New Year, New Beginnings

Happy 2009 everyone! (a few days late but who's counting?)

So here I am, back in Ottawa getting ready to go to my sparkplug's going away party tonight and I am so excited for her, but I am also already missing her. She leaves for France next weekend and Jasmin has brought so much energy and spark - literally into my life that it's hard to imagine this town without her. I've felt so out of touch with everyone for the past couple of months with everything going on with my dad and his quadruple by-pass surgery that my 'holidays' were not really holiday-ish at all. So much is going on around me and in my life that sometimes all I can do is just 'STOP' and 'BREATHE' and be 'PRESENT' in the moment, which always makes me feel sane again and able to do anything. This is how I think I have stayed sane the past year. Goodbye 2008 - it was nice to know and experience you - you made me stretch, grow, cry my heart out and come to many realizations about myself. Now I'm ready for what's next - one moment at a time.