"Just when you think you've got me figured out, the season's already changing"

So I survived the move, basically unscathed. We did it all on the Sunday, crammed into four hours filled with more than a couple scratched walls, blistered fingers, and ache-y tired limbs. When all was said and done and Amanda and me stood upon a literal sea of boxes crowded on any and every available surface I think we came to the conclusion that this place suited us just fine for the next century or so.

And as to what else I’ve been up to besides laundry and setting up our wireless….I got a new job. I had wanted it in that utterly desperate anxious, but pretending to be totally calm kinda way. Which is never really a good place to be. I had given my resignation at my current job on the optimistic hopes that something miraculous would no doubt fall into my life. Though who knows why this philosophy wormed into my brain, since in surveying the past 21 years, I believe there haven’t been a ton of remarkable phenomenons falling from the sky. But I digress…days ticked by and my anxiety was starting to slightly pass the realm of uncomfortable when I found the most incredible position. Though it did come as a bit of a light in a shady career limbo, I went through several phone and in-person interviews before landing it. I start Monday and will bore you all with more details then since this paragraph is already scarily long!!

Besides work, I started one of my photography courses at SAIT. It was a three hour course, and throughout all the talk of f-stops and white balance all I could think was thank god I was sitting in a classroom feeling so overwhelmingly passionate and not overwhelmingly overwhelmed. I really feel like this last little while has been a turning of a new leaf, and I’m so excited for everything to come.

As an ending, and continuation of the whole new leaf tangent, I started this great project I found while randomly surfing the internet. It’s called a 101 in 1001, here’s a link for anyone who wants to read up on it. It’s like a revised set time bucket list, I think it’s brilliant. I started mine May 31st, so my end day is February 26th, 2011. This would have been my Mum’s 45th birthday, I think she would have liked the idea, I know many of these things stem from things she wanted to do, things we wanted to do together. I will accomplish many of them with thoughts of her, and the constant reminder to live each day to the fullest.

Here’s my list for anyone in need of ideas or a good laugh!!

Camille Elise Catherine's 101 in 1001

1. Read every Jane Austen book.
2. Be able to do 20 pushups in a row
3. Attend the training seminar and become a part of the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Organization.
4. Own a Mac
5. Learn how to play “chelsea” on the piano
6. Finish reading Chronicles of Narnia with Layne and Marc (no matter how long it takes!)
7. Own my own car, even if it’s a beater
8. Be the owner of a 70-200mm f2.8 L IS
9. Design my own website
10. Go to a Becker Workshop
11. Meet Jesh De Rox
12. Shoot a wedding completely by myself.
13. Live in London for at least a year.
14. Go to WPPI.
15. Blog everyday for a month
16. Finish writing my biography
17. Publish said biography
18. Shoot a destination wedding
19. Pay off my student loans
20. Learn to speak Spanish, fluently…then take a holiday and converse with locals, easily.
21. Learn to drive standard
22. Get my own puppy
23. Spread Mum’s ashes
24. Learn to play the bass guitar
25. Go on a hot air balloon ride
26. Visit New York at Christmas time
27. Read the bible front to back
28. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
29. fall in love
30. take a cooking class
31. start my own photography business
32. re-learn sign language
33. pay off every credit card so they’re all at zero
34. Ask a couple I know if I can do a shoot with them
35. get my celtic/ayn rand tattoo
36. Swim in the dead sea
37. Watch the sun rise and set
38. Have a full on food fight
39. go skydiving
40. Sing Karoke
41. do a maternity/new born session
42. Learn to ride a motorcycle
43. Build a dirtbike
44. have a full body massage at a spa
45. spend one week without phone/computer/tv
46. take a mixology course
47. ride in the kids cancer ride across canada
48. go to Disney world-see the harry potter theme park when it’s ready
49. send a message in a bottle
50. bake an apple pie from scratch
51. eat Chinese food out of those cool little containers
52. skywrite a message to someone
53. make homemade bread
54. mail a secret into post secret
55. build a vinyl collection
56. Read all 200 of the books on the BBC’s Big Read
57. Sew an entire quilt by myself
58. Finish childhood scrapbooking
59. don’t hit the snooze button for an entire week
60. watch every episode of sex and the city
61. See Phantom of the Opera in a theater
62. Write and mail at least one thinking of you card each month
63. learn to say I love you in 10 languages
64. Get British Dual Citizenship
65. Go without chocolate for an entire month
66. write a short story
67. Go skinny dipping
68. Have all homemade Christmas gifts
69. Meet Jessica Claire
70. Learn how to play poker well
71. Learn how to whistle with fingers
72. track everything I spend in a month- then design budget
73. buy the totally rad action set
74. buy Kevin Kubota actions
75. pay off library fines-get a new library card
76. take a creative writing class
77. bicycle to medicine hat
78. become a part of the big brother/sister program
79. buy the perfect cowboy boots-no matter their cost
80. Go to a Jesh De Rox seminar
81. Start each day with an apple for an entire month
82. buy a piece of art from a local artist
83. Go back and visit Cremona
84. Take a roadtrip by myself
85. Live by myself
86. Have a photograph published
87. Hold a dinner party-at least three courses
88. Keep room clean and organized for a week
89. make a gratitude journal and try to write in at everday
90. Send Christmas cards on time for pete sake
91. Read the Quran in its entirety
92. go see a movie by myself
93. Organize all of my i-tunes
94. No fastfood for six months
95. Second shoot a wedding for someone
96. learn to surf
97. Create my own personal logo-design onto business card
98. Give my card out to 10 people in one week
99. Throw out custody battle paperwork
100. Own a shootsac
101. Make a new list.

Oh, and ps, as a variation of #89. I’m going to try to post this here each entry:

June 6th, 2008 – Five Things I Am Grateful For
a. The brave child cancer survivor who spoke today, there is nothing so humbling than the words of a survivor.
b. The brightness of a new opportunity.
c. Realizing that you can survive a week without the internet.
d. Deep belly laughs (see: www.thepioneerwoman.com)
e. That good/bad feeling when someone says they’ll miss you.

And since posts are boring without pictures here's one of my faves from our first weekend out at the cabin. Have I mentioned it's the happiest place on earth?