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Joy

Life is good

About Me

..I'm in my 30's and live in beautiful British Columbia.
I work for the Big Brother's Association, which I absolutely love. I also work part-time on the weekends in Vancouver's downtown eastside with people who have concurrent disorders (mental illness, addictions and HIV, HEPC etc etc). It's incredibly challenging but I love it. I'm currently working my way through my Master's in Counselling Psychology, so it's safe to say I'm a little busy!

I'm happily engaged to my amazing fiance Kelly. He's the most wonderful man I've ever met - I'm a very lucky lady.

I found myself here, setting up a 'myspace' profile, because I wanted to leave a message on my brother's myspace page.. and apparently I needed one of these to do that.. so ta-da.

My Interests

My Dog. Education. Martial Arts. I would love to learn how to fence too...

I'd like to meet:

My relatives that have passed away, both during my lifetime, and before it. Growning up in Canada, with most of my relatives in Scotland (majority of whom I've never met, or have not seen in over 20 years), I can't help but feel I missed out on a good portion of my heritage.
Click here to make your own map! ..
MySpace Tracker

Music:

I listen to everything.. really.. from Opera to Metallica. (I've dated an opera singer - what a nightmare that turned out to be - and have been to almost every Green Day concert in B.C. / Western Washington!).

Movies:

Anything that lets me turn my brain off and just laugh.

My Blog

adoption, surrogacy..... headache...

yesterday Kelly told me that he thinks we should start the adoption process fairly soon. today we talked about having a surrogate mum. i wasn't expecting either one of these from him now - we've ...
Posted by Joy on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:10:00 PST

burnt out

well.. it's official.. i'm burnt-the-fuck-out. i've also discovered that being burnt out doesn't necessarily mean miserable. I'm love my jobs - both of them. and that is part of the problem. my job wi...
Posted by Joy on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

I'm a lucky woman

i just read my last blog - and realized how lucky i am to have Kelly (my fiance) in my life. he is truly 'my rock' and is the most supportive person - i'm so proud of him and thankful that he is a par...
Posted by Joy on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:36:00 PST

Granny gave me the finger!

Well, I'm sure no one will be too terribly surprised when I say Vancouver drivers are horrible. I grew up in Ontario, and of course everyone complained about the drivers - however out west - whole new...
Posted by Joy on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:59:00 PST

catholic marriage prep classes

Well - our first marriage class wasn't as bad as i had thought it would be. For the first hour a priest spoke to us about love and God and being married in a Catholic church. But he at last acknowledg...
Posted by Joy on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:11:00 PST

Wha' tha fa'?

I put this under the "Travel and Places" category because i would love to Travel and the lower mainland is a place. The weather in the Vancouver area for the past couple of months can best be describe...
Posted by Joy on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:06:00 PST

Can't sleep

Wow, I really can't sleep. I'm beyond exhausted, but every time I close my eyes my brain starts going at about 110 miles per hour. I've got a really full day tomorrow too.. which makes it even worse.....
Posted by Joy on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:44:00 PST