Awake from the dead

Well, I wasn't actually dead, but didn't have any words to write in me.

2009 has been a challenging year for me. It began with serious bouts of pneumonia that then got complicated with bronchitis (lasting from January to March and then recovering from it after that). I missed lots of work, had temperatures as high as 104F and didn't have much energy for anything but sleep and work. I had to cancel my fun activities - such as singing and curling so that I could continue working. However, it was getting VERY stressful at work due to a boss that was unsympathetic about my health and who began putting more deadlines and pressure on me. In April I began looking for alternative work - which my boss found out about and decided to let me go before I could find anything. There are tough times out there these days but I do have high credentials so I hope to get something full-time soon (perhaps even with a better salary). In the interim I've had a few small jobs to keep me busy. The stress of the winter and early spring is gone and my health has returned so it wasn't a bad thing to have these changes (but would have preferred it without a gap in employment).

As such, the words for a blog didn't come.

But, these days I've been spending lots of time with wonderful friends. I spent a week-end with Anne Marie and other friends at the beginning of July, then had a friend down from Ottawa the next week-end and went camping with other friends last week-end. My weeks have been spent looking for work, gardening (when not raining), and doing a few small marketing, pr or writing jobs on the side for some old clients I had when I did full time consulting. Oh, I'm also struggling with not spending lots of money too.

In August I'll be looking forward to a friend visiting from Hungary (who used to live in Toronto but retired in her native land), taking a week-end in the country to enjoy corn-on-the-cob season and maybe doing some small renovations in my basement that are labour rather than financially intensive. .... and if I'm lucky ..... negotiating new employment when all the offers come in !!!!

Hopefully, I'll get more words back to write in a blog. Until then .... bisous