maple syrup autumn

the colors are really pretty now that all the leaves are starting to turn. it's been getting really cool lately, some nights i'm even tempted to get the heater going... Fall is here! my favorite season, but it seemed to have crept up on us. i've barely noticed the change of season, Toronto weather is still a mystery to me. just a few weeks ago it was summer in full blast... then all of a sudden it starts raining non-stop and before we knew it, there were no more warm days. guess i've been super busy with my new job, time seems to have slipped into blended workdays and too short weekends.

things are going well on the work front, and i really like my team. but the pressure's building. as with almost everything these days, there's not enough time, a really aggressive schedule, and not enough people to do it all. yet, i'm supposed to somehow magically make it all work out? sigh...

i can't wait to get rid of the commute and move downtown. we're in the process of getting all the mortgage papers in order and we're starting our condo hunt in earnest, but there's not much out there in our price range right now. wonder if it's the end of summer, and the natural dearth of good listings... everything we wanted seems to have sold quickly over the summer, and all the nice ones are gone by now. i'm finding the mortgage process is a little different for us (since we have US credit but are virtually considered "newborns" in Canada credit status)... so it throws all these mortgage brokers into a loop. but still surprisingly painless once we learned to avoid pre-formatted online forms and found real live people to talk to. oh well, maybe i'm speaking too soon (keeping my fingers crossed)... hopefully we'll get all the paperwork out of the way soon, so we can actually move ahead!

oh yes, thanks to all you people who remembered... happy birthday to me! i think i'm getting older and more jaded - birthdays start to make me nostalgic and i try not to think about the big 3-0 (next year). i think i'll just quietly go to bed tonight and tell myself i have 364 days left to claim i'm still in my twenties! hehehe.... ;-p