• A Weeks Vacation In July

    Hours Categories Day Trips, Mental Health

    Featured Image Credit: Tourism Nova Scotia – Aylesford Lake Beach, Aylesford, Nova Scotia. We have been on vacation for the last week. Tomorrow is our last day before we go back to work. And I just realized that though we have done some of the things that we wanted to do this vacation. I did not take any pictures for my blog. As you can probably tell from the title I am doing my best to head off a bit of depression. When my anxiety level gets high depression always creeps in. I am not overly concerned though as I have been through this so many times that I know there is lots I can do to help with it. To help combat it I…

  • Anxiety Disguised As Perfectionism

    Hours Categories Journaling, Mental Health
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    I have come to realize something over the last little while: my constant striving for perfection is just anxiety disguised as perfectionism and I don’t really know where to go with that. I am sure I am not alone in this. I’ve read it’s common in women with anxiety and/or ADHD. While I do not have an ADHD diagnosis I definitely have quite a few of the traits that I have read about when researching ADHD in women. I used to spend hours blogging and reading other peoples blogs. Mostly women my own age but that was a long time ago and the blogging landscape has changed so much since then. Now it is more about what you can do for others and not just…

  • York Redoubt and Life Updates

    Hours Categories Day Trips, Hobbies, Mental Health

    I moved my computer out of the den today and into the second bedroom. Our den does not have a window and it was depressing in there. I did not want to be in there on the computer. So I though moving it to a bigger room with a window, lots of natural sunlight and the option for fresh air as well as a pull-out couch my husband can lay on might entice me to go on my computer more and get back into some of the things I have been missing such as blogging, looking at hand lettering related things on Pinterest and working on the printing practice workbook I started months ago. Things that I have always enjoyed and that help improve my…

  • Spring Has Sprung!

    Hours Categories Day-To-Day
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    It is officially spring in Nova Scotia. We have had a number of really beautiful days over the last few weeks. Not this past weekend but the one before we met my parents in Liverpool and went for a walk through this beautiful garden that is there and then for a drive. The garden is called Cosby’s Garden Centre and it has these absolutely amazing concreate sculptures made by local artist Ivan Higgins. This one below is my favorite. It goes back quite a ways. I am not sure how far exactly but it would take a good hour, maybe more to walk all the way through and my mom who has been there before said there is always more every time she goes. Though…

  • I Seriously Miss Old-School Blogging!

    Hours Categories Journaling

    I have been trying really hard to find some blogs that would interest me but all I am finding is fake blogs or blogs completely written with AI. It’s getting really frustrating. I would love to find some blogs about lifestyle, self-care, mental health, cozy gaming, cozy hobbies and pretty much anything considered cozy. In the Cozy K or Her Cozy Gaming vibe. They each have blogs as well, Cozy K and Her Cozy Gaming. I am really enjoying both of their YouTube channels and blogs but I would like to find more like them and in the other categories I mentioned as well. Blogs that actually talk about peoples lives and show what they are up to. I think that’s on of the reasons…

  • Handwriting Practice, Planning, Journaling and Cross-Stitch

    Hours Categories Hobbies, Journaling

    I’ve been on a kind of journey for the last few weeks. I have been learning to enjoy again the things I have always loved and stepped away from over the last few years. I have loved journaling and cross-stitching since I was a teenager. I used to sit on the couch in the evening after school and read a book, journal or cross-stitch. While I have not really dived back into reading I have started cross-stitching and journaling again. As well as planning and handwriting practice. Above is a cross-stitch I am currently working on. It is this one from Craft With Cartwright. I am using a cheap kit that I got off Amazon so the colors are not exact but since it is…

  • Peggy’s Cove, Wildfires & Rain

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    As of today, the wildfire at Long Lake is 8,234 hectares and still growing. We got hit last weekend with an offshore hurricane. While we have had much, much worse hurricane-wise, this one was far enough offshore that we did not get any rain, but we got enough wind to double the size of the wildfire. Since then, we have had very little rain. We’ve had a little here in Halifax, but not enough in the Annapolis Valley where the fire is. There have now been houses lost as well, about 20 they are saying. I feel so bad for the people that have lost their houses. One couple is due to have their first baby in September. Since we are off this weekend, we…

  • My Beautiful Province Is On Fire, Again

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    On Tuesday a wildfire broke out not too far from where we live, less then 3km “as the crow flies”. The fire, in the Bayer’s Lake Business Park and shopping district at Susie’s Lake, Nova Scotia (NS) was just a little too close to home for comfort. I was at a nearby building for work, which was higher up and with a better vantage point of the fire so I was keeping my husband updated as he was a bit closer to the fire at our buildings. We were close enough that we had ash falling on us and thick smoke. To say it was unnerving is an understatement. I think we both felt on edge right into the night. Luckily they attacked the fire…

  • What I Hope To Achieve Through Journaling

    Hours Categories Journaling
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    Welcome to my blog. Journaling is something I’ve been doing ever since I was a child. I started out writing in a small journal that someone gave me, though I can’t quite remember why — maybe a birthday or Christmas? Either way, I’ve kept a journal ever since. Nothing fancy, just writing, since I’ve never been very artistic. Years later, I started blogging. This would have been in the early 2000s, when blogging was more personal. I’m hoping to use this blog to recapture that feeling for myself. As I mentioned above, I started out journaling in a small notebook I was given as a gift years ago. I remember filling that journal up and then going out to buy a new one. I think…