautiful life. I’m still waiting for that difficult period they say is supposed to happen after the “honeymoon is over”. Call me naive but I’m not anticipated anything too heartbreaking – I think in all the time Peter and I have been together we’ve had approximately three fights where voices were raised. As that is less than once a year I’m not too concerned. I have to give Peter most of the credit for that, though. He has the patience of a saint.
Anyway, I’m excited because we’re going up to a cottage in Parry Sound this weekend with my family. It’s going to be great. Great to be up north, great because all the stress of trying to extricate myself from work for five days is now over (should be a TON of fun when I get back there on Wednesday) and great because I’m concentrating all my efforts this weekend on getting a tan.
What else should I mention to the world? Oh, I’m not pregnant. And I have no plans to become pregnant. Thankfully people have somewhat stopped asking me. You have to know that my dear friends Sarah and Marleah, with whom I do not work but with whom I do take all my breaks and lunches (it’s complicated), are both pregnant. Almost the same amount pregnant, too. So usually when we go walking, whenever we meet someone, they coo something like “Hello, Mummies!!” and concentrate all their surveillance to the abdominal area. I may have overreacted to this at one point; anyway the other day we met someone from work and as they passed they said “Hi, Mommies!…and Candice”. I was so touched to be acknowledged. 
I’m off to do some housework, I’ll probably talk to you in six months again. See ya!
