For the last few weeks(maybe months) I have been frequently opening my website and basically staring at it.

I would open the page, trying to will it to inspire me, only to realize that the posts on it are not at all inspirational. Heck they are not even very motivational, except perhaps in a ‘if I add better and newer posts, the old ones will disappear from the front page’ kind of way.

Of course as we all know wanting to do something and actually doing are two different things and for me lately they seem to have such distance between them as to render them oblivious to each other. This makes it very difficult for me to get back here.

I will note here that it is late and my brain is still a little bleary from the end of tax season on Monday, but hopefully this is all basically understandable and not too meandering.

Why now? Well it was actually supposed to happen yesterday. Finally after weeks(months?) of procrastination I set myself a goal of starting to try and post/write more as soon as May rolled around. I decided yesterday that as I was not specific as to a date that tomorrow(today) would be just as good a day to start.

Still why now? Lately I have been trying to incorporate more of the things I love back into my life. Somehow I let so many of them fall by the wayside, mostly out of laziness, though I suppose the excuse of life just getting in the way of life could be argued. I feel like I have slowly been coming to the realization that a lot of time has passed and while I have many great things to show for it, I also think I could have more. Now I am trying to catch up on the more.

Some of the things I am ‘catching up’ on: reading, photography, education and writing.

You’ll note down there in the footer that this year I have actually read 4 books so far! Sadly I am really excited about this because last year I read none(textbooks don’t count). Yay books! You will also note in the sidebar here there is a new Instagram feed, where I have thrown a few photos and links to the photo-a-week project I have been participating in/running since last August. This will hopefully be the first post in a return to blogging and I may even try to pick up a pen to write prose of some kind.

That leaves education. I think I might have mentioned in passing about assignments here but I may not have outright said what I am doing which is likely because most people who read this blog already know. For the one or two who don’t know though I am taking pre-requisite courses in order to apply to enter the Chartered Accountant School of Business(CASB). I am a third of the way through the courses, which is slow going while working full time, but still good progress considering that. I’ve spent the last few nights looking over timetables to figure out the next classes I can take, there is a lot of back and forth especially in co-ordinating between two schools.

Anyway since I was making progress in those three areas I figured I should just back on here and throw up a little hello/update. It is sort of like when you find your diary under a pile of books in your room and realize that you haven’t updated in forever, you just have to open it to put something in there so as not to have a huge gap that leaves you wondering what the heck was going on. Sure you can assume it was just a nice quiet time in your life, but even the mundane should be recorded to give the insanity some perspective, right?

*I was listening to Barenaked Ladies Gordon album the other day and ever since I have had “Grade Nine” stuck in my head.