This Week's Status Report on the Steffs We Know

The West Coast is starting to show the beginnings of spring. Crocus leaves have shot up with the flowers days away from following, buds have appeared on cherry blossom trees, and the perfume of early flowers can be caught on some chilly winds.

It's great. It's light before seven, and almost until six. Soon it'll be time to start cycling to work again.

I'm managing to juggle all these different things I'm trying to improve this year: budgetting my money better, eating very well, continuing the recreating of my home, solving problems.

It's been hard work and it's frustrating because the results aren't entirely evident to anyone who's not, well, me.

But... that's coming up. Results will start showing in all areas of my life very soon. I'm beginning to take things off the wall, scheming about what to paint first, what order of completion will benefit me the most, since I want to paint my whole apartment in the next couple months. Hall, a deep blood red, bathroom a Mediterranean blue, bedroom a spring/sage green... clearly we're not shying on choices here. Big, bold, and brazen!

Luckily, I found out that I was misreading my paystubs and I wasn't getting my vacation pay paid out weekly, it's been accruing. So, I've put in a request for long weekends throughout the month of March. Fingies crossed I get a yes!

And during it all, I know it's important to keep up with the exercising. I've not been doing a lot of yoga of late because it's been exacerbating an old shoulder injury of mine, but I'm trying to increase it again. I guess that's the great thing about My Yoga Online is, I get to choose what I need and what I can handle at any given point in time. I'm confident my shoulder's starting to settle down, and plan to begin acupuncture in March for it, and will continue a light yoga regimen to complement the other activities I'll be doing, too, like climbing the evil highrise stairs down the street, which I'm beginning to master. Woot!

So this is the unsexy, unglamourous part of my changing my life this year. I'm making myself the home I've always wanted. The process is really tweaking some things internally and I'm not sure I understand all the ramifications just yet. But I will.

Soon, I'll be able to start sharing photographic evidence of the cool things I'll be getting done.

God, how I long for weekends of being able to go out and conquer the world, then come home and slack off in a sexy, organized, dynamic apartment with vibrant colours and great decorating. And a bedroom (and a bed) I'll actually WANT to have sex in. That'll do wonders for being single, don't you think?

For now, though, it's little workerbee Steff grinding it out day after day. Hope your days are swimming along nicely, Minions, and happy "it's almost the end of February, bring on the spring fever!" days to ya.