I am in my new home
Labels: my new cute cubby-hole of an apartment is painted blue and I am delighted as the Mother of God's colour is also blue, Thanks be to God
An Orthodox Christian seeking out her salvation.
Labels: my new cute cubby-hole of an apartment is painted blue and I am delighted as the Mother of God's colour is also blue, Thanks be to God
Tomorrow I take Cleo to my new place.
Last night I cleaned cupboards,
swept and mopped my new floor.
It is good.
I took my final pictures of my current
box-strewn apartment;
Thanking God that He gave me a good place to live
for the past year.
Labels: God will carry us through
Labels: Thanks be to God
Labels: moving soon, needing to stay in the present, thoughts about my future
Labels: Lord have mercy
My new view!
I got my keys yesterday and took some pictures.
The view off of my small new balcony is quite
diverse.
TALL buildings and cute ones like the
picture above.
So retro, I love it.
My new place needs shelves like you would not believe.
Oh the work to be done...
Labels: I move Saturday Morning 8 AM, Lord help me
I made my first of many phone calls
about my upcoming move.
And my phone provider (I was on hold longish time)
gave me free minutes for my cell
for the needs of moving
and took care of some other matters.
It warmed my heart,
receiving such great customer service.
*
I have been thinking of switching to vonage
but am still unsure.
My friends use them, lots of good services.
But I am uncomfortable with
the long distance service call centre.
They have a script, do not deviate from it,
always make me feel rushed to join them
(I was on the phone more than one hour with them)
and still am not convinced.
Even though they would save me money
the customer service experiences I have had
are all poor, rushed and make me feel like a meaningless number.
They don't know Canada at all.
They wanted me to use the US .com website instead of .ca
they do not know that Ottawa is the Capital of Canada
nor do they even pretend to care.
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It is not that I think that my current phone provider cares
per say
but the customer service is from somewhere in Canada,
it feels like coming home
after talking with someone from Vonage in Singapore
{I have nothing against Singapore}
but somehow the service gets mistranslated and leaves me
feeling bad for wanting a Canadian
but also really wanting service that is familiar and
that culturally translates kindness and patience to me.
Sorry for the complaint,
goodness this post was to be about
the Good Things,
like increased cell phone minutes
and the customer service person being refreshing,
laughing at my humor
and giving me a break on my cell phone bill.
So,
moving right along;
another good thing today is while I was on hold with vonage
and my current phone provider,
I read new blogs that are on RW's blog list.
Beautiful.
Artistic.
The photographs captured on these blogs
refresh the soul.
In the midst of the drama of my own
blogged about life,
a few weeks ago,
I saw my first ballet
to celebrate my friend's wedding
that
I attended last weekend.
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When the curtain began to rise
and
the dancers appeared,
I found myself thinking of Ngaio Marsh
and the novel about her detective
seeing a play where the murder in the play
actually happens.
Marsh's description of the players in the back of my mind,
I began to watch the ballet...
It was very beautiful,
perfect in timing, in the use of props, the costumes.
The sense of a former time created through
this art
was wonderful to behold.
I was surprised at how you can hear the feet tapping when the
ballerinas are dancing en pointe.
I could not help wondering about the lives of the dancers
when they are off stage.
My sense is that their world must be very pressurized,
with very long practice periods
and working with each other to create beautiful art
on stage.
The need for perfection on stage
I imagine is very intense.
Any misstep on stage must be gut-wrenching
to the dancer.
Labels: a world no longer with us, ballet, sleeping beauty
Labels: May the Lord be our support