An update for my friends, who I miss a lot!!
I have no life right now. There is so much going on that I haven't had a social life since last summer.
I'm barely keeping up with life right now.
Things with Allan are wonderful. I have marvellous and loving friends. Life overall is fantastic. Allan is moving here May 1st, but his workplace (a major bank with lots of offices in the downtown core) has been giving him a hard time about transferring to Toronto for the past six months. His job situation is still uncertain, and time is running out. Grrrrr.....
We're looking for an apartment from two different cities, seeing each other only on weekends while he remains working in complete isolation during the week, at a full-time job he hates. he's also packing up his 22 year marriage and getting rid of a lot of excess baggage (literally). I've got to pack too, but we still don't have a place yet, and it doesn't feel like we're moving until we do, plus it's hard to find time to pack amongst everything else. Still, the first two groups of people looked at my apartment in all its current glory today, so we've gotta figure something out.
RENEGADE's business is building momentum slowly and steadily (much better than being a flash in the pan), and the community centre feel of it is now starting to get more established. There's Yoga, Games Night, Arts & Crafts Night, Kinky Tinkering (tomorrow). Next week we introduce Movie Night. I've started to book workshops there, too. Frysteev has been working really hard lately and lots of good things are getting done. Calls are coming in for bookings in July, which is perfect. That's how far ahead people should be booking to fill the calendar well ahead of time. I need to fill up Fridays somehow.
I'm spending every other day working at my part-time job, on which I'm on payroll (yay for contributing to EI and paying taxes to reduce my taxes in the future!). I'm back for the third time, writing job specs and interview questions, screening resumes, etc. for the same company, only with what's now the fourth name they've had. The work I'm paid an hourly rate to do is tedious, time-consuming and complex, so it wears me out. :P
I'm doing some career counselling, some individual counselling and whatever else I can do to earn enough cash to live on. I'm spending as little as I can manage. I'm also trying to manage some delegated tasks given to generous and helpful volunteers, and trying to stay on top of everything that needs to get done for RENEGADE. I constantly feel like I'm behind, but I'm a finite resource, and it would take time to show someone how to do what I'm doing so they can help me with it, so I'm limited in what I have the time to reasonably delegate.
Right now, and for the next little while, everything revolves around RENEGADE, making an income and preparing to move. If you're ever able to come to my hangout and visit, I'd just *love* that, but getting away from there on evenings and weekends has become nearly impossible as it fills up with events, which, in turn, help me earn enough to live on and eventually dump the part-time job.
That doesn't even include paying my bills on time, doing my taxes, seeing potential apartments, keeping up with my laundry and recycling, feeding myself and getting sleep!!
I haven't had the chance to do something social outside of RENEGADE more than once a month or so, lately, and never on a Saturday. Most of the time I have the chance, I'm too exhausted to get up the energy to go out, so I stay home to relax... which is now a vicious cycle. I've become increasingly reclusive, for an extreme extrovert. I'm not sleeping that well. I've lost weight because of all this stress, which means all of my clothing is too big, with few exceptions.
I would love to see your cute faces, but life is in the way right now, which sucks... but I hope to fix that in the near future. I love and miss my friends.
*hugs* Love, Dana
I'm barely keeping up with life right now.
Things with Allan are wonderful. I have marvellous and loving friends. Life overall is fantastic. Allan is moving here May 1st, but his workplace (a major bank with lots of offices in the downtown core) has been giving him a hard time about transferring to Toronto for the past six months. His job situation is still uncertain, and time is running out. Grrrrr.....
We're looking for an apartment from two different cities, seeing each other only on weekends while he remains working in complete isolation during the week, at a full-time job he hates. he's also packing up his 22 year marriage and getting rid of a lot of excess baggage (literally). I've got to pack too, but we still don't have a place yet, and it doesn't feel like we're moving until we do, plus it's hard to find time to pack amongst everything else. Still, the first two groups of people looked at my apartment in all its current glory today, so we've gotta figure something out.
RENEGADE's business is building momentum slowly and steadily (much better than being a flash in the pan), and the community centre feel of it is now starting to get more established. There's Yoga, Games Night, Arts & Crafts Night, Kinky Tinkering (tomorrow). Next week we introduce Movie Night. I've started to book workshops there, too. Frysteev has been working really hard lately and lots of good things are getting done. Calls are coming in for bookings in July, which is perfect. That's how far ahead people should be booking to fill the calendar well ahead of time. I need to fill up Fridays somehow.
I'm spending every other day working at my part-time job, on which I'm on payroll (yay for contributing to EI and paying taxes to reduce my taxes in the future!). I'm back for the third time, writing job specs and interview questions, screening resumes, etc. for the same company, only with what's now the fourth name they've had. The work I'm paid an hourly rate to do is tedious, time-consuming and complex, so it wears me out. :P
I'm doing some career counselling, some individual counselling and whatever else I can do to earn enough cash to live on. I'm spending as little as I can manage. I'm also trying to manage some delegated tasks given to generous and helpful volunteers, and trying to stay on top of everything that needs to get done for RENEGADE. I constantly feel like I'm behind, but I'm a finite resource, and it would take time to show someone how to do what I'm doing so they can help me with it, so I'm limited in what I have the time to reasonably delegate.
Right now, and for the next little while, everything revolves around RENEGADE, making an income and preparing to move. If you're ever able to come to my hangout and visit, I'd just *love* that, but getting away from there on evenings and weekends has become nearly impossible as it fills up with events, which, in turn, help me earn enough to live on and eventually dump the part-time job.
That doesn't even include paying my bills on time, doing my taxes, seeing potential apartments, keeping up with my laundry and recycling, feeding myself and getting sleep!!
I haven't had the chance to do something social outside of RENEGADE more than once a month or so, lately, and never on a Saturday. Most of the time I have the chance, I'm too exhausted to get up the energy to go out, so I stay home to relax... which is now a vicious cycle. I've become increasingly reclusive, for an extreme extrovert. I'm not sleeping that well. I've lost weight because of all this stress, which means all of my clothing is too big, with few exceptions.
I would love to see your cute faces, but life is in the way right now, which sucks... but I hope to fix that in the near future. I love and miss my friends.
*hugs* Love, Dana