I'm pretty confident that 2012 is going to be better than 2011. One of the things that makes me sure of this is that I now have Elite status on Air Canada. Airports, a huge source of misery, are set to be less miserable with access to the lounge (or maybe I'll just get liquored ...
![Dotty Attie, Backflip [detail], 2009](http://www.catehuston.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/150x150xand-who-knows-150x150.jpg.pagespeed.ic.g8S1Y_iqqX.jpg "Dotty Attie, Backflip [detail], 2009")
Back in high school, my friends and I went through a phase of being into The Sims. I remember one conversation, when my friend said her sim-child had been taken off to military school. I hadn't known that could happen. She, perceptively, said that she bet my sim-children are all straight-A students. They were. And I ...
UPDATE: I expressed myself very badly in this post. As a result, I hurt and offended some good people, and some of them were quick to let me know. I’m sorry. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by the response, but as soon as I saw the comments I knew I’d made a mistake. I appreciate ...
It has been a crazy couple of weeks. The highs have been... high. The lows have been... low. Some of the highs and lows have come with associated "I don't suck as much as I thought!" and "argh I'm an utter failure" emotional turmoil. Some have just been happy. Some have just been really, really ...
On the way to Toronto my friend is telling me I need to give up bagels, and I say, there's enough change in my life right now without introducing more. But that I think it will be better next month. She says, "you always think that; you said that in August, too". She's right. This month's ...
It was inevitable, the amount I've been flitting about, and the number of bugs that have been going round, but Thursday last week I came home early and pretty much keeled over. I barely got up for 3 days. Monday I got up but I was berating myself for being so lazy, annoyed at myself ...
August was about change. I switched projects. We are buying a new car and will hopefully start taking more local trips. I'm trying a new trainer - with the amount of travel I'm doing, I need more flexibility. I've been changing the way we do women in CS stuff, and trying to decentralize and delegate ...
I have had a pretty appalling week in terms of the difference between what I wanted to achieve, and what I did achieve. Things outside my control: Re-aggravating shoulder injury. So much pain. Increased sleeping due to pain killers. Two trips to chiro (feeling a lot better now - finally). Car is broken and needs a bunch of work, so we ...
For a long time, I've been doing this thing where I GO GO GO like a crazy person and then crash. And I always come up with a plan, like "take on less", or "be more organized" or some other strategy. And these are helpful, absolutely, but at best they seem to result in a different ...
My goal for July was to deal with bureaucracy and explore more. My success was so-so. I got my work-permit sorted, and found out how to get my tax form from IBM (still do to - ask for it). And my boyfriend and I took a trip to Paris... Ontario. But, a lot of my organizational energy went ...
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