What a day. Can I roll with the punches, or what? I take my crappy dodge caliber in for an oil change and I leave with a new freakin’ jeep. I’ve had my caliber since the accident and my hope was to hold onto for a year — until I get posted somewhere — and [...]

Had my official swearing-in ceremony today! It’s official, I’m a Private! …. well, a private with an (R) beside it meaning, recruit. When BMQ is done, that’ll be removed but - still! I’m a private!

Who woulda thunk a year ago I would ever be here? Around this time I was waiting, waiting, waiting for my [...]

Exhausted. I’ve spent the whole weekend so far working on my freelance work and now it’s begun to rain and is all dreary and blech. It’s one of those Sunday mornings where you kind of wish you could just sleep all day nestled on a warm bed or couch, watching your favourite movie or something…

Alas, [...]

Gosh, I’ve got not much time to write these days, let alone go to the gym! A sudden surge in work just prior to leaving is both a god-send and a nightmare.

There’s a lot of things I wanted to write here too before I leave but slowly (or quickly!) time is running out.  There’s a [...]

The last couple of days I’ve felt exhausted and… spent. I’m not sure if it’s the weather but I am suspecting I’m coming down with a bit of a cold or something! I’ve just felt off and everything feels like it takes ten times more effort than it should. I’m really paying attention to what [...]

Today is my freakout day. I know it’ll only last a day or so but I’m trying to build myself up. In an effort to do that, I need to look at the progress I made… kind of like, inflating my ego because… I need to, okay?!!!!  I need to build my confidence!

The photo [...]

Four weeks from now I will be driving down a highway passing through my old communities waving good-bye to my family along the way and heading to Quebec and finding myself at the Saint-Jean megaplex fortress where I’ll be walking through The Green Door.

The Green Door is where all new recruits to Saint-Jean pass through [...]

Tonight after class, I ended up speaking with one of my classmates. She’s from up north and we’ve started talking a bit being the little social butterflies we are. Sometimes you just feel drawn to someone, to talk about things you normally wouldn’t with someone.

We’ve got a lot in common.

I shared a while back, what [...]

Feeling a bit more centered today and rejuvenated. I had a few instances happen today which made me realise even moreso, how much I need this change in my life and how far I’ve come in the past year… and how incredibly far I’ve come in seven years. Long story (won’t go into it) but [...]

Today I woke up as a normally do however, it was after an abnormal sleep of almost 12 hours! After I got home yesterday, I just felt wiped. I slept on the couch from about 7pm until midnight, and finished the night in my bed. School and homework and work and working out, caught up [...]