I've been thinking a lot lately about resurrecting my blog. I never intended to abandon it as I have, I just seemed to stop having enough time and headspace to write. Such is life, I suppose?
It's a magical day here today. I am all dressed up ready to go out and carry out a bit of weed control on our land. Not a very glamourous job but it's still nice to get out amongst the trees and get some excersize at the same time. It's also necessary work as we have had so much rain this spring, more than ever recorded before apparently, which means that, although it's great for the garden and the trees we have planted, the weeds are also going beserk.
This year has been quite insane for me. WD was doing her last year of university, and due to a few accommodation problems in the city, as well as lots of money issues, she spent most of the year at home, where she set up her workshop in the shed and set about creating her final year collection. If you know her name you can seach and read her blog too :) I ended up helping her a lot as she doesn't have her driver's licence so I got roped into the fabric sourcing and repeated delivery of her and her creations to the city and back. I also worked on one of her side projects, making silver jewellery. The jewellery is now (from yesterday)stocked in a trendy little shop in the city. I hope it sells well. I am nervous about it as I hadn't done any silversmithing for over ten years. It's just like riding a bike though, I hadn't forgotten how.
The other major thing going on for me is that we are broke :( I spent far too much money helping WD get through this year, as well as sending her to the UK for her internship. Maybe that would have been okay if we hadn't had such a shocking year with the business. It's a carry over from the GFC I suppose, but we had our worst year on record and S is really unhappy as well. He's not as young as he used to be and is in a lot of pain with the physical stuff. It sucks getting older. He's also been studying, doing really well ofcourse. Once again he discouraged me from studying and I quit, instead slotting back into my 'support for everyone else' role. I feel like a failure, what's new?
Tonight is WD's offical graduation ceremony, so we are back off to the city for that. It's pretty well only an hour from here so it's not too bad. It used to take 1.5 hours when we lived at the beach. The move has been great in so many ways, but stressful as well. I still don't feel settled here but I'm getting there. We go back to the old house quite often as we have friends renting it. The house looks nicer now than it ever did when we lived there, but the garden is dreadful. We need to go and spend a few weekends tidying it up, and trimming trees. The ocean view is almost gone, as they don't trim the hedge like we did. Silly tenants, I am pretty sure the view is the best part of that house.
It is Christmas next week. I don't feel Christmassy at all this year. It's been strange, due to the rain it's been far cooler than normal and I love that but it just doesn't feel like Christmas. I haven't put up the tree, or sent any cards, although I have pretty well got all my shopping done. The kids haven't been home much either. They are both taking advantage of the Christmas rush, working loads and making some dollars. SS wants to get back to Europe in the new year, and visit germany again, Norway, Scotland again and maybe Ireland again. He's deferred from Uni until July so I hope he takes advantage of the time. I wish I could go with him.
Instead I am going to walk up our amazing rainforest gully now, marvel at the waterfall, check my vegetable gardens and see how my coffee trees are doing. Then I am going to just be grateful for all of this. I am so lucky.
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