So, I've got this proposal that is due tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow.
Until last week, the deadline wasn't a problem, because we weren't applying for funding. The application we put in last year was cancelled, and I figured why apply for the same thing that we will just end up cancelling again?
But last week, I figured out a different position we could apply for, through a slightly different agency, and BOOM! A proposal needed working on, STAT.
But I was away for a good portion of last week, and put off looking at the file, because I am a moron like that. That's what comes of being "smart" in high school. Not the kind of smart that studied and had good work ethics and stuff...no, I mean the kind of smart that could bullshit an English essay the day before it was due, having only skimmed the source material. The kind of smart that crammed like crazy the night before a test and always got good marks.
I mean, I should know better by now. I got my ass handed to me in university - I didn't have the foundation needed to actually study, to plan ahead and work on things in advance. Plus, I was studying Classics, Queen's very own joke-major. I think I wrote 3 essays in first year, and 2 in my final year. That's it. I'm lucky I graduated.
The thing with proposals is - you need to be good at talking things up. You need to sell the proposal without exaggerating too much. And I am not great at sales. (Ask Dianne for many examples during my time at Lindor.)
What it boils down to is this: we need someone to come and help us out. They can probably stay in my basement. Give us money.
Okay, break time is over. Back to writing.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Firewood!
Dan is in the garage now, tossing my cord of firewood from the back of his trailer. I wasn't expecting him so early, and was in my pjs with bedhead. No worries, though, because I have firewood again!
Once he's done, I will don warmer socks and perhaps my puffy vest, and I will commence Stackstravaganza, the cousin of Chopstravaganza. I'm anticipating lovely wood heat later today, and perhaps several cups of hot chocolate.
He says he will be getting me another cord later, possibly this week, which means that everything I have now will need to be stacked well. I'll try to take as much downstairs as possible, too. But there is some snow on the logs, and I don't really want it all melting downstairs.
Hurray, hurray!
Once he's done, I will don warmer socks and perhaps my puffy vest, and I will commence Stackstravaganza, the cousin of Chopstravaganza. I'm anticipating lovely wood heat later today, and perhaps several cups of hot chocolate.
He says he will be getting me another cord later, possibly this week, which means that everything I have now will need to be stacked well. I'll try to take as much downstairs as possible, too. But there is some snow on the logs, and I don't really want it all melting downstairs.
Hurray, hurray!
Friday, January 21, 2011
Updates from the Department of Yukon Life Lessons
3. Your garage is lower than your driveway, so make sure the snow is cleared down to the gravel.
My firewood guy is coming to drop off more wood today, and I really wanted him to just drop it in the garage so I could stack it indoors. I have to borrow a wheelbarrow, otherwise, and it is a great pain.
Unfortunately, I discovered that I can only open the garage doors a crack on either side, because there is a ... I don't know what to call it. A depression? An incline? Whatever it is called, I can't get the doors open because of the snow, even though I have cleared it as much as my crummy plastic shovel will allow. The snow that fell is kind of packed down, and it is going to take a lot of work to clear it. So even if Dan drops the firewood on the lawn, getting it into the garage is going to be a pain.
Too bad I have to go back to work in half an hour. This is going to take a while.
My firewood guy is coming to drop off more wood today, and I really wanted him to just drop it in the garage so I could stack it indoors. I have to borrow a wheelbarrow, otherwise, and it is a great pain.
Unfortunately, I discovered that I can only open the garage doors a crack on either side, because there is a ... I don't know what to call it. A depression? An incline? Whatever it is called, I can't get the doors open because of the snow, even though I have cleared it as much as my crummy plastic shovel will allow. The snow that fell is kind of packed down, and it is going to take a lot of work to clear it. So even if Dan drops the firewood on the lawn, getting it into the garage is going to be a pain.
Too bad I have to go back to work in half an hour. This is going to take a while.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Oh, hey, I do have news
I'm going to be in WH for a few days next week!
There's a Gas Tax workshop on the 27th, and because Faro is so far away, they're springing for a hotel for two nights instead of one. I'll be driving in on Wednesday and coming home on Friday. I've already been assigned a number of work-related errands (office supplies, etc.) and I've arranged to drop my truck off at the dealership for servicing.
I'm pretty excited about the workshop, to be honest. My job involves more funding applications than I was prepared for, and Gas Tax is a big one. Anything I can do to advance my knowledge so that I'm not constantly bugging our Community Advisor is a good thing. And I figure that some of that knowledge will translate to other proposals, right?
