The update.

Before I get into the tech post I want to write today (google mobile – woo hoo) – I thought to post a little life update since it’s been awhile and perhaps some of you are interested in where I’ve been. As usual, my trips away mean I don’t blog much – so it feels like forever since I’ve touched base here.

The last couple of weeks have been all union travel: Kelowna-Vernon and then Ottawa back-to-back. Although it felt *so* good to be home this weekend, I’m off again on Friday to visit my folks in Victoria, and have an overnight trip to Nanaimo next week for work. According to my calendar, my travel will be done until late April – but really, until June/July I am *busy* with all manner of things.

I returned home 24-hours early from bargaining sessions in Ottawa, managing to finish up meetings and get a last-minute flight out Thursday night which put me well ahead of the storm that has socked in the city for the last three days. The weekend was spent recuperating and catching up with people who I haven’t seen for ages (Jess and I hadn’t hung out for over two months!) – not to mention getting some quality time with Brian.

And for the record, I am finding this travel more difficult now that I have someone in my life to miss. Which isn’t a complaint so much as an observation – because I wouldn’t change anything about my current set-up. Fortunately he gets it, and we have technology to keep us close even when one or the other is physically far away.

As for the relationship in general – it’s wow – better than I ever could have expected. Brian and I are integrating our lives bit by bit, introducing each other to friends and work colleagues, and working out the family logistics that are a part of both of our situations. After years of figuring that I was just destined for singledom (and not in a bad way – I was in fact okay with it), I am continually amazed at the depth and degree to which I want this particular relationship (as opposed to “a” relationship). I’m in that indescribable phase of the relationship – finding it difficult to express my feelings about things without falling into the trap of bad cliches. So I won’t bother trying and you can fill in the rest. It’s good, and it’s real, and I am so there.

I have very little other news from my life as of late. I’ve been working a lot for the union, which doesn’t make for particularly interesting anecdotes here. Being back at my desk for a few weeks should help get my fingers to the keyboard a bit more often – so there will be more writing and photographs to come. Promise.