Category: events
And while we are speaking of Julies and running, yesterday Dr. Julie re-tweeted a message from the David Suzuki Foundation about how Rona will plant a tree for every kilometer you run, so long as log those kilometers on their “Support our Canadian Olympic Athletes by Running Together from Coast to Coast” website. So, of […]
Well, they will be on August 4. After much talking about it, I have finally got around to officially registering for the Run for Your Lives zombie obstacle course race, being held about halfway between Seattle & Portland on the August long weekend. Special props go out to Dr. Erika, who brought this race to […]
Today is my sister’s birthday. And what can I say about my sister that I haven’t already said? If you’ve been a reader here for any length of time, you know that my sister is a made of kickass, wrapped in awesomeness, dipped in brilliance, and deep-fried in best-sister-ever-ness. My sister is my go-to person […]
While I’ve been busy with this whole being-way-too-busy life I’ve got going on right now, I appear to have missed both my cariversary and my workiversary! Hard to believe that my baby car is three years old! She’ll be in kindergarten before I know it! Equally hard to believe is that I’ve been at my […]
A long, long time ago ((By which I mean 30 days ago.)), in a galaxy far, far away ((By which I mean, right here)), I told you about a little thing called the May Health Challenge. The challenge, as it were, was to do something for your health for 30 days. The challenges I chose […]
Today, my adorable nephew turns 1! For your birthday, Thomas, we made you this video: Hope you like it!
Just finished a weekend of classes. As per usual, I learned a tonne of stuff, the people are super awesome and I’m freaking exhausted. Freaking exhaustion will thus be my excuse for a lack of coherence and plethora of typos I will likely make in this blog posting. Apologies in advance. And now – a […]
In my ongoing birthday series of Things That Important People in My Life Have Taught Me, it’s time for a birthday shout out to my brother-in-common-law ((i.e., my sister’s partner)), Jeff. What Absolute Niceness Looks Like The very first time I met Jeff was on a trip back to Toronto for Christmas. I arrived during the day when […]
So it appears that I did, in fact, turn 35 today. And the world did not, in fact, end. Surprising, I know. And I suppose you are all wondering how I celebrated the big day. Well, first off was Bethmas Eve dinner. Since I live in the boonies and I didn’t want to drive all the way […]
So now that I’m waking from my food coma of Christmas feasting, I seem to remember that I have a blog that I’ve been neglecting. But I have to say that I’ve been having a lovely time doing absolutely nothing on my holidays. Well, I shouldn’t say I’ve done *nothing*, because I’ve done a lot […]