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Update on life
Jun. 12th, 2020 06:25 amGood morning world! I was on here looking around last night and realized I haven't been on here in 3 and a half years. A lot has happened since then. I"m back in Canada now. I left Japan at the end of July, 2015 and came back to Canada for 7 weeks to get my student visa to study in England. I went to England for a year and got a Master's Degree in Translation (Japanese->English) from the University of Leeds. Then I moved back to Canada in September of 2016. I loved the UK. I lived in Leeds and got to visit London a few times, Liverpool, Manchester, York, New Castle and a few other places. I also spent a week in Scotland. I love Scotland! Some day I hope to go back.
I have been earthquake free for nearly 5 years. It still feels weird and I sometimes tense up when heavy trucks goes by and the house shakes a bit. I'm still waiting for the next earthquake and most of the time I don't even realize I'm doing it.
I met a fantastic guy at the Ottawa Geek Market in 2017 and we hung out at Ottawa Comic Con that year and then again at Ottawa Comic Con in 2018. He asked me if we could hang out since we always get along at the events. I agreed but told him I wasn't interested in a relationship. I'm Ace and kind of aromantic. I start off all lovey dovey but cool off pretty quickly. I also post alot of ACE stuff on my facebook feeds and I noticed he had been sharing a lot of it. Then he asked me questions about it and asked for clarifaction on a few things. He's the first person to really do that.
Next wednseday (June 17) will be our 2 year anniversary. We moved in together December 2019 and things are going well. We each have our own room and...wow, I lucked out with him :) He has 2 neices and 2 nephews that we will occasionally take for the day (not all at the same time!) and we treat them to lunch and a movie or video games. Neither of us want kids so this works out great.
I had a great job last summer season working soft scaping and I loved it and thought that I may take the horticulture aprentice program at Algonuin college, but COVID- 19 messed that up for me this year so now I'm working at Walmart. I like it so far, so if it stays a good place to work I may just stay there. It has good benefits (even for part time employees) and there is guarenteed work all year long.
I've been working hard on getting healthy for the last few years. After I finished my Master's Degree I was very overweight. At my heaviest I was about 225 pounds. I hated how I looked, hated shopping for clothes because it was hard to find stuff that fit me properly. My back hurt all the time (I ended up in the hospital the day after I got back to Canada and spent a month in bed/hobbling around with a cane). So I decided I was going to lose weight and eat healthy. I joined the Nerd Fitnes Accademy online and I slowly cut out all sugary drinks (I only drink water and the occasional energy drink), cut out sugary snacks and desserts and cut out most processed foods. I lost 40 pounds in a year just by eating healthy foods and walking every day. I got down to 164 last summer working outside all season and I've been feeling great.
I hurt my back moving a freezer this past March and spend about a month hobbling around again and I was eating junk so I put on about 16 pounds. I'm now back to eating healthy stuff and I'm doing zumba and/or going for walks. So I'm hoping to have the weight back off by Christmas. It is so much quicker and easier to put the weight on than it is to lose it. :/
I have noticed that my back hurts if I eat too much sugar or processed foods so that's another incentive to eat better. Sometimes my knees and elbows hurt too if I've had too much sugar. My mom has the same problem...inflammation? I know sugar causes/feeds inflammation. I've done quite a bit of research into food and how my body reacts to it. I've incorporated some vegan recipes into my diet and well as vegetarian stuff. I don't eat any artificial sweetners and try not to use sugar (with the exception of coconut sugar when absolutely necessary), I prefer to use dates, honey or maple syrup. It definitely helps.
Well I think that's about it for big life-changing stuff from the past 3 years. How have you been doing? I don't know how many of you on my feed are still posting here but I'd love to hear from you if you are.
I have been earthquake free for nearly 5 years. It still feels weird and I sometimes tense up when heavy trucks goes by and the house shakes a bit. I'm still waiting for the next earthquake and most of the time I don't even realize I'm doing it.
I met a fantastic guy at the Ottawa Geek Market in 2017 and we hung out at Ottawa Comic Con that year and then again at Ottawa Comic Con in 2018. He asked me if we could hang out since we always get along at the events. I agreed but told him I wasn't interested in a relationship. I'm Ace and kind of aromantic. I start off all lovey dovey but cool off pretty quickly. I also post alot of ACE stuff on my facebook feeds and I noticed he had been sharing a lot of it. Then he asked me questions about it and asked for clarifaction on a few things. He's the first person to really do that.
Next wednseday (June 17) will be our 2 year anniversary. We moved in together December 2019 and things are going well. We each have our own room and...wow, I lucked out with him :) He has 2 neices and 2 nephews that we will occasionally take for the day (not all at the same time!) and we treat them to lunch and a movie or video games. Neither of us want kids so this works out great.
I had a great job last summer season working soft scaping and I loved it and thought that I may take the horticulture aprentice program at Algonuin college, but COVID- 19 messed that up for me this year so now I'm working at Walmart. I like it so far, so if it stays a good place to work I may just stay there. It has good benefits (even for part time employees) and there is guarenteed work all year long.
I've been working hard on getting healthy for the last few years. After I finished my Master's Degree I was very overweight. At my heaviest I was about 225 pounds. I hated how I looked, hated shopping for clothes because it was hard to find stuff that fit me properly. My back hurt all the time (I ended up in the hospital the day after I got back to Canada and spent a month in bed/hobbling around with a cane). So I decided I was going to lose weight and eat healthy. I joined the Nerd Fitnes Accademy online and I slowly cut out all sugary drinks (I only drink water and the occasional energy drink), cut out sugary snacks and desserts and cut out most processed foods. I lost 40 pounds in a year just by eating healthy foods and walking every day. I got down to 164 last summer working outside all season and I've been feeling great.
I hurt my back moving a freezer this past March and spend about a month hobbling around again and I was eating junk so I put on about 16 pounds. I'm now back to eating healthy stuff and I'm doing zumba and/or going for walks. So I'm hoping to have the weight back off by Christmas. It is so much quicker and easier to put the weight on than it is to lose it. :/
I have noticed that my back hurts if I eat too much sugar or processed foods so that's another incentive to eat better. Sometimes my knees and elbows hurt too if I've had too much sugar. My mom has the same problem...inflammation? I know sugar causes/feeds inflammation. I've done quite a bit of research into food and how my body reacts to it. I've incorporated some vegan recipes into my diet and well as vegetarian stuff. I don't eat any artificial sweetners and try not to use sugar (with the exception of coconut sugar when absolutely necessary), I prefer to use dates, honey or maple syrup. It definitely helps.
Well I think that's about it for big life-changing stuff from the past 3 years. How have you been doing? I don't know how many of you on my feed are still posting here but I'd love to hear from you if you are.
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