Time for a little life catch-up, update. I love that I write these periodically for myself so I can look back on what happened when. My mind really is like is sieve and I struggle with remembering things I did with any great detail and when things happened. If I say something happened a few months ago, it could have been a few years ago for all I really know, without being able to look back and have actual facts of the details.
I can officially say that the construction is done! Well the parts that were contracted and paid for anyways. There’s still a TON that needs to be done around my house, but I need to pay off the current construction debt before I can add to it with anything new. In the meantime I dream for a new bathroom and kitchen and floors and lighting and and and, lol. One day! Unless I turn around and sell the house for a condo. But that’s a long term goal when I don’t have as many people in the house as I currently do and won’t be sharing the work around the house as I do now, with having others around. So for now, I continue to focus on the things I can do – continue to declutter and get things out of the house little by little and get everything more organized. It’s so hard letting things go but do I really need things that have been in my basement since I moved in and haven’t looked at or used since then? Baby steps!
So, I did the thing! I jumped in! I am now a student and in school again, after many years. I decided I’m taking a Bookkeeping certificate and doing the classes online at my own pace. I have 5 years to complete and I think it’s about 12 courses I need to take and can do them 1 at a time. I started the 1st one the beginning of July and just wrote the exam for it last week and finished the class with an 86%. I know I should be happy with the number but the perfectionist in me still wishes it was higher. I had some tech issues on the 1st test, which dropped that score and I had a little trouble with the last chapter and comprehending 1 part of it and needed to work a whole lot harder at the end there. But it’s a pass and I know it’s still a good number to be proud of. I have already signed up and started the 2nd class and this one is truly self guided, so I’m able to finish it faster than the allotted 3 months if I want to. I got all the work for it done in 1 month. I won’t know my final grade until the 3 months are over as the assignments will only be graded when the actual week it was due comes, but at least I don’t have to think about it. This means I signed up for the 3rd class and that one started 2 weeks ago, so I’m concentrating on that one now.
Now that Heroclix Worlds is done (it’s the last post I put up if you want to read that whole breakdown of how that trip went) and we’re back to the more quiet time of gaming again. There are some little local events happening but nothing as big to currently prepare for. We have States/Provincials now, so my brain is now in Silver building mode. I’m going to 2 events, this weekend in Montreal for QC provincials and next weekend in Oshawa for ON provincials. I’ve built about 5 different teams and I’ve narrowed it down to 2 different teams to play, so I’ll play one of them at each.
I really need to organize everything again, since rotation happened I need to put all the stuff that just rotated into the Silver closet. I’ve also made a decision that I’m going to get rid of my boxes for things (that aren’t duplicates that I’m going to sell/trade). The boxes for all the con stuff take up so much room and I’m ready to claim that space back in all my organizing and decluttering. It was a hard decision to get to and I haven’t completed it yet, but I’m starting to getting rid of them. I keep everything for potential personal use and the prices deteriorate so quickly that it’s not going to make that much of a difference without the box if I do one day decide to stop playing and sell the whole collection (don’t worry clix friends, that’s no where near a thought I’m having).
Jumping into health, the white blood cells are still a little high and have been for the last year. So I’ve got an appointment in a month with a blood specialist for a 2nd look at my test results to make sure it’s nothing more serious. My doctor also gave me a requisition for an xray for my left knee that is still hurting me after 3 years since I twisted something. At least the blood pressure has been steady, so the meds are helping keep it where it needs to be. What I’m struggling with most is the weather… specifically the lack of sunshine. I’m feeling it a whole lot more this year than I’ve noticed in years past. Not only is it dark when I’m leaving work, in the morning, it’s been so cloudy that I don’t see that glimmer of sun when waiting for the bus to get to work. It has only not been cloudy once in the last 3 weeks in the morning. I hope I can get a peek of it sometime soon. Anyone else with me on this?
Nothing else is jumping out at me to chat about so I’m going to hit post before this gets lost as I start writing about my Provincials experiences over the next few weeks!
Until next time, xoxo