stubsadventures

Working and living at site is like being the child of a divorced parent who shares their time. You have two of most things, and at any given time multiple things are at the other location when you really need them. My book of lists is at site and I am about to travel for 20 days without lists. I’m gonna give it the old college try. Either way, that plane is taking off tomorrow for someplace warmer than here, and I have no intentions of not being on it, lists or no lists.

So, after losing my lists, I had an epiphany, I have finally realized what blogging is all about and I’m happy it happened so fast. So, I realize that I have none of my beloved lists and what is my first thought? I should go blog… therefore blogging is what people do when they are trying to avoid all of the things they really should be doing. I figure I should be able to indulge because I don’t have cable.  Case and point. Right now, I should be running around looking like a crazy woman, doing laundry, cleaning, packing, working or at the very least making more lists and I’m standing at my island perfectly relaxed and content to pretend like none of those things really need to get done before I need to leave the house in six hours. Clearly sleep did not make the list.

And finally, today the greatest thing ever happened. So we fly back and forth to site from Calgary and a few other cities, and we are lucky enough to fly right into site. Where I live and work up north is considered by the gov’t to be a remote, isolated community. Badass, I know. Anyway, generally the conditions are fine for us to land right there at site but there are situations when we have to fly from Ft.Mac and take a bus which can take 1.5 to 2 hours depending on conditions. Last night the snow storm started, this morning it continued and there was no way that flight was going to land. That plane not landing and the delay it would cause would start a sequence of events in my perfectly planned “afternoon before vacation” which was essential to laying the foundation to a perfect trip. At some point I realized, if that was the worst that happened, I had nothing to complain about. Right at that moment, I saw a glimmer of blue sky. At first, I thought I was just seeing things but no kidding, 45 minutes before the flight was due to land, the skies cleared, the heavens opened and the planes landed at site. I did previously mention that I was the luckiest girl in the world.

I will attempt to blog from the beautiful island of Maui. None of my adventures will be delayed because of blogging though, rest assured. Nine days in paradise, here I come.

Stubs.

Hey Stubs!!! Lists or no lists, you have a Terrific time! We’ll see you in the New Year!

Comment by Sherry December 15, 2011 @ 1:52 pm

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