So I’m two weeks into my new job and I’m actually enjoying it more than I thought I ever would. I’m working with a great team of people and the opportunities are endless if you work hard for them. I am at the happiest I’ve been for a long, long time. Why do I feel […]
You wake up in the morning and find yourself at work with no idea of how you got there. Within seconds, it’s now lunch. The next few hours drone on as the world moves around you. Next thing you know, you’re at home pulling out a frozen dinner to pop in the microwave. After two hours of a movie and a shower, you find yourself right back in bed, where you began. The only difference is the realization that you didn’t do anything you wanted to do in the first place and the unfulfilled hope that tomorrow might be different (but you know it won’t be). How often do we get caught up in this type of lifestyle where we feel as though life is passing by around us and we aren’t a part of it. I know I feel like that A LOT! But it’s so hard to gain…
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What do you do when everyone around you drinks? When relatives on holiday at your house start drinking in the morning because “F – it, we’re on holidays”. What if it’s your brother? How do you not outwardly wince when you hear his beer can crack at 8am? And as I write all this down it makes me angry and sad at the same time, because I have a child, and because I am sober.
Sobriety is not respected in Australia. I have had eye-rolls and sniggers since I gave up. My partner drinks. It causes problems between us but only because, when I am always the sober one, it is assumed I will do all the sober things. Like drive, and look after the baby. Sobriety is my journey, I can’t expect to change anyone, but if I must respect other people’s right to drink, why don’t people respect…
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Yes, I am a nerd. I go to interesting places with amazing things to do and see, and then I go to the bookstore. Bookstores are amazing. They are full of adventures. Besides. For me, sometimes finding the bookstore itself can be an adventure. Take for example, my trek to find Foyles in London. I […]
via Icelandic Adventures pt. 3- Bookshops in Reykjavik — Traveling, Gladly Beyond
Sig Nordal 