Exhaustion

Due to simple exhaustion my blog has fallen silent. When there are a million other things happening in life, it feels like blogging is the farthest thing from my 'to do' list (with sleeping, napping, laying on the couch and watching Frasier all taking priority). It's a funny thing, blogging. It is such a wonderful expression of who you are and what your life is about, but being a presentation of those things, there is a great deal of effort dedicated to making it look just so. To perhaps maintain a more steady flow of posts, I've decided to change the tone a bit here - out with the fancy food blog and in with the post whatever I want blog. iPhone photos will replace fancy camera photos. Fancy styled shots of food will now be replaced with what the food actually looks like as it sits in my bowl, right before I eat it. Reality. Ya dig?

So here we go, life at the moment...

I landed a new job! With over five years working in the nonprofit industry, I am excited to challenge myself and push my career forward by moving into the public sector. The process of making this move has been dominating my brain space over the last few months so it's quite exciting to have found and accepted a fantastic new opportunity. At the moment I am busy finishing out my last few days where I am now and also preparing myself for my first day at my new job. There have been a number of sleepless nights - I'm nervous, a bit stressed, but super excited.

Friday nights spent on the balcony with a glass of wine, taking the busy week off.

We are still waiting for our Greyhound, but with updates to keep us excited. The rescue group has located our girl and is going to West Virginia this long weekend to bring her to Canada. She will be in her transition home (helping her learn the life of a pet versus a race dog) the weeks following, so we should have her by the end of September. I have also crossed a career goal off of the list by joining the rescue group's Board of Directors, so that is pretty neat too.

We got excited and bought all of the grey's supplies way too early. Zooey's pretty pleased.

This has been a busy summer with most weekends being dedicated to some pretty exciting events, including a wedding and a wedding shower, a bachelorette, a few 30th birthday parties... and the list goes on. It's been a lot of fun. Celebrating with my best friend as she gets ready to become a Mrs. is pretty darn exciting. I am however looking forward to this long weekend as it should be blissfully low maintenance - sleeping in, laying by the pool with a book... yes please.

Lindsay's bachelorette. An awesome night.

When it comes to cooking, I am still going strong. I recently found out I have an allergy to gluten which has made things a bit more complicated, but not impossible. Many of my favourite vegan blogs offer gluten free options which is handy. Hoping to post a few more recipes here soon.

Anyway, that is all for now. Busy, but I'm back!