The Website of Kyle Thomas (KyleWith)
Is that the right use of “to”? Anyhow, I need to blog more. I hate having the ambition to, the ideas to, but never actually do. I suppose I am out living my life then, but I want to.
11:39pm I lay in bed thinking this. Wonder what people would want to read about.
Saturday (tomorrow or today depending on publish time) I will be attending a Blog Camp here in Yellowknife. More information can be found HERE.
Either my apartment is going to drive me nuts or the weather is. I cannot believe that it is January and +1 outside, and that the heat in my apartment is still on.
I’m acclimatized cold-weather. I actually prefer cold-weather. I do not like a hothouse, I would prefer a cool house. Which is why I had my window open in my apartment since October. I have also added a fan to the window, which blows in cold air. One of the problems is that it is no longer cold outside. I am merely blowing in warm air.
The other problem lies within the fact that this apartment is cheap. Not cheap in the sense that they won’t turn on the heat, but cheap in the sense that they won’t actually let me control the heat. Oh they do put in a thermostat, but I think that’s only for effect. I’ve had it off since October and yet is still boiling hot in here all the time.
So now I have a boiling hot apartment and warm weather outside. I’m quite tempted to set up a cot outside to sleep there. I’m actually a little concerned about the summer; what will the weather bring then? Will it be extremely hot outside and inside. Will I have to go live down by the lake, will I have to strut around town in my underwear or maybe I will survive.
Either way, I am meant for the cold weather. I am naturally warm-blooded and heat up like an oven at night. I prefer prancing around in the snow to strolling down a warm beach. I love breathing in the cold air and feeling it hit my lungs, it accelerates me. You could say I’m abnormal, I just like to compare myself the Dexter. When I feel the numbness in my hands coming, I know that they’re still there. When I start to work them harder and harder as I lose feeling, I know that there.
I have not felt real cold in a longtime, I almost miss it. I can recall walking home in -40, with no ski pants on just my normal jeans. I remember my legs going numb and then losing feeling and finally the burning sensation. I would hit them, pat them to see if I could feel anything. Then I would arrive home, the heat would hit. They would slowly come back to life and the burning sensation would continue.
Alas I am no longer in northern Canada. It is January and +1 outside, the snow is melting, the roads are yucky and I find myself not needing a jacket anymore.
One topic of conversation that has been arising is the winter in Fort St John. Yes they are like those in Yellowknife, which is 1000km north, but they aren’t quite the same. For me at least.
When some talk about how they lack of sun light is affecting them, I have no problem. To be totally honest I have never really even thought of it. I just get up in the morning, in the dark, and go to work. Then at 5pm when it starts to get dark again I go home. I don’t even have a very high Vitamin C in take. I don’t even know what it is I do that allows me to not be affected by the lack of like. I guess growing up in the NWT has provided me with the skill of not realizing it. I will note though that I am highly sensitive to light. Even though it is dark outside, I have big blankets on my windows to keep out any stray light from a light pole or vehicle.
The other side of this is the dry air. Sometimes this is a benefit to the north, as in, we don’t have to suffer those wet chilly condition like southern Canada, then again -40 in dry air with no wind chill is bitterly cold. Normally though the dry air affects everyones skin. Seems like everyone I know carries around lip chap and will even go to the extreme and get humidifiers. Me on the other hand, I don’t think I have every used lip chap. I actually find it gross. Again I don’t know why my skin does dry out. I do use the natural moisturizer, water.
Either I am completely weird or I am just adaptable. I remember when I worked night shift, I could go in and come out of working that shift like it was nothing. I couldn’t always, but the majority of the time I could.
Simple Yellowknife, Fort St John comparisons:
For some reason I’m stuck on thinking I need to be where my heart wants me to be. I know that sound stupid, but for some reason I’m dead set on being in the North.
Funnily enough, I’m not missing family, it is the terrian, and the atmosphere I am missing. I love Yellowknife. I love the sunny winter days out of the snowmobile, bombing around in the fresh now and then warming up in a little shack we call a cabin. The lakes surrounding everything. The ability to hook up and go out into the middle of nowhere in a matter of second.
The rolling prairies of BC just aren’t doing it for me, for some reason. They are not where I grew up, they are not what I know. I know the snowmobile trails around Yellowknife and up the Ingraham Trail like the back of my hand.
What I need to realize is that I’m 20 years old. If I stick it out and make something of myself, build myself up, I will be able to return one day.
No I’m not packing up and coming back anytime soon, I’m am still happy here.
One of my goals for YkOnline.ca is to profile Yellowknife’s Food Scene. I love food, you have no idea how much I love food. Good food, that is properly repaired, that not only looks amazing but tastes amazing. I’m at the point where I will try anything, anything. My latest kick is mushrooms, sauteed mushrooms to be exact. I could just sit and eat them by themselves. So with my obvious passion of food and even more obvious passion for writing about anything Yellowknife, I want to try and profile our Yellowknife’s Local Eateries.
That being said, I’m not going to review them like a food critic would. I was careful to say “Profile” as I’m not in the business of handing out negative comments. That is not to say I wouldn’t include tips on things that could be improved or something that wasn’t right for me, but the overall feel and appeal of each profile would be positive.
Here is a list of restaurants I would like to profile over the next couple months:
I’m sure I have forgotten some, so please comment them below. Have any suggestions, let me know.
If you are interesting in joining me on this adventure to profile Yellowknife’s restaurants, just give me a holler.