On Why I'm Not Attending My High School Reunion

I've had this one ready to post for the past couple weeks but life's been a little busy and it's been delayed. Instead of go through and change it all to past tense I just left it. So pretend I posted this a few weeks ago k?


In a few weeks it's my 10 year high school reunion. 10 years!

From the outside, the only way I look the same as I did then, is the length and color of my hair. Otherwise I look completely different. I feel like it goes the same for the person I am on the inside. As it should! I would hope that in 10 years the person I was has evolved and grown into the person I am now. Which begs the question... if I have changed so much, then perhaps everyone else has changed so much, what is the merit in attending our high school reunion?

Oh you young naaive thing! With hair you still can't control! 

Thanks to Facebook I know what everyone's been up to. Or at least what they want us to know they've been up to. And isn't that really what a reunion is all about? I feel like there are two types of conversations that go on at these things; the look-at-how-amazing-my-life-is (or how amazing I want you to think it is), and the remember-when-we-did-that-thing-that-one-time.


It is thought in some psychological circles that a teenager's developmental stage in high school is largely focused on developing their self identity through their social circles. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I have definitely moved on from that stage. I don't feel defined by my friends. So perhaps this is where my not wanting to attend my reunion stems from. I feel like it's almost a step back in the adult developmental game. I don't feel I need their approval or attention. To put it bluntly, I don't really care if they know how I turned out. As well as, I don't really care how they turned out. And the people I do care about, I've kept in contact with and know how they're doing!

But maybe all that is only part of it. One of my biggest goals in life is to live with no regrets. To own each decision and embrace that they're a part of who I am today. Part of living without regrets is to let go of things in the past. To leave them there and not relive them every day. I'm really happy with my life right now. I like living at exactly this point in my life right now. I don't feel a need to relive the past; even if it's just for one week-end.


All this time I've been thinking it's my classmates I don't care to connect with but maybe that's not the whole story. Maybe the person I feel little desire to connect with is high school me. She has a huge part in who I am today and I never forget that. So for me, I think that's enough of a high school reunion.

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This Ones For The Dogs

I have a bunch of posts in draft. I might get around to finishing them... one day! But I thought I'd show you what we did yesterday.

Our one dog, Kudjo is part border collie. I'm convinced this is the reason he can be high energy. It means we spend a lot of time every day exercising him. To prevent boredom of us and him; we try to mix up what we do with him. Sometimes we walk around the neighborhood. Or go for a hike. Or take a swim. Or one of his favorites... fetch hide-and-seek. We decided yesterday to try something new so we decided to create an agility-like course and see if we could get him to do it. Nothing fancy but something that would stimulate him in a different way!

We started with a pole jump part

 

The next part of the course was a table top thing-a-ma-gig

 

 



And what's a mock agility course without a in-and-out section

 

 

The final section was a "tunnel"

Kudjo is totally motivated by treats so we tried the first round with no leashes and just treats. Total disaster! The next round we tried a simple leash and treats. Not much better. So we put the treats away and put a leader-leash on him. So much better! For one round he picked up his frisbee on the way by and carried it through the course.

 

   Kudjo sitting nicely on the table top part. 

Weaving like a pro

We weren't sure how the little dog would do but he loved it and did everything almost perfect! Pretty impressive for never doing it before.

  

We modified the course a bit for him. Instead of jumping over the stick he just had to jump on the chair and pause for a few seconds.

  

  

Instead of photo overloading you with pictures of the him, I'll just tell you that he is smiling in every picture during the course. He was having so much fun. The tunnel was his favorite part. 

So apparently we had too much time on our hands yesterday. But the dogs had a blast!

Fill In The Blank Friday

This weekend is Lauren's birthday! So head over and wish her happy birthday and play along! 

1.  The age I will be on my upcoming birthday is   28. I seriously had to think about that. I never seem to know what age I am or going to be! But geeze 28 sounds old. 

2.   The best birthday present ever would be   I don't know! Jon does a great job with presents I love! 

3.  My favorite birthday to date was    I've had some pretty good ones. One year my roommate and couple friends in college decorated my room when I was in class. And they did a bunch of stuff that made me feel special. Last year Jon did an Up themed birthday! I loved it!

4. Birthdays make me feel    special. I used to hate birthdays and try not to celebrate them. But I'm learning to appreciate all the effort Jon does to make me feel extra special for my birthday.

5. The worst birthday I ever had was   I think probably one of my high school ones. The one a couple months after my parents separated kind of sucked. But that may have just been timing. 

6. When I was born  I was a few days early. I was the first grandchild on one side and received a lot of attention. My parents would put me to bed in my crib, pick me up and walk across the driveway to my grandpa's, pass me around to everyone there, bring me home and lay me in my crib; and I would be sleeping the whole time with no idea what went on. I wish I still slept that soundly now!

7.  So far my favorite age has been this one? I don't know! I try to enjoy life at any age so I can't really pick one! This past year has been pretty great though.

Long Weekend Fun With Crafts, Hiking, and Berry Picking

I'm not sure if it was where you are at, but here in Canada this past week-end was a long one! We made the most of it and got a lot of things done!

I spent a couple hours in my craft room organizing and creating. I went through some old school pattern books for my knitting machine. I was hoping to find something easy for me to try but everything seems so complicated at this point still. 

But how old school is this pattern book! I love how it says "Knit with the speed of a hundred hands!"

    

    

       

         

My craft room is in dire need of a good organization system. I picked up a bookshelf and started organizing a few of my things. I made bolts to display my fabric. It makes it so much easier to see what I have!

 


     
 

Today we took the dogs out for one of their favorite hikes. The last place we lived had some great trails we took the dogs down weekly. They've missed them since we moved; so we took them for a walk down them today. We hid a geocache down it so we thought it'd be a good time to check on it.

  

  

It was a beautiful day for a hike!

 

This year must have perfect conditions for saskatoons because the trails are covered in them! 

The geocache is doing good! It was fun reading what everyone who has found it wrote in the book! 

  

This hill is so much higher than it looks! 

   

   

This is my "it's-almost-too-hot-to-walk" look

 

 

Speaking of great looks... this is how you pick saskatoons when you forgot the buckets at home by the door. 

We picked into our hats and then dumped them into a bag we had in the car. Not the most ideal way but it worked! 

   

You know you've had a successful berry picking day when your hands look like this

Also, coming home with 38 cups of saskatoons doesn't hurt!