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Monthly Archives December 2019

2019 End of Year Memes: New House, New Address, New Mortgage, Same Feeling of Working for the Bank Instead of the Library!

1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Went to a minor league baseball game in Weyburn during the summer and a big production outdoor NHL game in Regina in the fall.  Enjoyed both equally! 2. Did anyone close to you give birth? Probably quite a few on Facebook but none […]

Posted 31 December 2019 § List § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

First Lines From My First Blog Post of Every Month of 2019

I’ve written before how this annual post where I share the first line of my first post of every month of the past year is one of my favourites of the year.  Part of the reason is how it seems completely random (I honestly don’t think about what I’m posting for the start of every […]

Posted 30 December 2019 § Blog § List § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) °

Winter Wonderland

I think Shea and I are going to enjoy having a beautiful green white space outside our back door in our new house!

Posted 29 December 2019 § Family § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – Panda, Panda, Panda!

After our trip to the Calgary Zoo this summer, we had a bit of a panda-theme for some of the kids’ gifts including both a stuffed panda and a panda hat for Sasha. Pretty cute until Pace pointed out that this is actually looks like a living panda has put the skull of another dead […]

Posted 28 December 2019 § Family § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – KISS Does The Beatles

Found this flitting around YouTube – is there any band that doesn’t love The Beatles?  (Okay, Michael Stipe famously dissed The Beatles as “elevator music” but I think he later admitted he only meant they weren’t the music he listened to but often heard in the background.)  

Posted 27 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § MusicMonday § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Five Ways I Was a Dumbass During Our Move (Nov-Dec 2019)

I was lamenting that our new dishwasher didn’t seem as big as the dishwasher at our old house and barely had room for a row of big plates and a row of small plates on the bottom rack.  My mother-in-law casually reached in the dishwasher and took the utensil tray (which was along the front […]

Posted 26 December 2019 § Humour § List § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) °

You Know You’re A Nerd When…

…one of the best things you get as a “Christmas gift” is a literature organizer you pick up off Kijiji from an accounting office on your way home from work Christmas Eve at a fraction of what a new one would’ve cost! Plus you get to be *really* excited about organizing all your various papers […]

Posted 25 December 2019 § Humour § Photo § Randomness § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Merry Christmas (Eve)!

If it looks like we have a lot of gifts under the tree, you have to remember that in the month of December, I basically wrap anything I would’ve bought anyhow – dish soap, shampoo, the empty box for the slippers I bought because I needed them in September – and use those things to […]

Posted 24 December 2019 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “We could leave the Christmas lights up till January/This is our place, we make the rules/And there’s a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear/Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?”

“Lover” – Taylor Swift

Posted 23 December 2019 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

An Extra Emotional Day in “Hammond Housing”-Related News

Friday turned into an even more emotional housing-news related day then we expected. In addition to being the possession day of our old house for the new owners, we heard that the condo complex where we lived for a couple years during our time in Calgary was engulfed in flames displacing numerous residents only a […]

Posted 22 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Randomness § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,