Kyle Thomas

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Just Good Enough

I love trying to be creative and smart, but at the end of the day the content like videos and blog posts I create are not as good as they could be.

Someone is always doing the same thing better. Yes I know I mustn’t compare myself to others, but seriously who doesn’t.

I often times have ideas in my head for a videos, interviews and blog posts, but 1) I  have a hard time getting the ideas out in to a full thought out piece of content, and 2) when I do make the content if is not up to par for my standards and others. I see others create stuff and I love it, they make it look good and for some reason I can’t do the same, at least to the standards I think it should.

I must continue to remind myself that every time I try something I learn from it. Every time I see something I think looks good I should take tips from it for next time.

When I see something that I think is better than something I have done, I go through a couple different stages. At first I will like it, think it is nice. That I will hate it, and myself thinking about how careless I was about what I created and how someone else is always better. Then I will start becoming more realistic and try and forget about it and move on and take a lesson from it. Finally I come to this stage where I think about what I need to take away from it and apply it to the next time.

Eventually I will know how to look, write, produce and create something that I will be comfortable with. Or rather eventually I will come to grips with myself and not let others bother me.

This Years Christmas Song

I love my share of Christmas music. I sometimes may come across as the Grinch, but inside I’m a ten year old boy excited for the big day. Every year I seem to have one favourite Christmas song that sticks out, that I play over and over.

This year that song is a traditional one, but redone. It is from the Christmas episode of Glee, sung by two of the cast members.

Baby, it is cold outside.

Getting Firewood for the House

If there is one thing I miss about not living in this home is the woodstove. The heat from a woodstove is like no other. It is nice and warm and comforting. Furnace heat is nothing like it.

So while I’m here in Yellowknife for a couple weeks I keep the stove going all the time, which means I’m going through a lot more wood than normal, therefore have to bring in more on a daily basis.

I did make it

Oh yeah, sorry about that. I guess when you get caught up seeing family and being in a new place again you forget to document what is happening.

Made it in Sunday evening and had a family dinner. Yesterday I tried to get adjusted to working in my old office and what I was doing.

Of course since I haven’t been here in so long, everyone is calling and wanting to see you even though you need to focus.

Then of course I had to go get a cable I forgot and sure enough it doesn’t work for some reason. Now I need to make my way downtown again today.

Bah Humbug

It is Dry and Dark Up Here

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:

  • Fort St John: -20 to Yellowknife: -40
  • Fort St John: 8hrs light to Yellowknife: 6hrs light