bluebacon

What challenges should I make myself do this year? NOTHING. I'd better shut up and stop coming up with more challenges for myself, otherwise I'll go crazy. Well no, let's backtrack. Do you know why I even bother coming up with resolutions to begin with? Because I get bored easily. No matter what I'm doing, once something becomes a routine and I learn how to do it well, it becomes easy and I get bored. So I came up with ways to mix it up a bit for me so that I have personal challenges I have to attain throughout the year that only I can judge if they're satisfactory.Well this time, I can just forget about it. Somehow I got myself into so many challenges, I just don't need any more. First of all, I got a new job! YAY! It's something similar and yet very different from what I had been doing since I started working. It's still fundraising but this time with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. It's the first time I've stepped out of my arts and c...

It's been over a year since I last posted anything. Normally at the end of each year I'd review the highlights of that year and how well (or not) I did with my resolutions,  then I would make my resolutions for the following year and psyche myself about all the challenges I'm imposing on myself. Obviously none of that happened. I can't even bring myself to review last year because none of what I had originally set out to do got done. Well that's not entirely true. I was on track up until June and that's when everything went beyond my control. Well I shouldn't be too quick to judge myself, I did accomplish some of the things I said I would... I did prove to myself that I could be a morning person. Like I promised I would, I went to the gym at 5am twice a week for twelve weeks without skipping. After that I still went, until June anyway... I sewed a dress from scratch. Seriously. It's not super perfect but it was good enough that I wore it to work a ...