Yeah. I think I am.
Can't concentrate, can't stop thinking about all the things I have to do...Only 3 more weeks and I'm done class for this semester, and I only have to worry about kids, spouse and work.
I am hanging on because I don't know what else to do!!
Free time isn't free, I suppose.
Eh.
Did I mention my birthday is coming up? That at least makes me happy. Ish.
Monday, December 3, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Getting my writing boots back on.
So.
I haven't written in a long time. Not just blogging, but written any short stories, poetry, ANYTHING for a few years now.
I used to write all the time, as a way to express myself - and somehow in the day-to-day trials of life it was just...left...back there...where "back there" is around 2006.
So recently I have been asked by Steph (Ordinairy Girl) to collaborate on a screenplay! I wasn't sure at first that my writing boots still fit - but after receiving the first character descriptions it just flowed.
I forgot how great it felt. I forgot what a release it is!
The wifey thought it was a great idea too....I don't get a lot of time to myself, and now doing something that I really love has improved my outlook! And really - it has only been about a week and a half. Really.
It doesn't take long to get me really excited about a project. Maybe 3% of a second. Yes, that long. So when I was first asked I nearly hyperventilated I was so excited. Have you ever hyperventilated? Not pleasant. But at the same time you feel so darn pleased that someone asked YOU to help THEM write a SCREENPLAY!
Okay, not you, me. Heh. Or maybe you do and you now feel a strange sort of kinship with me...
How do you make an evil frowny face? I think I am going to need that to put in my arsenal....
I haven't written in a long time. Not just blogging, but written any short stories, poetry, ANYTHING for a few years now.
I used to write all the time, as a way to express myself - and somehow in the day-to-day trials of life it was just...left...back there...where "back there" is around 2006.
So recently I have been asked by Steph (Ordinairy Girl) to collaborate on a screenplay! I wasn't sure at first that my writing boots still fit - but after receiving the first character descriptions it just flowed.
I forgot how great it felt. I forgot what a release it is!
The wifey thought it was a great idea too....I don't get a lot of time to myself, and now doing something that I really love has improved my outlook! And really - it has only been about a week and a half. Really.
It doesn't take long to get me really excited about a project. Maybe 3% of a second. Yes, that long. So when I was first asked I nearly hyperventilated I was so excited. Have you ever hyperventilated? Not pleasant. But at the same time you feel so darn pleased that someone asked YOU to help THEM write a SCREENPLAY!
Okay, not you, me. Heh. Or maybe you do and you now feel a strange sort of kinship with me...
How do you make an evil frowny face? I think I am going to need that to put in my arsenal....
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Things I Want
I almost wrote the title as "Thongs I Want" and was surprised at how accurate that was.
Anyways. Things I am striving for in the near future:
1) More sex. Depending on the wife.
2) Make more money. Somehow.
3) Keep painting. Finally started again, need to keep it up! Feels nice to paint.
4) More sex. Did I say that one already??
5) Time to meditate.
My list of 5 things which may not be complete that I have decided I need to do!
Yay me....oh, and remember to take my vitamins!!
IM OUT. Like a bellybutton homies.
Anyways. Things I am striving for in the near future:
1) More sex. Depending on the wife.
2) Make more money. Somehow.
3) Keep painting. Finally started again, need to keep it up! Feels nice to paint.
4) More sex. Did I say that one already??
5) Time to meditate.
My list of 5 things which may not be complete that I have decided I need to do!
Yay me....oh, and remember to take my vitamins!!
IM OUT. Like a bellybutton homies.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
My vacation...in Ontario!
I have never been to Ontario...and since the ladyfriend's family lives there we decided to take 9 days and visit.
I must say, I was a bit apprehensive but that all disappeared when I received my first hug upon arriving! What a wonderful bunch of people. They really knew how to make me feel at home!
The sweetest addition to the family is little 5 year old K, she was just precious and sweet and darling the whole time we were there. Made me remember my own girls when they were little!!
The first full day there we decided to go to Kakabeka - for the life of me I can't pronounce it properly. It takes a windup for me to spit it out. Anyways, we spent the whole day swimming, playing in the sand, walking trails...and we saw the falls!! Being from BC, I have seen many very tall waterfalls, many beautiful winding through the trees falls, but NEVER have I seen something like this! If you have never seen Kakabeka falls I recommend it. It was like someone had used an ice-cream scoop and just carved a chunk out of a lake....and then sprinkled rainbows all over it. It was breathtaking.
The next day we walked around town, checked out little memorial parks and what not in Thunder Bay. It was very cool to see the Finnish and Italian influences in everything...I was so impressed with the monuments in the Friendship Garden that I kind of ran down the battery in our camera. Whoops. But seriously, so much work and attention had to have gone into those monuments! So worth seeing.
