This pic cracks me up, wet hair, in coveralls with a bit of Barbarian bewilderment in those eyes. I had to get a passport photo for my Strata Management exam at UBC Sauder Business, and this is how I showed up to the Esquimalt Shoppers Drug Mart, you’re welcome.
November has proven to be another busy month, for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to get another dog to add to my already hectic life and to celebrate my birthday on Dec 15th! Yikes! 45 and still alive, might as well get another short dog to celebrate followed by 6 months of puppy hell.
We have a couple of accepted offers to convey this November as well as co-ordinating prepping a couple of gorgeous houses ready for the market. People often think that December is a slow month for Real Estate and it’s never been for me, I am usually eating dinner alone in a parking lot on my birthday or Christmas Eve. And us Germans celebrate Christmas Eve, but that doesn’t stop offers and the holidays are that time of year that families get together and make big decisions - Real Estate being one of them.
As a General Contractor by trade I’ve spent most of my life lifting heavy things and loving it, but recently my weightlifting years have caught up with me and I’m no longer allowed to lift heavy. My neck has had it, no more Olympic Weightlifting and no more kettlebells. So that also means I can’t lift a toilet, I can’t lift boxes or lumber, or a 5gal pail, no lifting a machine rental, just no lifting.
And all I want to do is lift things. It’s my literal NAMESAKE.
It has been extremely hard to ask for help in these situations. How can I even drive around with the licence plate Stack if I can’t stack things? I mean C’mon.
As a child and teenager I was really into competitive swimming (butterfly) and I stopped going in favour of rowing and weightlifting, but now in my middle age I’m excited to bring the traps back to the pool. I just got a peloton and have been getting back into road biking but I’d rather be at CrossFit, not gonna lie. You might see me at the pool sporting some dorky underwater headphones or an even dorkier triathlon suit in the almost fast lane ;)
The whole point of life is to continue to adapt or drown so here I am swimming laps and spinning like a hamster rather than throwing down building supplies. Life goes on, even if a Stack can’t Stack like she used to :)