Life Is A Train

Theme Song: "Life is a Train" - Maren Ord
Life Outlook: Positive
Current Weather: -28°C, Clear

"Life is train, filled with pleasure, filled with pain.
Hey conductor, take me away.
Life is a train, I think I'll take this ride away.
Hey conductor, take me away."

Those are the lyrics of my favourite songs by Maren Ord. As simplistic as they may seem, the song resonates true whenever I hear it. One day I might be stressing over the foils in this world - the next I might be floating up amongst the clouds...filled with inexplainable joy.

I can't say I'm up on cloud nine...but life is looking pretty good right about now. Joshua recently celebrated his birthday, things are falling into place at work...and when I least expected it, happiness found me.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still remaining practical. Around the next corner I could hurt myself, or have a terrible day at work...or suffer a weeks worth of migraines. But overall, life is looking pretty good. I can honestly say that makes me smile, and that's something I haven't really been doing for a while now. Just because life is good though, that doesn't mean I won't have goals for the New Year:

1. Work Out & Stay Healthy
2. Finish A Rough Draft (Manuscript)
3. Edit My Novel
4. Finish My Second Novel
5. Improve My Apartment
6. Gain My Mutual Funds License
7. Invest More & Stay On Budget

Lofty goals it may seem. Sure they won't all work out...but at least I have something akin to a plan. A lot has changed in the past year, and I have no intentions of losing that momentum...

Now if only it would damn well warm up, life would be just about near perfect. Windchill sucks.

I was going to leave you all with a preview of my most recent project (the manuscript), however it's getting late and I need to re-read what I've written. Wouldn't want to be a disappointment. :-) So for tonight I shall leave you with this thought:

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." - Robert Frost