Wrapping Up

Farewell, 2011

This has been a very challenging year – and I wanted to thank all of the people that helped me along the way. All aspects of life have been crazy-busy, but I think that, by the last few months of the year, I managed to get a handle on things. Perhaps it may not look that way to some, but trust me – lots of learning and growing and challenges met.

This blog has all but wasted away; it is a shadow of a gaunt version of what it used to be. Running Toronto Thumbs and keeping Figtography going are really the reasons why Barkingspace has far fewer posts than it used to. In some ways, though, I find that I enjoy writing here more than I used to – when I felt that I had to. It’s nice to have a place to write that I don’t have to spend time building, if you follow me.

I wanted to thank my friends, both old and new, for being so awesome and supportive. I wish we could all live in a neighbourhood together so that travel was never an issue. Of course, the fact that we don’t is probably better for all of you due to the fact that I can get pretty annoying. Just ask my family.

Speaking of family, I wanted to thank them most of all. I don’t think you could ask for two more awesome ladies. I owe you both more than I could ever pay back – but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to try. :)

All the best to everyone at the end of 2011! Let’s face 2012 with fire in our hearts and a youthful outlook! YOUTH!


2011 In Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Merry Christmas!

Short and Sweet

Another Christmas has gone – fairly successfully, I might add.

Good wishes to everyone!


Advent-ful

The Power of Memory

Growing up, Christmas was such a huge deal. My parents would endure endless playing of Christmas albums (Sesame Street being our favourite) as well as the hyper-activity that went along with the music. Seriously, I’m surprised our house did not collapse from our bouncing off of the walls. Throughout December, excitement would continue to mount until it reached its peak, which lasted for the twelve hours between 8 P.M. on Christmas Eve and 8 A.M. on Christmas morning. A lot of the time, I would not be able to sleep – I was so excited.

There were times when I would find myself awake after midnight; I don’t even remember if I had slept or not. Since I was fully awake and could not get back to sleep, I would silently wander over to the Christmas tree and examine the presents that Santa brought for me. Sometimes I could guess what was in them; other times I could not. Inevitably I would find out in the morning when we woke our parents up and badgered them until we could open our gifts. They would usually acquiesce, allowing us to check out our stockings while dad made breakfast; after breakfast the main event would begin.
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Generation WTF

Hell-o-ween

Wow. I guess that header might be a tad strong; though, on pondering further, perhaps it is just right.

This year’s Halloween was interesting. As usual, I completely misjudged how much candy we were going to need, making my mad scramble to the local retailer somewhat unnecessary (if you’re in the vicinity, drop by my desk and you can have a bucketful of candy).

I have no idea what the deal is, given how many kids are at the local school, but the numbers were just not there this year. Small groups of kids would come and go, but nowhere near the same amount as years previous. There was also a conspicuous lack of teenagers with crappy costumes this year. I guess that’s sort of a blessing; but to be honest, I could have used their pillowcases as a way to get rid of the metric ton of sugar that remains (that will eventually find its way onto my frame as gobs of fat).
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