Looking Ahead
Spring! It's officially here! Hurray for warm weather and green plants. I really enjoy this time of the year, nice weather and good times are ahead. If there is one thing I regret about my current diet is the fact that it started in winter. My exercise routine, which was going great, is all messed up thanks to bad weather and being sick a few weeks ago. So for those of you looking for a time to get healthy well, now would be a great time! With the coming of spring comes a new season of venturing outdoors, into the light! This weekend I bought a bike and on one of my walks this weekend I found the Greenway so hopefully this combination will yield some good results. All I need now is a helmet and some tight bicycle shorts (kidding).
Of course with the return of nice weather also means the return of bugs, lots and lots of bugs, to my home. Just one more item to add to the “Reasons to Burn Current Dwelling Down” list. Uhg. I can happily say that I can't wait to find a place to move to, once that whole pesky question of if I have a reliable job in the future is answered. This week was supposed to be one with (tiny minor) answers and par the course none were provided. To bide my time I am playing around on some of these new game sites called Careerbuilder and Hotjobs, its a strange game but one that is strangely addicting. You fill out all this information about yourself and well it's kinda like fishing and you are the fish. I figure that my chain has been yanked around long enough and if my current work environment won't even provide me with basic information then it doesn't hurt to look for other places. The worst case scenario? I work at my current employer the best case? I find a job as a video editor that actually allows me to edit. Who'd a guessed?
The next coming week should be full of activity though even if I wasn't looking for places to live and work to do, my schedule would be jammed full. The end of the month is fast approaching meaning that I need to get a Special Topics together, I'm thinking it might be about either video games or the sobering reality of being a writer. In Buttery Goodness a new review for “How to Train Your Dragon” will be posted next weekend right after I see it. Just those two posts on top of my usual “What's Going On!?” post will prove to be busy enough. However the fun is only just beginning as I need to select and edit the stories that Musings of Calliope will be reading in April along with various other projects sprinkled in for good measure. With this sort of onerous workload coming up, one would think that I would be feeling depressed or overwhelmed but to be honest I am really excited about it all.
This week at work we had the added stress of finding out that one of our co-workers had passed away from cancer on Monday. It was rather unexpected as she had been back from treatments a few weeks ago and we thought she was doing better. The viewing was on Thursday and it made me reflect upon the fragility of life and how short it can be. It forced me to look at my own life and to see areas that need improving and to ask questions about the life I'm living. Sure I have a lot of big unanswered questions coming up (rather quickly I might add) but these are transitory problems. I still have my imagination and my laptop to put them into and of course this website to fling my ideas out into the cold emptiness of the internet and I find myself strangely content and happy. This whole situation has made me sit down and meditate on the question of what's really important in my life and I think I have an answer that satisfies my curiosity. My faith, my imagination and my friends are all I need and you know what, the world can't take those away. Maybe I've just had to much sunlight this past week but I think the future is bright and things; things will work out for the best. Sayonara.
