. . . and may 2013 turn out to be more wonderful and miraculous than you ever could have imagined it to be for you as well!! Yes . . . I know this update is well overdue . . . but I think 10 months is better than 12 (the last update), so perhaps I am improving LOL!
I do have things to share . . . it has been almost a year after all . . . so I will get on to do that in a little while . . . I just had to start off by sharing another cute JibJab video I made, starring my awesome children, Nick and Sarah, and myself of course . . . this time in a sled race LOL!
And . . . for those of you who enjoyed the Jackie Evancho videos in my last update, I have included a few more of her to help spread the Christmas Spirit. This first one is "Silent Night", and she performs it with the Canadian Tenors . . . wowww . . . what beautiful harmonies they come up with! :)
This next one is "I'll Be Home For Christmas", and they created a really beautiful video clip to go with the beautiful song and the beautiful voice LOL!
Ok . . . now for the boring bits like what I have been doing this year for those who are really interested . . . so if you are not one of those, then once again, I wish you and all your loved ones a joyful, loving, and peaceful Christmas, and set you free to go look at something else *smiles*. Ok . . now . . . for those who really want to know . . . where do I start???
Hmmmm . . . well . . . all the legal stuff was finally sorted after Mum's passing and her funeral, and after my Centrelink income switched (and decreased considerably) from a Carer's Pension to Newstart allowance, my focus switched accordingly to looking for work so I could eat and pay bills, etc. I really was not having much luck when my sister-in-law Shellie suggested I explore a Certificate III in Aged Care course she saw in the local paper. Well, I did just that, taking a step in the general direction . . . and before i knew it, I was in it. LOL!
I entered a few weeks into the course, and had some catching up to do, but with my head down and tail up, I managed to catch up to the rest of the class and keep everything up to date for the rest of the course, graduating as an AN (Assistant in Nursing) on 7th December.
A considerable component of the course was placement in an actual Nursing Home, and I was fortunate to do my time in Carinya Home For The Aged, which is a short stroll accross a park from where I live, and which therefore would make it the "dream job" when it comes to travel time and cost, if that was where I happened to get work when the course was completed.
Well it seems I did good *smiles*, and it was not long before I was being given shifts there, even before graduating, but after all the course modules were completed and handed in for assessment. The hardest thing was getting back into a "normal" (for want of a far better word) working life and spending a third of most of my days working to get enough money to provide comfortable shelter and food for myself. The whole thing is crazy, but I find myself falling into the ratrace once again . . . and wishing that the end of the Mayan Calendar meant a whole lot more than the end of one cycle and the beginning of another, and something that would shatter this crazy world as we know it and set humanity back to grass roots of living and sharing together . . . harmoniously . . . in community as we were designed to. Oh well . . . Iit dont hurt to dream LOL!
Now . . . what was I saying . . . oh yeah . . . I am working at Carinya now, and despite my dislike of the social system I find myself in, I am also able to step back and see, from the bigger picture perspective . . . just how incredibly blessed and fortunate I am to be living where I am, and doing what I am doing. Anyway, what else has happened this year? I will briefly run through a few things that spring to mind before I wind this update up and submit it into the Blog ethers. Oh yeah, one highlight was going down to Cairns and being part of the Cairns Ukulele Ensemble that attempted (sadly unsuccessfully) to break the world record for the most Ukulele players playing the same song. We were only a couple of hundred short, but it was a lot of fun LOL!
I had one of my friends from Melbourne, Caz, and her guy David come up and visit for a day during their week long vacation up in the tropics, and I had my daughter Sarah come up for a week so she/we could experience the Solar Eclipse we were blessed to have fall right on us up here in the far north. It really was an awesome thing to experience, and although I did not video it myself or anything like that, this video I found of the eclipse on YouTube gives you a good idea of what it was like . . . though no video is going to give you the true experience of actually being there in it.
Another highlight was my brother Pete coming up for a visit . . . and to pack up the piano (that was left to his daughter Bec), all the china (that was left to his wife, Barb), and most of the paintings (that were left to him), and organize to get them all transported down to Victoria. Thankfully, everything fell into place easily and efficiently, and not long after he had returned to Victoria, the transport company arrived and began their trip to their new homes. Hmmm . . . what else . . . well there might have been a few more things, but that will have to do so I can get this update completed, and some Christmas emails sent out as well today.
Oh . . . I just remembered . . . I have one more video . . . for all those people able to see the spiritual significance of the amazing time we are in right now, and the unparallelled shift of consciousness we are going through as a result, here is a meditation designed to assist us make the transition from from the vibration we have considered normal till now . . . into one that better reflects the truth of who we are and opens more doors into All That Is than we have imagined. Enjoy . . . and hugs and blessings to you all . . .
