Author: Christine

Christine http://www.mombie.com I'm a writer/storyteller/director/creativity & lifestory coach with a black belt in ITF Taekwon-do. I read voraciously and I write like my fingers are on fire. I'm the founder and Co-Chair of the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl and I'm the current president of the St. John's Storytelling Festival. I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.

Another storm is on the way

This is not a metaphor, it’s supposed to be stormy tomorrow.

I didn’t need the forecast to tell me that, I swear I could have predicted this storm just by the pressure across my forehead.

I haven’t often noticed a connection between the weather and my well-being – unless there was an extended period of rain or sunshine affecting my mental health one way or another – but this year I definitely ‘feel it in my bones’ when the weather shifts.

Mostly my skull bones but my wrist and ankles like to play psychic too sometimes.

I need a retreat

I am tired, and I’m cranky, and I am discombobulated.

I need some sort of retreat, but I don’t actually want to go anywhere.

So that leaves me trying to figure out how to have a retreat like experience without actually going away.

And I guess that looks like having a focussed time to work on some specific aspects that are difficult to schedule time for in my normal life.

I want to spend some time doing some planning, doing some more focused, creative work, and figuring out where I want to go with my writing right now.

I think the solution is in scaling down from my idea of having to spend a whole day on these things, but choosing to spend a chunk of time , a smaller chunk of time, maybe only an hour and answering one question at a time for myself related to that list above.

I actually have some time tomorrow to dedicate to one or two of these things, and I’m gonna give it a whirl.

I’ll report back.

Entirely too much snow

This is the view from my upstairs window.

A photo of a snowy suburban cul-de-sac taken from an upstairs window.
I took a photo through the window so we could get some perspective on the snow. We’ve already done a lot of snow-clearing but there’s a lot of damp, heavy snow everywhere. image description: a photo taken from my upstairs window showing our cul-de-sac with all kinds of snow everywhere. The plow scrapes a lot of our snow into a pile in the centre of the circle and there are mounds of snow on everyone’s lawns. It’s still snowing/raining so the sky is dull and everything has a light dusting of snow as well as the big piles everywhere. It’s really wintery out there.

This is not the most snow we have ever had from one storm but it has been a lot and it has been going on for two days.

The schools have been closed and the buses are off the roads, and I feel lucky that I didn’t have a lot of stuff going on over the last few days. (No heart wrenching cancellation decisions for me!)

I haven’t quite been able to just putter around but it has been pretty low key since no outside schedules were affecting my plans.

Just a doodle

Of course I drew a heart on Valentine’s Day!

Image description: a drawing of a dark pink heart decorated with thin pink lines going one way and thin purple lines going the other way overlapping each other. the heart is surrounded by small, solid purple circles connected by lines so the circles almost look like beads on a necklace.

Getting ready for a storm

The weather is supposed to be awful here for the next few days and my brain has INSISTED on making sure that I have everything I need for anything I might want to do for the next couple of days.

Not in an obsessive, anxious sort of way but in an IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES sort of way.

After all, one wouldn’t want to have a burning need to make soup, organize a closet, or do an art project and not have the stuff you need to do it!

Brains are weird.