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Remember me?

Sep 8

Posted by Likalia in House & Home, My Life | 2 Comments

Yup, Hello, it is me. It is I? C’est moi! I know it has been a LOOONG time. Do you see that date on the post under this one? January 24th!

That is 227 days; 7 months and 15 days; 32 weeks; 5448 hours; 326,880 minutes; 19,612,800 seconds. Approximately. As I said, a long time.

Quite frankly if I really take a look back I have been very sporadic in my posting for about the last two years. One might go so far as to say completely absent.

Do I want to come back to daily posts? Yes. I just don’t know if there is enough going on in my life to warrant it. I am sure there is enough going on in my head to do so, but really no one wants an all access pass to that insanity. I would like to make an effort though.

In order to try to simplify things and hopefully encourage my posting I’ve merged my two websites. Now whether you type in .com or .ca you’ll come here. At some point I am going to have to spend some serious time reconfiguring the layout, but for now I’m sticking with this one (I think).

On the home front there is finally progress being made on the backyard. I am very happy about this. Though at the same time as with all renovations there is a certain level of inconvenience. In this case re-doing the backyard means all the privacy I had achieved by not maintaining the backyard is gone. It feels very open right now. Last Thursday the excavator came in and over two days and about 4 hours had pulled everything out. When I went out of town on Friday evening there was rubble/scrub/trees/dirt to be removed by dump truck as well as a shed to be moved. I wasn’t there to take photos but fortunately someone was resulting in the very cool pano below that gives a nice view of the progress so far. I had forgotten how big my backyard was until it was just a big open space of dirt. 

Cool eh? Did you zoom in on it? Alright I’ll put the geek away now. :)

It is a work in progress, but it is good to be getting to it after almost 5 years.

Well I know this wasn’t a very long post but it is getting late and there is work tomorrow. With any luck I’ll be back tomorrow night with tales from the company golf tournament where I will be taking photos from a golf cart.

PS – Thanks for sticking around. I promise I’ll try to do better.

Here We Go Again

Jan 24

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It has been over two months since I last wrote here, well anywhere actually. I had good intentions of getting some writing done during NaNoWriMo but in the end being sick drained me of any desire to do anything, plus took the majority of November away. December then steam rolled its way through. Christmas, New Years came and went so quickly I couldn’t believe it.

They say time flies when you are having fun, but it seems it also flies when you are just going about your life. I keep trying to make time slow down, to fit more in, to accomplish more, but it keeps marching on at its usual pace. Some days it feels like I win a little, others not so much, but maybe we are finding a mutual balance.

To add some extra craziness to my time/life balancing act I am dog sitting, Ricco for S&S. They are off gallivanting for two well deserved weeks in Mexico – I am dealing with a dog who isn’t sure where he is, doesn’t like the racoons that live under the house and likes to get up really early. I love him, but come on, I don’t need to be up until after 7am, anything before that is cruel.

I’ve also started taking a Learn To Run clinic, to try and ease back into the running I started but, due to a serious ankle sprain, had to quit over a year ago. So far I am on heading into week three and other than a slightly strained shin things seem to be going well. Each week brings longer running vs walking time, I’m hoping my body will be able to remember how much it liked running and keep up with the group.

Hopefully this entry won’t be just another update before I fall off the grid again. Perhaps between dog sitting and my running clinic I’ll at the very least have something to write about if not daily then every other day. I keep letting my hobbies fall by the way side due to mental exhaustion after work, I need to remedy that. More writing, more photography, more reading, more running.

Not Again!

Nov 6

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Sore throat, cough, tired and achy. No No No I already did sick a month or so ago. I don’t want to be sick again. Gah!

Home/Work

Nov 5

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Today I spent the majority of my work day at home. That’s right HOME. Why you ask? Because I was sent home.

Not because I am sick, man what I wouldn’t give to have a communicable disease as my reason for going home. Nope I was sent home because of a lack of work.

I know there are probably people out there thinking it can’t be that bad to be sent home. To those people I say no it isn’t. The first time.

This is not the first time, this is actually probably the tenth time? I think I’ve lost track. At this point I am starting to feel very apathetic towards my job.

Sometimes my job drives me crazy, but when I am getting to do the things I enjoy about my job it is great. This whole being sent home thing just isn’t fun.

Before I started this latest job I never even took sick days. I’ve taken many now, but I don’t even really have a problem with sick days. They are a valid reason to stay home. To stay home just because there isn’t enough work is just very disheartening. It makes it even harder to get up every morning to go to work when there is a possibility that I’ll run out of things to do and have to come home.

It just feels lazy to not be at work. Which is too grown up of a thought to really contemplate. :S

Plus it is worse being home and not having used the day productively. Did I work on my novel? Nope. Did I clean the house? Nope. What I did do was finish watching season one of Mad Men. Very entertaining. Though I am looking forward to actually putting in a full day of work tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

Om

Nov 4

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Ocean waves. Wind. Lapping water. Rain. Just a few things I find relaxing.

At least once every weekend I drive over to a local beach and lose myself. Sometimes I take a book or camera, usually both. Sometimes I just sit in the car and watch the horizon, listening to the water. Other times I turn music on and watch the people and cars going by. I’ve taken my laptop out there and written blog posts or tried to work on my writing.

No matter what I do when I go there I always find it relaxing, no matter the who is there or what is going on. Sure I enjoy it much more when there is no one around, but being a public beach that doesn’t happen very often.

I especially like going out there when the moon is out. Watching the light play over the waves, the clouds moving across the sky. My shoulders automatically mellow the moment I turn off the car.

As with most relaxation techniques the feeling doesn’t last forever. I try to work on maintaining that feeling of peace when I leave but sometimes life just has other plans. I keep trying though.

What helps you to relax? Places? People? Things?