Nicole's Adventures

Life has gotten pretty quick. It seems like I am always on the move and never at home. In some ways I love that, but I'm definitely missing the down time to make lots of yummy food, netflix time, and my super awesome home workouts. You can probably guess pretty easily what has been taking my time? Number one is work. Number two is frisbee. Number three is friends. Number 4 is a mixture of everything else!  Best bathroom mirror ever? I think so! My womens team, Bauhaus has really taken a big commitment to all the practices in the middle of the day Sunday and all the other time I dedicate to practising throws and stuff. Sometimes I laugh because I spend all this time on how to best throw a piece of plastic... but then again I think it brings me just as much joy as skating did, in many different ways, but in some ways, similar. Being able to escape everything and just put your head in the game is such a gift of sport and most types of exercise. Hopefully I can be one of t...

Katy and I at our Turkey Day Potluck Work did pick up a lot in December. I was really busy with filling in for lots of different shifts which was good.. However, it really made me think more on getting a scooter. Because of the different locations of my shifts it would make life so much easier and quicker with a car. Work can be difficult or draining sometimes because doing personal care for someone who wants something done in a particular way, but sometimes isn't always best able to explain how they want it done can be tiring. I do have one client who I really enjoy, but it takes me a while to get to him so I'll only agree to work with him on a Sunday or if I'm already on a shift with another client. He loves watching Aussie Football and can talk about it for ages. I usually just cook dinner for him, and then help him with laundry, and eating that dinner. On top of a busy time at work, I had Nicole and Diana, two of my German friends staying with me until they could...

After a way way too long "funemployment" session of 15 months or so.. I have finally returned to working. I definitely will admit that I was so excited to get back to working again. I think I learned during this break that there is a perfect bell curve associated with time not working and feeling a little bit like you are not contributing to society at all.  I think i'll make my next break from work a little bit shorter whenever that time comes.  So as I might have mentioned in previous posts I work for two different job agencies. With one company so far, everything has been pretty last minute. They call me early in the morning for a 9 or 10 o clock shift. With the other one I have had a little bit more notice but so far have only worked with one couple with two on going shifts that will be the same every week. However, with holidays coming up I will probably have lots more opportunities to work lots and lots of extra hours with people wanting time off. So it's a...

So that house that I was all set up, I decided to pull out of.. I had kind of rushed into it because I was concerned about not being able to find another place. Then the rent price was raised, they wanted me to buy a fridge, it was unfurnished, etc.. So it was going to be a lot more then I expected and I'm glad that it happened. Because the following week I looked at a bunch of other places that were better options and I wouldn't have a problem getting a room. Soo I am moving to the most "hipster" neighborhood with lots of students, cafes, restaurants, and bars. The room has an amazing location with public transport and in the middle of exactly where you want to be.. And is a newer apartment, and with another girl named Nicole. I haven't met the other two people yet but she said they are good people. Looking forward to that a lot. It was a tough choice from the places I looked at but this one seemed to be the best fit for me. I completed my last training yester...

I've been in Australia for like six weeks?! What. The rest of my time in Adelaide was wonderful. Went on some beautiful hikes, played with kangaroos, and a sticky tongue lizard every night, and cooked lots of delicious food with Adam. I took an overnight bus with Firefly ($42 usd) from Adelaide to Melbourne where Chris picked me up from where the bus dropped me. The trip was pretty smooth.. except the guy next to me took his shoes off in the middle of the night and I could smell stinky socks the WHOLE night. YUCK! But after I arrived it was a perfect day. Chris and I got some breakfast and a yummmy yummy place near his house, and showed me around, then I napped and later that day we went to frisbee where I got to meet some of the fun frisbee bunch. It was a really good turn out since the weather had gotten really warm for the first time in a while.  I am sooooo lucky that Chris is able to host me in his house while I get settled. The price of hostels is just as much as rent is s...

While I thought everything would be all peachy for my visa since I had applied more than three weeks before my flight, I got a email reply saying that because I had resided in South Korea, apparently a high prevalence of Tuberculosis, I had to have a test done. By the time I got this email I had only ten days until my flight and was really concerned it wouldn't work out. I had to go to a certain hospital in Busan or Seoul to have it done unfortunately. So I ventured there, had the test done and they said they would send the results electronically in two days.. Which left only a week for the OZ government to get back to me and approve my visa.. So I was really worried it wouldn't all work out. The morning after I submitted on my immgration account that I had the test completed and just a few hours later received a reply that my visa was granted! What a relief.. I had the awesome opportunity to help a friend out and take some photos in a beautiful flower field outside of Gyeon...

My visits home are not complete with out a trip to Vegas! Cody was supposed to have an interview, but they ended up canceling it as we were driving there. We thought about it for a minute and pulled over then decided since he had already taken the time off work, why not just go anyways?  We did a pool day, walked around the strip, saw Zumanity, and had Korean food with my friend Vinnie. It was Cody's first time to try it and we had some amazing spicy dak galbi and Cody was all about the kimchi! I knew he would like it since he likes spicy and pickled things. Zumanity was another awesome cirque show! My mom and I took a quick little visit down to Tuscon to see Brian where we were walking to go a restaurant and found a Korean place on the way.. Brian had also never had korean.. It wasn't nearly as good as the stuff Cody got to have in Vegas but still never enough japchae, pajeon, kimchi, or bulgogi. Usually I like to have most things prepared at least a few days before my de...