It's been a few years since I've regularly blogged, and perhaps another year and a half since I've tried to get back into blogging. So I figured, what with the huge life changes I've gone through in the last little while, and the massive move from one province to another just one week ago, this would be the perfect opportunity to reintroduce myself to this writing community.
Perhaps a little about myself before I start rambling too much. The name's Jennifer, I'm a 26 year old New Brunswicker, happily taken by my beautiful girlfriend which yes, that does make me a lesbian. I have a passion for writing which I unfortunately do not do enough of, love all kinds of music, movies, and books, enjoy the random video game and surfing the internet as most people my age do. Besides that you'll get to know me through my random ramblings.
As I said before, my girlfriend and I have just recently sold off all of what we could of our possessions, gave away as much as we could to help out our friends and then packed up all of our personal belongings (what we could actually stuff into the handful of suitcases we owned) and jumped on a train and landed 7 and a half hours later into a new province only to be stuffed into my brothers small Sunfire, luggage and all, to drive another hour away from the train station to our temporary residence being his house. Now the job hunt has begun, we've been out every single day since the beginning of this week (having arrived late Saturday night, our hunt really only commenced Monday) and still no luck on the job front. It's rather frustrating as I see the money supply running out, and no news on a new job coming in for either of us. Hopefully things will begin to fall into place for us.
As I was sitting on the train a tiny bit of inspiration to write happened so I thought I'd post it here considering this is going to turn out to be a rambling blog of my adventures, so it's only fitting to have the first entry of my adventures logged here:
August 15th, 2009
It's approximately 11:30am right now and Opal and I are sitting on the train on our way to Halifax, NS. It's a chance to start over new, I'm so afraid...It's an adventure I didn't think I'd be doing at 26 years old, that's for sure.
I feel the sway rocking back and forth
speeding down the tracks
A murmur of people
All with one goal
All with one destination
A whistle blows
Then another signaling a peaceful town
We pass countless people
Living their lives
The vast openness ahead makes me feel insignificant
Small, and scared
This adventure begins
Hours to go, swaying excited chatter in my mind
Anxious to be received
And this new chapter of life
A chance to be happy
Leaving the pain behind
Leaving friends and family
A necessary pain as the tracks stretch before us
As we sway to the rhythm of the speeding train.
I'm going to miss a few people in Bathurst. A few very choice people. We've given up almost everything we had...I'm leaving behind my only home of 26 years. To start our new life, in a new province, in a new town, in a new home. My hope is to find an amazing job...so we can secure a car down the road and a nice little house. That would be ideal for me. That is the life I want. A great income, a house, a car, and my Love by my side. :) I love you Opal. With all of my heart, there's nothing that will ever change that. I just hope that you will be happy here...I will cross my fingers for us Love...
And so that was the beginning of our adventure together. A bit of hope, a bit of fear, and even a bit of poetry to match the rocking of the train. Hopefully we will adjust, hopefully the new life we seek here will be one of happiness and excitement and not of the same pain we had in our last home. Here's to us, here's to starting a new life, here's to starting a new blog and here's to happiness. Cheers!
Jennifer
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