Category: Vancouver
So lately I’ve been reading a fair bit about the real estate market. As a kid, I was brought up to believe that when you grow up, you buy a house – after all, it makes more sense for the money you spend on housing to go into an asset you will own, as opposed […]
Ten years ago, I moved to British Columbia. It just sort of hit me today that I moved here a decade ago. In fact, I think I arrived at my new apartment on September 2, 2000 – so 10 years and 1 day ago. I had just finished up my Master’s degree at the University […]
Yesterday, I did my first Grouse Grind of the season! ((Yes, I know it’s September. Your point?)) I was supposed to do it with my friend Lianna, but some work came up for her and she couldn’t make it. And since when has a little thing like that gotten in my way? As I was […]
Like last year, Kalev, Tod and I marched with the PFLAG group in the Vancouver Pride Parade! And I just realized that I don’t actually have a photo of all of us. D’oh! I did make Tod take this photo of me with the sign I carried: And here’s a picture of The Boss wearing […]
We did it! My fourth, and Alicia’s second, half marathon is in the books! All week long I was watching the weather forecast for today and though the forecast for every other day seemed to change hourly, the meteorologists were steadfast on the prediction for Sunday, June 27 – rain. And the only waterproof running […]
baby Canada geese many, many dogs that were very happy to be spending the afternoon at the beach or the park many, many joggers – many of whom were running faster than I was many, many bikers – some of whom were biking slower than I was running ((I’m not even sure how that’s possible, […]
Apparently I’ve caught the conference bug, because here I am at yet another conference. I know I promised to blog about something actually interesting to my usual readers after all those conference posts earlier this week, but it’s my blog and I’ll prevaricate if I want to. But for my *next* blog posting, I’ll talk […]
Last year after I ran the Vancouver half marathon, I ran into my friend Rachel who had run the 8 km race. And I saw that she got a medal for running the 8 km. And I said, “I ran 21.1 km and I could have run less than half that distance and still got […]
Tomorrow, Alicia and I will be running the 8 km race at the BMO Vancouver International Marathon. We are training to run the Scotiabank half marathon in June ((why are banks such big fans of running??)) and figured that the 8 km would be a nice training run ((though our scheduled Sunday training run for […]
Ice cream. Looks like I need to go buy another box of those ice cream cones for Round 2. Also, when I was out for my run today, I was running on Kits Beach and saw the monument to George Alexander Burrows that, every time I run buy it, makes me think “He spells his […]