Hey You, It's Me

Life is a real rollercoaster right now, and I'm in a loop-de-loop not knowing which direction is up. The only good news is that all roller coasters have a beginning and an ending. I'm waiting for that ending to come, hoping it will be soon.

I'm trying to be productive this weekend. I finally finished unpacking my bedroom today. Only took me 19 months. That must be a new record, since I've never lived anywhere this long before. My bedroom is so bare and it echos a lot more. The last part will be to clean up my window ledge filled with junk that I've opted to keep. I found a lot of missing single socks under my bed, so that's good. Once I've put away my folded laundry I might take a picture. By cleaning up the moving boxes I've officially removed my default unfolded laundry dump zone. We'll see what leads to. Tomorrow I'll do a fridge clean and my desk area and this place is going look a lot better than it has for the past while. The fridge shouldn't be too bad, I'm pretty good at dumping stuff before they start to grow cultures.

Work is less than favourable right now. I have so much going on at my desk, and I'm terrified that I will drop something. The good news is that clients act as good reminders when they're expecting something I haven't provided. I guess if projects never went down the shitter they wouldn't need people to manager or coordinate them. All I can say is fingers crossed on successfully resolving my employment dilemma. I did start up the quotes again, and was overjoyed when someone else wrote one on the board instead of me. But I have officially kiboshed the movement. The love is gone.

Time Makes You Bolder

I promised myself when I finished Atlas Shrugged I would do an update....ta-daaa. After I got into the storyline I really enjoyed the book. It's a strange parallel to government and big business today. I think at some point the ending became a foregone conclusion, but up until that point it was delicious literary butter. I picked that book up on January 1, so it took me over 2 month to finish. Not reading non-stop obviously, but with a certain effort. And now I've finished just in time for the movie to come out! The movie is just Part I, so technically I would have been ready some time in January, but never-the-less I'm tickled pink at the timing. If Adam hadn't suggested a long book read it probably never would have left my shelf. And now I know that I can accomplish anything! (Anything book related). Next up is Barney's Version, and I will abstain from seeing the movie until I'm done.

I had a pretty low key month. I got out a few times. I'm still updating my Toronto Adventures to show new places I've been to. This time around I added WAYLA Bar, Liberty Bistro, and Artist Project. The last two were from a weekend outing with my mother and her best friend. She treated me to lunch at the Bistro and then had picked up some tickets for this great art event. There were ~100 artists on display, each with their own booth to present a collection of their work. I picked up a few cards to check them out later. My mom has promised my brother and I both an original piece of artwork (within a certain budget). My brother already has his piece, but I've rarely started my own search. The only framed artwork I have up on my walls are from posters I picked up at various "Poster Sales" at Sid Smith. And of course my Grandma's old ink paintings from Bali. I can't believe my mom was going to sell them.

Tonight I'm going down to see the last showing of the play Adam's producing. I've been to the Berkley Theatre several times thanks to Adam, but also once for a singing performance put on by my mom's friend's kid. I can't remember the specifics, but it was good. I'm also finally getting my laptop back. It was a last minute loan-out that lasted a week. I will be happy to re-retire this hunk of junk and reenter the world of streaming video.

Also, I don't know how many more fights about what's snow and what's sleet I can take. I also don't know how much more of that place I can take. All I can do is be strong.

Newsflash...

...I now have a beard.