So I spent last week working in Canora, another small town with nothing to really interest me so I got to spend my smoke breaks generally watching the town. Small towns have changed since I last spent time traveling around the prairies for work (It was about 5 years ago, but thats a really short time around here) there seems to be a light sprinkling of hope around these areas, it's subtle and it's not much, but it's there. In some places, like my town, it's a little more obvious, new businesses that cater a younger demographic and a lot of new houses being built and shit. But in smaller towns, it's more like a fresh coat of paint or a larger store for an old place, nothing big, but it's a start. And if they keep it going things could get quite better.
I don't know, maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see (we all do have that tendency) but it's kind of what I want to keep with for me. I'm doing a bit better at life, I do still watch way too much TV and there are still many aspects of myself that I want to change, but I think a gradual change is best, I need to work on shit slowly, when I rush into things like a retard, I tend to get disappointed quickly because accomplishing things takes time. I took the whole cooking for myself thing slowly and now I'm doing really good, I even baked a bit this weekend just for the hell of it. I really thought I'd be improving shit faster than this, but I'm glad I thought it out instead of just bitching out like usual. I am going to try do an entry a week on this, and I want to completely stop eating out, and I need to quit smoking, and I think these are some reasonable short term goals. I do have many more for the next year or two and if I keep working with less expected on the short term, and remembering and even adding my goals for the long term that I can be who I want to be in three years, I'm not expecting to be this fucking superstar, but I want to be able to take care of myself and be healthy so that when I get back to B.C. I don't fuck it all up and end up back here or broke.
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