Wyld Creativity: On the Hunt

Monday, March 15, 2010

On the Hunt

I feel like a runaway who hasn’t slept in days and is running from city to city never stopping for anything! Kind of dramatic yes, but honestly how I am feeling. I have gotten sleep, I got another 5 hours last night but its just after 5am Monday morning and I am feeling incredibly behind …like days behind..as far as rest goes I am probably back to last Tuesday..I have a lot of catching up to do.

I have been searching for jobs, applied for one so far, perfecting and adding to my portfolio, working on numerous school assignments and most recently looking for apartments in Toronto. Today after school I am taking the train in the opposite direction of home and going to Toronto, we have two different appointments to look at places, one is a condo which is minutes away from Kyle’s work, it includes parking and has a reasonable amount of space, its in a giant tower which has probably more than a hundred floors, its all new inside, around 715 square feet..1 bedroom and 2 dens but it fits the budget perfectly. It would cost the same as staying in Burlington and us both paying to commute to T.O everyday. The second place is over the budget but still doable, its in the chocolate loft building, it was an old chocolate factory, its not a loft but a condo again, it has more space…I think its around 1100 SQF..and it has his and her closets, 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms and a lot more style, its also in walking distance for Kyle but the parking is not included and the rent is higher. We are going to be looking at the space and seeing what type of apt meets the space criteria and meets our budget.

Because I am going to be working, whatever we go over in budget will be coming out of our future savings, initially we wanted to save and bank my entire pay check when I got it and live off of Kyle’s so if an apartment is over our budget it will mean a little less savings every month, which does add up and needs to accounted for. We had a plan to be saving and renting for almost 2 years..we wanted to save enough for a sizable down payment and cash for renovations and potential baby start up but the challenge will be to save enough in the shortest period of time since we really want to move into that period of our life.

Everything is happening so quickly, its hard to keep up. Moving to Toronto just makes sense, there are not many opportunities for ad agencies in small places and commuting isn’t worth it if it costs upwards of $500 a month, we could drive together but syncing up our schedules would be a nightmare and one of us would end up having to take the train home at a different hour not to mention a hundred other reasons it just depends if we can find the right place with the right amount of space that can compare to where we are now, everything in T.O is really small so that’s what things hinge on.

I need to get ready for school, I have another big week ahead of me, I don’t know if rest is in my future for quite awhile. Looking for a job and worrying about getting one is a full time thing right now might be for awhile. If I can’t find one in my industry I will get anything retail to start saving money while I continue to search for something I am qualified for. I just really want to start saving for the future so no matter what I will be working when school is over. I will post some pictures of the apt we see eventually when I get some time to sit down. I had a great weekend and I am looking forward to the next one approaching

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Anonymous said...: Hey how did the hunt go? I am dying to know what the apartment shopping went like.

Hope you found something nice.

Mom; March 16, 2010 at 4:54 PM

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The Story of a Prince and a Girl who Dreamed of finding Her Prince.

Once upon a time there was a young woman named Ruby; she lived in a far way kingdom where only the stars in the sky could light the way. The kingdom was tall and made of stone. Inside, it had all of the finest linens and tapestries with winding stair cases, golden mirrors and exotic flowers that stretched the kingdom’s stone walls. The kingdom was surrounded by a large creek bed and had a large wooden draw bridge outside the tall black iron front gates. Beyond the kingdom were many forests, pastures, rivers and hills.

The young woman lived in the kingdom with only her two servants Nigel and Jasmine. They had been with Ruby ever since her mother gave birth to her and have cared for her and loved her since the great royal war that took her family tragically away from her. Years had past since then and Ruby was a young woman now. Since the great royal war she had not seen another person beside her servants. The lands had been deserted as other kingdoms were destroyed and abandoned. No one knew this kingdom existed. It stood in a far off place that only one deserted over grown pathway in the forest would lead to.

Ruby spent her childhood growing up playing with all the animals in the forest, she had names for all of them and would spend her days dancing in the pastures and walking along the creek bed throwing stones into the water. She was content those days as she lived free and enjoyed every tree, every stone, and every pathway near the kingdom. She loved her home but she missed her family and many times she felt alone.

As Ruby grew older she began to stop playing in the pastures and instead she spent her days walking along the creek bed dreaming of finding love and not being alone anymore. Every night outside her balcony she would spend time looking out into the stars and making wishes that one day soon a wonderful man would find the unmarked path in the forest that would lead him to her kingdom.

Nigel and Jasmine were very old now; Ruby took time to care for them and tended to their needs. She would gather food from the garden and make them food to eat and get them blankets to make sure they were comfortable when it was cold. She was not sure how much longer they would live but one thing she knew was how much she admired they’re love for one another and she hold that in her heart for as long as she lived.

It was a warm fall evening; the leaves from the trees were lightly falling as the sun began to set. Ruby was standing on her balcony in her long white silk night gown. As the dark sky began to shine, a light breeze bustled against her gown and her long brown hair blew lightly in the wind. She stood with her hands on the balcony ledge and wished to the stars like she had so many nights before singing” Star light Star bright bring my prince home to me tonight” She stared up into the dark blue sky and began to talk more to the shinning stars.

Just as she was looking up into the sky, talking to the stars a man was following the pathway from the forest that leads to Ruby’s kingdom. He was beginning to approach the edge of the pathway he had began journeying on earlier that day and was about to step on to a beautiful white shiny stoned pebble walk way that would lead up to a draw bridge and to Ruby’s kingdom.

The young man had been travelling for months only eating what he could find along the pathway. Henry was a prince from the golden city of Persia. He was on an expedition when he was captured by rivals and taken to a far away land where he was imprisoned in a place he did not know. Months ago after many nights planning Henry escaped while the guards were sleeping. He thought he would be able to journey home by recognizing land marks but once he had fled the guards he realized that he was further from home then he ever imagined and much to his dismay he did not recognize any of his surroundings. He had been following the sun in hopes of finding his way home. Each day he walked further hoping that one day the pathway would lead him to his family.

Earlier that day Henry had been walking though the forest with large green bushes and fruitful trees around him when he saw a small unmarked pathway that was ragged and old. There were no fruit trees, only old tall trees and an old pebble pathway that seemed run down and abandoned.

He was going to continue to walk on the pathway he had been but something caught his eye as he walked past this abandoned trail. Henry saw a small red ruby attached to a ring lying in between some wet leaves. The sun was shining on it and it glistened and shinned at him. He bent down and lifted the leaves around it away and dusted the ring off and looked at. The ring was prestigious and fit for a princess. He thought about continuing on the main pathway road through the forest but he was drawn down this unmarked pathway. He wondered if this ruby red ring belonged to someone. He put the ring in his pocket and began to walk along the jagged unmarked pathway. He noticed that there were no markings along this pathway so it appeared that no one had walked this pathway for many years.

To Be Continued…

Wyld Creativity

Overcome.

Monday, March 15, 2010

On the Hunt

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