Found it!

It has been said that fixing a mistake well, makes you look better than never having made the mistake at all.

The same can be said for losing something.

At the end of the day today I realized that some of my paperwork was missing from my to do folder. I keep a manual tracking sheet of all of the time in lieu I bank, along with the confirmation forms for the courses and workshops I'm taking and the confirmed list of the ones I've done. I keep them all together in my ongoing to do folder since they get updated regularly.

Tonight I worked late and at the end of the day went to track the extra time, only the papers weren't there. I checked all of my file folders. I checked the binders where I had just filed a bunch of paperwork. I looked everywhere. Then I saw the shredding box.

We have our shredding done off site and we just ship any confidential information in old paper box. It occurred to me that I might have accidentally tossed my papers in there.

So there I sat going through the shredding box, but to no avail. So I went through all of my papers and files again, and just for good measure through the shredding box again. Frustrated and angry, I gave up, underestimated my time in lieu on a new tracking sheet with a note and started to pack up to go.

A coworker came in and I complained to him, but as I did I gestured and described what had happened and my eyes caught another pile of papers, ready to be filed into last year's audit box in storage and realized that it had also been in my to do file.

I flipped to the back, and sure enough, there they were. JOY! Serious joy in having found something that only in the course of about tens minutes had I lost and then given up hope, but the happiness in having found it was wonderful.

So if I hadn't lost them in the first place I would have missed out on the feelings of relief, happiness and yes, just joy!

I think I'll lose things more often! ;)

With Love
~sarah~

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Boxee

Sorry for being away! Blame it on the ol' tv. I don't even have cable and yet the television has managed to overcome my life!

We are running our television through the internet with a program called Boxee which is pretty fantastic! It grabs tv from all over the internet, stuff that is live streaming from tv station sites and brings it in to one place for us to find and watch!

So yesterday I watched more of the Bachelor (haven't watched a season in years) and Merlin which is fun.

Boxee is opening lots of tv doors that I haven't been able to access in many years since I banned Rogers Cable TV from any house in which I reside. I can start following current television like the rest of the world. :)

The real reason I've not been blogging is Lost...just finishing up season 4, watched almost the whole season 4 this weekend. Only one season to go! I can't imagine having to wait week to week to find out what happened!

With Love
~sarah~

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Getting lost again

After a couple months hiatus from Lost, we're back at it again.

Ian and I started watching the show at the beginning of Season 1 early last year, as neither of us had made it more than part-way through Season 2 previously. However, we had heard so many fantastic things about the last couple of seasons that we just had to start back up.

Being the kind of show that Lost is, we had to start from scratch to make sure we had all of the pertinent information, although, DOES IT REALLY MATTER?!?!?

Hmmmm...I'm not sure if "happy" would describe my mood as we start the beginning of Season 4, after 2 months off...wonderfully annoyed? Tickled-frustrated? Fabulously-obsessed?

I just want more answers please!!!! (please do NOT give me any answers...this is part of the joy) ....aaarrrrgh......!!!!!

:) glad to be back at it!

With Love
~sarah~

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Location:Varley Dr,Ottawa,Canada