WordPress or Tumblr?
Before I get into that discussion, I’ve finally moved back to eastern Ontario where I grew up. I’m actively searching for work right now in Montréal so that I can get out of here as quickly as possible. I like being home and all, but the country life gets to me easily when I’ve been so used to living in the city on my own for so many years. I think this has been the longest time I’ve been at home since I was in high school at 17. Scary to think that I’ve been living on my own for close to six years now.
I’m very anxious to be moving to Montréal soon enough. I’ve looked at a few apartments downtown. Some were very sketchy, small, in a rough hood, but some of them were very classy with the old exterior look. Either way, I had to pass on all of them because I’ve already made that one mistake in the past where I signed on a one-year lease and wasn’t even working at the time. I found a nice apartment in downtown Ottawa a couple years back before I moved to Vancouver to get away from the Nepean area (where I went to school at the time). It was right in the middle of downtown so everything was just in walking distance, except for work. I had to take a one-hour bus from downtown Ottawa to Kanata and then an hour (if not more) back home. That was exhausting.
I didn’t start working right away when I got the apartment so I was really just sitting there with all of my things in place and just applying job after job for at least 4 months until I heard something back. I was really glad too because I was running short on funds at the time, so that would’ve really sucked getting evicted that I couldn’t pay for my rent in my nice downtown apartment. It worked out in the end that time, but I wouldn’t want to go through with it again if I had the chance to (even though I really want to move to Montréal right now).
Even though I’ve been away from Vancouver for a few weeks now, I do miss it quite a bit. I miss the scenery I would see every day on my way to work (ie. the mountains, friendly people communicating, the forestry, etc.), and I would like to return there someday, but the only way I would like to go back is if I brought a few friends with me. They don’t realize what they’re missing on the west coast. Amazing employment opportunities, lots of things to do on our spare time, the different atmosphere and people – it’s all around a nice place to live; I just couldn’t stand living there on my own, even with the new friends I made out there.
So, after all that splurging, I’ve been debating whether I should continue with this WordPress-styled blog or whether I should move my domain strictly to my Tumblr blog. I’ve recently signed up for an account there and have been reblogging and liking articles everyday, whereas I’ve really only been going back to my WordPress blog maybe once every few weeks. I feel like I’ve abandoned it quite a bit, as much as I wanted to update it more frequently. It’s just finding the motivation to write about something that is the most difficult part. I’ll try and keep up with the WordPress theme for a little while longer, but I’m afraid if I just go back to barely relying on it, I’ll move my domain to something that I update frequently everyday rather than just bi-weekly or monthly.
Hopefully the next time I’ll write again, I’ll be out of the country-life and in Montréal working. I can’t tell you how useless I feel right now from being unemployed for more than two weeks.
