80th Birthday's and Blue Tounges

Yesterday was my grandad's 80th birthday tea. So the family squeezed into the car (we could have taken the van) and set off for the 1.5 hour drive to Swift Current (i know, yet another strange name). I introduced my family to the Survivour sampler c.d. because they hadn't heard any of those songs before and they really liked it. At the afternoon tea, there must have been over a 100 people at one point and maybe even more because it was a come and go sort of thing. It was great seeing family, but I didn't like having to answer the same questions over a dozen times "Why are you back?" and "why would you want to go back?" and of course "So what does the country think about that prince and his mistress getting married?" As if i'm the expert on a country's total opinion on such matters! I was starting to get a little frustrated, but i kept my sanity in tact. After the tea was over, the family took grandad out to a nice restaurant for dinner. However, when the birthday cake came out it seemed like all etiquette that you would find in a nice restaurant just sort of vanished. The cake had this deep shade of blue icing on top of it and my sister Alissa thought it would be fun to see just how blue her tounge could get from eating this icing. She would periodically stick out her tounge for all to see at the tables and ask if it was blue enough. She even got a mirror out of mum's purse to check the coloring. If it wasn't to satisfaction, in would go more blue icing. At one point, even some of my great uncles had blue lips from the icing. After her tounge was satisfactorily blue, she swished some water around her mouth and then spit it back into her water glass.....of course bright blue! It was so funny and thankfully my family has a sense of humor about these things. Also, thank goodness we were in a private room for dinner or else the other people in the restaurant could have been horrified.
In other news, I have applied for a job as an admin assistant with a long haul trucking company. The hours are good and the pay is decent. I'm not going to keep my fingers crossed, but I had to start some where in the job market! As well, several summer camps are looking for sports and recreation program directors and those jobs begin in either april or may. Not entirely sure if I will apply for any of them though.
I'm trying to find joy in being back at home, but it's been hard. The Lord has been faithful and will continue to bring me through. I know where I am ultimately going to end up as far as establishing myself is concerned and I just have to trust the Lord that he will bring me there in His timing (always nice tho if it's sooner rather than later). Have a great day people!