2022: What a year so far! 😮‍💨

Since starting the year working for the Starlight Children’s Foundation, I’ve been very happy, and very busy in equal measure. We might only be in mid-April but it feels like a very long time.

I suppose part of that feeling stems from how well I’ve seemingly fit into the team at Starlight. When I say these guys are welcoming, it’s no joke. We had a big project to start the year off: transitioning the marketing systems from Salesforce to Microsoft, which although it has given me a wonderful opportunity to utilise my background and skills, it’s also been a busy and sometimes stressful period of time, and has contributed to less time on the bike, and less time for fishing, camping, and all the other nice outdoorsy things I like to do. Apart from my commute I haven’t had much time to just ride Serena recreationally.

And that’s OK: now that I’m working, our end-of-year Tasmania tour is becoming more realistic to achieve, if we can sort out the kids for a few weeks.

Danielle has been just as busy, with the justice system trying to clear the COVID-19 backlogs, she’s been working so many trials she sometimes is running multiple trials on the same day! Again, good news for us and our bank account, but the shift from a slower and more home-bound 2021 to the frantic 2022 has seen us struggle to keep up.

I’m hoping to get a trip to Eildon tomorrow night and Wednesday to fish some trout before the closing of the season in June. I’m also hoping to get some longer rides in on the coming weekends to make the most of the nicer weather before winter returns!

Attributions

The following works, images or designs were not created by me:

• Photo of the tired pup by Isaac Davis on Unsplash, cropped by me.. Free to use under the Unsplash License