The Week that stuff happened

Yes Yes that's right, I finally got a job, and where might you ask? At the Cocoa Pesto Bistro in Windsor. My week started out wonderfully, Got a call Monday while at school, Had an interview Tuesday Morning, started Wednesday night. Cocoa Pesto is a more upscale restaraunt with delicious food, beautiful decor, and very friendly staff. I actually feel extremely positive after my first few shifts, It's a lot of small details that make the bistro look so wonderful and run so smoothly but as someone whose extremely OCD I already pay attention to very small details. The first night I worked I knew almost every table of people that were there for dinner, and knowing people that are regulars at the restaraunt appeared to be a very big THUMBS UP to my bosses, which deffinitely made me feel more comfortable. Oh and did i forget to mention the tips.... As a server you rarely leave a shift with less than 60$ in tips, how freaking AWESOME! I finally feel like my stress levels due to money will finally be gone! Another big plus, my wonderful grandmother in the States helped buy my flight in October to go spend time with my mom,dad, and Mitch. We're also going to take a mini trip to North Carolina while I'm there to see Sienna, Samara, Jeremy, and some of my old friends from school. Even more great news, One of my closest friends from Carolina had her baby boy last night, three weeks early but they're both doing wonderfully and are super healthy:)! I am so eager for these few weeks to go by so I can see everyone. Playing catch up on another year gone by in.... 3 days... YIKES! School has been going great, finally getting back into the swing of things, have all my stuff organized for due dates and assignments, and I'm starting my online courses- Intro to Physc & Children with Special Needs. I'm still super curious as to how everythings going to be set up, but I'll find out in less than 24 hours:)! For the past three weeks I've been going out on Thursday nights with my girls, and my god having a girls night makes me feel SO good, no stress just having a few drinks and dancing, which is always so much fun without... (NO offense)... Men. haha! The running has been ongoing and I'm starting to get quicker and better and my body has felt so much healthier. I haven't been as exhausted all the time and I haven't felt super lazy when I just go home and relax in sweats, it'awesome! I'm going to register for a 5k run in November, a wine run! Wine run meaning instead of water breaks, wine breaks:) So let's see how drunk I am at the finish line! 

Beautiful--Two days in a Row

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Runner in the making

School has begun for my second year and I'm actually quite excited to have a routine again, a five day a week "what I have to do, where I have to go, what's due, and when I can relax!" First day was as every other first day's are, get your syllabus and try to settle in after the summertime, but the great thing is I only have class most days until 12:30, being out early allows for the entire rest of the day to do what I want aka come home and do a little lot of cleaning. I have no classes on Fridays until my placement in the Wolfville childcare centre begins in November so I spent this lovely Friday morning going to appointments with mom, had some nice salad for lunch, and then we decided to go on a walk. The Wolfville dykes always look so beautiful from the top of my road so we decided it'd be a  good place to go for a walk.. We did not however realize how far the trails at the dykes actually went, and indeed it seems like they go forever. Walking with my mom is one the best ways for us to spend time together, how do I describe it without sounding SUPER corny, well I guess I don't... I feel amazing when I spend time with her just us, it's the perfect time to talk and catch up, to vent about things that are bothering us, and most of all the perfect way to excercise, with someone<3 Our conversation slowly drifted to being about running, seeing how succesful so many of our friends have become with running we decided to give it a try, and even though my body wasn't used to it.. Man it felt GOOD!! I loved the feeling of seeing myself move forward so quickly across the dykes, with no cars whizzing by, no body watching us but us, it just kept pushing me forward. We balanced out the running with walking so we didn't totally exhaust ourselves our first time, and eventually stuck to walking because we had realized our walk turned more into an adventure. We made it all the way to Port Williams and ventured back down through the Town of Wolfville, by this point we probably looked pittiful, I admit we were exhausted, but tonight I feel GREAT! I feel like I might be a runner in the making, I keep hearing stories over and over again about how you feel with "runners high" and how happy running makes people because it's a time to clear your mind and be stress free, and I'm beginning to finally believe it. I'm going to try running on the dykes until winter hits and then I'll be stuck at the gym, but I've set a goal for myself, and I'm excited! I'm beginning to love Wolfville more and more everyday:)!

Where oh where to start...

First time blogging, first time writing in such a long time, thoughts on where to start? How about who I am, Tiana Lindsay Nicole Murphy, daughter of Michael and Coleen, sister of Mitchell and Samara, girlfriend of Jeremy, in school for what seems to be is forever to eventually become a teacher. What else to say, hmm how about I talk about my summer from H.E.double hockey sticks, Yes that's right I quoted something my mother says quite frequently. My summer seemed to only barely begin, school was out, five week placement was finished, it was starting to warm up &  it all came to a Giant hault. On June 4th my family got the devastating news that my brother had an accident, falling twenty-three feet, where he lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and was in the hospital. My family scrambled to get a few essentials together and rushed the hour drive to the airport in what seemed to be thirty minutes. This is where our life changed for the worst, Mitch was in the hospital, we frantically searched for flights to Cleveland that would get us to him quickly, resulting in a two hour flight to Toronto and a five hour drive to Cleveland. How did we feel, we felt afraid, unsure, sick, exhausted, numb...  Numb describes it the best, the next few weeks consisted of the ICU, nurses, doctors, waiting rooms, new faces, sleepless nights, twenty-some hour drives, packing, fighting for him, pulling for him, praying for him. They told us the devastating news in person, he broke his spine and skull in multiple spots with internal bleeding in the brain, which means he may not be able to walk, may not be able to live life as he has the past twenty three years of his life. Now thinking back I can't even imagine how we made it through that difficult time without all going insane, how Jeremy and I drove that twenty three hour drive straight through, how we woke up and repeated that same 10am to 8:30 schedule in the hospital, how we managed. Mitch gradually got moved out of ICU on Day 15, to the eleventh floor, the eighth, and eventualy the seventh, which led him to being discharged on the 17th of August. It seems like its been forever, but in reality it's only been a little over three months, three of the longest months our family has ever endured, and everyday is going to be another battle for Mitch, mum, dad, me, and Samara. Jeremy and I tried to make the best of our unplanned trip to Cleveland by being touristy, we went to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, an Indians baseball game, the zoo, and on my birthday we went to Niagara Falls (Jer had never been :-O). It was our mini vacation during a nightmare. Eventually I returned home, began working my third summer at the dog kennel, and attempted to live an everyday normal life, normal is clearly an understatement. I tried to finish out my summer positively, I went on a trip to New Hampshire with several friends, had my best friend, Clarissa, leave to return home to Winnipeg for school and another important person in my life, Mariah, head on a journey to Spain. Jeremy and I just moved into our first apartment together, a two bedroom in Wolfville, only about five minutes from Acadia and ten from my school, give or take the twenty minutes of traffic I always run into on Main Street, always allowing me to be fashionably late to class. We have finally gotten rid of all of the boxes in the apartment, and it's beginning to look more lived in, whether or not that's a good thing I don't know. Had an awesome sleepover last night with one of my oldest friends, Anna, which included an amazing supper, a movie, and a lot of catching up. I've come to realize that as an adult everyone goes onto different paths in life and maintaining friendships through all the seperation is a hard thing to do, which gives me a different perspective to the fact that I don't see people as often, and instead I'm just extremely glad they've made the effort to stop by every once and a while. Having good friends allows me to continue everyday without losing my mind. So Summers come to an end with the loss of some friendships & the beginning of new ones, Year 2 of School is starting, My family has incredibly tough decisions ahead, and I'll be living on my own, Let's see how these next few weeks work out on me...