Monday, July 28, 2008

As you can see, the blog has received a bit of a renovation in appearance to reflect its new mission. Sheila and I are now engaged and began working with this blog to change it into a kind of joint enterprise. I will add my own reflections and comments with periodic contributions. My writing is distributed between this blog, which will be dedicated more towards posts concerning the two of us and our outlook, and my original blog, my Exospective, here.
I hope you like the new look. I'm not completely done modifying the style document and the graphics could potentially receive further tweaking. A few colors might change, but otherwise our new look is ready. Please feel free to leave comments or suggestions.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

So I am engaged. Those of you who follow my blog probably already know this and I'm not offending any of you by not personally telling you and/or giving you a play by play of the proposal. Square Victoria is now one of my favorites places in the city.
It's still kind of hard to believe that I'll be moving out in a month and never moving back in. It's still kind of hard to believe that I'm a big girl now. Of course, there have been life events that have indicated this to me: going into university, getting my undergraduate degree, getting accepted into medicine, working my first job as a health care professional, signing a lease for an apartment...but none so striking as getting engaged and moving out. Big first strides.
Working this summer though has taught me, among other things, that I'm not cut out to work in geriatrics. The constant reminder of death, the morbid conversations, seeing people who appear to have lost their souls to the ravaging disease of dementia...the nursing home is a sad sad place. I hope I never end up in a place like that. It's also a powerful reminder of the importance of relationship - the residents who have constant visits from friends and family, people who care about them...they are the most blessed.
I feel like the summer is running out on me. So many wedding preparations to take care of still, so much packing and planning to do. I am busy and the summer is disappearing.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Yes, I've been delinquent in my postings. Yes, I've lost the motivation for blogging. Hopefully that'll soon change.
I signed the lease on my first "real" place a few weeks ago. A nice 2 1/2 in Hamilton right in between McMaster and the downtown core - a good distance between both. Close enough to the GO train station that it won't take me forever to commute into Toronto to travel to New York or home. Picture:

That actually looks nothing like the place that I have.
You get the idea.
So here I am flipping through IKEA catalogues and looking at AC units in the Canadian Tire flyer and looking up moving trucks online.
It's funny to think that I won't be coming back home.