Haven't blogged in a bit, mainly because I've been relaxing back home on the farm. Visiting some old friends, checking out my old college, seeing what the new crop of kids are coming out with. Throwing out junk at the house, cleaning out the barn, feeding horses, moving wood from 200 yards away from the house into the garage, painting floors in the basement, you know, all that stuff that parents get you doing when you come home for a vacation. I can honestly say I don't mind any of it, I sit in a control room for a living, very sedentary, so to do all this stuff makes me feel like I'm accomplishing something.
It's nice to be able to get back and see people you haven't seen, and hear their stories about where they are now. Friends are getting married, buying houses, moving up in their jobs, having kids, some are doing the same thing and are totally cool with that. I am to, I like to think I'm going somewhere but sometimes being in a spot for a while feels pretty good. I have a lot on the go coming up this fall, and lots to do until then, but right now, I kinda miss my comfy couch back in my home in Victoria, I'm missing the routine of my life, I'm missing my room, my tv, my PS3, the balmy winter weather, the ocean, having a spot for all my clothes, putting food in my own fridge.
It's not far off, 2 more days then I'm flying home to the shire as my friend Chris calls it. I'm gonna miss this place but as you get older you sorta start missing your home town less and less, and missing your current home more and more. . It's a weird feeling sometimes.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Sickness and insomnia...
I woke up yesterday at around 11am, did one of those kind of go back to sleep kind of don't things for about another hour before I got out of bed. It was day 3 of tonsilitis so I thought it was time for some antibiotics to get rid of this damn thing. So last night I got into work mode and started writing an ebook, yes an actual ebook, about fitness. I decided to hop into bed around midnight to get a good sleep for the workday. Well turns out, that wasn't in the cards. At 1am I realized I couldn't sleep so I decided to do some reading, 20 minutes later I tried to sleep again......no dice. So I had a bath at 2am, 25 minutes later I tried to sleep again.....no dice. So at 3am I popped on an episode of dexter and started to watch thinking I'd fall asleep soundly halfway through......no dice. At 4am I decided to pick the book back up and read some more, 430am tried to sleep again.......no....wait for it......dice. What the hell? So for the next hour and a half I tossed and turned but to no avail, and at 6am I decided to hit the couch and pop on a movie and try it there........NO GODDAMN DICE!!! At 730am I made tea and breakfast and thought to myself, "well, I'm up, might as well stay up until I decide to nap". Oh did I mention that my tonsilitis is still lingering just enough to cause me nothing but problems? Well it is. So here I am, 436pm and I'm still wide awake.
I sure hope I can sleep tonight because I can't miss another day of work.....maybe I'll read up on insomnia.....maybe I'll try Nyquil.
It's true what Edward Norton said in Fight Club, when you're in this state, it's hard to know if you're really awake, or sleeping. I feel like I've spent the entire day in a daze, not knowing if I napped for a few minutes or just dazed off. Even as I sit here typing I can feel my eyelids dropping a little bit, feelings of tiredness wash over me periodically, but my brain is just messing with me. It's saying "hey, you should go lay back down and sleep a little....seriously, it'll be great". Then when I go to lay down it says "AHAAAA, GOTCHA BITCH!!!".
Damn I just want a power nap right now.
I sure hope I can sleep tonight because I can't miss another day of work.....maybe I'll read up on insomnia.....maybe I'll try Nyquil.
It's true what Edward Norton said in Fight Club, when you're in this state, it's hard to know if you're really awake, or sleeping. I feel like I've spent the entire day in a daze, not knowing if I napped for a few minutes or just dazed off. Even as I sit here typing I can feel my eyelids dropping a little bit, feelings of tiredness wash over me periodically, but my brain is just messing with me. It's saying "hey, you should go lay back down and sleep a little....seriously, it'll be great". Then when I go to lay down it says "AHAAAA, GOTCHA BITCH!!!".
Damn I just want a power nap right now.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
RAIN RAIN GO AWAY!!!
Well out here on the soggy Island I call home we, more often then not, get a lot of rain. We lucked out this year so far, November and December are usually soaked and cold and dreary, but not this year. However with a new year in motion, the rain has come back with a vengeance. I'm usually pretty resilient when it comes to dealing with crappy weather, I've lived in Manitoba and Alberta, dealt with copius amounts of snow and wind, hailstorms, close calls with tornadoes, but man, this rain sucks. And when you add high wind to the mix, it's just no fun.
I'm finding it tough to get outside to do anything when it's like this, at least I have a PS3 with some wicked games to keep me occupied but that only lasts so long. I need sunshine. I know it'll go away soon and I'm keeping an optimistic outlook on it, maybe I'll just have to buy some rubber boots and rain pants and take up puddle jumping. I think I might just have to throw on some crappy clothes, bust out the mountain bike and find some mud this weekend.....after snowboarding of course. That is the one good thing about all this precipitation, it's turning into snow somewhere.
I'm finding it tough to get outside to do anything when it's like this, at least I have a PS3 with some wicked games to keep me occupied but that only lasts so long. I need sunshine. I know it'll go away soon and I'm keeping an optimistic outlook on it, maybe I'll just have to buy some rubber boots and rain pants and take up puddle jumping. I think I might just have to throw on some crappy clothes, bust out the mountain bike and find some mud this weekend.....after snowboarding of course. That is the one good thing about all this precipitation, it's turning into snow somewhere.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
They found a cure for obesity?.......(sigh)
As a person who tries to live life in the most healthy of ways I always have to roll my eyes when I hear things like this. Today at work we ran a news story that says scientists and researchers think that they've found a cure for obesity in humans.....seriously? A cure for obesity?
What is wrong with soceity when? Not only are researchers and governments wasting money on research like this, but people actually believe this crap.
