Week 3 and AHA! all seems to be coming together...

So, I got hired as a nanny near London. The hours aren't quite full-time, but they'll work, and they'll also give me all my evenings available for another job as well. The same time I was setting up a meeting time with one family, I got a callback from a second family that was interested in having me. Then I opened an email and got a third job offer, although not in town. (Then I emailed out six more resumes for additional hours/evening shifts)
Today I celebrated employment by looking at rooms for rent and apartments in the city, and found two very possible options, then spent some time playing hide & Seek with my niece and nephew, and then off to knee drill at the Centre of Hope, where a couple prayed for me kind of unexpectedly, but it was VERY much welcome. I was just sitting there, and they asked if they could pray over my hands. They prayed, I cried, you get the gist of things!
Knee drills here in London are very soothing for the soul. Dan and Jenn and Josh and the Gillinghams knit together a fine pastoral team, very gentle and meek; the perfect fit for the London crowd here. And their community has already drawn some strong people from other denominations, as well as from within the hostel community.
It's so good to see how God has been blessing their efforts here, and blessing me just by being witness to it all. God is good, ALL THE TIME!
Much love, friends.

Week 2 of the job-hunt...

Still no good bites....One job fell through, another can't offer me full-time hours, or even reasonable part-time hours, and two others haven't returned my phone calls. Job hunts are frustrating, annoying, and hard. Anyone who says anything otherwise is LYING to you! But, it's interesting looking at the opportunities out there, and imagining yourself in all these different situations. Like....travelling through Canada with a Canadian songwriter and her band and her two kids (SWEET!!) ....or...shopping for some rich kids' dinner in Vancouver giving me time to hang with the 614 crowd during the day (SWEET!!!)....or....slaving over hot coffee pots for minimum wage at Tim Horton's in the wee hours of the morning....(Why not? Unlimited access to free coffee, plus a chance to get to see your 'regulars' wake up every day)....or what about working at a call centre for the Marriott hotel lines while living with my bestest cousin and working out a way to actually play music for a living somewhere down the road (yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about!) ....or...fighting for a sub-teaching position somewhere in Southern Ontario to help me secure some legit teaching experience and help me decide for once and for all which age group I like working with the best, and knowing there's a pretty sweet retirement package somewhere down the line for me and my other-half....or....getting my old job back at the shelter and reconnecting with co-workers from ages ago, and getting to connect with women Elaine refers there, and giving them a female connection to the London 614 crowd in the middle of the centre of hope....or TSA training college (yup, that's still an option somewhere in the swirlings of my head)....options, options. I could drown in all these options. Too bad none of them are concrete. Soon, though! I can feel an interview coming on! Then I'll finally be able to say..."They want me! They REALLY REALLY want me!"