Month: March 2023

Finding it hard to sleep tonight. I’ve been rolling around in this bed for two hours now trying to get back to sleep. To no avail. I’m not ready to get up and start my day, but sleep looks to be lost to me in these wee hours of the morn. I don’t feel like starting to shovel. I think playing a video game or watching a movie are out. Hmph! YouTube it is then. I’m almost to 450, and then on my way to 500 consecutive days of writing. Woowzers. I was starting to get an inkling the other day for a new short story idea. Out in space, obviously. That seems to be where my mind wanders to. Straight up isolationist fiction. Thanks Covid! Easy to write about sad isolated people when we’ve been living in bubbles for the last three years or more now. Will give me an excuse to crack the giant solar system & universe books I got for Christmas from the Smithsonian! They looked so glossy! Can’t wait to do some story research! Giddy-up.

Had a really busy week this week. Thought I had got ahead of the curve on it, but was only partially successful at that. Could have been much worse. Still in a good place though. Chin up! Chipper outlook makes things easier to take. Yes! Can do attitude. Like water off a ducks back.

Could be an equally busy week ahead too. March Break looms on the horizon as well. Seems our winter didn’t feel like starting until February around here, so perhaps we’ll have all this snow and cold until deep into March or even early April. Should make the ski hills happy if that’s the case. Maybe I’ll take my eldest out snowboarding one day over the break. I’d love to get back onto some downhill skiis. Though I am worried about doing permanent damage to a leg or my head. Giv’er! I’m sure I’ll have more to say once the sun comes up on this fine March the 4th of 2023. Saturday – I am in you.

Isn’t so much the cold, or the blisteringly icy winds, but the fact that it makes my legs itch to the point that I scratch them until I bleed. I’m not sure if I have drier skin than normal, or if I have some sort of condition. But cool/cold weather will make my legs go beet red, and itch so badly I could claw my skin off if I don’t warm up in a reasonable amount of time. I can usually avoid this with two layers of long johns, thick pants, and snow pants, but it didn’t work so well this morning. Mind you I skipped the long John’s in favour of the snowpants. But I’ll have to rethink that later today at school pick up. As I am still sans car, so far more walking to be done until we get the second vehicle back from the shop. Yippy!

I have a long list of items to edit for today. Let us hope we are getting closer, rather than farther from the mark with each successive round of edits. Fingers crossed. Still have the french language versions to do, but I’ll need proper translations for that. Lots of legalese to parse. So best left to the professionals to look after that portion of the project.

Today is Friday, incase you were unaware. Another week into 2023! March has started. And not to mention that March break is just around the corner. Nine days off with the kids underfoot. Yay! Board games, video games, and maple syrup duties. I wonder if any kids movies are out in theaters or newly released on disc. They are too little for much of what I watch on streaming services. Which means the majority of the films I own are unsuitable for kids of their age. Makes a home bound movie date just that much harder to do.

I did manage to sort through three closets this week. Which makes me happy. It was a lot of shuffling materials between them. But I sorted them out, cleaned up the shelves, and segregated the belongings contained within, so that now, I don’t have to worry about the kids getting into my old office attire, or finding expensive sweaters crumpled on the floor of a closet with dirty hand/foot prints on them. I also managed to thin out my eldest t-shirt drawer, full of I’ll fitting shirts, and stuff they won’t wear. You can actually open & close the drawer now! Bonus! Will need to tackle pants next. I think we’ve had a growth spurt as lots of pants don’t go below the ankle any more. Box it up and keep it for the next kid down the line! New stuff in, old stuff out! Gotta keep the line moving. Anyway, I have lots to do today. So I best get cracking. Ciao Bella!

Have been dealing with this few a couple years now, as both pockets started to go, and now the central zippers have given out too. The fabric is willing where the metallic teeth elements are but the slider itself is not. These were very well aconstructed garments back when I hot them. I have three, two bulky heavier material sweaters, and a lighter material one. I guess I’ve had some of them for a decade or more so they don’t really owe me anything, but I’m still unhappy about it. Perhaps I’m being petty, but I would like to think that gear this pricey would stand the test of time.

For the most part they still keep me warm, and give me a semi secure spot to put my phone. If I half zip it I can atleast stop the phone from falling out, which is a plus. That’s my gripe for today. Time to eat, and get on with work. Gotta raise the funds to pay for this new grinding, vibration, noise from the front end of my wife’s vehicle. Round and round we go. Brakes, wheel bearings, rotors, calipers, tie rods… the list of fixable consumables is endless. Blargh!

It has been a busy one today, let me tell you. What a Hump-Day it has turned out to be. Had to red line it from 8:30am until a little while ago when I actually broke to eat my breakfast/lunch. I think I’ve managed to get ahead of the bulk of my work with one coordinated mad dash at it. Had to spot fill some gaps on a couple projects for another client inbetween all these new items. But I feel I am in good stead, as I wait on high resolution final assets from external partners. Or maybe not, who can tell this early on. Good place to be if all is well. I feel slightly less uncomfortable now. Bit of a panic when 13/14 new items come in at once that are all slightly related in one form or another. Well two camps of artwork, but roughly joined. If you know what I mean. Even had some new Photoshop compositing work added into the mix today. Good to stretch those muscles every now & again.

No major clear outs today. I got through some closets yesterday, and that seems to have satiated my desire to purge/clean/reorganize matters. I’d love to do much, much more. But I can only move around so many things without input from the rest of the family. Clothing swaps, donations, garbage runs. It has to be coordinated. My kids seem to cling to old clothes and stuff that they never wear, just to artificially inflate their closets. Pass off the too small/don’t like – don’t wear items, and make room for the next size up gear we have stored away. Keep the chain moving. Takes effort, both physical and mental to stay on top of it. Plus I’d love to reclaim the space from all this unused, or unwanted gear. House just feels better when every single closet and corner is not packed to the rafters with unused clothing of every shape, colour, cut & design.

Part of me loves the minimalist ideal, and part of me wants cozy eclectic collections of things. Hard balance to strike around these parts. School pick up in an hour. Back to work then! Ciao Bella!