It has been some time since by last post and I can account this to the summer and the wonderful group of people I am lucky to call my friends. When I first came to this job back in May I had an idea that I would just be going to work everyday and then spend my evenings at the gym and then off to work and repeat for 20 days. I never imagined that my social life at camp would be busier than it is at home and that the group of people I am lucky to call my friends would such a great group. For the first real time in my life I played on a slow-pitch team, always thinking it looked like such a boring sport coming from watching baseball on TV, and it was the one of the best decisions I made this summer. Not only am I not as horrible as I thought I would be at it, besides my throwing that still sucks big time. It is actually one of the greatest group things to do. Everyone is such a big team player and even the other team is cheering for you. It seems like everyone seems to forget about the actual score and just realizes we are there to just have a good time. Even the games where everyone showed up to play and I only played a few innings just be in the bleacher's with all the other spectators cheering was quite the experience in it self. Besides baseball we had there was lots to do after work with summer, a couple turnarounds ago I was luck enough to have a few great buddies from back in Cloverdale come and join me in the Mat, which has been just fantastic. In all life up here this summer has been one of my best. People always ask me when I am at home how life up here is and how I like it, and I always respond with the same answer, Fantastic! Sure there are always things that I hate and at the end of every twenty days I am more then eager to get home but there is always that part of me that kinda just wants to stay. Sometimes because being up here is such an escape from all the drama and reality that going home brings and also because I think I might actually enjoy being up here. Even at work there is ways to have fun and not fall to the monotony. Wither it be hanging out with Team Turnt Up! or just getting a really hard task to get done by the end of the day.
My life has changed a lot, both for the better and worse, since I first decided to take a job up here in the middle of May. For one I think being up in camp truly expands the people you are close to or just in touch with and with that there sadness and happiness is expressed up on to you. So rather than the hundred or so people I hear from or see back home my circle has now been expanded ten fold so everyday it feels like something unbelievably exciting and happy happens and then the next someone has died or is really sick. Because of this even more then ever I want to live my life to the fullest which I know sounds really cliche but life is short and if we don't take close our fingers and catch it all it might just slip right through. So in my new 'enlightened' self I have decided to take drastic turn and take a job in Australia through UBC. I know big crazy news that is unless you follow me on Facebook which I would assume everyone reading this does.
So with just two weeks left inside my Atco I figured I would slowly transfer this blog into a Life with Tanner: Backstage Passes to Insanity... minus grammar. Hope you all enjoyed the ride and I hope you board the next train out with me. I will try and get a few more entries in before the end of my stint in Kitimat.
Your one and only, Tanner
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