This is Lou's Life

Today was day 1 at the big new scary job with the insurance company and I survived it! Surprisingly it wasn't that scary once I got there and I actually enjoyed it. By lunch time, although I hadn't done much work, I knew I'd made the right decision and that I'm going to succeed at this challenge. With such a big change to my career, it's left me looking backwards, but it a good way. I realised it's been almost 9 years since I last worked in the city and in a proper corporate environment, so that makes 9 years of being a dirty civil & mining contractor. I spent 5 years working away, on predominately 3 weeks on, 1 week off rosters, and then when I'd had enough of that, I moved to the offices in the suburbs for the same civil & mining contracting companies. Most of that time was with 2 companies, which was the joke of today - I've got staying power after working for them, so no insurance company will break me quickly haha. I had the pleasure, at my ...

My time in Canada, although sssooo long ago, changed me so much from the school girl I was, it pushed me to be independent, to say what I wanted/needed and taught me the life lesson of dealing with grief. Though let me assure you of one thing... I don't regret this experience, not one minute of it. I'd only been away from my parents for 2-3 weeks consecutively, at the most, my whole life and so there I was moving to Canada alone, all because I didn't know what to do when I finished school. I'm so grateful to my parents for giving me that opportunity and for supporting me through the experience, even though I came back more confused. I went from having only ever lived on our large family farm, a good 15/20 minutes from the nearest town, to moving to another, more isolated, farm in Canada at only just 17. It was so scary leaving my family behind and going to live with a family I'd never met and probably had only spoken on the phone maybe twice. But it was something I ...

First thing to say is blogging is not new to me... And to be honest this is the third one I've started, but the others didn't feel right and they didn't make sense, so this is my attempt at telling the whole story of how I've changed my life and working harder to have it make sense.  Please don't mistake this blog for something about exercise or self help... This is far from that, it's about the stories that have changed me, some dating, some about being independent and others just plain silly about things I've done. So where to start...  In order to have it make sense, I think it's important to start with a bit of background on what's lead me to who I am and to note that my life is amazing, even in the rough times, although I could only see it when they ended.  So the career run down, I finished school, had no idea what I wanted to do, went on student exchange for 6 months in Canada (yep I went and did another 6 months of school, strange I know), g...