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, [...]

Today I woke up bright and early to go for my morning run. However, my shins ached and it wasn’t comfortable. (And then someone stole my bag, but that’s another story)… I was a bit concerned feeling them the second day in the row running outdoors so I decided to do something about it.

I went [...]

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 [...]

On Sunday, June 13, 2010 one of our northern boys returned to the north from a tour in Afghanistan. Sadly, it was not the way most return home — safe and sound. Rather, he was one of the disparu … the lost. Northern Ontario has lost a handful of soldiers but Sgt. Martin Goudreault was [...]

My lifeguarding exam is coming up very, very soon. I haven’t swam much in the past month and by last class I was beginning to feel it. Swimming went to the wayside as soon as school started because there’s only so many hours in the day and your “free” hours don’t always match up to [...]

About four years ago, I began nagging my brother. I nagged him because he was constantly complaining about not having a job that was consistent, that paid enough wages to put a roof over his head and that he was “bored”.

“Join the army!” I said.

He continued to ponder and think about it and such. I [...]

The past two weeks, I haven’t been able to get my appropriate fill of workouts due to school. And, I can’t believe what I’m about to write…

I missed them.

A lot.

I get edgy when I don’t workout now. I get cranky. I get moody. I get restless. I want to be moving. And when I can’t [...]

This past week or two, I’ve been essentially coasting. My workouts have been little to none… struggling to get rid of this chest cold/bronchitis that reared it’s ugly head again. But, slowly I am working on other things while that goes on. My lifeguarding class began and that’s going okay. I have some work to [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking of getting my dog and I back into scent tracking. I was beginning to think she might be a bit too old for this but those fears were far removed yesterday!

During our 1.5 hour hike yesterday, I went out with the intent of doing a single-person scour of the area for [...]