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Monthly Archives March 2020

Some Quick Thoughts On The End of The World

Coronavirus I was in a meeting tonight and in the course of about an hour, my phone buzzed to tell me that: 1) Trump was going to start heavily restricting travel from Europe to US; 2) the NBA was cancelling their season; and 3) Tom Hanks and his wife have the disease.  It’s a wild, […]

Posted 11 March 2020 § News § Politics § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

My Review of Crown Paradise Club Cancun

We just returned from a week at the Crown Paradise Club Cancun so I wanted to write a review of our resort while the memories are still fresh. HOW WE ENDED UP CHOOSING THE CROWN PARADISE CANCUN IN THE FIRST PLACE Having bought a house in the late fall, our streak of visiting an all-inclusive […]

Posted 10 March 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “From the last survivors of those terms/To the bona fide embodiment/Of an endless emergency without end”

“Emergency” – Tragically Hip

Posted 09 March 2020 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Not Sure I’m Doing International Women’s Day Right…

…but I did let Sasha do my make-up today, I have a bit more understanding of how much work it is to be a woman (plus now I look amazing!) 😉

Posted 08 March 2020 § Family § Humour § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – My Own Corona Virus

This was my view one week ago today. I admit that I was a bit nervous heading to the airport the next day as the Coronavirus seemed to blow up big (in news coverage if not actual cases) during out week in Mexico but our flight went ahead so, (un)fortunately, we weren’t stranded in Cancun! […]

Posted 07 March 2020 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – British vs. Canadian English

I still tell the story of the woman I traveled to England with for a University exchange in 1995 meeting a group of people in a pub and saying she hadn’t changed her pants in days. Turns out trousers are pants in England and pants are underwear! 🙂

Posted 06 March 2020 § FridayFunLink § Humour § MemoryLane § Travel § UK § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Seeing My Name on TV for Telemiracle (March 2012)

TeleMiracle is one of the most successful fundraisers per capita in the world and the latest edition is coming up this weekend. Through the entire Telethon, they have a constant crawl of donors but it’s very rare to see your name on it since the volume of donors is so high.  But a few years […]

Posted 05 March 2020 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Republican Presidents: Venn Diagram Version

(via Reddit)

Posted 04 March 2020 § Humour § Infographic § MemoryLane § News § Politics § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Five Reasons To Stay At A Cheaper All-Inclusive Resort (And Five Reasons Not To)

Shea and I weren’t sure if we could afford an all-inclusive holiday this winter after buying a new house last fall. But we decided that if we booked a much cheaper resort than some of the high-end places we’ve stayed at in previous years (we paid almost half what we did last year!), we should […]

Posted 03 March 2020 § List § Photo § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa/Ma ma se, ma ma sa/Ma ma coo sa”

Back from a week in Mexico and will likely do some resort-themed posts over the next few days starting with this one… And my big thought of the day is – I really have no idea why most Cancun resorts have a Michael Jackson impersonator as one of their nightly shows when you never see […]

Posted 02 March 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,