The third day we went to The Old Fort - loved it! Very fair admission, and we got to interact with all sorts of "people from the period", which was the mid 1800s. We spent the entire day there with M's mother, Little K and her friend. It was amazing and interesting...and we got to see piglets. And chickens. Squee! I think my favourite part of the experience though was seeing the native woman in the "native encampment" just outside the fort. She was amazing! Made me feel like I was actually talking to her back then...Then again, M's mother was getting very into it, replying to comments with "Of course we have furs to trade!" and "Oh, we must have left that in the canoe!" She was hilarious.
The next day we spent in doors, just relaxing. That is, until M's mother decided that we were going on a drive to "see the deer". I wasn't opposed to that at all, but it did remind me of what M told me about the Thunder Bay zoo - "We go to the dump to watch the bears." Really. I had a hard time not snickering in the car while we were driving around looking at deer. Oh!! We also saw a baby skunk. SO CUTE.
One of those days we also had lunch with M's sisters. It was really interesting to just sit there and watch them interact...I'd never seen her interact with both sisters before, so I got to see a side that I hadn't seen. It was very nice, and I felt so close to her!
The next day we went to the Amethyst Mine! AMAZING!! I love love love crystals and rocks and stones and everything you can think of along that vein (ha ha I'm hilarious) so actually going to the Amethyst Mine was a real treat for me! We got to dig around and explore the loose rubble for amethysts - $3.00 a pound. Not too shabby! I found some very nice pieces, some that really spoke to me. Totally worth it!
From our way back from the mine we went into Centennial Park...but didn't stay, as the gates were going to be closing right away. I saw a small train though. The next time we go I am SO riding that train. Give me a hells yeah!!
I also got to see the Terry Fox Memorial, what an amazing person he was. I was only a year and a bit when he started his run, so I grew up with the story of him and what he represented very fresh in Canada's memory. He has always been someone I have looked up to, and it was immensely touching to see this spot.
..What else? I started rambling and now I am all confused about where I was in my story...Eh, that's all good.
Needless to say, I had a fantastic time in Ontario! If I remember anything else I'll make an attempt to come on here (see Kyt? I will try ha ha) and write about it.
Kakabeka bitches!!!
I must say, I was a bit apprehensive but that all disappeared when I received my first hug upon arriving! What a wonderful bunch of people. They really knew how to make me feel at home!
The sweetest addition to the family is little 5 year old K, she was just precious and sweet and darling the whole time we were there. Made me remember my own girls when they were little!!
The first full day there we decided to go to Kakabeka - for the life of me I can't pronounce it properly. It takes a windup for me to spit it out. Anyways, we spent the whole day swimming, playing in the sand, walking trails...and we saw the falls!! Being from BC, I have seen many very tall waterfalls, many beautiful winding through the trees falls, but NEVER have I seen something like this! If you have never seen Kakabeka falls I recommend it. It was like someone had used an ice-cream scoop and just carved a chunk out of a lake....and then sprinkled rainbows all over it. It was breathtaking.
The next day we walked around town, checked out little memorial parks and what not in Thunder Bay. It was very cool to see the Finnish and Italian influences in everything...I was so impressed with the monuments in the Friendship Garden that I kind of ran down the battery in our camera. Whoops. But seriously, so much work and attention had to have gone into those monuments! So worth seeing.
The third day we went to The Old Fort - loved it! Very fair admission, and we got to interact with all sorts of "people from the period", which was the mid 1800s. We spent the entire day there with M's mother, Little K and her friend. It was amazing and interesting...and we got to see piglets. And chickens. Squee! I think my favourite part of the experience though was seeing the native woman in the "native encampment" just outside the fort. She was amazing! Made me feel like I was actually talking to her back then...Then again, M's mother was getting very into it, replying to comments with "Of course we have furs to trade!" and "Oh, we must have left that in the canoe!" She was hilarious.
The next day we spent in doors, just relaxing. That is, until M's mother decided that we were going on a drive to "see the deer". I wasn't opposed to that at all, but it did remind me of what M told me about the Thunder Bay zoo - "We go to the dump to watch the bears." Really. I had a hard time not snickering in the car while we were driving around looking at deer. Oh!! We also saw a baby skunk. SO CUTE.
One of those days we also had lunch with M's sisters. It was really interesting to just sit there and watch them interact...I'd never seen her interact with both sisters before, so I got to see a side that I hadn't seen. It was very nice, and I felt so close to her!
The next day we went to the Amethyst Mine! AMAZING!! I love love love crystals and rocks and stones and everything you can think of along that vein (ha ha I'm hilarious) so actually going to the Amethyst Mine was a real treat for me! We got to dig around and explore the loose rubble for amethysts - $3.00 a pound. Not too shabby! I found some very nice pieces, some that really spoke to me. Totally worth it!
