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6 days in and no news

dbkayak — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:46:41 +0000

So it’s the 6th day of my ankle sprain and im still in the dark. we went to the urgent care and had an xray done on thursday. the doctor told me that the bones were not in the right places and i needed to see an orthopedic doctor. yikes. ive been wearing a boot ever since then… also not fun. yesterday she called and said to wait on the orthopedist since she may have read the xray wrong. yay? either way, we still have no confirmed info and im still in a boot. thats no fun.

Twisted Ankle slows me down just enough

dbkayak — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:24:51 +0000

So I am stuck on the couch with an elevated ankle from a tumble, which makes it much easier to have incentive to blog. Im stuck sitting

Dan and I are getting all our ducks in a row for our big move to Boston. It’s wild looking for an apartment from 12 hours away. Who knows about Boston neighborhoods and railway routes and so on? Not i. We are just so stinkin excited. I know that waving good by to the ocean will be hard, (like the pun?) but it’s not like we cant get to the beach pretty easily in Massachusetts.

We are also feverishly working on our business and its really official kick-off in January. I can use the photos I took while working for the photographer i worked for all year and our website will get a lot more goodness added to it. Ive been spending practically every hour working on the newly redesigned website, getting it ready for it’s January launch too. I feel like im always working. Its ok though. its all for the good.

Its hard to believe that 2010 is over. Its been so wild for us. Here’s a little re-cap:

January: Got back from the Kayak Trip, moved into an apartment in Cary, Started work for Raleigh Parks and Recreation

February: Kept working

March: Got the internship with the photographer i worked with all year, started aquiring the gear i would need

April: Wedding work begins

May: Job ends in raleigh, working like crazy with photography

June: Move to the outer banks, working like crazy with photography

July: boredom. jobless. no weddings

August: get job at a restaurant, more weddings

September: wedding wedding wedding, start work on own wedding photography business

October: working, weddings

November: We do our first wedding as bethany and dan photography, more weddings, work

December: get jobs in boston, Christmas, ankle sprain

Hope 2011 blesses your life, as 2010 has blessed ours. Jobs and homes and moves galore!

Big News on the horizon!

dbkayak — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:07:43 +0000

DAN AND I BOTH GOT JOBS IN BOSTON!! I am so excited! We seeking this for a long time. We wanted to move to New England and have been searching to jobs in the area for a while. It’s a perfect job for us, almost so perfect it was hard to believe. We got full-time jobs at…. drum roll please….. a KAYAK SHOP! Ha! How perfect is that?

We wont move until March but we are looking for a 2 bedroom apartment so you can start planning your visit!

i know i know….

dbkayak — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:59:00 +0000

sheesh. its true. ive been absent. ive been out of touch. ive been… living (gasp).

it seems that ive been too busy to blog right? well… thats actually not the case. ive been mind-numbingly bored actually. the kind of bored that makes you actually UNproductive rather than PROductive. its a crying shame. i cant seem to get a job, even tough ive put in numerous applications, send out many resumes, even had an interview, and worked 2 days as a dishwasher and never got called back. are you telling me that im not even a good enough dishwasher for the job. please. please. please. explain. anyways, this has cause me much turmoil and increased my rate of depression by high levels. how it is exactly that a college educated, reasonable, prudent, person cannot find work? i know its common these days but its really bringing on the stress. .. and more sadly… the sadness.

what to do? try and DO something. im going work on our business (which is really going to happen. for sure. wanna hire us?) and also work on me. i joined a gym here where i learn to punch and kick a punching bag in numerous ways. im going to paint the trailer and thus give it a new lease on life… and… im actually going to try and BLOG more

whoohoo right? right.

here’s a photo of Dan out doing something:

sunday morning

dbkayak — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:13:40 +0000

in the old north church

Originally uploaded by bpmuzik

Our apartment is almost completely packed up. Our kayaking gear is almost completely packed up. We are almost completely ready to go.

Today is our last sunday at Missio Dei. Our pastor is back from Ethiopia with his 2 new kids he adopted there. Today is their first sunday. I like that. Im so glad that we get to meet them before we leave. The facebook photos of them are crushingly adorable. God Bless them and their new family of… 8!

Ive been SUPER emotional these past few days. I know that I am getting very very overwhelmed. Theres so much to this. First and foremost of course is the anxiety of the trip, of which i am almost completely exhausted of laboring about that i wont do it here. Other than that, we are moving, becoming “homeless again” and most challenging of all… leaving friends. I just need to get going with this thing and stop thinking about it. I really had a hard time here in Maine but I will miss it. It’s a weird thing.

Hope you are all doing well and good. I will leave you with this video I took in the Old North Church in Boston a few weeks ago. It’s music, a choir singing, and its beautiful. Close your eyes and listen… perhaps even worship the Lord who created this world filed with more beauty than you can possibly enjoy in one lifetime.