New Housesit
Carrie posted in Uncategorized on June 5th, 2007
At the last minute on Sunday I had a woman call me up at the hostel and ask me to housesit for the week. Other plans had fallen through at the last minute and she was having trouble finding someone to look after her cat and dog. For much of the weekend I had been kind of sad because everyone was leaving on Monday and I would be left behind. It’s not that I don’t enjoy living at the hostel because it’s a really nice place, but there were 5 or 6 of us who had been there for the past 3 weeks and were really close. It would have been okay if we were all going our separate ways (happens with hostel life) but the fact that they were all leaving and I was staying behind was rather depressing. So I was pretty excited that this woman had found my contact information and called me up to ask to housesit.
For the next week I live in Takhini North with is an old army subdivsion at the top of Two Mile Hill. It’s close to the college which is a bonus because I’m spending more time up there now but still close to town as well so I can get down easily. I live in a chic-duplex (is that an oxymoron?) that is superbly decorated and cozy. The woman is a total hippie and there are meditation stones and all-natural foods all over the place. The long-haired tabby cat is named Oliver and is really friendly and loves to cuddle, and Maggie the dog is a well-behaved mutt who’s a little shy. Just figures that the first morning of my life that I need to get up and walk a dog it’s pouring down rain. Hasn’t rained here in 4 weeks and the first morning it actually matters the heavens decide to open up. I think it’s a sign.
 My first interview today!
 PS Mailing address is still at the Hide on Jeckell (I’ll be back down there for another week before moving into my long-term housesit) but the phone number to reach me until June 11th is 867-393-3744.
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