I am slowly re-aquiring an affinity for making and crafting things by my own hand. Last night I baked my first pie in years, and I loved it. Perhaps I could have added more cornstarch to thicken things up, but it was a delight.
It seems that sometimes making a hard decision, but one that truly needs to be made, is worth it for many reasons, including a return to things that make me who I am. Like baking, for instance, I love to bake! I love the textures and the smells and the tastes, the learning from failure, the discovering of new recipes, the joy in success, and the sharing of success with others. I like who I am when I am baking, throwing on good music, singing along, and knowing that someone I love will get to enjoy the finished product with me. There's beauty in that.
Tonight is Kris' first night on the bench for the U of A men's hockey team, and I'm off to spectate. I'll be a total loner too, but I'm so excited for him, even tho I'm probably more nervous than he is! Not that he won't be great, he will be, but I also hope the first few games are easy on him, so that he can get into the groove of things. His first practice involved a major wrist laceration, i'm hoping that's the worst that this year brings. Blood grosses me out. So do cadaver labs... and the smell of them that lingers after a long day in lab. Sick.
Moving on... I am very much looking forward to the final wedding of the summer on Saturday. Pretty sure it's the first camp wedding of my era, which makes it all the more exciting. Camp folks = Love. We'll be short on the k.blackwood front, which is a cryin' shame, but it will be a grand time.
Off to watch Canucks rookies and U of A hockey, should be interesting.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
So Life, and such
I quit my job. That makes me feel like a return to blogging, perhaps as a sign of a return to living life? I think so.
I also don't have a new job lined up. I'm just trusting, and positive, that anything would be better so I really can't lose.
Dentists have OCD, and I ought not work for people with sever OCD. I don't think saying 'Dentists' is an exaggeration, I'm pretty sure it's on the pre-req list for DentSchool Admission.
I found FGD at a little independent liquor store near my transfer bus location. This brings me great joy.
Planning a wedding is a lot of fun, and there are oh-so many websites with grand DIY ideas, which helps to have lots of fun and allows for many lovely details on a budget. Budgets are important.
I have lots to say, for sure. Lots of life is being lived, has been lived, will be lived. And i'm still the same, i've always got something to say.
For now this is a start. Please forgive the forthcoming indulgent wedding posts. I'll try to mediate them with posts of actual merit too.
I also don't have a new job lined up. I'm just trusting, and positive, that anything would be better so I really can't lose.
Dentists have OCD, and I ought not work for people with sever OCD. I don't think saying 'Dentists' is an exaggeration, I'm pretty sure it's on the pre-req list for DentSchool Admission.
I found FGD at a little independent liquor store near my transfer bus location. This brings me great joy.
Planning a wedding is a lot of fun, and there are oh-so many websites with grand DIY ideas, which helps to have lots of fun and allows for many lovely details on a budget. Budgets are important.
I have lots to say, for sure. Lots of life is being lived, has been lived, will be lived. And i'm still the same, i've always got something to say.
For now this is a start. Please forgive the forthcoming indulgent wedding posts. I'll try to mediate them with posts of actual merit too.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
nonsense.
My computer died right around Christmas, and thus I haven't much posted on here ever since. But, this afternoon seems as good a time as any to make a little diversion back into the blogosphere.
I don't have anything great to blog about, but I thought, for those who may stumble across this, I'd give a little update on my life, and see where the writing leads me.
Currently, I'm employed at a dental clinic, for far less $ than I was told I would make, and for far more hours than I was told I would work, but since I'm salary, its just more hours for lousy money, hahaha. It's lousy, but the hygenists are fantastic, so I keep on keeping on. I'm moving May 1st, but I don't have a place yet, although I did buy a brandnew queen mattress set for $413.00 today, so I'm very excited about that! Seriously, it was a sweet deal, and I like deals.
This is the first year I will ever have A/c and a sunroof, and let me tell you, I find this incredibly exciting to experience. Every time it's above 0 out there, I pop the sunroof and enjoy the air. It's lovely.
I really, really, really want a pet dog. So i'm crossing my fingers that this comes to fruition sooner rather than later. There's just something so much better about life when it's shared with a dog. That's just how it is.
