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Monthly Archives December 2016

2016 End of Year Memes: Got Older, Got Snipped, Got Infected, Got Our Car Written Off

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? I thought it would happen when I turned 40 but I think it took me a few extra years to finally accept that I am now officially middle-aged.  Why?  This year I had a very special operation to ensure Pace and Sasha are […]

Posted 31 December 2016 § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

First Lines From My First Blog Post In Every Month of 2016

  I love how randomly collecting the first lines of my first post of every month ends up giving a pretty good overview of what was happening in my life and the wider world over the past 12 months. Here’s 2016… January – “Back from a week in Cuba and I have this song stuck […]

Posted 30 December 2016 § Blog § List § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – CalgaryPuck.com Scammer

Instead of my usual photo from the past, today’s post is unusual for a couple reasons – it’s a link to a web forum thread and I hadn’t seen it at the time it was originally posted a year ago.  In fact, I had no knowledge of it until recently. But I wanted to share […]

Posted 30 December 2016 § Canada § Internet § Randomness § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

What Are The “Best of the Best” Books of 2016?

The end of the year is one of my favourite times of the year for a whole host of reasons – it being Christmas is obviously a big one and the excitement of New Year’s as well. But I also love all the “Best of” lists at the end of the year and especially those […]

Posted 28 December 2016 § Library § List § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Check Out This Awesome YouTube Channel

This is my ultimate favourite YouTube Channel. (This is not my son’s YouTube Channel and he is not dictating this blog post.) Feel free to Like, Share and Subscribe!  

Posted 27 December 2016 § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Tell me baby/Do you recognize me?/Well it’s been a year/It doesn’t surprise me”

As it comes to close, lots of talk about 2016 being a jinxed year – Prince & David Bowie die, Gord Downie has cancer, Brexit, Trump wins and more. There’s still a week left so who knows what else will happen but now you’ve got one of the bestselling artists of all-time (both as a […]

Posted 26 December 2016 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics § UK § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Do You Celebrate A Factual or Post-Factual Christmas?

Posted 25 December 2016 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – The Stockings Were Hung By The Chimney With Care

Close enough… (Merry Christmas Everyone!)

Posted 24 December 2016 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – A New Tradition? December 23 = Kid’s Christmas Donation Day?

Like a lot of parents, Shea and I struggle with how to make sure that our kids (especially Pace now that he’s getting older) understand that Christmas is not just about getting gifts but also about giving. Other years we’ve done things like put toys in Santa Anonymous Bins or other charitable giving.  But this […]

Posted 23 December 2016 § Family § Pace § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Five Star @SparkleTour #yqr @ctvregina

Thanks to the good folks at SparkleTour.ca, it’s super-easy for anyone in Regina to plot out a tour of some of the best light displays our city has to offer – you can find the ones nearest you or, as we did tonight, plot a route to all of the ones that have achieved a […]

Posted 22 December 2016 § Family § MemoryLane § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel § Xmas ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , , ,