Category: Colour spectrum
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Perseverence Pays Off…
The last couple of weeks have been a blur. Lynn and I travelled home from Calgary on May 1 and I was back in the office on May 2. To say that heading into the office after a week off felt like walking into a meat grinder is almost an understatement. I had quite a…
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Whirlwind…
The last couple of weeks have been … intense. Just about two weeks ago, we said goodbye to our precious Willow. We ultimately ended up having the vet come out on the Monday as we detected another problem with her and we just didn’t want her suffering any more. I’m not going to lie; I…
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It’s hard to say goodbye…
Suffice it to say, 2023 is already starting off on the wrong foot. While I have some positive stuff going on as far as work goes, which I can’t speak about quite yet, on the home front things have been rough. I found out that Noreen, my biological dad’s wife, passed away on Dec. 31.…
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Getting a curve ball…
To say that October has not gone according to plan is … something of an understatement. I reached out to Dr. M at the centre to find out when I was on the radar to be seen as the fall is when we usually check in. The news I received ground me to halt. P,…
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Productive downtime
My time on the bench is coming to an end. I worked Monday and Thursday as full days this week, and Tuesday and today are half days. Due to a rodeo kicking off tonight in Stettler, I’m also working this weekend. I’m okay with it though, I love covering rodeo! I’ve been out shooting in…
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Finding routines…
I think something that has been helping my mental health so much lately has been a matter of routine. Getting up and going to bed at around the same time every day has really helped with that. Usually, my first alarm goes off at 0640-hrs, with me normally out of bed a little out of…
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Changes afoot…
It’s official, sports fans. My permanent part-time position is transitioning to a permanent full-time position effective next Monday, with my new position as the new multi-media journalist for Stettler and Castor. The only real changes between what I am doing now and the position is that the new position will be more focused on Castor…
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Finding positive stress…
It’s hard to describe, but this week has been equally frustratingly busy and agonizingly slow. This was was my first week doing layout for both papers, which was definitely some added challenge. Still, being so early in the new year, combined with cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 blowing up across the province, it…
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Feeling Driven…
Today was a sharp contrast compared to the day off I took yesterday. Unfortunately, we said goodbye to Lynn’s mom early this morning. With cold and snowy weather moving into the region again starting tomorrow, she decided to take off a couple days earlier than planned. After she left, I fired up the Playstation for…
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A blank page…
Today is the first day of a new year, a blank page in a fresh chapter of life. What will be accomplished this year? What highs will elevate us beyond our highest expectations? What lows will challenge us to the edge of our ability to cope? Regardless of our expectations for the year, highs and…
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Learning, Quickly…
It is that time of year again where time seems to have little meaning; that twilight zone between Christmas and New Year’s where the days just seem to bleed together. While Lynn is taking some much needed time off -she closed the store from Dec. 24 until just after the new year- I have fallen…
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Another Christmas done…
Another Christmas is done with. I actually turned my alarms off and let myself wake up when I woke up, which was just after 9 a.m., definitely late for me. It was nice being able to not have to worry about getting up. When I did eventually get moving, I grabbed some coffee and caught…
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Time flies…
It has been a minute since I’ve been able to come up for air long enough to write. To say the last couple of weeks have been busy is an understatement. Work has been keeping me busy. It has definitely been more hours than I was expecting, but I am not complaining. The work is…
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Contemplating life’s pathways…
As another week draws to an end, I find myself in a contemplative mood. I’m feeling better than I have in I don’t know how long. I’m feeling stronger. Calmer. At peace. Yet, this fall has been brutal. I’ve lost friends to cancer and friends to COVID. Regardless, I’ve had to say goodbye to too…
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Grateful for the journey…
How the hell did it get to be the end of November already? Suffice it to say, the month of November has been an extremely busy one. I admit, I am enjoying my new role with the paper, though the transition maybe hasn’t been quite as smooth as I had potentially hoped. While my writing…
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Hell of a ride… Climbing through life in my Three-foot world…
Well, it’s been a week. A busy one at that. I hit the ground running at work, working out of the paper’s Stettler office both Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon. Wednesday, Thursday, and half-day on Friday I ended up working out of my home office doing a bunch of stories, watching a bunch of training…
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Looking forward to next steps…
I’m nervous, yet excited at the same tomorrow. Tomorrow, I embark on the next step of a journey that I started four years ago, when I start writing as a freelancer for my local paper. Tomorrow, after four years, I officially join the publication as a staff writer. I know that the job is only…
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Bouncing Back…
The last few days have been busy, but a much slower pace than previous weeks. I managed to get caught up with work, and focus some on school, catching up on some English reading and working on my Communications assignment. My Communications assignment currently needs one more editing pass before submission, which I’m aiming to…
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Growth in challenge…
Unfortunately, I’ve had a little bit of a reality check lately. I got my second assignment done for my Prose class, as well as the first course for my Communications. The assignment for the Communications course was okay, however the Prose I am finding challenging. I ended up with a score of 62 per cent…
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Learning to make adjustments…
The last few days I have fallen into a fairly easy rhythm. After getting knocked off track for a few days, I’ve gotten back in to the groove of my workout routine, the reading is for my coursework is going well, and work has slowed down enough so as to allow me to catch my…
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Feeling fortunate…
This has turned into a crazy week… Aside from a doctor’s appointment on Monday, the day was pretty light. I got some reading done for school, and got my first assignment done and submitted for my communications course. Tuesday is where all hell broke loose. I had a pair of meetings on Tuesday, as well…
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Progress…
Well, I managed to get my second assignment submitted for my Prose course, along with the first assignment for my Communications course. I’ve also managed to start on the first of three novels I’ll be studying as part of Prose. Slowly but surely, I’m making forward progress. This week has been picking up as far…