I enjoy:

• playing music really loud when I’m in the car alone and trying to sing harmonies to electro-pop music
• taking my road bike out for the first time of the season
• the feeling after you’ve just really cleared your throat.. when you’re sick
• watching Wallace and Gromit short films and noticing all the quirky, ironic and detailed humour inside (claymation figures doing pottery!?)
• getting invited to lunch
• wearing rubber boots

Still trying:

• to heal from getting sick
• to get a contact lens into either eye
• to determine how I will drive to BC this summer and where I will stop
• to dream a little bigger
• to find a little more courage
• to rely on God rather than myself

Just today I started feeling sick.  David was sick earlier in the week so it’s not that much of a surprise.  As the day went on, it got gradually worse with sneezing and headaches.

And for some reason I decided that it was a good idea to pick up my new glasses — new frames and lenses.  Bad decision… now I definitely have a headache more due to the change in prescription.  Apparently my prescription has lowered since 5 years ago.  Result is that everything looks a lot more vibrant and sharp at mid to close distance, the contrast is really high, and I feel like I’m always cross-eyed.

I wanted to switch back to my old pair … such a temptation but it’s not a good idea to keep switching back and forth.

Also, I was typing on Peter’s laptop in QWERTY and it was sooo hard.  I had to look at almost every key as I typed.  I’m not amazing at Dvorak quite yet, but I’ve started to forget QWERTY (unless it’s with my thumbs on my BlackBerry).  What a strange feeling to have started to forget something I’ve spent the last decade or more perfecting (cue spiritual analogy of your choice).

And none of this is even real pain.

Things I enjoy:

- biking in a blizzard

- driving the Limoment (my car, the Honda Element) in a blizzard

- pulling my windshield wipers up so they don’t freeze on overnight

- having clean laundry

- eating maple walnut ice cream

- reading Relevant magazine

Not so like:

- getting really wet while biking through slush

- initiating the doing laundry process

I desire to:

- make someone smile more than they’ve ever smiled in their life

- sleep really late but still get a full night’s sleep before 8am arrives

- drive across Canada but not have to pay for so much gas

One great benefit from the Olympics is the world-class advertising that gets featured… that’s right, I’m not kidding.

Somehow Sarah Brightman makes it into almost every Olympics, somehow!  Hehe.

Can you pick out the commercial?

So a few days ago I started typing in Dvorak again. I had tried about a year ago but gave up because it was too hard and I didn’t have the patience. Now I am giving it my all and using it all the time to force it into my brain. I find the ‘the’ very handy, and the ‘f’ particularly challenging.

When I first moved to Ottawa, everything was new and I wanted to experience it all.  Now I’ve seen most everything that I want to, and I’ve grown quite comfortable.  But I need continuous variety and newness or else I will grow demotivated and disengaged.  Do you find you need this or do you function best in an environment that you already are familiar with?