Wow.... I'm actually writing again... cool. This has been a while (like more than a few months), good thing I don't rely on blogging for a living or I'd be broke by now. So I have decided that I really wish life had a pause button because as I said before... life just ran me over!
It started with the death of my friend, that I wrote about earlier. That one completely surprised me and took me a while to come to terms with (although I know it was 100 times harder on her family). I spent a lot of time contemplating life, the rituals we use to celebrate life and to mourn death, and just how little time we really have.
Then there is my music lessons, please everyone take a moment to feel sympathy for my poor neighbors because I am in the process of learning how to play the bagpipes... yep that's right, I am now the annoying neighbor that is playing bagpipes in the middle of the flippen day! I'm very lucky to have found an instructor who is a world class player. He was born and raised with a pipping family in Scotland and somehow made his way to Canada! He is also going to be instructing the kids that are in my youth group, so we are very excited to have him on board! I'm finding the instrument to be a very challenging one to learn ( I've played drums for more than half my life and picked them up rather easily compared to this!). I'm trying to practice every night for 15 to 30 minutes but don't always have the time.
Then of course my youth group stood up again in the fall and we had the usual mad dash to get the new kids registered, update the information of the current kids, work on some staff training, train the senior kids to step into their new roles... it's exhausting but totally worth it! The first three months are always so busy that I find myself hitting November going "where the hey did the last few months go!". This year was no different.
I have decided I want to try my hand at running a side project to this blog to showcase the pictures I love to take so so I am planning that. My 3 year old laptop is finally cratering. It's not charging properly and now the system is starting to be all wonky so I bit the bullet and bought a new one that should be here any day now. In the meantime the old one and I are still somewhat functional, even though I have to lean it a certain way to get it to charge and it likes to randomly freeze or shut down on me. Thankfully we are able to afford a new one!
On top of this I had a very huge change happen in my life. I don't discuss it much here on this blog since I like to remain under my pseudonym while writing but it was a huge commitment that I recently made that involved a mountain of paperwork and lots of training. This past month I spent two weeks away from home on my training and had no time for anything else!
And finally my heart was a little broken this last month as one of my little dogs, the 15 year old boy, passed away after a brief illness while I was away from home. My husband did an amazing job of taking care of him, and the vet did everything she could but it was his time. In the future I will probably write a little more on him but when I am not as sad. All I will say for now is that he was a very good dog and I love and miss him.
So yeah... PAUSE BUTTON PLEASE!
It started with the death of my friend, that I wrote about earlier. That one completely surprised me and took me a while to come to terms with (although I know it was 100 times harder on her family). I spent a lot of time contemplating life, the rituals we use to celebrate life and to mourn death, and just how little time we really have.
Then there is my music lessons, please everyone take a moment to feel sympathy for my poor neighbors because I am in the process of learning how to play the bagpipes... yep that's right, I am now the annoying neighbor that is playing bagpipes in the middle of the flippen day! I'm very lucky to have found an instructor who is a world class player. He was born and raised with a pipping family in Scotland and somehow made his way to Canada! He is also going to be instructing the kids that are in my youth group, so we are very excited to have him on board! I'm finding the instrument to be a very challenging one to learn ( I've played drums for more than half my life and picked them up rather easily compared to this!). I'm trying to practice every night for 15 to 30 minutes but don't always have the time.
Then of course my youth group stood up again in the fall and we had the usual mad dash to get the new kids registered, update the information of the current kids, work on some staff training, train the senior kids to step into their new roles... it's exhausting but totally worth it! The first three months are always so busy that I find myself hitting November going "where the hey did the last few months go!". This year was no different.
I have decided I want to try my hand at running a side project to this blog to showcase the pictures I love to take so so I am planning that. My 3 year old laptop is finally cratering. It's not charging properly and now the system is starting to be all wonky so I bit the bullet and bought a new one that should be here any day now. In the meantime the old one and I are still somewhat functional, even though I have to lean it a certain way to get it to charge and it likes to randomly freeze or shut down on me. Thankfully we are able to afford a new one!
On top of this I had a very huge change happen in my life. I don't discuss it much here on this blog since I like to remain under my pseudonym while writing but it was a huge commitment that I recently made that involved a mountain of paperwork and lots of training. This past month I spent two weeks away from home on my training and had no time for anything else!
And finally my heart was a little broken this last month as one of my little dogs, the 15 year old boy, passed away after a brief illness while I was away from home. My husband did an amazing job of taking care of him, and the vet did everything she could but it was his time. In the future I will probably write a little more on him but when I am not as sad. All I will say for now is that he was a very good dog and I love and miss him.
So yeah... PAUSE BUTTON PLEASE!
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