Frozen Nowhere

Lately i have been suffering from what I can only describe as exhaustion. I’m sure there is likely another reason for it, a more insidious reason lurking in my subconscious… but for now I would rather deal with it on the surface and not get too far into the details of what is failing in my psyche.

Things were just feeling… draggy. 

Work is seriously kicking my butt lately. Not a shock. Summer and fall are our busy times, and even though the sector I work in (construction) slowed down a bit in my area, we were relatively untouched from the larger recession and weathered the storm. What that meant for me was that although I had very little…

Hi there!
 
I would love to say that while I haven’t been writing here I have been out having wondrous adventures, the kind and variety you only see on tv shows about glorious 20 somethings.

Yeah, not so much… but thanks for thinking of me, but I don’t think that I’m really the kind of person who gets to have adventures.

Not really.
 
… and I’m in my mid-30s… so probably not so much of the “big adventures”…

Mostly I have been doing the solitary single mother thing. I go to work around 7:30am… I get there around 8am… I work work work for about 9 hours (though “coffee” and “lunch”) then…

 Autumn Rush…
 
The last week has gone by in a rush, what I call the “Autumn Rush”… The kids go back to school and everyone is starting to pack up their yards and harvest their gardens (and crops, because around here, the famers RULE), and the world of outside starts to be chilled in the mornings and evenings, and people start to pull into their homes more.
 
Last week it was actually SUMMERY here, for the first time in the entire year that temperatures were consistently over 15C, and it was nice. The kids got to wear their shorts and t’s to school and we had cool meals.

This week the mornings are…

As I have mentioned previously, I have been feeling the pull of craftiness a little more with the supposed changing of the seasons (although, it seems to be changing from the Spring-from-Hell-that-Took-Over-Summer to Summer-that-forgot-Us) so i thought I would detail the different little ideas that have been percolating in the back of my head lately:

(in no particular order, of course)

1. Mason jar cookie kits. I love making cookies. My kids love making cookies. But because I don’t always know if I have the necessary ingredients on hand (and I hate making a trip to the store to get one thing here and there) I don’t often do it. Of course, there are some cookies (like gingerbread) that have

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Umm… Autumn?

The disclaimer: Sorry I haven’t been around much lately. It’s not that I don’t have things to share with the unknown readers out there (or the Russian spambots or the creepy internet stalkers or the google webspiders)… its just that I have been busy at work. And since work is when I write, I haven’t been writing. I haven’t forgotten everyone (imaginary or otherwise) that might be out there in the shadows…

It’s now September. 

So, what does that mean? Well, the kids have returned to school (no, I’m not a home/unschooler) and their extracurricular activities — Tae Kwon Do for BoyChild and Irish Dance for Girl Child (and

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