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570 days ago
For various reasons, I feel that it's time to move my blog from MSN spaces, and try a new site. Check out my new blog at: http://darklightwrites.wordpress.com I'm not importing the old stuff, just starting fresh. I'll leave this site active, but there won't be any new content added. Hope you check out the new blog. Yes, I will write there regularly.
604 days ago
I don't really want to work. However, since I enjoy living in a house, as opposed to a bus shelter or under a bridge somewhere, sooner or later I will have to work. In preparation, I sent my resume to two places where I knew someone who could recommend me. I figured might get an interview. It would be good practice. I got interviews at both places, which proves that getting a job is all about who you know. After today's interview, I was offered the job. That has never happened to me before. I'm not really sure I want the job. I definitely don't want to say yes to the job before going to tomorrow's interview and seeing what happens there. So I guess that's what I'll do.
620 days ago
"The Easter Bunny isn't a real bunny," Valerie says. "It's just somebody in a costume." "Yeah," agrees Isaac. "Do you think it could be your mom or dad or Tony in the costume?" asks Granny. "Nooooo," says Isaac. "The Easter Bunny only comes when everyone is asleep, so how could it be mom or dad or Tony if they're all sleeping." He says this in such away as to imply that his grandmother might be a few sandwiches short of a picnic for even asking the question. Later on... "I'm not sure if the Easter Bunny is a real bunny, or someone in a costume," says Valerie. "It has to be someone in a costume," offers Isaac. "Bunnies don't grow as big as mom." "Well, it could be a real bunny that's really nice," Valerie shoots back. "Mom, do you know who the Easter Bunny is?" "Yes, I do," I reply. "Who is it?" brother and sister ask in ...
620 days ago
I've lost 70 pounds. This is more than my almost 7 year old daughter weighs. I'm at a size now that is probably about the smallest I remember being in my adult life. I was around this size when I finished university and started working. The difficulty I'm having is that I don't really know what's after this. I don't really remember being smaller than this, so it's kind of unknown territory. But, I know that I want to be smaller than this. This weight loss has had a huge impact on my activity level. I was always reasonably active, but this just allows me to do so much more. I am at the front of the pack in the training walks for the Weekend, whereas last year, I would have been near the back. I can snowshoe in the Gatineau Hills. I can get to the ball to make shots I wouldn't have been able to manage before in squash. And I feel like doing things. I have a lot more energy. On the down side, the loose skin on my stomach is distressing. It is soft and hangy and ...
622 days ago
For fifteen years and two months, I have been going to the same building every day. On Monday, I went there to work for the last time. I could see the writing on the wall for a while now. A large project recently cancelled in our division, a move towards heading things out of the Belguim site. When I checked my email from home while on vacation and read the goodbye emails from colleagues affected by a reduction in force, I felt a certainty that I would be impacted as well. I have survived through many, many rounds of layoffs, never before being hit myself, nor thinking that I would be, but this time, I just knew I would be on the list. When I returned to work after vacation on Monday to find my phone dead and my email inaccessible, I knew it was time to start packing. My boss and the HR representative were most apologetic that I found out that way, but in a way, perhaps that warning made it a little better than coming in to think all was normal and then being hit with the ...