From our way back from the mine we went into Centennial Park...but didn't stay, as the gates were going to be closing right away. I saw a small train though. The next time we go I am SO riding that train. Give me a hells yeah!!
I also got to see the Terry Fox Memorial, what an amazing person he was. I was only a year and a bit when he started his run, so I grew up with the story of him and what he represented very fresh in Canada's memory. He has always been someone I have looked up to, and it was immensely touching to see this spot.
..What else? I started rambling and now I am all confused about where I was in my story...Eh, that's all good.
Needless to say, I had a fantastic time in Ontario! If I remember anything else I'll make an attempt to come on here (see Kyt? I will try ha ha) and write about it.
Kakabeka bitches!!!
Monday, July 11, 2011
Wait, what I do isn't meaningless?
Sometimes I have trouble remembering that I have an impact on the lives of others...in the case of my job, I actually DO help people, just not in the building-houses-in-africa way.
If I keep on remembering that maybe it will help me to not scratch my eyes out when I get a particularly inane inquiry. How do you run your business when you have NO IDEA? Well, without me, they wouldn't be as efficient in running their business, that's how they do it. So remembering patience is my goal!!
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On another note, does anyone have any suggestions on getting that song about the pumped-up kicks out of my head?? I don't know any of the words except the ones mentioned above (and I suspect, in the title) and it has been haunting me FOR OVER A WEEK.
I have even tried getting other songs stuck in my head but this one returns with a vengeance. Vengeance, I tell you.
If I keep on remembering that maybe it will help me to not scratch my eyes out when I get a particularly inane inquiry. How do you run your business when you have NO IDEA? Well, without me, they wouldn't be as efficient in running their business, that's how they do it. So remembering patience is my goal!!
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On another note, does anyone have any suggestions on getting that song about the pumped-up kicks out of my head?? I don't know any of the words except the ones mentioned above (and I suspect, in the title) and it has been haunting me FOR OVER A WEEK.
I have even tried getting other songs stuck in my head but this one returns with a vengeance. Vengeance, I tell you.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Things happen.
Wow, a lot has happened in the last nine or so months since I decided not to write about anything. That being said, I don't want to write about them while I'm at work, so laters!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Life! Such as it is...
I have been avoiding writing lately. I could say that I was busy, but that would be a half-truth.
Most of the time I write down everything in my head, a narration of my days events and how things have unfolded. Talking to a fellow volunteer at the animal shelter where I go on Sundays really got me thinking, and my thoughts are just too big to be kept in, so they had to be put down.
I learned that there are so many forms of courage.
The people that I live with, work with, volunteer with are all capable of great things. Absolutely great things.
Being no stranger to personal demons, I listened with everything I could muster when my fellow volunteer confided in me about being a recovering alcoholic. He was very unabashed about everything, just told me how it was in a concise, clean manner. From what I gleaned, his life was anything but clean and concise back then. It gripped me - his story made me think.
A co-worker of mine has a horrible auto-immune disease, and still, she works, plays, lives as she wants to. It's quite heartening to see her just accepting what she has been given and living beyond. She has no limits! Not any she has imposed upon herself, in any case!
My oldest daughter, being 14 is in the throes of "peer acceptance" is learning what it is like to want things herself, and not just because her friends have told her that's what she should want. She is pretty bold and strong in any case - it was still amazing to here her asserting herself with her peers. Not being rude or anything, just being herself.
I am surrounded by amazing people, and these are just three of them! Hooray!!!
Most of the time I write down everything in my head, a narration of my days events and how things have unfolded. Talking to a fellow volunteer at the animal shelter where I go on Sundays really got me thinking, and my thoughts are just too big to be kept in, so they had to be put down.
I learned that there are so many forms of courage.
The people that I live with, work with, volunteer with are all capable of great things. Absolutely great things.
Being no stranger to personal demons, I listened with everything I could muster when my fellow volunteer confided in me about being a recovering alcoholic. He was very unabashed about everything, just told me how it was in a concise, clean manner. From what I gleaned, his life was anything but clean and concise back then. It gripped me - his story made me think.
A co-worker of mine has a horrible auto-immune disease, and still, she works, plays, lives as she wants to. It's quite heartening to see her just accepting what she has been given and living beyond. She has no limits! Not any she has imposed upon herself, in any case!
My oldest daughter, being 14 is in the throes of "peer acceptance" is learning what it is like to want things herself, and not just because her friends have told her that's what she should want. She is pretty bold and strong in any case - it was still amazing to here her asserting herself with her peers. Not being rude or anything, just being herself.
I am surrounded by amazing people, and these are just three of them! Hooray!!!
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