Bertl Bikes

The Happiness Project is a book I started reading a while ago, I guess you might call it a self-help  book. I call it a 'book I found in a book exchange that looked interesting when I was desperate for reading material'. Sorry it's not more significant Gretchen Rubin! The first couple of 'months' were easy to get through, but then it started to drag. We're so VERY different, her and I. I am already 'chasing my dreams', but my dreams are far, far different from those of a 40+ year old woman with 2 children who used to be a lawyer and is now a writer. In New York of all places. (sounds a smidge cliche). And I'm a 30 year old trying to be a professional bike instructor/guide living in a converted van in small ski town in Canada. She's made some good points though, and you should all be happy because, despite her busy lifestyle, she finds time to blog every day. Now, I've not actually bothered looking for her blog, but the fact she can fit ...

I'm not even one of those people who goes through phases, something I've always found odd. I've never understood why you'd find that you spent a month or two reading and then suddenly didn't have a space for it in your life. My reading time is; when I'm not working, cooking, snowboarding or on my laptop. Which might be because I live in a van, and so don't have a particularly busy social life. Even if at no other time during a day, I read before I go to sleep, it's a nice distraction and it's been such a long time habit, I'm sure it helps me sleep better too. When I was a small child, I refused to learn to read. I would get mum or dad did it, although my favourite was demanding that Granny read to me every time we went there or she came to ours. I think there's even a photo somewhere of me on the sofa next to her while she reads to me! Eventually I did learn to read (I think about 5 years old) and by 11 I'd read the 3 Musketeers, the ...