Goals before my birthday

 I still have some time before my birthday, but well, I found my old goal list from the last 6 months.  So, here's a summary:

• Out of 27 goals, I have accomplished 9 of them, which sounds bad, but it isn't!  Some of them were very long goals.  (eg. complete two courses on animation...I taught myself how to animate via computer programs the last six months)
• 5 of those goals I look at now, and they're not priorities.  So, it's really a 22 goals list
• Out of those 15 goals left on the list, 5 of those are in process.  And one of them is pretty much completed with this blog post...post more blog posts! :)
• The ones that are left of the 10 goals, I would say half were 'moonshot' (long term) and 5 were 'fun goals' - fun to complete if I had time or if the mood struck me

 

So overall, I feel I did really good!  A lot of my goals in the past six months have been about expressing my creativity, and finding how to work more time for art and reading into my life...which has been really good!  These are really healthy hobbies that help me feel good about myself, even if I'm not a great artist.  (Nor will I ever be, and that's perfectly fine with me.)

 I will probably make another list of goals before 40 GASP...choke....ugh, I can barely say it!!!! But I will certainly look at my personal goals again in a year from now.  

 

 

St. Marie Among the Hurons and other adventures

 Today Liz and I went and visited St. Marie up by Penetanguishene.  It was a reconstructed pioneer settlement that feature Wendat and French Jesuit history.

 

 The inside was a bunch of small buildings that they tried their best to resconstruct after the settlement was burned to the ground.  (And I can see how...the wooden building had lit fires everywhere, even today!)

 

 

This was the longboat house that was filled with smoke.  I almost had an asthma attack!  It was like I ended up in a bingo hall from the 90s.

We went across the road to visit the Canadian Martyr's Shrine.  Wow, there were tons, and TONS of tourists there.

I enjoyed the outside of the building, but there were a lot of things that I found a bit strange there (like the 17 life-sized prayer rosary circles, it was just odd to me.) but on the bright side, I bought a new wooden rosary that says it comes from Bethlehem.  Who knows if it's true, but it's really nice!

Afterwards, Liz and I went and found the first location of a Catholic Mass in Ontario.  I think this was more what I was expecting when I visited the Martyr's Shrine.

It was very peaceful and out of the way.  Afterwards we had dinner with Alex, and just generally it was a good time.  What a fun day!

Camping

 

 

We went camping this past weekend.  Some highlights:

 

• Sarah's dog got sprayed by a skunk, so she had to go home and get the dog groomed the first day of our trip
• We ate very well!

 

• I read two whole books while we were there.  This was mainly because our planned afternoon activity (swimming) was a big no because there was an ecoli warning in the water. 
• It was really hot, but thankfully could sleep most nights.  Except for the last night, Liz's air mattress deflated.

Overall, it was a really fun time, and a really nice getaway.  I just like being around trees, in a forest.  It gives me a feeling of calmness.