I just finished a course on Monday, and as a gift to myself I’m taking the month of February off of school. I took two courses between September and now. With moving, and working, house-keeping, and puppy-rearing it’s been… well… a crappy sort of existence. So, February is/was going to be a gift. Sort of. I have big plans to do some work around the house, inside. Some painting, some tiling in the kitchen, some general cozying and settling in.
And then…
Well, I still have all that planned but work is sort of getting in the way. I’m going to be on the road a bit in February, starting tomorrow afternoon/the following morning and ongoing until someone can be hired in the other city to do the job I’m going to be pseudo covering. Which sucks. I’m going to miss the boyfriend and the puppy, “my boys.” I’m going to be driving tonnes in rented cars on crappy winter roads. I’m not going to get ANY of my home improvement projects finished… and I’m setting a bad precedent that’s going to cause the company to send me on random field trips whenever they please.
But today is ok. Today is cold out, but sunny. I think we’re going to get bundled up and go for a bit of a hike in the early afternoon sun. I’m ordering some big prints of a few of my photos and I’m going to frame them and hang them around the house when they get here. I’m going to be tired this month, but I’m going to make the freedom from essays and assignments and calculating the book value of common shares for a company that doesn’t even exist worthwhile.
And, I’m hoping to update every day.