We've been here over a month now, so I guess we're pretty officially "settled in"

Little Fella started day care today, which was surreal. It's strange to take your baby and just leave him at a stranger's house for the whole day. I felt a little guilty and a little relived. He did very well. So I hear, he was in bed by the time I got home.

My current job (I work as a receptionist at a vet clinic) hasn't been offering me many hours, so I've been scrambling to find other work. I was just hired on with a company who has a contract with the city of Ottawa to count cars. That's it! Counting cars. It's pretty random and it starts at 5:30 am, but since having a baby the prospect of sleep deprivation and early rises doesn't scare me much.

I'm trying to ride my bike as much as possible because it's hard to justify $94 a month (plus tax!) on a bus pass, which I'm sure is a reasonable sum, but still seems to be a lot to me. I haven't taken a picture of my actually bike, yet, but this is what she looks like:

Ottawa is far more level than St.John's, so I haven't come across a hill yet that I haven't been able to handle in the lowest gear. It's starting to feel fallish and riding a bike feels like a particularly fallish activity, so I enjoy my commutes each day.

And that's pretty much it! We work and come home. Sometimes I have acute moments where I realize that we don't have any friends here and I get very lonely, but it normally passes. I have been plotting "future life plans" but I have so many life plans, and I usually change my mind about them, so I'm determined not to get myself too worked up about something until things are actually, really in motion.

The first month is down. Approximately 60 more to go!