{"id":303,"date":"2010-09-21T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2010-09-21T21:24:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T01:24:20","slug":"landlocked-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/landlocked-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlocked No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a recent absence of posts, I have a very good reason why&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewmiddleton.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt<\/a> and I have moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.ca\/maps?oe=utf-8&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;q=st.+john%27s&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=St+John%27s,+Division+No.+1,+Newfoundland+and+Labrador&amp;gl=ca&amp;ei=PFeZTO2KCcH_lgeM3uUT&amp;ved=0CB0Q8gEwAA&amp;z=10\" target=\"_blank\">St. John&#8217;s, Newfoundland &amp; Labrador!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an <strong>insane<\/strong> couple of months, but here&#8217;s a quick overview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sadly, I was laid off in mid-July due to an organizational restructure caused by financial changes at Kids Help Phone. No hard feelings. I&#8217;m still very much in touch with previous coworkers (they&#8217;re like a second family to me) and I continue to support the organization and the important work they&#8217;re doing for kids in Canada;<\/li>\n<li>After said layoff, I hopped on a plane and went home to St. John&#8217;s visiting family and friends and ramping up my local job hunt and expanding my network;<\/li>\n<li>The second weekend in August was filled with bachelor and bachelorette fun as friends for close friends getting married the following week (we were in <a title=\"Wi\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oro-Medonte\" target=\"_blank\">Oro <\/a>and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.town.collingwood.on.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collingwood <\/a>for pretty much the whole weekend);<\/li>\n<li>Shortly after, Matt received a job offer from an employer in St. John&#8217;s. The offer requested he start employment in St. John&#8217;s on September 7th&#8230; and so the crazy #mmvmNLmove began!<\/li>\n<li>The previously mentioned wedding was on August 14th and WOW was it fun! Two great friends are now hitched and spending their lives together;<\/li>\n<li>In mid August, I received a job offer from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mun.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Memorial University<\/a> (yay!);<\/li>\n<li>Our only free weekend in August had us hosting a &#8220;Mr &amp; Mrs Middleton are moving, so come drink our booze and take our stuff&#8221; party. Seriously, that&#8217;s what we called it. AMAZING weekend was had by all;<\/li>\n<li>During the last weekend in August, my sister-in-law (Matt&#8217;s sister) was married in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barrie.ca\/Home.cfm?C=5224&amp;SC=1&amp;SCM=0&amp;MI=2&amp;L1M=2\" target=\"_blank\">Barrie <\/a>(another weekend out of town and just three days before the movers were arriving);<\/li>\n<li>The first week of September had movers arrive on August 30th (after an all-nighter of packing), Matt and I staying in a hotel for a couple of nights in Toronto (thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotwire.com\" target=\"_self\">Hotwire.com<\/a>), going up to Barrie on September 2nd for my mother-in-law&#8217;s birthday, and then flying out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gtaa.com\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greater Toronto Airport (YYZ) <\/a>the morning of September 3rd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So needless to say the past month+ has been a blur. I&#8217;ll try to write more about some of the above mentioned events, but it could take a while.<\/p>\n<p>Being back in St. John&#8217;s has been amazing. We&#8217;re finding a good rhythm here and are settling in nicely. We even bought a new car! More details on that later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_302\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-302 \" title=\"Bell Island\" src=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DarleenMark-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bell Island, Newfoundland &amp; Labrador (2007)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DarleenMark-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DarleenMark-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell Island, Newfoundland &amp; Labrador (2007)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it for now. Still alive and doing very, very well. :) And just to tease you a little, enjoy this photo taken from my uncle&#8217;s yacht back in July 2007. It was a beautiful day and we sailed around parts of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bell_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Bell Island, NL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a recent absence of posts, I have a very good reason why&#8230; Matt and I have moved to St. John&#8217;s, Newfoundland &amp; Labrador! 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