08-05-22 I’m back!
I ask your forgiveness for dropping out of sight. It has been nearly a month since my last missive! I have been processing this whole ‘what is my story and what is not’ and decided I just need to catch up and carry on. I will do a separate entry eventually to record the hot spots of what has gone on previously but decided that the stress of that was keeping me from my daily. So, here I am.
I was motivated to share tonight by a lovely young couple staying in my Airbnb. Oriana and Lucas were super cute and friendly. I was prepared by saying goodnight and goodbye as I will not be setting an alarm before they are likely to leave in the morning. As it happened I was engrossed watching Clickbait when Lucas came in for a shower and in a random conversation as he was heading out we connected that Oriana also grew up in a houseboat in Queensborough. He ran out to get her and we discovered so many connections including him going to theatre school at Uvic and her working here at Fort Steele in the past! We ended up having a great visit and it reminds me why I do this Airbnb thing; not for the money, but for the relationships.
Meanwhile IRL, today was not easy, but I adore that an onsite assist client stepped out and brought me an Ice Cap, asked if he could book me for his year end and compliments me big time about my abilities. It makes what I do feel meaningful, especially when I feel left out of the clique back at the office.
Rae texted me for a ‘red chair in the yard’ visit which I always wish for more of and we had a good catch up before she had to go back to work to help close due to a sick employee. It was great to get her perspective on what has been going on for me and hear all about her work vacation to Ottawa and Montreal. I miss our long conversations when I would be driving to a job and she had her own shop and time to talk,
I believe I am back for a while now. It is hard to know what is my story to tell and what is just the reaction to others stories but I know that I have obsessed about not doing this. Each night the thoughts rush through my brain on a loop because I have not ‘penned’ them here. I believe it is good for my mental health, so I shall continue.
Goodnight, my friends, I have missed you.
OH yeah, beware blueberries, I turned my smoothie into pudding this morning. I had to use a spoon rather than drink it, lol
triumphgal 