Day 8...We've been in Nova Scotia now a total of 8 days. We've both put out tons of resumes and filled out application forms and yet still no one has called us back for interviews yet. We're getting antsy I would have to say. I'm stressed and I hate stress. And to top off all the stress of the move and not yet finding jobs and the whole life changing thing that's going on, there's a hurricane warning that we've been following for the past few days, Hurricane Bill. Luckily as of last night it's only supposed to be a category 1 dropping from a category 4 when it hits us. so that's a plus. Meaning right now the wind and rain that we're getting, well that's about it. Crossing fingers though, it's still quite bad outside. We went out briefly for a drive to check out a couple stores in town and Opal and I again dropped off a couple of resumes today. Coming home we saw a downed power line further up the road, so again, crossing fingers that we don't lose power cause that would REALLY suck...No internet, no computers, no tv, no games, no lights, nothing to do.

Edit: Hurricane Bill wasn't quite as momentous as we had originally thought he was going to bed. Definitely didn't turn out to be the life of the party or anything of that sort, it was quite the dud considering, at least in this area. There was a bit of power outage in the small town next to us about five minutes away but not too much to be heard of as of yet. Which is just fine and dandy with me.

Onto other crap. I have issues. Ha. And I will probably vent and rant and so on here, because that is what people do, they blog and get out their worries or problems and then go have a cup of tea, or a glass of juice or some straight-up whiskey, hold the rocks. My issues as I've been told by many people are of the kind that I sometimes create for myself, and perpetuate by dwelling or over-analyzing said issues. Issue number 1 I'm pissed right now because of something that I tried to leave behind me that was triggered tonight by a comment on Facebook to me from my step-brother. So I vented at him instead of through him to my father who really is the one that deserved that wrath, and not my innocent in this step-brother. So lets clear this up just a little shall we? To make a very long story short, came out to my dad he cried and basically denied the fact that I was a lesbian that it would be a phase because I was hurting him so badly by not being with a guy. This went on, he semi-welcomed my girlfriend into the family and then slowly the phone calls stopped, and messages to my step-sister stopped being responded to, and so on and so forth only to culminate in me trying one last time to communicate on a very civil level to my father just to reopen the lines of communication between us after things going so sourly. And that phone call ended up in me hanging up on him and his very selfish of my happiness affecting him so badly ways. Jump forward a little, my brother gets engaged and calls dad up to tell him, my name comes up, brother defends me and my position to dad, dad argues about it hurting him and so dad ends up hanging up on my brother. Jump forward again, now a month later Dad not trying to communicate to us whatsoever suddenly is worrying about us here in Nova Scotia cause he heard about the hurricane that was supposed to hit. I hear this 'worry' through that Facebook message from my step-brother, so yeah, I vented a little towards him in that message because I have this funny feeling that both our step-brother and step-sister don't realize what the real story is here and why he isn't speaking with us. Or maybe our father full well believes that nothing is wrong and will simply never admit there is a communication problem between all of us. Or maybe someone else besides myself and my brother will realize there's more of a communication problem between our father's mouth and brain then anywhere's else. But only time will see that now. My brother's getting married in February next year, so we'll see if things resolve themselves by then, or if I'll be sitting on the bride's side next to my beautiful girlfriend if he happens to come.

I'm through ranting for the night, maybe I'll edit this again if it seems a bit odd when I re-read it tomorrow or I may just elaborate more on the story to allow you all a bit more of an understanding to it. We'll see what tomorrow brings, for now I'm off to go cuddle up to my girlfriend, cause I need me some loving arms around me :)

Jennifer