Letting Go

So there haven't been many new developments over the past few days.  All things regarding my visa are on hold at the moment.  I'm waiting on the envelope from my mom to enclose with the inevitable fingerprinting at the police station.  I finally had the follow up urine test yesterday and now I have to wait a week for those results before my overall Medibank health check can be finished.  So I'm just letting....it....go....

I've applied to about 8 more jobs, some permanent, some temporary.  I've heard back from about 4 politely rejecting my application.  Most of it's visa-based, some don't really specify other than saying they have other applicants whose experience more closely matches what they are looking for.  I got a call for a temp secretary job in Surrey Hills which is less than a 5-minute walk from here but I missed that call by 5 hours because they called my old cell phone number, not the new one that I updated my file with.  So I'm just letting....it....go....

The weekend was great.  With all the "letting go" I've been doing I've been able to just relax a bit more.  I went to the beach at Coogee on Saturday with my Aussie.  We met up with his brother and his brother's girlfriend and enjoyed the sun for a few hours.  I actually went in to the water as well.  It's freezing here!  You wouldn't think so but it's quite cold despite the high weather temps.  I usually go to about the knee level but decided to go all in.  Everyone else was on the beach so I waded in about waist high, jumped up with one small wave and then ate a face full of sand with the second massive wave.  Totally unexpected.  I looked away for one second and the next thing I know I'm on my side underwater, my top is twisted around, I lost my sunglasses and I'm freaking out because there has been a lot of blue jellyfish sightings and I can't see anything with all the water and sand in my face.

Luckily Coogee is a topless beach (if you so choose, not that's it's rampant with bare breasts or anything) so the quick flashing I gave the coastline was no big deal.  Some little French girl found my sunglasses a little ways to my left and after convincing her they were mine she gave them back to me.  And I did see one jellyfish (blue bottles they call them) but I luckily lunged out of the way and wasn't stung.  All in all, my first all-in-water experience wasn't so bad.

Sunday my Aussie and I tried out a new church in Bondi called Hillsong.  I quite liked it and they do a lot of things in the community and have smaller "connect" groups that meet during the week so I think I'm going to get more involved with that.  I have too much free time to just sit around all day and night.  After church, we watched the Jets vs. Colts game and I made some delicious vegetarian nachos for the boys.  The Colts lost unfortunately.  And I despise the Jets, but my Aussie is a fan so he was pretty happy.  After that, we went to The Local which is a pub at the end of the block and tried out their rooftop terrace.  So, so nice.  Probably my new favorite place.  Lots of different local brews to try out and tasty little bar snacks.

And now today, I went for a walk through Centennial Park with my dog, Bailey.  I watched a movie, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned up my room, touched up my roots (M- I used my new brush that we both bought- it works so much better!!! My hairline is perfect and not a gray in sight!!), and now I'm going to jump on some job posting websites and try my luck again.  I would say that some days I'm fighting boredom off with a stick, but my Aussie made a good point the other day, that soon I'll probably look back at this time and wish I had more days like it, with no work commitments or heavy responsibilities.  So I'm determined to enjoy it, even if it's just a walk in the park or cleaning up at a leisurely pace or just watching some outdated American TV (they get US shows much later than we do so everything is a rerun to me).  I'm learning that letting it go isn't really all that difficult after all.