Category: family
Two pictures today in honour of what would have been my dad’s 73 birthday. I think both of these things would have made my father proud. First: me in a recent hockey game. There was a conference in town not to long ago that my workplace was involved with and part of this conference is […]
I feel like I’m coming up for a short breath after being submerged for a really long time, knowing that I’m shortly going to dive back down. I guess this is what it must feel like to be a whale, if a whale lived in a vast ocean of work instead of water. The things […]
Each week in the newsletter at work, they do a short profile of someone working on the project. Just a few questions, like “What’s the last book you read?”, “What’s your favourite place you’ve ever visited?”, and “If you could have dinner with someone, alive or dead, who would it be?” A few weeks ago, […]
My mom found this teddy bear from my childhood and gave it to me while I was in Ontario for the holidays: My sister had one like this that was bigger – his name was Mr. Moveable Bear, because you can move his arms and legs at the at the joints ((My mom didn’t find […]
This year’s Christmas baking was a low key affair. We’d decided to do our baking on Friday, because we had a party to go to on Saturday and wanted to bring some baked goods with us. But then my sister got booked into a meeting all afternoon because Friday was still technically a workday and […]
Today is my niece Madeline’s 13th birthday. Thirteen! A teenager!! Amazing! I hope you have a fabulous birthday, Madeline! Wish I were there to celebrate it with you! Can’t wait to see you at Christmas time!
Got to spend a lovely day for my mom’s birthday! My mom, sister, three of my aunts, and I went to see the Murder on the Orient Express ((My nephew asked what movie we were going to see and we told him it was Murder on the Orient Express and he replied, “Is that the […]
Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday, so I thought it would be fun to show up unannounced for a surprise birthday visit! The conference I was at in Washington, DC ended today and, unbeknownst to my mom, I had to fly through Toronto to go back to Vancouver. So I decided that instead of having a […]
Much like the Plumbing Edition of Stuff I Learned This Year, this is a lesson I’d have been happy not having learned. It all started on my drive home from work on Friday – I was slowing down for a red light on Stewardson Way and my car jerked (sort of like it would if […]
In honour of what would have been my Dad’s 72nd birthday, I give you this photo of me entering a door that has a sign explicitly stating that only authorized personnel, which I am not, may enter: And so my father’s legacy lives on every time I see a sign that says “do not enter” […]