Down with jet lag. Again.

Back now from a second trip, again with a three hour time difference. This one was to escape the craziness that was the G20 in Toronto. So glad I was not here for the looting, car burnings, mass arrests, and general pandemonium that was the downtown. I have heard various stories, and each one makes me thankful I was far, far away. I will gladly pay the price of jet lag.

Still making slow progress on goals - moving at a snail's pace. I got a piece of art framed, one that I made while I was younger. I haven't seen the final product yet, but I'm counting it as completed since I went in and picked everything out. Now I'm just waiting to be notified that it has been put all together for me. There was a mat already with the piece too, so I didn't have to pay extra for one.

I'm surprised at how fast I have been making it through the movies goal, I'm almost done that one. I always thought I never watched movies all that often, I guess I was wrong. Once I started paying attention to it, I realized that I actually watch quite a few. I guess I assumed wrong. Either way, four more movies and that's another goal down. Just 84 to go after that one.

I'll be knocking off one more this weekend, I have plans to attend the Pride Parade. If all goes well, I might even get to the zoo too. I'm having some people come visit for the parade, so if they are up to it, I'm going to try to push going to the zoo the next day as well. Need to make their visit worth it! And of course use it to my own selfish gains. But really, who doesn't love the zoo? They have all the babies right now. Everyone loves baby animals.

Down with jet lag

I don't normally suffer too badly from jet lag, but I think that's because usually I'm going in the other direction. I had a hard time getting back to Ontario-time after a week-plus in BC. When going 'back' in time it's easier, because you just stay up a bit later the first day and then you're pretty much fine after that. But coming back was awful. Not only was I trying to go to bed earlier due to the time change (three hours), but I was also trying to go to bed earlier due to having to get up to go to work, instead of being on vacation time. So add at least another two hours to that time, if not three, and I was trying to go to bed at what felt like 9pm to me. Or to put it another way, my body didn't think it was supposed to go to bed until at least 5am (Ontario time). A week of crappy sleep followed. I think I'm over it now, and just victim to my own night-owl ways. Hence the late-night post when I should be sleeping.

BC was awesome, did lots and saw lots. Didn't get to see or do everything I wanted, but that was beyond my control. Like I wanted to climb Grouse Mountain by doing the 'Grouse Grind', but the trail wasn't open yet for the season and they were doing maintenance on it. I also wanted to go see Vancouver Olympic stuff, like the torch, but apparently they took everything down almost immediately following the Olympics. As a Vancouver tourist, I was very disappointed. That was something I was excited to see, and there was pretty much no trace of the Olympics. It's almost like it never happened. The only thing we saw was the inukshuk at Whistler. But even Whistler had gotten rid of everything else. There were Olympic things noted on their big maps, but when we came upon them they were construction sites, all Olympic-related paraphernalia gone. So disappointing. I couldn't make it to the Olympics, but I thought I would at least get to see some Olympic stuff while I was there. I heard also that they are legally allowed to keep everything up for a full year following, so it really makes no sense to me why it was all gone. Sigh. OK, done complaining.

Lots of other things I did made up for it. I got to go to the aquarium, see lots of mountains, do some wine tastings, a beer tasting and a sake tasting (not all in the same day, just the beer and sake in one day and wine another), see a bear in the wild, visit Seattle, do some shopping, and, most important, hang out with my bestfriend lots. That was the whole purpose of the visit. Mission accomplished.

I bought a colouring book while I was in BC, thank you Walmart! I've coloured a few pages so far, it's actually fairly relaxing. Now that I have it I just have to remember to keep doing it, or I'll be colouring like a fiend at the end. I'm working on getting more goals underway. I made a list of banned books that I wanted to read for that goal a while ago, so today I requested a few from the library. Now I have to be patient and wait for them to get there. I also discovered that one of the books I read in the fall, that was borrowed, was on my list, so now I have one banned book down! Only nine more to go. I read a lot, so I'm not really worried about getting the reading goals done. My problem is choosing what to read! I walk into the library and want to take out 20 books each time. I have to restrain myself each time. But I hate having to not check out book, which is why I like borrowing books from my family. There's no return date, so I can take as many as I want as long as I promise to eventually return them. But books are heavy to carry back and forth when I go home on the bus, so library it is!