Pros and Cons

Dear Jen,

 

Here are some reasons why living in this mild but still wintery climate is nice:

 



playing on giant snow mountains in above zero temps

making snowmen in the middle of parking lots

babies throwing snow balls

epic snow ball battles!

 

But here is the reason we need to move back to Chilliwack:

this is the other door handle that I ripped off my van.

 

Twice now, it has been so cold, and our van doors so frozen shut, that the handles have actually RIPPED OFF. It is now only possible to enter the van by opening the front doors and reaching for the indoor handles of the sliding doors. Brad has asked me (because I was the perpetrator on both occasions) to please just not rip off the driver's door handle--because that would make life just a little inconvenient. I don't think we're going to be selling this van. I should have taken a photo of the dent I put on the other side last year! Yup...unsellable.

 

It has now been three days since Brad's Skype interview with VB. They sent him a form to fill out that he scanned and emailed Wednesday evening, and now we're just hoping that some kind of communication is made again before the weekend! Darn time change means we're eating lunch thinking, "I guess they're probably not sending anything today" only to realize that the work day has barely started back where you are!

 

Anyway, Brad's chiropractor was telling him about the magical properties of cortisone, and I am optimistically hoping that his family doctor will agree and arrange a shot of the stuff--it's supposed to numb the pain for months at a time, without the neurological side effects of narcotics! Wouldn't that be awesome??? I'm hopeful.

 

In the meantime, we spend our minutes trying not to wonder if and when this VB thing is going to actually come together.

 

Can't help myself, I'm dreaming of Chilliwack!

 

Love,

 

Jacqui