A new blog, a new beginning...

This morning when I logged into facebook I was greeted by this post from my friend Neen: 'Oh Snow, you need to stop coming around here anymore. I'm dating Spring now.'

It made me laugh, and think about how much I will miss Janine. I will also miss Bonnie, who I have only just reconnected with, Shannon, who I don't see nearly enough, Ryan, and our drinks at Docs, Amy, Andre, and their lovely new baby, my mother, all my new friends from work, and all the other people who are reading this blog and wondering why I haven't mentioned them. And while it is unlikely that I will actually miss working at Rogers, I will almost certainly miss bitching about working at Rogers.

Which begs the question, why am I moving again?

I don't really have a good reason.

Well... I have one good reason: it is April 12, 2009, today, and it is snowing. Not just a little, either. Big fluffy flakes are swirling around outside my window. Yesterday, the last of the snow had finally melted from the yard, and I was busily coming to terms with just how ugly Riverview in the spring can be. Today, there has to be a good foot of snow in the yard with plenty more where that came from.

I suppose what it comes down to is, it's time.

I filled out a passport renewal application a few weeks back. It was way more difficult than it should have been, due to section 7. This was the section where they asked me to list my addresses within the last two years, if different from my current address, and my occupations in the last two years.

I couldn't remember all my addresses.

In Banff, I lived in... hmmm... I think four different locations, but I'm not entirely sure (and what the street addresses are, let alone the streets, I couldn't tell you. In Smithers, I lived in two different locations.

In the past two years, I've worked as a waitress, sold fur coats, been a horseback trail guide and an office girl (or office troll, as I believe the official term was), worked as a reporter, waitressed some more, and worked in a call centre. Oh. And freelanced quite a bit. Mustn't forget that.

And now, after a ridiculously long stretch at Rogers (8 months! ...It feels like I just left Smithers yesterday) I am heading out to Banff again.

This new (and improved) blog will chronicle my experiences as I head back out into the big, bad world again.

But more on that later... I think this is quite enough for a first post.