Here are a few simple "cures" for obesity...
-Put down the damn fork
-Eat healthy food, not McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza and Subway
-Get out and go for a damn walk, park the car and walk to work, if you can't, then get out for 20 to 30 minutes during your day and go for a walk
-Join a gym
-Sit on the floor instead of the couch a few nights a week
-Turn off the tv and go outside on a day off
There's a million ways to fight obesity, if you're sitting in front of your computer at work then google it, the only reason that you're overweight is because you're too lazy to do anything about it. If it's a glandular problem, then go to a doctor and find out a way to fix it. There's no excuse for being obese, so quit making excuses.
What is wrong with soceity when? Not only are researchers and governments wasting money on research like this, but people actually believe this crap.
Here are a few simple "cures" for obesity...
-Put down the damn fork
-Eat healthy food, not McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza and Subway
-Get out and go for a damn walk, park the car and walk to work, if you can't, then get out for 20 to 30 minutes during your day and go for a walk
-Join a gym
-Sit on the floor instead of the couch a few nights a week
-Turn off the tv and go outside on a day off
There's a million ways to fight obesity, if you're sitting in front of your computer at work then google it, the only reason that you're overweight is because you're too lazy to do anything about it. If it's a glandular problem, then go to a doctor and find out a way to fix it. There's no excuse for being obese, so quit making excuses.
Monday, 2 January 2012
A Brand New Year
Well another year has flown by, and this one seriously flew by. When you get to be almost 30 time seems to go by so much faster than it used to. Back when you're a kid it's funny, you're always wishing time would go by faster so you could grow up and drive a car, drink beer, smoke cigarettes, hang out with the cool kids. Then you get into your teen years and you can't wait for time to fly by so you can be 18 so you can go to the bar, buy your own beer and smokes, pull for your younger friends because their fake ID's didn't work, get a job and make some money. Then you want time to go by faster so you can get into college and learn something sweet so you can go out and make some mad money and buy anything you ever wanted. And all of a sudden you realize that time IS going by fast, and you start to think "holy shit life, SLOW DOWN!!", but it's not, life is in high gear speeding towards the inevitable cliff that is our demise. So what do you do on this ride called life? Well there's a million ways to answer that question.
I, myself, am working towards a goal I've set for myself a little less than a year ago. If you know me then you know what it is, others I'll just let you guess, but that's just one thing I'm doing. I'm doing a lot of other little things too. For instance, I'm sitting here sipping on a green tea, making a conscious effort to ween myself off of my coffee addiction and switch to something healthy. I'm also cutting down on my extra cirricular smoking, both tobacco and non tobacco products, because I only have one brain and set of lungs and they both needed a much deserved break. I'm upping my fitness regiment slightly and altering some of what I do to adapt to my aging temple I call a body, I've always said, your body is a temple, keep it in tip top shape and decorate the shit out of it. And if you know me, you know I like to keep mine colorful.
So many people take the passing of time as a bad thing and more often then not stay with what they know. They keep doing the same job because it's what they know, they start to let their dreams and aspirations fall to the wayside because they think that they're unattainable, they let themselves go physically, drink more, smoke more, eat unhealthy food just because it's what they know. I know so many people like this, they're sayers, not doers. Start being a doer. (I know that isn't grammatically correct but I don't care!!)
We've all heard of the old new year's resolution and most people make one and never stick to it. Don't look at it as a new year's resolution, look at it as a life resolution, make an effort to get out and be healthy, try and learn something new every week if not everyday, eat something different once or twice a week, you never know, you might find that you've always loved indian food, you just never knew it. Get a tattoo, learn to surf, break out of your shell, buy a mountain bike, take an acting class, read a new genre of book, do something out of your comfort zone.
So life may be going by faster than it has before and the pedal is down on the highway to the end, but you know what? I'm behind the wheel, I'm in control, and I'm going for one hell of a joyride with the stereo up, the top down and my sunglasses on. Enjoy life while you still have it, why would you wanna do anything else?
I, myself, am working towards a goal I've set for myself a little less than a year ago. If you know me then you know what it is, others I'll just let you guess, but that's just one thing I'm doing. I'm doing a lot of other little things too. For instance, I'm sitting here sipping on a green tea, making a conscious effort to ween myself off of my coffee addiction and switch to something healthy. I'm also cutting down on my extra cirricular smoking, both tobacco and non tobacco products, because I only have one brain and set of lungs and they both needed a much deserved break. I'm upping my fitness regiment slightly and altering some of what I do to adapt to my aging temple I call a body, I've always said, your body is a temple, keep it in tip top shape and decorate the shit out of it. And if you know me, you know I like to keep mine colorful.
So many people take the passing of time as a bad thing and more often then not stay with what they know. They keep doing the same job because it's what they know, they start to let their dreams and aspirations fall to the wayside because they think that they're unattainable, they let themselves go physically, drink more, smoke more, eat unhealthy food just because it's what they know. I know so many people like this, they're sayers, not doers. Start being a doer. (I know that isn't grammatically correct but I don't care!!)
We've all heard of the old new year's resolution and most people make one and never stick to it. Don't look at it as a new year's resolution, look at it as a life resolution, make an effort to get out and be healthy, try and learn something new every week if not everyday, eat something different once or twice a week, you never know, you might find that you've always loved indian food, you just never knew it. Get a tattoo, learn to surf, break out of your shell, buy a mountain bike, take an acting class, read a new genre of book, do something out of your comfort zone.
So life may be going by faster than it has before and the pedal is down on the highway to the end, but you know what? I'm behind the wheel, I'm in control, and I'm going for one hell of a joyride with the stereo up, the top down and my sunglasses on. Enjoy life while you still have it, why would you wanna do anything else?
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