Next thing you know I'll be taking up leaf peeping

Hibernation has been the name of the game so far in 2009, these past few months I’ve loved nothing more on a Saturday night than to sit at home with a nice chilled glass of wine, a new episode of Harper’s Island - the show was soooooo cheesy bad, but I loved it, well I did until the show went to complete shit around episode 10 when the writers clearly ran out of ideas and never recovered, but the first 9 episodes were so bad they were good and I loved the lush scenery of the location* – and pat myself on the back about how much money I am saving by not going out. It wasn’t so long ago that I considered my weekend a failure if I didn’t go out on a Saturday night, but these days I couldn’t care less, in fact I prefer it. Clearly I am getting old.

Being a stop-at-home doesn’t exactly make for good blogging fodder, which is why I have been missing in action of late, well that and the fact that my job continues to demand long hours, so I am less than enthralled about sitting at a computer in my free time. The good news is that I did manage to hire someone to alleviate some of the burden so that’s a step in the right direction at least. I am hoping that once I have him up to speed I will be able to start leaving the office at 6pm. I have a new boss too who I am getting used to and who is very much into achieving the elusive work/life balance which is good, because he shouldn't mind if I start leaving the office early too. He seems like a nice guy, but he has a lot of energy, in fact for someone as jaded as I am about work at the moment he’s horribly enthusiastic. He bounces around like a 5year old on Tartrazine in our status meetings, it’s like intellectual pinball trying to follow his multiple trains of thought. Megan, who is newly returned to the agency after a two-year foray into pastry cheffery, sits next to him and divulged that he drinks an awful lot of coffee. If the bouncing continues I may have to sneakily switch his daily brews for decaf ;-)

*Filmed on Bowen Island off Vancouver apparently. I'm not quite sure what is wrong with me, but I am finding I have a serious hankering for foliage at the moment which is very unlike me, I'm not usually one to embrace nature, but I'm currently planning a trip to the Canadian Rockies and, astonishingly, looking forward to some hiking, it's really quite disconcerting!!