Okay, you got me. I'm super excited to go to the quilt store, too ^_^
There's a Gas Tax workshop on the 27th, and because Faro is so far away, they're springing for a hotel for two nights instead of one. I'll be driving in on Wednesday and coming home on Friday. I've already been assigned a number of work-related errands (office supplies, etc.) and I've arranged to drop my truck off at the dealership for servicing.
I'm pretty excited about the workshop, to be honest. My job involves more funding applications than I was prepared for, and Gas Tax is a big one. Anything I can do to advance my knowledge so that I'm not constantly bugging our Community Advisor is a good thing. And I figure that some of that knowledge will translate to other proposals, right?
Okay, you got me. I'm super excited to go to the quilt store, too ^_^
Stealin'...
Just thinking about starting a work-blog is leaching energy away from this one.
I get anxious, thinking about the kind of writing I would be doing, so that I can't do any writing at all.
Well, that and I caught the plague last week.
I get anxious, thinking about the kind of writing I would be doing, so that I can't do any writing at all.
Well, that and I caught the plague last week.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Lessons I have learned
1. Next year, buy at least 3 cords of firewood. Granted, if I had stayed with my teeny tiny woodstove, the cord I bought probably would have been sufficient, as I wouldn't be throwing whole logs in it. I also wouldn't be running it non-stop, as it was really small. Once the wood is gone, it's back to the furnace, which I hate.
2. Obtain a wheelbarrow. I borrowed an absentee-neighbour's to move my cord into the garage for stacking, but when I returned it, his tenant thought I had stolen it. I have a bunch of smaller wood stacked outside that was given to me by my across-the-street neighbours - it's now covered in snow, and I am wheelbarrow-less. Moving that stuff into the garage is going to be a pain.
That's all I've got for this morning. The part of me that wants to keep the woodstove running all winter long is competing with the part of me that has an upset stomach and just wants to lie on the sofa all day.
2. Obtain a wheelbarrow. I borrowed an absentee-neighbour's to move my cord into the garage for stacking, but when I returned it, his tenant thought I had stolen it. I have a bunch of smaller wood stacked outside that was given to me by my across-the-street neighbours - it's now covered in snow, and I am wheelbarrow-less. Moving that stuff into the garage is going to be a pain.
That's all I've got for this morning. The part of me that wants to keep the woodstove running all winter long is competing with the part of me that has an upset stomach and just wants to lie on the sofa all day.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Racing brain
My thoughts alternate between work-related things I can't write about, navel-gazing I don't want to share, and the crazy desire I have to buy a quilting machine.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Monday, January 3, 2011
And so I'm back...from outer cyber-space
So, I took a little vacation from the internets. It wasn't really planned, but it was refreshing nonetheless. I went back to Ontario for almost three weeks, and some good times were had.
But now I'm back in Faro, and it's time to get 2011 rolling. Obviously, the past two days didn't count (I spent the majority of both of them in bed, watching Fringe). They were like a warm-up ^_^
I don't have a big list of goals for the coming year or a list of resolutions. I have ideas for the future, but nothing concrete. The only thing I am sure of is that I am going to conquer Candida Albicans this year and start feeling better. I ate a lot of stuff that I shouldn't have eaten over Christmas, and the new year is going to be a lot cleaner.
Of course, having said that, I am waiting until next week to start on the cleanse that Kara ordered for me, because the Wents are going out of town for a week and I have to make my own dinners. Me + making dinner = recipe for disaster. (This is not to put any guilt on you, Kara - I promise, there will be no pizza this week ^_^)
Today will include a lot of cleaning, possibly assembling my new bookshelf, and hopefully sitting down in the afternoon with a movie and Hunter's quilt. I'd like to get that finished before I settle in to work on the Crazy Cowboy quilt for my sister.
w00t w00t1
But now I'm back in Faro, and it's time to get 2011 rolling. Obviously, the past two days didn't count (I spent the majority of both of them in bed, watching Fringe). They were like a warm-up ^_^
I don't have a big list of goals for the coming year or a list of resolutions. I have ideas for the future, but nothing concrete. The only thing I am sure of is that I am going to conquer Candida Albicans this year and start feeling better. I ate a lot of stuff that I shouldn't have eaten over Christmas, and the new year is going to be a lot cleaner.
Of course, having said that, I am waiting until next week to start on the cleanse that Kara ordered for me, because the Wents are going out of town for a week and I have to make my own dinners. Me + making dinner = recipe for disaster. (This is not to put any guilt on you, Kara - I promise, there will be no pizza this week ^_^)
Today will include a lot of cleaning, possibly assembling my new bookshelf, and hopefully sitting down in the afternoon with a movie and Hunter's quilt. I'd like to get that finished before I settle in to work on the Crazy Cowboy quilt for my sister.
w00t w00t1
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