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Wow. It's been far too long since I've updated this blog. Primarily because I forgot the login information, but that is now fixed and updated. For those of you keeping track of my ever changing email address to avoid spam, I have changed it again! The new address that I'll be checking is sarahdactyyyl at gmail dot com. My previous Yahoo! email is now defunct and anything you send there will bounce back.

You know, reading back a few posts on this blog is really interesting... I look back at my silly posts involving someone who I thought I loved and I realize that up until Mike, I don't think I've ever been in love. Sure, I've loved and been completely comfortable in a relationship. But, how could I love Jason when he took advantage of my kindness and money? How could I love Cameron when he cheated on me multiple times and lied about everything he ever did? Maybe that's a very poor way of wording it. I guess I'm just so amazed at how much Mike cares about me and     loves me even with all my flaws. It's a pretty great feeling.

Anyway, onto life in Canada; I'm currently living with Mike in North Vancouver, which is just across the water from Vancouver, in a beautiful building near the Vancouver Shipyards. The weather here is pretty chilly and usually cloudy, rainy, snowy, slushy or icy. The cherry blossoms are starting to bud and soon the city will be covered in tiny pink blossoms. That's my favourite time of year, it means spring has sprung and boy spring, you better sprung soon. I need to get some sun before I go crazy!

Mike's birthday is this Friday and I have some special surprises for him. I'm so excited! In a few short weeks, Mike and I will be heading down south for my birthday. I asked him to come home to California with me for a few days to soak up some sun (hopefully!) and visit Disneyland, meet my Mom, and meet the Calverts. I'm very excited to show him around Orange County and get to visit with my family for a couple of days.

It will be really nice to be back, but here's hoping they let me back into Canada when we return. If not, I'll have to be living in the States for about 3 months while my work visa continues to process. That whole situation has left me so frustrated, it's really unfortunate that it's so unbelievably difficult to work in another country even though I have a skill that only a small handful of people in the world possess.