Archive for January, 2010
January 19, 2010 at 12:28 am · Filed under interests
It is just about time to start planning for our yearly family summer get-away. And by “family,” I mean the extended family from Dave’s side. Every summer, give or take a few summers, we’ve made the effort to get away somewhere for a week or two as a family. Traditionally, it was to Gabriola Island off of Vancouver Island, but that has been long gone now for a couple of years when Gran could no longer make it there due to her health. It’s not the same without her there. So last year, we went to Southern California, for the sole purpose of Disneyland with the kids. This summer, we’re looking at other places, one of which could be Hawai’i or even a cruise up to Alaska. Maybe eventually, we’ll make it to the other side of the continent, like, say, one of those myrtle beach vacations, eh? I’ve heard great things about Myrtle Beach. But for now, we have our eyes set on Hawai’i or a cruise!
January 18, 2010 at 8:53 pm · Filed under daily, heart
Well, we finally did it. We got a house. After looking at approximately 50 houses (or what feels like 50 houses!), we finally found “the one” for us. And then, after a week’s worth of intense pain and anxiety, after putting in an offer and having it accepted, the closing date finally came today, and we signed the necessary papers that make us official homeowners. Now all we need to do is wait for the day to move in, which is a little under a month and a half from now. That’s how long we have to pack to move into our lovely new home! It is tiring just thinking about it!
There are a lot of things going on in our heads. We have a lot of plans, some realistic, some maybe not so much, but we will get there in time. I can’t believe that I am at a time in my life already where I am thinking about what to do in my 30s and my 40s, and where our family is headed. I’m over the hump that most people get in their 20s, about “where shall I live?” and “who shall I grow old with?” and “should I have children?” All those things have been taken care of. Now, on to the next stage in life. It is a little insane, and a little scary, but a lot exciting.
(P.S. Please give hope and love and positive energy out there to anyone who needs it, especially in this new decade. This includes victims of the latest Haiti disaster, the abused, the neglected, the sick and the dying, even those with malignant Mesothelioma. We all need to give a little more kindness in this world. We all need a little more love.)
January 9, 2010 at 5:21 am · Filed under daily
Welcome to the new year. I should have had a decent post for the new year, but I don’t. December, 2009 went by in a rushed flash, and January, 2010 appears to be going the same way. A few changes have occurred in my life. One to be duly noted is that we’re making a giant move to a new house of our very own very soon. In the past month, we must have seen about 30 houses, and we must have looked at about 30 different types of American Standard sinks in all sorts of bathroom settings. It has been very stressful, to say the least, and I can’t wait until we are done with this whole house-hunting business. And after that, I won’t be able to wait until the whole “moving” business is done as well, and then the unpacking will begin. THEN the real fun will follow afterwards: decorating, and making our house into a home. I’m excited for that!
Happy new year, everyone. May it be productive, joyous, and full of peace for all of you.
January 9, 2010 at 5:10 am · Filed under daily
Sometimes I don’t know why the heck I still have a site. I hardly ever update it. It is strange where the internet has gone in the past 15 years. When I first started out, I was hand coding each entry to my website. Writing long, detailed entries about my feelings and thoughts, my opinions, my life, my heart. In fact, any other blog site was like that. There was no WYSIWYG programs like wordpress, and Facebook didn’t yet exist. Needless to say, then, at the time, only those who were truly dedicated to writing journal entries ever had a personal website for writing. Now, every Dick, Jane, and Sally can have a website, and it doesn’t have to be substantial at all.
My site, for instance. Case in point.
We’ve gone from writing about our lives in detail to existing in the fast food world of drive-by, spontaneous, yet pointless one-line updates on Twitter, or through Facebook statuses. It’s kind of sad that we would rather take 2 seconds to let people know what we’re having for lunch and when we last played the Wii Fit, instead of taking a few hours writing out our thoughts on the world. I would like to believe that people care more about my thoughts than my sandwich, but does that make it any easier to take some time out of each day to write some more? Not really.
So here I am, writing about silly things like the evolution of blogging. Sometimes, I write about other silly things like wireless security systems or baby play mats. Argh. The only consolation is that I do have a journal site somewhere out there that I keep generally private, but I still don’t update it all that often, unfortunately.
Well, I’ll keep on plugging, I suppose.
