Reconnecting to oneself

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. About whats making my unhappy with how life currently is, and how I can turn that all around. I've come to a few realisations and made a few decisions for myself about how things will be changing from here on out...

First of all, I'll stop neglecting this place for starters! I miss writing, and I definitely miss having that creative outlet. Even if no one reads this but myself, it will be a place where I can express myself and be creative.

Secondly, I'm doing a lot more cooking, baking etc. Ever since I left the states, my cooking outlet has been neglecting. I used to cook dinner so much, and i miss that... I even miss baking. Though I have decided to do the whole baking thing the proper way now - I'm baking from scratch. I made some yummy melt in your mouth chocolate chip muffins today and feeling pretty darn proud I must admit.

Lastly, I'm going to be getting out there and doing more photography. I've been seriously neglecting my urges to be out in the world, capturing moments in time on camera. Mostly due to giving work every ounce of energy and focus and having nothing left when it comes to having a day or two off. Then there's the whole thing that i'm worried to go too far in case they want to call me in.

Daffodils, they always make me feel happy.
September 1st 2009

Hubby and I went on a bit of a date yesterday. We went to the movies and saw "District 9" and followed it up with dinner at Denny's. I gotta say I wasn't overly impressed with the movie - when I'm sitting there wondering if i could get away with reading a book using the led lights on the side of the chairs (and later found out hubby wanted to walk out and get his money back about half way through). I can see social parallels with the movie and life, and the graphics were pretty good - It just, it just didn't have it for me. We had a choice - district 9 or GI Joe, and we both agreed afterwards we should have gone to the GI Joe showing.

Dinner was good, once we finally got our orders taken (the waitress wasn't particularly efficient). I had a chicken burger, with ranch sauce on it - pretty darn good.

Today's been pretty productive as well.. Walked to the shops, pick up some measuring cups, and spoons, and got some beer battered fish for dinner tomorrow night. Got home and cleaned the kitchen and lounge and bathroom, did some baking, played world of warcraft for about an hour and just generally relaxed. Next up its catching up on the laundry and get dinner going - and hopefully finish "Kushiel's Dart" tonight (hey these 900 page books take a wee bit longer to read lol).

Reconnected

Well, I'm back online again - and (hopefully) in a way that means i'll be able to regularly update (providing I remember!).

Things are going well, work has been very busy - but i'm happy about that. The extra work has been coming in handy. Unfortunately it means i've been a bit tired to do much else besides read, text and watch the odd dvd/tv.

Still having immigration issues but thats not something we expected to change overnight despite getting a local member of parliment involved in our situation. It did however get them to send the hubby's passport back (they just forgot to stamp it/put the visa in it) - so they emailed me (why not him?) requesting it back. They've had it back for a few days now and still no word from them about what's going on - trying to get his caseworker to talk to us is like trying to find a four leaf clover in a field the size of new zealand! Positive energy though, they WILL get this sorted, and in a timely manner.. i hope.

I've been playing a bit of pogo today since its my day off work, we got offered a 14 day free trial of the club section (which i didn't think it would give it to me since i'd been a paid member in the past - but it did!). So for the next fortnight i'll be pottering around on there when i'm bored. We got the badges for last week done so that was amusing for today.

Well i'd better get going, thats a general update on whats been going on. I miss you guys and hope to catch up very soon xoxoxox