I’ve wanted to post a photo from this series¹ for a while now, but thought it best to wait until it was actually winter before I depress everyone. This photo above doesn’t necessarily hold any sentimental meaning for me but I do quite like it. And obviously, the 147 people who have viewed it on flickr agree².

When I look at this photo it reminds me that I don’t walk around my neighbourhood enough - I see people’s hosues while I’m driving by but its not the same. When I was living in Dublin, I had to walk through my entire neighbourhood since I didn’t have a car and I miss it. I miss walking by people’s houses, and people working on their yard or even just coming home.

I don’t know if I will do this more often, especially in the winter, but I hope I do. The problem is that there is nothing near my house to talk to. There is a park that I can walk through but there aren’t even any swings in it. Its just a dog park, and across from it is a field that people use for soccer with electrical towers across it. The closest mall to me isn’t that great ((its what’s considered an ‘old person’s mall’). I could walk to Wal-Mart, but I’ve decided to boycott the place even before the trampling incident. So I go to Loblaw Superstore instead, but there is now way I could walk there.

If I’m determined enough, I will get to this though. Its just a matter of convincing myself that I want to.

Do you go for walks? Even in the winter?

Because they're better than constantly talking in parentheses:

1. a small series of 3
2. because they clicked on it from the front page - at least thats my assumption

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My Top Visitor for the fifth month in a row is (drumroll)….

Trench at 7milesdown: Everything Entertainment!

Followed closely by Penny of Marmalade Skies who has won 2nd top visitor for the 2nd month in a row. You guys are amazing and I hope you never leave the blogsphere! The third spot goes to Michael at Michael’s So-Called Life: As they say in Ireland, ‘Thanks a million!’

Tied at fourth place are two of my favourite writers in the world: Haley of The Beacon and A Moment Caught in Flight: A photo blog and Ken of Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff! Following closely at their heels is the prettiest Wordpress mogul I know: Lyndi of Nice2All: Let’s talk Wordpress.

Comfortably providing some solid foundation to this pyramid we have some laughter via Linc of Canucklehead.ca: Where Common Sense Comes to Die, some wise & encouraging words from Debbie of Wisdom Hypnosis and some love only a sister² could know how to give from Erica of Five Blondes: Five Times The Fun!

And because I’m short on time, I hope my top droppers won’t mind but I’m simply copying and pasting the table from my EC stats page this month (and possibly next month too):

But that doesn’t make you any less than the superstars that you are³! Thanks for dropping by so often!

Because they're better than constantly talking in parentheses:

1. which co-incendentally, is exactly what each of these wonderful people already have
2. of five
3. at least in my books

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Eventually I figured out that there was a third party involved: my beloved Broken Link Checker plugin wasn’t being given proper permissions to edit the database so mySQL kept going away. So I can’t use the Broken Link Checker anymore =( at least until I figure out how to give it the access it needs. This will have to wait until the new year.

There are a lot of things that I’m going to have to put on hold until the New Year; some due to the lack of funds and/or the lack of time:

• Purchases:
  • Getting a DSLR camera.
  • Getting an iPod Touch or iPhone.
  • Getting a tablet.
• Crafty things:
  • Making my own charging station¹.
  • Creating my art centre in the basement.
  • Making my own earring display stand².
• OCD things:
  • Clearing out my old school notes³.
  • Organising my photo albums (printed, not digital).
• Blog things:
  • Releasing my new weekly bi-weekly feature: Why Wednesdays⁴.
  • Releasing a new theme⁵.
  • Check and fix validation.
  • Evaluate and clean up plugins.
  • Check and clean up links (within posts).
  • Check and clean up elsewhere page.
• Portfolio things:
  • Install latest version of injader.
  • Customize theme.
  • Upload artwork/poetry.

If I don’t, I think I will lose my mind. Nevermind the fact that its already halfway gone at this point. Here are projects that I haven’t put on the back burner and are therefore still driving me crazy:

• Purchases:
  • Christmas shopping⁶ = 60% complete.
  • Sending money door to door to my family in the Philippines.
  • Paying off my Dell laptop⁷.
  • Driving down to Buffalo to shop at the Walden Galleria with some girlfriends⁸.
  • Finding the perfect Christmas cards⁹.
• Crafty things:
  • Several personalised photo calendars for several different people¹⁰.
  • Several other crafty items for some of my more craft friends¹¹.
  • Helping my parents decorate the house for Christmas.
• OCD things:
  • Clearing out my closet a bit (especially old coats) for clothes to donate to charity.
  • NEW (added Dec 1): Check my christmas list and re-budget.
• Blog things:
  • Creating more header images (completed Nov 25).
• Self improvement things:
  • Start Keep up some kind of regular activity (status: Started rock climbing on Nov 23 though I’m not counting it as a regular activity until I’ve started going more than once a week).
  • NEW (Added Dec 1): Start & keep up diet¹².

I know this was an incredibly boring post to read, but I really needed to get this out and straighten my head out a little bit. Also, I’m hoping that the wonderful people that read my blog have suggestions for me as to how to make my life easier. Because short of hiring someone to do it all for me… I’m just extremely overwhelmed at the moment. Its a strange feeling really… I’ve always been a very busy person, but this is the first time I can’t seem to handle it.

Me thinks I just need more wine… what do you think?

Because they're better than constantly talking in parentheses:

1. though I’m not planning on making one that looks like this
2. thanks Jey for the idea
3. surely, I don’t nee to keep all of them
4. I’m 99% certain that I want to do this so I don’t mind releasing the title of the weekly feature to you now
5. though I might still try and sneak this one in
6. DER
7. Cheque mailed!!
8. for Christmas presents, not for me; ok maybe a little for me
9. don’t even try to tell me I should have made them, I was originally going to do that. And then I lost half my mind so I decided to buy them instead
10. some of who read this blog so I can’t give you details I’m afraid
11. again, I can’t divulge this info as they read this blog
12. only 1 serving of carbs a day; its not easy for a rice eater

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