Discovery: 60 hour weeks in an office + contact lenses = very scratched eyeballs. Guess who had to wear her old glasses for over a week so that her corneas could heal?
That being said, it felt healthier letting my eyeballs breathe for a while and it was a good chance to *finally* order an updated pair of glasses. My prescription is so bad that I couldn't even get the 1 hour service for new glasses. It's more like 10 days minimum for me. Add in the Christmas/New Year holiday season factor and I probably will not get my new glasses until 2015. C'est la vie!
With most of my December consumed by work, it was a welcome break to enjoy time with loved ones over the holidays. Boxing Day came with a special surprise. A few evenings ago a gentle blond giant of a man proposed to me in front of the giant Christmas tree at the legislature grounds. So I walked away from the prettily-lit grounds with Hachi and a brand new fiancé! I know right? Shit just got real. My theory? A good doggy daddy has great potential to be a good baby daddy. Plus, he's pretty good to me too. If you trust and respect someone's intellect, integrity, abilities AND he/she makes you laugh AND is kind AND you are still physically attracted to her/him after a good while ... then hey, it's kind of a solid formula.
A little sparkle helps a bit - not that a huge rock is the be-all or end-all. Not-at-all. If anything, it was a nice surprise that someone who is not so much into flash and glam was actually concerned about getting me something "sparkly" enough :) And yay, it doesn't rub against my engineering ring!
Soooo yeah.. there's some absorbing and deciding and compromising to be done over the next year. I'm definitely not one of those knowing women with a ton of set wedding specifics and preferences in their heads. Fortunately I have many girlfriends who have been there and done that - there is a wealth of knowledge at my fingertips. Between them and the interwebs, I should be okay.
But that can be put off for 2015. In the meantime, I continue to enjoy this much-needed break. My sis and I saw two consecutive amazing movies in a row about two amazing minds - the Imitation Game (Alan Turing) and the Theory of Everything (Stephen Hawking). I smell Oscar nominations for the lead actors. Beautiful beautiful beautiful portrayals. Big Hero 6 was great too. Plus there's been Harry Potter marathons on TV (thanks Space Channel!).
Mind Farts
-my crack cocaine is vegan ginger beef - i bring it to Christmas dinners just so i can partake in the eating of it
-i'm enjoying these 'UK white boys' who have managed to conjure up such soulful voices - hello Sam Smith and Hozier
-still not gonna be able to do this for a while:
ankle is still wonky and not much increased mobility in my spinning big toe. there's enough on my plate right now anyway. i can't get upset - first world problems
-i saw a documentary on genocide survivors on the Smithsonian channel and i just felt so sick and angry about what they had to endure ... such technological advances we've had but why can't people grasp the concept of empathy in this day and age?
-i'm currently reading Malala's biography and it makes me think of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls :( it's been so long and they still haven't been found
With most of my December consumed by work, it was a welcome break to enjoy time with loved ones over the holidays. Boxing Day came with a special surprise. A few evenings ago a gentle blond giant of a man proposed to me in front of the giant Christmas tree at the legislature grounds. So I walked away from the prettily-lit grounds with Hachi and a brand new fiancé! I know right? Shit just got real. My theory? A good doggy daddy has great potential to be a good baby daddy. Plus, he's pretty good to me too. If you trust and respect someone's intellect, integrity, abilities AND he/she makes you laugh AND is kind AND you are still physically attracted to her/him after a good while ... then hey, it's kind of a solid formula.
A little sparkle helps a bit - not that a huge rock is the be-all or end-all. Not-at-all. If anything, it was a nice surprise that someone who is not so much into flash and glam was actually concerned about getting me something "sparkly" enough :) And yay, it doesn't rub against my engineering ring!
Soooo yeah.. there's some absorbing and deciding and compromising to be done over the next year. I'm definitely not one of those knowing women with a ton of set wedding specifics and preferences in their heads. Fortunately I have many girlfriends who have been there and done that - there is a wealth of knowledge at my fingertips. Between them and the interwebs, I should be okay.
But that can be put off for 2015. In the meantime, I continue to enjoy this much-needed break. My sis and I saw two consecutive amazing movies in a row about two amazing minds - the Imitation Game (Alan Turing) and the Theory of Everything (Stephen Hawking). I smell Oscar nominations for the lead actors. Beautiful beautiful beautiful portrayals. Big Hero 6 was great too. Plus there's been Harry Potter marathons on TV (thanks Space Channel!).
Mind Farts
-my crack cocaine is vegan ginger beef - i bring it to Christmas dinners just so i can partake in the eating of it
-i'm enjoying these 'UK white boys' who have managed to conjure up such soulful voices - hello Sam Smith and Hozier
-still not gonna be able to do this for a while:
-i saw a documentary on genocide survivors on the Smithsonian channel and i just felt so sick and angry about what they had to endure ... such technological advances we've had but why can't people grasp the concept of empathy in this day and age?
-i'm currently reading Malala's biography and it makes me think of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls :( it's been so long and they still haven't been found
-a little closer to home: Rinelle Harper's horrific rape and attempted murder (how do humans rape a fellow human, throw her in a river and then try to kill her *again* after she tries to crawl out of the river on a winter night?) and the little 6 year old Aboriginal girl that was raped and also beaten nearly to death and then also left naked in the freezing cold to die. i will never understand. sometimes i wonder if women should be made to carry some kind of protection (pepper spray?) in order to even out the physical strength imbalance between the genders. i would hand out bazookas in certain parts of the world