One of my best friends just had her first baby, it's different even than when my older sisters had their babies, I feel so involved in little Ruby's life, and I love her incredibly already. We're already referred to as Uncle Kris and Auntie Katie, and I love it, I love that I can just go over and cuddle her while her mom is out feeding cows, or just sit and hear all about the things she's doing already, and catch up with her parents. I love that there are people my age with the desire of a family at the forefront, wanting to raise up good children in this world, raise them into good people, that excites me. I work with mostly women who don't want to have a family, who don't want to 'give anything up', and it depresses me, but when I see little Ruby, and her parents, I know that there are people like Kris and I out there, who desire to raise healthy children in a functional family, and it gives me hope for our future as a society. Perhaps this paragraph makes no sense, but it's something that's been on my mind lately in the staff room at work, when the other 5 women at the table are stating how they never plan on being mothers, and I'm sitting there feeling like the odd one out, yet strangely proud of who I am and my longing to be a mother one day.
I'm so blessed to have such great friends, and an incredible boyfriend. The relationships in my life are phenomenal, and I'm daily humbled by their impact on my life. I'm excited for the road that this love is leading me on, for the future and potential that's wrapped in every conversation, and in life in general. It's an exhilirating life stage to be situated in, on the cusp of the rest of your life, and I love standing in this place, just learning to love more and better every day. It's amazing, humbling and so very rewarding.
Life is good, perhaps my employment isn't all that I desire, but it's a steady job, and in that regard I'm better off than many. I'm excited for the future, and I'm living and loving and learning in each and every day, I can't complain, that's for sure.
So next time, maybe I'll write something of a bit more substance. And maybe not.
I don't have anything great to blog about, but I thought, for those who may stumble across this, I'd give a little update on my life, and see where the writing leads me.
Currently, I'm employed at a dental clinic, for far less $ than I was told I would make, and for far more hours than I was told I would work, but since I'm salary, its just more hours for lousy money, hahaha. It's lousy, but the hygenists are fantastic, so I keep on keeping on. I'm moving May 1st, but I don't have a place yet, although I did buy a brandnew queen mattress set for $413.00 today, so I'm very excited about that! Seriously, it was a sweet deal, and I like deals.
This is the first year I will ever have A/c and a sunroof, and let me tell you, I find this incredibly exciting to experience. Every time it's above 0 out there, I pop the sunroof and enjoy the air. It's lovely.
I really, really, really want a pet dog. So i'm crossing my fingers that this comes to fruition sooner rather than later. There's just something so much better about life when it's shared with a dog. That's just how it is.
One of my best friends just had her first baby, it's different even than when my older sisters had their babies, I feel so involved in little Ruby's life, and I love her incredibly already. We're already referred to as Uncle Kris and Auntie Katie, and I love it, I love that I can just go over and cuddle her while her mom is out feeding cows, or just sit and hear all about the things she's doing already, and catch up with her parents. I love that there are people my age with the desire of a family at the forefront, wanting to raise up good children in this world, raise them into good people, that excites me. I work with mostly women who don't want to have a family, who don't want to 'give anything up', and it depresses me, but when I see little Ruby, and her parents, I know that there are people like Kris and I out there, who desire to raise healthy children in a functional family, and it gives me hope for our future as a society. Perhaps this paragraph makes no sense, but it's something that's been on my mind lately in the staff room at work, when the other 5 women at the table are stating how they never plan on being mothers, and I'm sitting there feeling like the odd one out, yet strangely proud of who I am and my longing to be a mother one day.
I'm so blessed to have such great friends, and an incredible boyfriend. The relationships in my life are phenomenal, and I'm daily humbled by their impact on my life. I'm excited for the road that this love is leading me on, for the future and potential that's wrapped in every conversation, and in life in general. It's an exhilirating life stage to be situated in, on the cusp of the rest of your life, and I love standing in this place, just learning to love more and better every day. It's amazing, humbling and so very rewarding.
Life is good, perhaps my employment isn't all that I desire, but it's a steady job, and in that regard I'm better off than many. I'm excited for the future, and I'm living and loving and learning in each and every day, I can't complain, that's for sure.
So next time, maybe I'll write something of a bit more substance. And maybe not.
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