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Friday Fun Link – 20 Seconds of Tetris Madness

I used to love playing Tetris but I was never this good…

¶ Posted 08 August 2014 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool

Friday Fun Link – If 70s Moms Had Blogs…

…they’d probably look a lot like this.

¶ Posted 01 August 2014 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Humour ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: parents

Shea and I have been married for over a decade…

… I thought this long- unopened tub in the basement needed updating! 😉

¶ Posted 29 July 2014 § Humour § Photo § Shea ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – RPL Outreach Unit “Book Club for the Blind & Visually Impaired”

It was a highlight of my young career as a librarian to get to spend a year and a half working in RPL’s Outreach Unit serving visually impaired, homebound, and other special needs patrons across Regina. Here’s a pic I snapped when our monthly book club (the group listened to audio books but otherwise operated […]

¶ Posted 24 July 2014 § Library § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Ouzo!”

I remember seeing the New Zealand band, Hobnail Boots (now known as “Hobnail“) when they played the Ness Creek Festival during a cross-Canada tour, maybe in the mid-1990’s? Funny how hearing the opening notes of this song immediately brought back great memories of their entire performance… “Ouzo” – Hobnail Boots

¶ Posted 14 July 2014 § MusicMonday § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: music, saskatchewan

#tbt Throwback Thursday – Summer Reading Program (July 17, 2009)

The TD Summer Reading Program is once again in full swing at libraries across Canada. Here’s a pic of Pace and I with one of the entertainers (Walden the Wizard?) I brought in when I worked at Southeast Regional Library. Pace seems a bit uncertain of this wizard’s powers! 😉

¶ Posted 10 July 2014 § Family § Humour § Library § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

10 Years Ago Today – Remembering My Eulogy for Grandma Hammond

A cousin’s Facebook post reminded me that today marks ten years since my Grandma Hammond passed away. It’s hard to believe how quickly time has flown! I had the great privilege of delivering her eulogy and although I know some family members were a bit uneasy about the fact that I didn’t do a very typical […]

¶ Posted 08 July 2014 § Family § Sad ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

A Few Random Thoughts on Pace’s Final Day of Grade One

At the beginning of the year, the teacher said that any kid who read 300 books would get a prize at the end of the year. Pace ended up reading around 400 books (and probably more that we didn’t always remember to write in his reading log), got a pretty cool “Thunder Maker” toy as […]