#MakesWinterGreat

I don't do winter well. I have an aversion to extreme temperatures, and yet I live in an extreme climate that can drop down to -35C in the middle of the winter and stay there for a week or get colder just for fun. Nothing like the weather saying -40C with a wind chill to make it feel like -52C. I've been outside walking home from the university in temperatures where your skin freezes in under 30 seconds... only getting home and hearing the weather warning about staying inside... great, I hear about it now?

I honestly don't think my family in Australia can even believe that the planet has places that get this cold. I dealt with my ever growing testiness with winter and ranted about it from time to time... but then I went to Mexico in February of 2009 and I realized that we didn't need to live this way. In the time it takes me to drive to my grandmothers I could be flying and landing in a place with palm trees.

Apparently I have become more vocal in my despising of winter... probably a bit unbearable at times.

So this year I've decided to do something different. I'm going to try and focus on all the good things that come about from the season and try to bundle up enough that the wind doesn't get me an make me into a grumpy gusset. I'm using twitter to keep track of them. I have a standby list of things that I thought up a few days ago but I'm mostly going to try and take ideas from my every day life. It is making me feel like I'm a little bit more ready for winter.

Wish me luck

A new direction

Alright, so I'm back in Canada after another adventure around the world. Slowly I'm making my way back to Regina and questioning what I should do with my life and where I'll be living 5 months from now. I don't know why that time seems to be important but it seems as good as any... wait... that would be my birthday... good job mind for keeping up on things when I'm just sitting back.

I've been thinking more and more about my past goals of keeping this blog up to date, but that just doesn't seem my style. (much like how comas seem to escape my notice most days till I really work at it)

I've been using a website called Ohlife which has pleased me to no end and keeps me on track with recording my day to day memories with email reminders. Very handy. So now I can focus on actually making this into a Blog with a theme? Pattern?

I've had a bunch of recommendations about what it could be about and I think a little mix would help things.

Sarah said way back at the start that I should record how I meet people. To be a helpful guide to others in need of learning the art of friendship.

A woman that I met in the UK last month said that I should write out all the crazy little stories from my traveling adventures.

Both of these I think would be really fun to write about and would not require keeping in a chronological order... where my life seems to break down if I try doing things like this.

So the plan is set. The stories are there in my brain and the people are out there to meet.

I think I might be addicted to libraries

I can't walk into a library without leaving with at least a book or two.

Two examples:
1: Yesterday I was returning some books and walked out with a bag just as full as I'd walked in with.

2: Today I was returning two that I finished last night... and I brought six more out of the building.

There is something about having all the books in one place that makes me think I might have the chance of reading them all if I just get faster. I did subsequently finish one on my way home. But I can't really claim that it was thanks to some huge reading speed that I might have. It was shortish, thick, sparing on words and images but was still a little fun to read. The title caught my eye as I was checking out. "If we ever break up this is my book". It inspired me to try out some amusing ideas... some that I don't think the intent was really there to begin with but will none the less hopefully give me a smile in the future.