Day 6

I slept like a baby the first two nights I was here but for some reason after that I haven't been able to fall asleep. I think it is probobly the time difference. Ontario is 3 hours behind BC time and I think I am still aclimatizing. The other reason I think I can't sleep is the difference in noise. Back in Fergus, there was constant noise. Traffic, people,... it was a city. But here ~ its so quiet at night. Just the roosters and other nature sounds. I love it but I don't think I am used to it yet. Another reason I don't think I can sleep is I used to fall asleep to the tv. I had a tv in my room and I would have that on quietly in the background. I don't have a tv in my room here. So last night I took out  my Ipad and played "Call the Midwife" all night quietly. I fell asleep instantly. However ~ I woke back up again at three and have been awake ever since. I guess it will just take time to adjust.

I am hoping to get into town ~ which around here means Duncan ~ to pick up some things. I am hoping to start on the trailer tomorrow. D is driving to Alberta for a few days and while she is gone I am hoping to go in and clean out the trailer. But I have to go into town and get some supplies first. I also want to pick up some thank you cards from somewhere. So many people helped me out that last few weeks before I moved and I would just like to thank them by sending them a card.

My trailer once it is cleaned out and some repairs done

I am looking forward to an important football game on Sunday. If your not into football you won't know what I'm talking about, but the Vancouver Whitecaps will be playing Cruz Azul in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. For those not in the know ~ it's a big deal. Concacaf is the tournament to qualify for FIFA for Canadian and Mexican and American teams (and a few other countries) to qualify for playing in the biggest tournament of all ~ FIFA. So to me this is going to be a great game. Vancouver has already sold out at all the viewing parties. Vancouver will be overrun with football fans Sunday. I wish I was there but ~ money. Maybe in time I can go to a game here at BC Place. But for now I will just have to be patient.

My lawyer called yesterday to say he has closed out part of the case with a settlement. It is not as much as I had hoped it would be but it is still enough to give me some financial security. I am ok with this settlement. My insurance payments will now end so I am ONLY living on $851.51 a month. THAT IS IT!  I pay $750 rent. So I only have 150 dollars left over to live on which of course isn't nearly enough. So this little nest egg will have to be budgeted very strictly to last. I don't want to say how much I got but it is under $10,000.00   I really could have used more than that, but thats life. I will make do. It's still better than no money at all. But I will be living very frugally from here on in. I am just as poor here as I was in Ontario (if not more) but the difference is, I have a life to go with this poor existence here, whereas in Fergus, I was trapped in the system living in a box ~ isolated from the rest of the world. Here, I may be poor, but I am 'happy' poor if that makes sense. Life will be tough - but at least now I HAVE a life. And that is all I had ever been asking for. A better quality of life ~ and now I have it. Poor or not,... life here is still much better than it ever was in Ontario.