So this is weird: In January 2009 (I know this because I searched my own blog because I remember being ecstatic when I bought it) I downloaded Cornershop's "When I Was Born for the 7th Time" from iTunes. And now I can't find it anywhere. And I even said "Suck it up, princess" and was going to re-purchase it from iTunes except that album is no longer for sale there. Uh, what now?Naturally I now can think of relatively little other than how awesome that album is and how I would like to be listening to it right now, and so I am downloading "Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast" instead. Which is what I do every morning and accounts for my oh so pleasant demeanor.
Also, my brother has quit his job of ten years and is going to Lasqueti to work on the place. Yes. He is doing The Thing I Would Have Liked To Do But Don't Have The Skills For. His girlfriend has just returned from her European travels which is The Thing I Would Like To Do But Don't Have The Balls To Do Alone.
I'm glad he's going up there. He knows what the hell he's doing, but more importantly he needs to do something different. He's been at the same job for 10 years and though I haven't lived in or travelled in Europe, or done anything really remotely exciting, I have tried my hand in the construction, organic whole foods, transportation and distribution, software, and union environments to varying degrees of happiness and success.
I've also had a few relatively long term relationships, some short term ones, and some flings.
The point being that possibly I am working my way towards doing something a little more significant than changing jobs yet again or adding another notch on my bedpost (which is still somewhat sturdy, relatively).
My savings and my annual income both, independently, are more than what my mortgage is. So hopefully in roughly three years I will be afforded the ability to do whatever the hell I want for a brief period of time before returning home to stock shelves at Extra Foods to feed myself, and catch up on all the reading that I know I need to do and writing the book that will be widely panned by critics universally.
"Pedantic and overwrought." - New York Times
"Just... don't." - Montreal Gazette
"Angry and rambling with brief spurts of irrationality." - The Globe and Mail
6 comments:
Just do it! Sell your condo first... I would have loved to travel all over, but now it's too late. The only thing I would have changed about my life would have been to have saved more money and traveled the world. But I don't know if I could have done both. So I live vicariously through my kids and others... so do it! I'm needing a new person to stalk.
Yeah... watch this space for THREE YEARS...
i dont think i could go back to europe alone! it'd be lonely..
so many people do it though!
a girl i work with went to austrailia for a year by herself. gaak!
Yeah, it's better to go with someone and split the costs and also share the experience with. Maybe my mom will want to go with me, or I can cajole Michael into coming.
you'd love it. lots of culture, and wine and just stuff!
I think I'd love it so much I'd never want to come back.
It's definitely the number one thing on my Big Ticket to-do list right now. I will have to pick your brain for pointers and tips the next time I see you. :)
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