How is summer mostly over?!

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Hey all

For those of you wondering what makes me decide today is a good day to post... my biggest fan messages me and lets me know it's been to long and I finally kick my butt in gear to make an update. So hey, I'm still kicking. Not really successfully, but somewhat successfully.

The past month has been hard on me, the last week extremely trying.

Firstly, I went to Alberta with my family which was awesome but so tiring and hard on my joints. (Full day at Calgary stampede, lots of hiking in banff and jasper, etc).

Overall it was a great experience and I don't regret it, I just wish it came at a time my mind was in a better place.
Lately my mood has been extremely down. My pain gets to me and I have trouble getting out of bed.

I only have 1-2 shifts at work, which is probably best for my pain level, but it leaves most of my week open and I don't really have hobbies. The depression makes it difficult to discover new hobbies because I have little interest in anything.

My motivation, drive and discipline has been completely thrown off track with this down turn in mood.


I'm at the cottage currently and trying to come up with a plan to get myself back in gear. I ordered a new computer to set myself up for school in September. I'm planning to set an alarm in the late morning to get up and go for a walk every day to try to throw some excercise routine into my life. And as always, I'm grasping at straws to find a (cheap) hobby to keep me busy till school comes around to kick my ass.

I am so excited to start at St. Lawrence College. I'm finding Facebook groups with people in my program and always checking the school hub for updates on anything and everything.

I'm still waiting to hear if any of my Queens courses transfer. Fingers crossed. The I have a bit of a lighter course load.

So that's all for now, maybe I'll remember my blog exists in the next couple weeks and let you know what's happening?

Cross your fingers I get out of this funk before school starts, I think that would really discourage me.

Thanks for still being here!

Love Jess

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